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* [[Values Dissonance]] can leave modern readers with the interpretation that it is the ''humans'' portrayed in the works of [[H.P. Lovecraft]] who are insane, being so fixated on a ridiculously dull, narrow-minded view of the universe that any exposure to the fact that they ''don't'' know everything there is to know about the universe and/or are not inherently gifted above even other branches of the human race causes them to end up going mad.
** This is particularly noticable when one compares straight up Lovecraft-authored protagonists to those of more "[[Sword and Sorcery]] branches" of the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], such as [[Conan the Barbarian]], where the protagonist, whilst still finding the [[Eldritch Abomination]]s to be scary, manages to take a stand at them and comes out ultimately mentally unscathed.
* [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s [https://web.archive.org/web/20150603072421/http://www.webscription.net/chapters/0743498747/0743498747___1.htm "Rescue Party"] comes to mind. "Are they trying to make an interstellar voyage with ''rockets''?!"
** Explanation: {{spoiler|the Sun is about to go nova so humans '''ALL''' got on rocket ships to find a new sun, knowing how crazy that would be. Aliens find us mid-journey. They might regret that.}}
* [[Stephen King]] is fond of this trope, as the quote shows. [[Cell]] discusses it - Clay theorizes the phone didn't drive the humans insane - it simply wiped everything out, and the psychos everywhere are simply base humans doing human things. Like stabbing everything. Another character puts it simply:
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