Declawing Cthulhu

First, I must confess... I like Cthulhu Mythos. What's worse, sometimes I find myself with nothing to work on and that's when things start getting weird...

You know what is "declawing"? It's that simple operation they like in the US. You do it to your cat. The vet will surgically remove poor critters claws, along with the tip of it's fingers so your hands will not be scratched. Ever. Surely you can try reasoning with cat, train it... but then you'll have to really give a damn. Declawing is just so much easier... And who cares if it makes poor cat's life a nightmare?.. But I digress. Let's get back to the matter.

Today, mindlessly browsing through the Net this night I've found this picture. And seeing the Great Old One with Apple laptop and iPod... well, it pretty much sums all the attitudes of today. You see, Cthulhu is a Great Old One. He's supposed to be (and was?) terrifying, mind-warping monster, dead yet dreaming. And now he's turned into some... yuppy... hipster... wossname. Quite cute wossname, actually. And that made me wonder... Looks for me like a trend of our days: Taking something serious and terrifying, or twisted, or just plain sick and then just downplaying it. Making it into some joke. And I'm not talking about the site mentioned above (which is jolly good!). I'm talking about serious issues here.

Novadays just about everything seems to be primarily an internet fodder. Every disaster (be it tortured prisoners or hurricane aftermath) will end up on Youtube, will be photoshopped to death and then forgotten in, like, two days. Oh, there will be voices - and angry voices at that - demanding that something be done, but you know what? It will be more like these old women sitting on the bench and discussing their neighbours. Oh, do they know who's wrong, and what everyone should do instead of doing... wel, what they've been doing! But when everything was said, these old ladies will just quietly go home doing absolutely nothing about all the horrible things they've just condemned. Looks like our society is turning into perfect image of these old ladies...

So what we've done successfully is - declawing Cthulhu. Big scary monster he was, but we declawed him and - to pretend that we care - we give him that iPod. Pat ourselves on the back, go back to watching TV. That's the way to deal with big ugly issues!

Sometimes I despise humanity, you know...