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I don’t *really* grok the modern Moloch meme of Ginsberg/SSC provenance 🤔 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?
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When we drive our cars and use coal-fired electricity, and doom other poor countries to permanent climate related catastrophe, and ourselves just enjoy a few more sunny days, that’s moloch.
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Yes I get all that I just don’t think there’s a there there It’s like you have to believe in a karmic calculus to be shocked at the discovery there isn’t one The concept is clear, the metaphysical premises seem like a matter of religious taste
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