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Meditations on Moloch
Once you exempt yourself from the law of limited competition, everything in the world except your food and the food of your food becomes an enemy to be exterminated.”
Daniel Quinn • Ishmael: A Novel (Ishmael Series Book 1)
People feel torn between doing what they know to be right and what the powerful emergent incentives of the system demand. People who resist get increasingly worn out and burnt out.
Alex Komoroske • Coordination Headwind - How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
“Experiencing a premonition of its death, our world is producing discordant movements. It is jittery. There was nothing of the like in the nineteenth century. And the twentieth? Two world wars, the atom bomb, Auschwitz, Communism, the division of the world into Reds and Westerners...Humankind somehow got the jitters in the twentieth century, don’t
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