Another excellent read, thank you for sharing! I am daily heartened by the number of people who are seeing Moloch as the curtain is ripped away; and sadly watching those who will do anything to not be inconvenienced by harsh truths. Who knew the collapse of Empire could be so fascinating to live through? I remain optimistic and continue doing what I do best - creating beauty with Nature, creating community 1 person at a time, and making it a priority to LOVE MY LIFE. That is the one place Moloch cannot enter, our love for our lives.
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Hi Mathew - thanks so much for this. It's a sleepless night for me. It must be the "Peak Moloch" energy!
This struck me:
"Defeating Moloch requires a heroic effort that travels through loneliness and back to humanity."
It's so true - at least for me.
And yet, I am reminded daily that in the quantum field of truth, there are ONLY mighty companions. That includes daily reminders from the writer Warriors on Substack.
So, thanks for this wonderful reminder tonight, and for all that you are doing.
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The realities are, most of the "secret sauce" that made the American Experiment work has been lost to us down through the decades. Once upon a time, there were jobs for teenagers. Shovel snow, mow a lawn, fill the shelves at a grocery store. Seems trivial, but the young at least learned the basic concept that there's no free lunch in the American economy. I'm wondering how many of today's college kids (and the younger professors) have ever held a job? Failing to be grounded in reality at an early enough age, small wonder that so many crazy ideas are sprouting on college campuses these days.
And it's worse than that. A voluntary exchange economy prospers best when there are lines that both buyer and seller will not cross. Is was always "caveat emptor" in the marketplace, sure... but the marketplace these days, more and more merchants are turning commercial transactions into the equivalent of a steel cage death match in which no holds are barred. The 'secret sauce' that's going missing is that most of the older generations in learned their morality through their Sunday school lessons, they learned that there are certain lines in life that dare not be crossed. It's not that Sunday school is the only way to learn the everyday morality that makes markets prosper, it's not that at all: With fewer children receiving religious instruction at an early age, our problem is that no succeeding method to that instruction has arisen to take its place. We need that everyday practical sense of morality, and we need it deeply.
There are more aspects to this, but I won't belabor the point any further. Having seen many a rodeo, I applaud many of the social and technological changes that have occurred in America during my lifetime. I do not wish to go back. It is indeed a better America than I grew up in, through the efforts of so many.
But we're getting to a point where too many babies have been tossed with the bath water. Too much of the 'secret sauce' that drove our success has been lost, and has never been replaced. We're suffering from the effects of that.
Great points. They bring to mind the video I recently watched of WEF brainiac Yuval Noah Harari speaking about the dilemma of what to do with 'all of the useless people...the useless, worthless people'. Many of those I believe he refers to were created by that invisible, so-called 'beneficent hand' of the government paying people not to work, and incentivizing damaging behaviors. Harari's comments included a suggestion of plying them with drugs and video games. Makes me wonder if perhaps the WEF cabal is not behind the opioids coming out of China through our southern border. With so many provided money but no productive activity with which to fill their time, the market is there for these dealers to make a killing - quite literally.
Opportunists abound. Rather than a conspiracy, this all might be an alignment of incentives - all of which benefit the moneyed elite. Too many connections through the WEF as you point out - we'd be fools to not be taking them seriously. MAA ("Through the Looking Glass") did a three part series on the controversial Mr. Harari very recently, which I have started reading but not yet finished. At the very least, the man is naïve... but these are shark-infested water he swims in, from which we all might not escape.
The climate alarmists are correct in at least one sense. We WILL run out of oil someday, and the only long-term solution is to capture energy from the sun, then convert it into something else. Technology has gotten so complicated that there will be unintended consequences that the average person can't begin to understand. Treacherous waters, as you point out.
Imagine a "technological function" for achieving a set of aims with a resource. If we invest in such a function, we generally see exponential decay of the functional output, which in this case is consumption of the resource. We might even achieve replacement of methods for creating carbon chains of appropriate size (like octane for gas, or create and then "crack" larger chains down to size, which is done in refining).
