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Opiate of the Masses

Karl Marx said religion was the opiate of the masses. Nonsense I say. The true opiate of the masses is prosperity, not religion. The United States has experienced decades of unprecedented prosperity. Indeed, most people have lived their whole lives accustomed to what is actually a historically rare era of unusual affluence. Now, the 2008 […]

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Nov 4, 2011 by Carl Abbott
Filed Under: Autobiographical Tagged With: addiction, civilization, pleasure v pain, prosperity, wall street

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