Comment by falcor84

Just to expand upon the reference, the comment you responded to is the first stanza of Allen Ginsberg poem "Howl" [0] published in 1956, which is what Hammerbacher paraphrased in the quote that I shared. "Howl" is amazing on its own though, and I highly recommend that people read the whole thing and/or watch the 2010 film about Ginsberg's life where James Franco recites it in its entirety[1]. And as a follow-up, I also highly recommend Scott Alexander's "Meditations on Moloch" that takes inspiration from the poem to analyze societal failures of coordination.

[0] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049402/

[2] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/