MOLOCH -> "It is, in its way, a statement of purpose: not just the assurance that every person, place, and thing is now or will become food for its rightful dev

MOLOCH -> "It is, in its way, a statement of purpose: not just the assurance that every person, place, and thing is now or will become food for its rightful devourers, but that those doing the eating also think of it as junk food." Funny, in history, people fed children to Moloch. Now Moloch has become a symbol of capitalism. And now, in the analogy, people are junk food. Because life is cheap, people aren't worth enough to spend money on their safety.