
Meditations on Moloch [Classic]
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Las Vegas - A Mystical Experience
The reason our current system isn't a utopia is that it wasn't designed by humans. Just as the shapes of rivers are not designed for beauty or navigation, so institutions will not be designed for prosperity or justice but rather an artifact of randomly determined initial conditions. Hox: We have all this amazing technological and cognitive energy, the brilliance of the human species, wasted on reciting lines written by poorly evolved cellular receptors.
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