Quote Originally Posted by Kaiser Omnik View Post
Perhaps because those are the kind of cultural allegories putting value in freedom and autonomy over collectivism we're so used to in the very individualistic Western world (certainly in the U.S. and Canada at least), and that we tend to resist any story or metaphysics that go against those principles?
I could also have stayed within D&D and compared it all to an illithid elder brain. It is a similar deal where you are given the lure of a socially responsible immortality but then have your personality erased to the benefit of one consciousness. The only difference is that the mind flayers could in theory live without an elder brain, while the OotS gods create and maintain everything.

The chaotic good gods must feel like frauds, being known as defenders of everyone's liberty, yet ruling over a plane that just can not function this way.