I did not wish to sidetrack this paper on Lovecraft. I was reading it late into the night ... I had to admit to myself that these fears of his can become quite intense, that is, that it is quite believable and understandable that he would proclaim a "sensitive Nordic" would be filled with anxiety were he to make his way through daily life in any city in the world, especially places like Camden, New Jersey.
This paper, much like Francis Welsings "The Isis Papers," explores the fear for what it is - minus the moralistic condemnations for the "racism" ---- that is, the fear of genetic annihilation is explored in the context of global politics as well as the phenomena of the modern industrial city, the so-called "melting pot" ...
The very subject typing these words has questioned the hypothesis of the self, and so the only "I" "in here inside the skin" is a fictional narrative, just like the concept of "whiteness" - a mental construct, an abstraction. And yet, the fears of the city and other peoples are as real as it gets since the only Subjects out there are our Animal Bodies. I am my animal body, this protoplasmic mesh of nerve-endings and sensations.
To be one of these creatures whose core reality is FEAR ... all creatures, all protoplasmic forms manifested as Will-to-Live.
What is going on? Everyone knows that cities are dangerous to all inhabitants, not merely the palefaced "Nordic" types. The modern cities are death traps for all, and each individual phenomena is made of the raw minerals of the earth, of the cosmos.
Ape kills ape. Cain kills Able. Brother kills brother. Life feeds on itself.
to what end?
Where do the lives of all the denizens lead?
Who holds anyone's hand during all this?