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in reply to @mitzienscene's post:
That was an interesting essay!
Glad to see that people have recognized Lovecraft's racism for decades now.
The bit about how Star Wars putting forward Instincts over Reason as being pro-Nazi stuck out to me a bit, as the overt politics of Star Wars are anti-Nazi in general.
The dislike he has for Starship Troopers (which I've not read as of yet) took me a bit by surprise, given that it's usually taken as a parody by many today.
EDIT: I may have the book and movie confused with Starship Troopers, perils of only having experienced either second hand
yeah, the Starship Troopers movie was a parody where the book was more sincere in its politics.
Instinct vs. reason as a fascist idea sounds strange in the modern era, where rationalism has taken several well-deserved beatings from critical theory, but the early era of fascism had specific anti-rational politics (in which the truth is something willed into existence by the fascist person/party/state rather than an exterior entity they must submit to or critique), and I can see how fascist ideas around myth and chosen leaders and exerting the will to power would fit into Star Wars, much the way that anti-fascist ideas of resistance against overwhelming force and refusing the fascist temptation to domination fit into Star Wars. There's also the old problem that any accurate depiction of fascism (e.g. the galactic empire in Star Wars) will inevitably have fans who recognize it for what it is, and like it.