If the sum under the curve is smaller than the supply, then we see a moment of peak oil, and yet NEVER RUN OUT.
It's a shame this level of mathematics essentially never enters the discussion. I should write an article on the topic one day.
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If you do write that article, I have no doubt that it will be worth reading - my point is, we need alternative approaches to capturing the energy from the sun then converting it. In retrospect, I should have been more specific - 'recoverable' oil, I should have stated, that's what I was referring to - that oil which had been trapped by natural processes eons ago.
Indeed, the eventual petroleum solution might have the look and feel like the natural stuff. When the energy embargo struck in the 1970s, one of the approaches tried was to manufacture a synthetic liquid fuel out of the nation's ample supply of carbon reserves. Years of effort went into this, but given the technology of the time a cost-effective approach couldn't be found. A prototype was tried, but we never got beyond that. The political crisis eventually went away, and by that time the company I worked for instead focused our efforts on energy efficiency- which proved to be a more worthwhile effort. The kilowatt no longer needed produces no pollution.
Beyond my company's efforts, others were taking the same approach. More energy-efficient solutions were found for all sorts of everyday items. One of the smarter things electrical utility companies did was put your energy consumption bar charts on the monthly bills. Very interesting to watch them go down every time that you upgraded to something newer, or found a more efficient method. (Then, there's the automobile. The miles-per-gallon in 1971? Don't ask....and they still put lead in the gasoline so your engine wouldn't knock.)
I'm all with you on diversifying technological solutions. And in that vein, we need to allow education to do its thing more completely, and defang the intellectual property regime that keeps a lot of research from taking place (I have shelved work on multiple projects for that reason alone).
We've known for *decades* how to avoid peak oil. It's called slow breeder reactors. We've known for decades how to build passively safe reactors that can't melt down. We've chosen not to do so.
“Where you will be when Moloch falls is a choice.”
I’ll be here next to you, to all of you, unshakeable fearless brethren. We’ll have lots of rebuilding to do. And stories around the campfire to tell. And many souls to help heal. The death of Moloch will leave a giant void and we can either fill it with love and empathy or allow another Moloch to rise from the filler of anything less.
It is a paradox why things are clear as day to some of us (and it is lonely) and completely opaque to others. And why some want to stubbornly stay unknowing, even with growing evidence of truth. It is easy to go with the flow; too much effort to swim up-current. Many go along as a result of fear, but plenty just don't want to be bothered. Either way they are collaborators in deception and harm and thus culpable; innocence can only be claimed up to a certain point. Thank you again for sharing your thoughts, Mathew.
Moloch spelled MLK in ancient hebrew meaning King...
In ancient Hebrew the words were written without vowels...
A burnt offering to MLK was known as Holocaust or Shoah...
It was usually the sacrifice of a living baby thrown into the flames of Molech.
There was chanting and singing to drown the screams of the sacrificed baby.
Before that all the sins of the ancient hebrew were transferred to the baby.
Today the passover festival is similar to the worship of molech where the sins are transferred to the sacrificial lam which is then sacrificed.
The worship of Molech & the Cult of Molech today live on in the WEF and the Bohemian Grove and Skull & Bones and the many subdivisions of the Jewish Occult.
Nearly all of the so called Leaders are members and do their bidding today.
The WEF Klaus Schwab and Henry Kissinger are at the center of this.
>"Dr. Zelenko passed away about a day ago, also there is not much information about his cause of death at this time;"
He passed away a few hours ago, not a day ago.
The cause of death was complications from a surgery on his heart (if my understanding is correct, they were removing a cancerous growth that metastasized into his heart.)
Moloch isn’t an idea. He actually is a demon in hell. Evil isn’t just a “force;” it is personified in Satan and the demons intent on our destruction. If you don’t realize this, you are picking daisies in the battlefield.
