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https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/17/the-goddess-of-everything-else-2/

[Related to:\xa0Specific vs. General Foragers vs. Farmers\xa0and\xa0War In Heaven, but especially\xa0The Gift We Give To Tomorrow]

They say only Good can create, whereas Evil is sterile. Think Tolkien, where Morgoth can\u2019t make things himself, so perverts Elves to Orcs for his armies. But I think this gets it entirely backwards; it\u2019s Good that just mutates and twists, and it\u2019s Evil that teems with fecundity.

Imagine two principles, here in poetic personification. The first is the Goddess of Cancer, the second the Goddess of Everything Else. If visual representations would help, you can think of the first with the claws of a crab, and the second a dress made of feathers of peacocks.

The Goddess of Cancer reached out a clawed hand over mudflats and tidepools. She said pretty much what she always says, \u201cKILL CONSUME MULTIPLY CONQUER.\u201d Then everything burst into life, became miniature monsters engaged in a battle of all against all in their zeal to assuage their insatiable longings. And the swamps became orgies of hunger and fear and grew loud with the screams of a trillion amoebas.

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