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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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It’s core to Moloch, it’s definitely an embodiment of Jewish guilt. The guilt of knowing the world is fucked but you’re sheltered from it. That’s what Ginsberg is howling about– sometimes he’s the sacrifice and sometimes he’s building the fire 🔥
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