The nice thing about the way I approach the discussion is that none of the substance of my thoughts really change whether Moloch is an amalgam of forces or an embodied demon in some hell. I feel that it's better for me not to pre-establish answers to questions I'm not particularly fit to explore.
The belief that God's other than the God of Abraham i.e. the Christian God , are actually demons, is basic Christian theology. "I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils." 1 Corinthians 10:20 KJV). I love your metaphor regarding the attitude and methods adopted by most people when faced with truth and reality.
In the Inferno, the gardeners (female) and soothsayers are getting their basal ganglia gnawed on (or one of those pre-Inquisition sadistic fantasies), and since spineless sadism worthy of the Inquisition is making an epidemic comeback, it might be better to be a warrior. "The body is the garden of the soul" says the angel in Angels in America. I maintain that the addiction to sadistic sacrificial belief systems cannot be recovered from for the most part. If there were only an epigenetic/genetic sequence that could be edited out, humanity could flourish. If the coincidence of opposites requires evil, there's enough natural evil, particularly with what is happening to the earth and other species, to fulfill that. There might be a Moloch worshipping switch in the epigenome! These genius statisticians and mathematicians and evolutionary biologists need a grant from Gaia!
This is certainly going to be an interesting discussion Mathew. I’m a devout Catholic and when I refer to Moloch I usually mean the impulse to kill one’s children and call it virtue, especially slick virtues pushed by corporations who can only gain by calling evil good. “Scott Alexander’s” definition, borrowing on Ginsburg and even CS Lewis about dystopia made me think of a YT discussion (deleted by the Overlords) between Dave Cullen and John Waters way back in 2020. Waters made the point that the best prison is the one built by the prisoners themselves. The panopticon. I’m definitely looking forward to everyone’s comments.
It has been good to believe in God, to have faith in Him at this time, as it disciplines me to resist the temptation to believe in Government, and all of its pomps, and all of its pharmaceuticals...
There are deep truths offered to the faithful, warning them of the enmity between Moloch and Gaia, in terms of the Serpent and Mary.
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>as it disciplines me to resist the temptation to believe in Government, and all of its pomps
Which reminds me of what the The Ethics of the Fathers has to say about government.
"Love work, loath mastery over others, and avoid intimacy with the government." (Chapter 1:10) [Hm, what do those three have in common?]
"Be careful with the government, for they befriend a person only for their own needs. They appear to be friends when it is beneficial to them, but they do not stand by a person at the time of his distress." (Chapter 2:3)
"Pray for the integrity of the government; for were it not for the fear of its authority, a man would swallow his neighbor alive." (Chapter 3:2)
To summarize very briefly: government is necessary because it monopolizes violence thus avoiding wars of anarchy. Otherwise do not think for a second it is there for your benefit; only for its own.
Thank you for this essay. Your writing is one of the things that keeps me sane these days. Your closing words especially. It is absolutely true that fear is a choice. I can sometimes seem overwhelming to see all of the rot out there and not know how to fight back. This is one of those areas where I agree with the oft repeated adage (though not at all in this context) that silence is violence. Knowing the truth and keeping it to yourself does nobody any good.
I never liked his Meditations on Moloch. I think it's self-gaslighting to explain away the willful agency that drives social dysfunction, which they try to portray as spontaneous and emergent. The real agent are the central bankers and their plans for world domination. The rule is "order out of chaos."
Scott is progressive, asexual and lives in a polyamorous commune, from which he would likely be ostracized if he realized the nature of reality. So he writes long meandering articles to avoid that.
If he saw the reality of HCQ and ivermectin, continuing to ask "but why?" inevitably leads to central bankers. If he followed this, his social circle would expel him and he'd have to find another home.
He wrote an excellent article in 2013 about the slow decay of people warehoused in nursing homes:
This was evocative, and is the only article of his I still link to.
