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As surely as Water will wet us,

as surely as Fire will burn,

The Gods of the Copybook Headings

with terror and slaughter return

http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_copybook.htm

Scott Alexander's lengthy and masterful followup to / extension of Kipling's poem: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

Can't comment on the followup / extension idea, but Scott Alexander's Meditations on Moloch is an amazing, possibly life-changing piece of writing. It's long, so you'll probably need at least an hour of time in a single uninterrupted chunk - but in the end, it's absolutely worth it.

I don't know about changing my life, but it certainly has changed my opinion of Scott Alexander, and vastly in his favor.

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