Thank you for your political applause light. You just posted it on a wrong website.
Speaking for myself, I cannot really dispute whether “Cthulhu swims left” before I see a meaningful explanation of what that means.
My attempt to steelman this could be something like: “when people advance economically, they usually move from farmer values to forager values; and in the recent centuries most of the planet is improving economically”. But I feel this translation is unsatisfactory, because it does not contain all those connotations of the original version—all the feelings of evil conspiracy and the heroic resistance against the inevitable doom—in other words, what gets lost in the translation is exactly the part that makes it so emotionally meaningful for some people.
I could give you an example about how Eastern Europe once used to be full of communist regimes, and then suddenly it was not. But I am sure you can redefine “Cthulhu” to make this example irrelevant, or find some other excuse.
Cthulhu may swim slowly. But he only swims left.
I assume the mistake was assuming Cthulhu was swimming faster. AFAIK no one disputes the only swims left part.
From the North Pole every direction is South. Consider being less NRxic.
Thank you for your political applause light. You just posted it on a wrong website.
Speaking for myself, I cannot really dispute whether “Cthulhu swims left” before I see a meaningful explanation of what that means.
My attempt to steelman this could be something like: “when people advance economically, they usually move from farmer values to forager values; and in the recent centuries most of the planet is improving economically”. But I feel this translation is unsatisfactory, because it does not contain all those connotations of the original version—all the feelings of evil conspiracy and the heroic resistance against the inevitable doom—in other words, what gets lost in the translation is exactly the part that makes it so emotionally meaningful for some people.
I could give you an example about how Eastern Europe once used to be full of communist regimes, and then suddenly it was not. But I am sure you can redefine “Cthulhu” to make this example irrelevant, or find some other excuse.