Besides this, I consider him harmful. Not only for his narrative-compliant opinions - he's also a psychiatrist who perpetuates the harm of SSRIs. A Midwestern Doctor gave an excellent debunking:
well, sir, if you have any mild sympathies for the pro-life side of the debate, this Moloch vs. Gaia essay would be the most oblique way you could possibly say so.
my favorite sentence:
"Moloch replaces cooperation and formless defection without equilibrium. "
I don't generally talk much about the abortion question, but I am in what would usually be called the "moderate" category. I think having local cultures decide (federalist) is best, and within my own community I would want for a doctor to be able to perform an abortion to save a mother's life. More generally, I find anything other than very early abortion to be sickening, and I find the goal to encourage abortion sickening, and eugenics sickening. But my preference is for early term abortion to remain legal (particularly for cases of rape, but since determining that is often impossible, I default to privacy grounds).
That said, I think that abortion is one of those debates where the debate takes place too late. What I mean by that is that if we build a functioning economy and raise children well, then there is little need to ever discuss the topic. Well raised children have better faculties and better agencies. Education and mental health first---the rest is mostly hacking at the leaves.
thanks for having the courage to discuss your position clearly and openly. it's so hard to do that nowadays. in my own thoughts I've gone around and around and around, seeing valid points on both sides of the debate.
I find it problematic and disturbing that the government could force a woman's choices about what to do with her body (kind of like I found it disturbing that the government coerced people to get these Covid jabs).
OTOH there's evidence that a 15 week old fetus has an awful lot of similarities to the rest of us humans. it has its own brain and nervous system, a functioning heart, various organ systems delineated and developing. I can't help but think, "Ummm, we're not just removing a dumb clump of cells here. We're killing something. And it's more significant than just a clump of cells. Why is the government and media obscuring that info and encouraging people to do that? And why do we insist on using tax dollars to pay for abortions when those dollars are taken from other citizens who think abortion is a super bad idea? I mean, the government doesn't go around buying people printing presses and guns so they can exercise their First and Second amendment rights."
man, I don't know. around it goes in my mind. what a confusing issue. I'm guessing my views are sort of similar to those of the average voter, but I'm not sure.
"OTOH there's evidence that a 15 week old fetus has an awful lot of similarities to the rest of us humans. it has its own brain and nervous system, a functioning heart, various organ systems delineated and developing. I can't help but think, "Ummm, we're not just removing a dumb clump of cells here. We're killing something. And it's more significant than just a clump of cells."
Right. And this is why the idea definitely makes me sick at some point. I guess I would say that I'm "anti-abortion", but in terms of the rights conflict (especially for endangered mothers), I see legal middleground. And yet, I most prefer to seek the earlier starting point: Let us raise the children to be healthy and full of agency so that they understand sex and responsibility long before there is need to even think about abortion. There would rarely be a conflict to think through if we did education, parenting, and perhaps also economics as well as we could.
Another excellent read, thank you for sharing! I am daily heartened by the number of people who are seeing Moloch as the curtain is ripped away; and sadly watching those who will do anything to not be inconvenienced by harsh truths. Who knew the collapse of Empire could be so fascinating to live through? I remain optimistic and continue doing what I do best - creating beauty with Nature, creating community 1 person at a time, and making it a priority to LOVE MY LIFE. That is the one place Moloch cannot enter, our love for our lives.
very well put, thank you Cat <3
Mathew, I loved the contrasting between the concepts of Gaia and Moloch, quite helpful :) another excellent post
So true! Can't stop the collapse, and growth is through the fear and into the love and community. 🌈
Hi Mathew - thanks so much for this. It's a sleepless night for me. It must be the "Peak Moloch" energy!
This struck me:
"Defeating Moloch requires a heroic effort that travels through loneliness and back to humanity."
It's so true - at least for me.
