Apparently the Great Old Ones and the shoggoths are in favor of simple country life:

Evidently their scientific and mechanical knowledge far surpassed man’s today, though they made use of its more widespread and elaborate forms only when obliged to. Some of the sculptures suggested that they had passed through a stage of mechanized life on other planets, but had receded upon finding its effects emotionally unsatisfying. (from H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness)

Hey, if we could get Cthulhu to buy into localism and to fight against the orcs, we might have a shot at returning to the Shire and getting out of Mordor. (How’s that for the blending of anti-modernist fiction for political purposes?)

Cthulhu ‘08!