![]() Coughing up kidneys and lungs to keep senior citizens alive in the short story, Caught in the Organ Draft? Yep. Twenty years of illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that our kids will never stop paying for? Check. ![]() Moloch has his fingers all over human nature, which is why we’re living and writing about him ALL. ![]() Note: Our own kids will do just fine if no one else’s are handy. No matter how he’s invoked, the big guy represents our willingness to borrow against the future to make our present more comfortable… throw the kids (preferably not our own but, ya know, The Other Kids) right on the fire so we can have a bigger flatscreen and a vacation home. Ginsberg used Moloch as a metaphor for consumerism Karl Marx pegged him as a stand-in for capital. Moloch – be he a god, a demon, or a method of human sacrifice (claims vary) – is an asshole. ![]() Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb! – Allen Ginsberg, Howl, Part II And for Greene’s new novel Twenty Five to Life, it’s someone who was very important in setting the stage for the events detailed therein. ![]() It’s a person - well, entity - you’ve met before. ![]()
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