Moloch

Every solution to “systemic failure” that promises control gets packaged as a product that re-enrolls you into something deeper than what you were escaping.

It’s revealing that Silicon Valley’s word of the moment is ‘ agency ’ as it dresses up that desire for control. Optimization is the process, control is the desite, and agency is the branding. It’s not clear what agency means in startup land (similar to other words often used, like taste) but it does hint at someone who will force the universe to... See more

The optimization economy can't deliver control, because the desperation is the market condition, and the pursuit of control through optimization is itself a loss of control.

Craft Is the Antidote to Slop "The devil’s oldest strategy is, of course, promising godlike creation without godlike effort." https://t.co/3LMU326wSe

you cannot impose a culture from the top it must come from under https://t.co/3xmaLolCnc

one of the greatest tricks the devil ever played on humanity is convincing us that there is any such thing as absolute certainty. the only time things are 100% clear are carefully constructed fictions.

anything true, beautiful, eternal requires a leap of faith and pure belief

Sitting in your apartment alone radicalizing yourself on the internet is exactly what a hypothetical “evil overlord” would want you to do. The greatest act of rebellion is to go outside and forge relationships and start families and build things that help people and spread love.

moloch feeds on our shame

kind of shocked at how much mental energy is freed up if we stop trying to be special and important