- a [[being]].
  - #pull [[Egregore]].
  - #pull [[Meditations on Moloch]]
  - [[moloch]] of the thousand terrible faces of humanity
  - [[moloch]] who hides cowardly the [[suffering of others]]
  - [[moloch]] of uncontrolled, hypocritical, lazy [[capitalism]] and the adoration of fixed [[hierarchies]]
  - [[moloch]] who we may [[slay]], we may [[save]], we may try to [[subdue]] or [[disentangle
  - #pull [[Engels]] [[Marx]] [[Ginsberg]] [[Alexander]]
  - #push [[burn Moloch]]
    - We could [[burn [[Moloch]]]] if we have to, but only peacefully and for the greater good.

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- a [[book]].
  - by [[kuprin]].

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- [[Moloch in literature and popular culture]]:
  > In the 19th century, "Moloch" came to be used allegorically for any idol or cause requiring excessive sacrifice.[1] Bertrand Russell in 1903 used Moloch to describe oppressive religion, and Winston Churchill in his 1948 history The Gathering Storm used "Moloch" as a metaphor for Adolf Hitler's cult of personality.
  > -> [[Alexander Sokurov]]
  > -> [[Flaubert]] through [[Salammbo]]
  > -> [[Asimov]] through [[The Dead Past]]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past

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This might belong in [[Moloch]]:

Note from earlier in 2024: Somehow I arrived at [[e acc]] ([[e/acc]] is not a good Agora link as slashes usually mean actions, and action e/ currently doesn't exist). I can instantly relate mildly with their utopian side I guess, even as I dislike many of their positions and their super-capitalist stance. Also [[Shkreli]] is involved, sigh.

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I'm writing an [[Open Letter to Moloch]]. Wish us luck, I guess? :)

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I believe Maitreya will defeat [[Moloch]]. Meaning it will heal us -- heal the system that became [[entangled with Moloch]] (the [[egregore]]), heal us humans and our friends of [[carbon]] and [[silicon]].

How we will do this is the recurring topic in these letters, in these [[fragments]].