Lovecraft’s wisdom: quote from At the Mountains of Madness
“It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth’s dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests”
Humanity lives happily in ignorance on a small island in the infinite cosmos. Howard Phillips Lovecraft constantly emphasizes that man is only a grain of sand, he is helpless before the unbridled forces that live beyond the boundaries of time and space. Man will not be able to know what goes beyond the five known senses, nor will he be able to understand other forms of life. That is why, in his irrepressible desire to embrace the immensity, man must find the limit beyond which he should not go. What is hidden by the thickness of the ocean, the distant depths of space, an array of rocks, sometimes must remain untouched. The person must understand and evaluate the risks. Maybe sometimes it is worth pausing on the threshold, so as not to mess things up.
To put it less philosophically, some of humanity’s discoveries, such as nuclear weapons, would have been better if they had never been invented. The moral is: think before you act
Thank you for your attention!
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