we're all part of Moloch and being able to see him doesn't spare you from his depredationshttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1131326592863522816 …
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Replying to @danlistensto
Isn't Moloch essentially the egregore of empire/capital?
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Replying to @john_heathen
valid interpretation, though there's also Mammon to contend with in that role
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Replying to @danlistensto @john_heathen
today Moloch feels made of perverse incentives to me
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Replying to @john_heathen @danlistensto
Moloch is the fact that if you nobly refrain from doing the most advantageous but in some way horrible thing, somebody else will do the most advantageous but in some way horrible thing and bury you
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so naturally the only way to preserve yourself in not doing the horrible thing state is to make it so that nobody can do the horrible thing. oh congratulations you have made a giant bureaucracy of violence, hai Moloch
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I get it intellectually but it feels like there’s something I’m supposed to viscerally appreciate that I don’t.
That makes me part of Moloch doesn’t it? Or just Moloch-blind?