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by bearer_token 2437 days ago
From https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

> if everyone hates the current system, who perpetuates it?

And Ginsberg answers: “Moloch”. It’s powerful not because it’s correct – nobody literally thinks an ancient Carthaginian demon causes everything – but because thinking of the system as an agent throws into relief the degree to which the system isn’t an agent.