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Meditations On Moloch

By Scott Alexander · Slate Star Codex · July 2014

Meditations On Moloch

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"I. Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem on Moloch:What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and u…"

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