weirdly insightful sentences

Market forces incentivise us to get on the property ladder, and then to set fire to the rungs beneath us so that nobody else can climb up. Moloch needs a good home to rest his cloven feet, after all.

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

No change, however evil, is introduced without its being presented as an unimpeachable good.