Anonymous4: How fucked up would this be if it were actually true (story wise, I mean)? I know the scene was borrowed from PLANET OF THE APES but this would explain a few things in the CONAN series.
Anonymous5: @Anon4: Actually per canon the Conan series takes place long before the modern world came into being, "before the sinking of Atlantis".
Robert Howard envisioned the world as a series of rises and falls (he was a massive social Darwinist and a racist who viewed black people as "less evolved" than whites and feared that whites would lose their superior evolutionary place through decadence), after Conan's age the world fell again into total barbarism and lost all technology and then our society rose from that.
Anonymous6: @Anonymous: Howard started out racist, but gradually changed his ideals over his life. He later wrote that the ancient Atlantians were dark skinned and that the whites were the inferior race. The really racist one is H.P. Lovecraft. Written correspondence with Lovecraft is one of many factors that made Howard reconsider and drop his racist views :)
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Robert Howard envisioned the world as a series of rises and falls (he was a massive social Darwinist and a racist who viewed black people as "less evolved" than whites and feared that whites would lose their superior evolutionary place through decadence), after Conan's age the world fell again into total barbarism and lost all technology and then our society rose from that.
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