diff --git a/Moloch.md b/Moloch.md index b97010622..5e034fa44 100644 --- a/Moloch.md +++ b/Moloch.md @@ -6,11 +6,16 @@ - [[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]] + - #push [[burn Moloch]] - We could [[burn [[Moloch]]]] if we have to, but only peacefully and for the greater good. -- +- a [[book]]. + - by [[kuprin]]. + +-- + - [[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]] @@ -19,4 +24,9 @@ -- -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. +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. + +-- +