And yet, I am reminded daily that in the quantum field of truth, there are ONLY mighty companions. That includes daily reminders from the writer Warriors on Substack.
So, thanks for this wonderful reminder tonight, and for all that you are doing.
Good night!
The realities are, most of the "secret sauce" that made the American Experiment work has been lost to us down through the decades. Once upon a time, there were jobs for teenagers. Shovel snow, mow a lawn, fill the shelves at a grocery store. Seems trivial, but the young at least learned the basic concept that there's no free lunch in the American economy. I'm wondering how many of today's college kids (and the younger professors) have ever held a job? Failing to be grounded in reality at an early enough age, small wonder that so many crazy ideas are sprouting on college campuses these days.
And it's worse than that. A voluntary exchange economy prospers best when there are lines that both buyer and seller will not cross. Is was always "caveat emptor" in the marketplace, sure... but the marketplace these days, more and more merchants are turning commercial transactions into the equivalent of a steel cage death match in which no holds are barred. The 'secret sauce' that's going missing is that most of the older generations in learned their morality through their Sunday school lessons, they learned that there are certain lines in life that dare not be crossed. It's not that Sunday school is the only way to learn the everyday morality that makes markets prosper, it's not that at all: With fewer children receiving religious instruction at an early age, our problem is that no succeeding method to that instruction has arisen to take its place. We need that everyday practical sense of morality, and we need it deeply.
There are more aspects to this, but I won't belabor the point any further. Having seen many a rodeo, I applaud many of the social and technological changes that have occurred in America during my lifetime. I do not wish to go back. It is indeed a better America than I grew up in, through the efforts of so many.
But we're getting to a point where too many babies have been tossed with the bath water. Too much of the 'secret sauce' that drove our success has been lost, and has never been replaced. We're suffering from the effects of that.
Great points. They bring to mind the video I recently watched of WEF brainiac Yuval Noah Harari speaking about the dilemma of what to do with 'all of the useless people...the useless, worthless people'. Many of those I believe he refers to were created by that invisible, so-called 'beneficent hand' of the government paying people not to work, and incentivizing damaging behaviors. Harari's comments included a suggestion of plying them with drugs and video games. Makes me wonder if perhaps the WEF cabal is not behind the opioids coming out of China through our southern border. With so many provided money but no productive activity with which to fill their time, the market is there for these dealers to make a killing - quite literally.
Opportunists abound. Rather than a conspiracy, this all might be an alignment of incentives - all of which benefit the moneyed elite. Too many connections through the WEF as you point out - we'd be fools to not be taking them seriously. MAA ("Through the Looking Glass") did a three part series on the controversial Mr. Harari very recently, which I have started reading but not yet finished. At the very least, the man is naïve... but these are shark-infested water he swims in, from which we all might not escape.
The climate alarmists are correct in at least one sense. We WILL run out of oil someday, and the only long-term solution is to capture energy from the sun, then convert it into something else. Technology has gotten so complicated that there will be unintended consequences that the average person can't begin to understand. Treacherous waters, as you point out.
"We WILL run out of oil someday"
Hold on! This is not at all a certainty.
Imagine a "technological function" for achieving a set of aims with a resource. If we invest in such a function, we generally see exponential decay of the functional output, which in this case is consumption of the resource. We might even achieve replacement of methods for creating carbon chains of appropriate size (like octane for gas, or create and then "crack" larger chains down to size, which is done in refining).
If the sum under the curve is smaller than the supply, then we see a moment of peak oil, and yet NEVER RUN OUT.
It's a shame this level of mathematics essentially never enters the discussion. I should write an article on the topic one day.
If you do write that article, I have no doubt that it will be worth reading - my point is, we need alternative approaches to capturing the energy from the sun then converting it. In retrospect, I should have been more specific - 'recoverable' oil, I should have stated, that's what I was referring to - that oil which had been trapped by natural processes eons ago.
