February 19, 2008

Castro Cthulhu Forever:The Eternal Rule of the Fascist Mind

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Fidel Castro, left, & His Rollicking Sidekick, Cthulhu

"Dead? How could you tell?"
-- Dorothy Parker, on being told of the death of President Coolidge

Ghost written even while the ostensible writer is not quite a ghost, Castro's "Letter of Resignation" ended with this chilling envoi:

This is not my farewell to you. My only wish is to fight as a soldier in the battle of ideas. I shall continue to write under the heading of 'Reflections by comrade Fidel.' It will be just another weapon you can count on. Perhaps my voice will be heard. I shall be careful. Thanks. Fidel Castro Ruz February 18, 2008 5:30 p.m.

Translation: "As long as this paper gets printed somebody, maybe even me, will be writing revolutionary mash-notes to you from time to time. So watch your step. I may be dead, I may not be dead. Either way, you lose."

The mind immediately segues to scenes of the embalmed Lenin, Stalin, and Uncle Ho rising from their respective displays/tombs to rule, by remote ghastly control, generations yet unborn.

More even that that, the imagination envisions a Castro which cannot die, and cues the H.P. Lovecraft Cult of Cthulhu with its handy catchphrase, "That is not dead which can eternal lie." In Castro's promise to "keep on chooglin' " there is more than one way to read, "which can eternal lie."

And, as a final footnote to Castro's prep to rule from beyond the grave, we note that in the Cult of Cthulhu one of the chief acolytes is actually called "Old Castro:"

One cultist, known as Old Castro, provides the most elaborate information given in Lovecraft's fiction about Cthulhu. The Great Old Ones, according to Castro, had come from the stars to rule the world in ages past.

"They were not composed altogether of flesh and blood. They had shape...but that shape was not made of matter. When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live. But although They no longer lived, They would never really die. They all lay in stone houses in Their great city of R'lyeh, preserved by the spells of mighty Cthulhu for a glorious resurrection when the stars and the earth might once more be ready for Them..... The spells that preserved Them intact likewise prevented them from making an initial move."
At the proper time,
"the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth....Then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom."

Of course, on a certain level the monster conjured by H. P. Lovecraft is trivial. We have enough monsters of our own in the world with people such as Castro. He may well die and stay dead, but his essence will live on. To quote another Science Fiction classic, Forbidden Planet, what we deal with here on Earth are "Monsters. Monsters from the id."

Castro, living or dead, is just a place-holder.



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Posted by Vanderleun at February 19, 2008 8:46 PM | TrackBack
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"It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood." -- Karl Popper N.B.: Comments are moderated and may not appear immediately. Comments that exceed the obscenity or stupidity limits will be either edited or expunged.

Wow. Now I'm torn between supporting Cthulhu or Sunny Lukis.

Posted by: rickl at February 20, 2008 9:41 PM

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu Rl'yeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

Yeah, I like that. Nail. Head. Bang!

Castro lying Dead but Dreaming of his Communist Paradise, not of this Earth, while his influence calls the sensitive and 'progressive' into his field of distortion.

Well done!

Posted by: Gray at February 20, 2008 10:41 PM

A soldier in the battle of ideas???

Methinks Old Castro believes that Communism, with its total lack of success in the last century, is still in the battle. He dosesn't know it but he's actually been brain dead for a long, long time. As have all his acolytes.

Why do we give a crap what he does or says? When he's finally completed his rendezvous with dirt let's just consign him and all his monstrous mistreatment of the Cuban people to the dustbin of history.

Posted by: Jimmy J. at February 21, 2008 8:19 PM

"Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom."

As good a summary of Nietzsche's philosophy as I have seen. This is the philosophical basis of the political movements called fascism and communism in Europe and progressivism and liberalism in the US. Of course we shall need a high priest (duce, fuhrer) to lead the rites. Hussein is the man.

Posted by: Fat Man at February 22, 2008 10:43 AM
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