Moloch is introduced as the answer to a question – C. S. Lewis’ question in Hierarchy Of Philosophers – what does it? Earth could be fair, and all men glad and wise. Instead we have prisons, smokestacks, asylums. What sphinx of cement and aluminum breaks open their skulls and eats up their imagination?
-- is that the reference to “C. S. Lewis’ question in Hierarchy Of Philosophers” is basically just a joke, and the rest of the passage is not really supposed to be a paraphrase of Lewis.
I agree it’s all a bit unclear, though. You might get a reply if you ask Scott directly: he’s ‘scottalexander’ here and on reddit (formerly Yvain on LW), or you could try the next Open Thread on https://www.astralcodexten.com/
My read of this passage --
-- is that the reference to “C. S. Lewis’ question in Hierarchy Of Philosophers” is basically just a joke, and the rest of the passage is not really supposed to be a paraphrase of Lewis.
I agree it’s all a bit unclear, though. You might get a reply if you ask Scott directly: he’s ‘scottalexander’ here and on reddit (formerly Yvain on LW), or you could try the next Open Thread on https://www.astralcodexten.com/
Thanks a lot. I think you are right.