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Opiate of the Masses

Karl Marx said religion was the opiate of the masses. I say it is prosperity, not religion, which is the opiate of the masses. 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 […]

Democracy as Myth

I’m not sure where to begin when writing about this observation. Like many things in life, there are multi-faceted and multi-layered aspects to the ‘big picture’. Oh well, I’ll just plunge in… Humans, like all social species, have some form of governance. Social species need their ‘alpha male’, even if that’s a queen in a […]

I understand, but do I know?

What is the difference between understanding and knowing? Chapter 70 alludes to it perhaps when it states, ‘My words are very easy to understand and very easy to put into practice, yet no one in the world can understand them or put them into practice‘. Our cleverness at understanding doesn’t match a comparable ability to […]

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