There is much that has been done since Lovecraft's work that has vastly improved on the basics, and his writing feel a bit rough to me.
John Dies at the End might be a good read, though keep in mind it is also comedic (so dark comedy), so if you're looking for that serious horror tone then you might want to look elsewhere.
My friends have played a video game called Bloodborne and they claim it's the best cosmic horror story they have seen. Supposedly to really get the story though, you have to either spend a lot of time trying to piece it out by playing it, or just read/watch a synopsis.
The issue is that those in power can seize power from the people without the people knowing as long as there isn't some huge mistake. Once there's a mistake/catastrophe/whatever, those in power come under scrutiny of the public, and changes get made.
So my fear would be that everyone continues on in complacency, and one day we wake up and realize we live in an authoritarian state, where mass catastrophies can occur and no one can do anything about it.
I don't want people to get hurt or die, but I also don't want power to be quietly seized by the few.
> Probably a dozen other good ideas exist- this is hacker news, I'm sure we could invent a hundred more.
> The only challenge is going to be convincing the powers that be that it's on their economic interest to pay you to do so.
Maybe instead we can come up with ways to hack the powers that be to pay for these things? That seems to be the real issue to get past. I'm sure we could think of ways to engage millenials in voting campaigns to influence this policy. I don't know a lot about politics but I'm sure there's other ways of applying pressure as well aside from voting.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make myself available for mentoring over the internet? I'm sure there's many possibilities, but has anyone had actual success with any?
Preferably I could get paid doing it, but if that's not really feasible then I wouldn't mind pro bono.