Indeed, the eventual petroleum solution might have the look and feel like the natural stuff. When the energy embargo struck in the 1970s, one of the approaches tried was to manufacture a synthetic liquid fuel out of the nation's ample supply of carbon reserves. Years of effort went into this, but given the technology of the time a cost-effective approach couldn't be found. A prototype was tried, but we never got beyond that. The political crisis eventually went away, and by that time the company I worked for instead focused our efforts on energy efficiency- which proved to be a more worthwhile effort. The kilowatt no longer needed produces no pollution.
Beyond my company's efforts, others were taking the same approach. More energy-efficient solutions were found for all sorts of everyday items. One of the smarter things electrical utility companies did was put your energy consumption bar charts on the monthly bills. Very interesting to watch them go down every time that you upgraded to something newer, or found a more efficient method. (Then, there's the automobile. The miles-per-gallon in 1971? Don't ask....and they still put lead in the gasoline so your engine wouldn't knock.)
I'm all with you on diversifying technological solutions. And in that vein, we need to allow education to do its thing more completely, and defang the intellectual property regime that keeps a lot of research from taking place (I have shelved work on multiple projects for that reason alone).
We've known for *decades* how to avoid peak oil. It's called slow breeder reactors. We've known for decades how to build passively safe reactors that can't melt down. We've chosen not to do so.
“Where you will be when Moloch falls is a choice.”
I’ll be here next to you, to all of you, unshakeable fearless brethren. We’ll have lots of rebuilding to do. And stories around the campfire to tell. And many souls to help heal. The death of Moloch will leave a giant void and we can either fill it with love and empathy or allow another Moloch to rise from the filler of anything less.
💜💜💜
מלך - melekh in Hebrew means a king
מולך - means somebody, who happened to be a king although he by himself is not worth it. A ruler. A current thing.
The origins of language often contain such beautiful subtleties.
It is a paradox why things are clear as day to some of us (and it is lonely) and completely opaque to others. And why some want to stubbornly stay unknowing, even with growing evidence of truth. It is easy to go with the flow; too much effort to swim up-current. Many go along as a result of fear, but plenty just don't want to be bothered. Either way they are collaborators in deception and harm and thus culpable; innocence can only be claimed up to a certain point. Thank you again for sharing your thoughts, Mathew.
Love the Moloch analogy. This demon has been on my mind a lot ever since the FDA's approval of the clot shot for babies.
Any society that pushes vaccines on young people in order to "protect grandma" has descended to Moloch worship.
Moloch spelled MLK in ancient hebrew meaning King...
In ancient Hebrew the words were written without vowels...
A burnt offering to MLK was known as Holocaust or Shoah...
It was usually the sacrifice of a living baby thrown into the flames of Molech.
There was chanting and singing to drown the screams of the sacrificed baby.
Before that all the sins of the ancient hebrew were transferred to the baby.
Today the passover festival is similar to the worship of molech where the sins are transferred to the sacrificial lam which is then sacrificed.
The worship of Molech & the Cult of Molech today live on in the WEF and the Bohemian Grove and Skull & Bones and the many subdivisions of the Jewish Occult.
Nearly all of the so called Leaders are members and do their bidding today.
The WEF Klaus Schwab and Henry Kissinger are at the center of this.
https://fritzfreud.substack.com/p/individual-rights-the-authority-of
Dr. Zelenko just passed away.
...
Sad news.
Link?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pRARYq1XU4
The first article just came in:
https://usdaynews.com/news/dr-zelenko-passed-away/
We lost a good one, I imagine he will be helping from the other side. 🙏❤️
>"Dr. Zelenko passed away about a day ago, also there is not much information about his cause of death at this time;"
He passed away a few hours ago, not a day ago.
The cause of death was complications from a surgery on his heart (if my understanding is correct, they were removing a cancerous growth that metastasized into his heart.)
personal communication
Thank you. ❤️
Moloch isn’t an idea. He actually is a demon in hell. Evil isn’t just a “force;” it is personified in Satan and the demons intent on our destruction. If you don’t realize this, you are picking daisies in the battlefield.
