Outline Foundational element: Meditations on Moloch What is Moloch The Blind Men and the Elephant Tyranny of the average Egregores Dark side of competition Tug of War in the Metacrisis - Daniel Schmachtenberger Gov’t - regulatory capture Economics - “race to the bottom” What can we do in the face of Moloch? Open Ended Systems for Creativity Stable states and magically coordinated action Sorting for virtue Heroes kill Moloch, God kills Moloch

Two hostile and fluctuating components of human society - order and liberty.

A smaller community is insecure and a larger one tyrannical.

Greece sought city-states cooperating in Pythagorean harmony