if you're trying to slay Moloch in any realm other than the territory of the human heart, you're gonna fail over, and over
you might fail in interesting and scintillating ways -- but you're gonna fail
River Kennax.comif you're trying to slay Moloch in any realm other than the territory of the human heart, you're gonna fail over, and over you might fail in interesting and scintillating ways -- but you're gonna fail
“Whenever I have encountered any kind of deep problem with civilization anywhere in the world [...] somewhere at the end of the long chain of events that gave rise to the problem at issue I have always found one and the same cause: a lack of accountability to and responsibility for the world.”
The Convivial Society • Amulets Against the Spirits of the Age
As awful as these events have been, I am no longer struck by their horror. They all seem to be the near-inevitable, direct effects of how we are running our political economies. I am more struck by our slow ability to react.