The nice thing about the way I approach the discussion is that none of the substance of my thoughts really change whether Moloch is an amalgam of forces or an embodied demon in some hell. I feel that it's better for me not to pre-establish answers to questions I'm not particularly fit to explore.
The belief that God's other than the God of Abraham i.e. the Christian God , are actually demons, is basic Christian theology. "I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils." 1 Corinthians 10:20 KJV). I love your metaphor regarding the attitude and methods adopted by most people when faced with truth and reality.
In the Inferno, the gardeners (female) and soothsayers are getting their basal ganglia gnawed on (or one of those pre-Inquisition sadistic fantasies), and since spineless sadism worthy of the Inquisition is making an epidemic comeback, it might be better to be a warrior. "The body is the garden of the soul" says the angel in Angels in America. I maintain that the addiction to sadistic sacrificial belief systems cannot be recovered from for the most part. If there were only an epigenetic/genetic sequence that could be edited out, humanity could flourish. If the coincidence of opposites requires evil, there's enough natural evil, particularly with what is happening to the earth and other species, to fulfill that. There might be a Moloch worshipping switch in the epigenome! These genius statisticians and mathematicians and evolutionary biologists need a grant from Gaia!
This is certainly going to be an interesting discussion Mathew. I’m a devout Catholic and when I refer to Moloch I usually mean the impulse to kill one’s children and call it virtue, especially slick virtues pushed by corporations who can only gain by calling evil good. “Scott Alexander’s” definition, borrowing on Ginsburg and even CS Lewis about dystopia made me think of a YT discussion (deleted by the Overlords) between Dave Cullen and John Waters way back in 2020. Waters made the point that the best prison is the one built by the prisoners themselves. The panopticon. I’m definitely looking forward to everyone’s comments.
And sometimes those definitions converge: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-moderna-and-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccines-children
It has been good to believe in God, to have faith in Him at this time, as it disciplines me to resist the temptation to believe in Government, and all of its pomps, and all of its pharmaceuticals...
There are deep truths offered to the faithful, warning them of the enmity between Moloch and Gaia, in terms of the Serpent and Mary.
>as it disciplines me to resist the temptation to believe in Government, and all of its pomps
Which reminds me of what the The Ethics of the Fathers has to say about government.
"Love work, loath mastery over others, and avoid intimacy with the government." (Chapter 1:10) [Hm, what do those three have in common?]
"Be careful with the government, for they befriend a person only for their own needs. They appear to be friends when it is beneficial to them, but they do not stand by a person at the time of his distress." (Chapter 2:3)
"Pray for the integrity of the government; for were it not for the fear of its authority, a man would swallow his neighbor alive." (Chapter 3:2)
To summarize very briefly: government is necessary because it monopolizes violence thus avoiding wars of anarchy. Otherwise do not think for a second it is there for your benefit; only for its own.
Sick, perverse, crass lewd, lush, foul and sickeningly wealthy!
And I ain't even talking about Trump!
... the Clintons. the Bushes. the Obamas. the Bidens. Shudder.
Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek [Molock] for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord. Lev 18:21
Thank you for this essay. Your writing is one of the things that keeps me sane these days. Your closing words especially. It is absolutely true that fear is a choice. I can sometimes seem overwhelming to see all of the rot out there and not know how to fight back. This is one of those areas where I agree with the oft repeated adage (though not at all in this context) that silence is violence. Knowing the truth and keeping it to yourself does nobody any good.
Definitely, pfuck Scott Alexander. I 100% agree.
I never liked his Meditations on Moloch. I think it's self-gaslighting to explain away the willful agency that drives social dysfunction, which they try to portray as spontaneous and emergent. The real agent are the central bankers and their plans for world domination. The rule is "order out of chaos."
