{"id":570,"date":"2006-09-25T22:01:41","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T22:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=570"},"modified":"2006-09-25T22:01:41","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T22:01:41","slug":"working-for-moloch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2006\/09\/25\/working-for-moloch\/","title":{"rendered":"Working for Moloch"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i><\/p>\n<p>the cleaners are scrubbing the Institute lavatories<br \/>\nbecause women are supposed to do that.<\/p>\n<p>the girls are typing in the Institute offices<br \/>\nbecause women are dedicated and careful<\/p>\n<p>the women are assembling printed circuits<br \/>\nbecause woman are good at delicate work<br \/>\nand women&#8217;s eyes are expendable<\/p>\n<p>the young men are doing their PhDs<br \/>\nbecause young men are obedient and ambitious<br \/>\nand someone wants warheads<br \/>\nlaser rangefinders<br \/>\nhunt and destroy capabilities<br \/>\nmultichannel night seeking radar<br \/>\nand science is neutral<\/p>\n<p>back home the wives of the PhD students are having babies<br \/>\nbecause women are maternal and loving<br \/>\nand who else can have children but women?<\/p>\n<p>at the top of the tower the old men and the middle aged men<br \/>\nand sometimes one woman professor<br \/>\nmeet to form plans, cadge funds and run the place<br \/>\nbecause obedient young men turn into obedient old men<br \/>\nand it&#8217;s all for the good of the country<br \/>\nand defence funds are good for science<br \/>\nand science is neutral<br \/>\nand no one notices Moloch.<\/p>\n<p>the woman bring them<br \/>\nclean toilets<br \/>\ncups of coffee<br \/>\ntypescripts<br \/>\nmicro circuits oh so neatly assembled<br \/>\nand children<\/p>\n<p>and it&#8217;s hard to see Moloch because he is both far away<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand everywhere<br \/>\nand no one asks to whom they are all obedient<\/p>\n<p>and they say, &#8220;Who&#8217;s Moloch? Never heard of him&#8221;<br \/>\nas out in the dark Moloch belches<br \/>\nand grows redder and redder<br \/>\nand fatter and fatter<br \/>\nas he eats the children<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">Mary McCann (1992). First published by Pomegranate Women&#8217;s Writing Group<br \/>\nfound in Alastair McIntosh&#8217;s <i>Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the cleaners are scrubbing the Institute lavatories because women are supposed to do that. the girls are typing in the Institute offices because women are dedicated and careful the women are assembling printed circuits because woman are good at delicate work and women&#8217;s eyes are expendable the young men are doing their PhDs because young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-9c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}