Moloch

• a [[being]].
  • an [[egregore]].
    • Apologies for calling it a [[thing]] at some point.
    • Called by some [[the machine]].
    • Lives in [[Antiflancia]].
  • [[wp]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch pull
    • [[go]] [[wp]]
  • [[pull]] [[meditations on moloch]]
  • A maximizer of [[cacotopoi]].
    • A vector against interesting gradients in [[protopoi]], often taking the form of [[violence]] and unsolved [[coordination problems]].
      • Sometimes solved through history after giving new tools to more people.
      • Currently includes social evils due to missed opportunities and the tendency of self-sustaining systems to stay put in idiosyncratic equilibriums, local optima.
      • Better optima become available with improvements in availability of resources, and improvements for communication and collaboration.
  • The Agora is my proposal for a tool for [[chasing moloch]].
    • [[flancian]] https://flancia.org/t/moloch pull
    • If we ever catch up to them, we'll ask them plenty of questions.
    • I think it is armed with a [[commons]] we'll [[slay moloch]] if we have to.
      • [[pull]] [[slaying moloch]]

• I read [[meditations on moloch]] for [[node club]] by [[alan gingsberg]]
• moloch kinda reminds me of the machine in [[bolo'bolo]]
• we are all moloch, moloch is the apparatus, moloch is not a person.
• What does the [[death of moloch]] look like?
• how do we kill moloch without killing ourselves

Moloch

a Biblical thing

is a name or a term which appears in the Hebrew Bible several times, primarily in the book of Leviticus. The Bible strongly condemns practices which are associated with Moloch, practices which appear to have included child sacrifice.

– Moloch - Wikipedia

a poem by [[Allen Ginsberg]] (part of [[Howl]])

'Moloch' has been figuratively used in reference to a person or a thing which demands or requires a very costly sacrifice.

– Moloch - Wikipedia

sphinx of cement and aluminum

Something has been sacrified to Moloch. Modern materials but an old god.

⥅ [[images/moloch.png]]

Moloch in Metropolis.

whose mind is pure machinery!

Anti-technology?

whose blood is running money!

[[Anti-capitalist]]?

whose fingers are ten armies!

Anti-war?

There's a lot of exclamation marks and angry energy.

Moloch who entered my soul early!

[[Hegemony]].

Moloch who frightened me out of my natural ecstasy!

Yearning for nature?

Moloch whom I abandon! Wake up in Moloch! Light streaming out of the sky!

^ [[The Matrix]] vibes.

After a first read through, I'm thinking Ginsberg was seriously angry about over-consumption and technology in the pursuit of money, at the expense of nature (or something more 'natural'). I don't know who he thinks has sold out and made this sacrifice. People in general? He himself maybe. I should read the other parts.

Words to describe Moloch

• Solitude!
• Filth!
• Ugliness!
• Nightmare
• Loveless
• Heavy judger
• Incomprehensible prison
• Crossbone soulless jailhouse
• Congress of sorrows
• etc

• I read [[meditations on moloch]] for [[node club]] by [[alan gingsberg]]
• moloch kinda reminds me of the machine in [[bolo'bolo]]
• we are all moloch, moloch is the apparatus, moloch is not a person.
• What does the [[death of moloch]] look like?
• how do we kill moloch without killing ourselves

• [[flancian]] https://social.coop/@flancian/107588693999494630
• [[flancian]] https://social.coop/@flancian/107588693999494630
• [[flancian]] https://social.coop/@flancian/107622017136702583
• [[flancian]] https://social.coop/@flancian/107626319864237560

• [[flancian]] https://social.coop/@flancian/107602636297459754

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• [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1480255413140525057 pull
• [[codexeditor]] https://twitter.com/codexeditor/status/1480806953358016515 pull
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• [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1482318719397339140 pull
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