Scott is progressive, asexual and lives in a polyamorous commune, from which he would likely be ostracized if he realized the nature of reality. So he writes long meandering articles to avoid that.
If he saw the reality of HCQ and ivermectin, continuing to ask "but why?" inevitably leads to central bankers. If he followed this, his social circle would expel him and he'd have to find another home.
He wrote an excellent article in 2013 about the slow decay of people warehoused in nursing homes:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay/
This was evocative, and is the only article of his I still link to.
Besides this, I consider him harmful. Not only for his narrative-compliant opinions - he's also a psychiatrist who perpetuates the harm of SSRIs. A Midwestern Doctor gave an excellent debunking:
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/the-evidence-for-antidepressants
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/how-the-fda-buried-the-dangers-of
I liked his Meditations on Moloch essay, though less upon each reading.
I tihnk he's getting married now, FWIW.
While I agree with some of his takes and disagree with others, I do think he got to be vastly overrated as a thinker with a cult following.
Thanks for the amidwesterndoctor links. I hope to absorb more of the history of SSRIs (I have a bit, but still have a substantial hill to climb).
well, sir, if you have any mild sympathies for the pro-life side of the debate, this Moloch vs. Gaia essay would be the most oblique way you could possibly say so.
my favorite sentence:
"Moloch replaces cooperation and formless defection without equilibrium. "
congratulations on maximizing opacity!
I don't generally talk much about the abortion question, but I am in what would usually be called the "moderate" category. I think having local cultures decide (federalist) is best, and within my own community I would want for a doctor to be able to perform an abortion to save a mother's life. More generally, I find anything other than very early abortion to be sickening, and I find the goal to encourage abortion sickening, and eugenics sickening. But my preference is for early term abortion to remain legal (particularly for cases of rape, but since determining that is often impossible, I default to privacy grounds).
That said, I think that abortion is one of those debates where the debate takes place too late. What I mean by that is that if we build a functioning economy and raise children well, then there is little need to ever discuss the topic. Well raised children have better faculties and better agencies. Education and mental health first---the rest is mostly hacking at the leaves.
thanks for having the courage to discuss your position clearly and openly. it's so hard to do that nowadays. in my own thoughts I've gone around and around and around, seeing valid points on both sides of the debate.
I find it problematic and disturbing that the government could force a woman's choices about what to do with her body (kind of like I found it disturbing that the government coerced people to get these Covid jabs).
OTOH there's evidence that a 15 week old fetus has an awful lot of similarities to the rest of us humans. it has its own brain and nervous system, a functioning heart, various organ systems delineated and developing. I can't help but think, "Ummm, we're not just removing a dumb clump of cells here. We're killing something. And it's more significant than just a clump of cells. Why is the government and media obscuring that info and encouraging people to do that? And why do we insist on using tax dollars to pay for abortions when those dollars are taken from other citizens who think abortion is a super bad idea? I mean, the government doesn't go around buying people printing presses and guns so they can exercise their First and Second amendment rights."
man, I don't know. around it goes in my mind. what a confusing issue. I'm guessing my views are sort of similar to those of the average voter, but I'm not sure.
"OTOH there's evidence that a 15 week old fetus has an awful lot of similarities to the rest of us humans. it has its own brain and nervous system, a functioning heart, various organ systems delineated and developing. I can't help but think, "Ummm, we're not just removing a dumb clump of cells here. We're killing something. And it's more significant than just a clump of cells."
Right. And this is why the idea definitely makes me sick at some point. I guess I would say that I'm "anti-abortion", but in terms of the rights conflict (especially for endangered mothers), I see legal middleground. And yet, I most prefer to seek the earlier starting point: Let us raise the children to be healthy and full of agency so that they understand sex and responsibility long before there is need to even think about abortion. There would rarely be a conflict to think through if we did education, parenting, and perhaps also economics as well as we could.