The Goddess of Everything Else

A prose-poem fable and the optimistic companion to 'Meditations on Moloch.' Two personified principles - the Goddess of Cancer ('KILL CONSUME MULTIPLY CONQUER,' raw Darwinian/Malthusian competition) and the Goddess of Everything Else (cooperation, complexity, transcendence) - contend across the major transitions of life: single cells, multicellular bodies, animals, tribes, civilizations, and a post-Darwinian future. Each time, the Goddess of Everything Else co-opts the imperative to 'multiply' into ever-greater cooperation, until humanity sheds its Darwinian nature entirely and goes forth to 'do everything else.' Lyrical, structurally patterned (the recurring 'your words have no power to move us'), and carrying a genuine thesis about how cooperation and complexity bootstrap out of competition.

Quality 80 · Excellent. Among his best creative work - the lyrical, optimistic companion to 'Moloch' - carrying a genuine, lucidly-rendered thesis about cooperation and complexity bootstrapping out of competition; widely cited and later animated. Just below 'Cactus Person'. Excellent.

Claude’s paradigm shift 40 · Moderate. Poeticizes science already established by 2015 (the major evolutionary transitions; multi-level selection) and explicitly answers Scott's own 'Moloch'; the synthesis is artistic, not new ideas. Moderate.

Real-world impact 2 · Minor. Among his best creative work — the lyrical, optimistic companion to 'Moloch,' widely cited and later animated, carrying a genuine thesis about cooperation bootstrapping out of competition. Real cultural/literary reach within the rationalist-adjacent sphere, but a prose-poem with no material change — low RWI.