Why Cosmic Horror is at the root of post-modern nihilism.

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The version of existence which acknowledges the horror of an unknowable cosmos has been called “weird realism” or “speculative realism”[7] and it undermines all anthropocentric belief systems (religious or humanist). There is a tendency, even nowadays, to think of the world in which we live as a product/representation of mind or language: a human construct[8]. As John Gray of The Atlantic put it: “For Lovecraft, human beings are too feeble to shape a coherent view of the universe. Our minds are specks tossed about in the cosmic melee; though we look for secure foundations, we live in perpetual free fall.” [9]