people on a sacrosanct mission following propagating the leader’s rules quashing disagreement getting into malleable frames easy to manipulate easy to be directed on preordained paths not knowing whose interest it serves but fired up… nevertheless magic of Opium never ceases to surprise me
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Your last line made me think of Carl Marx: “Religion is the opium of the people”, though I think it applies to a lot of politics today that is more or less the same as religion.
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That line by Karl Marx drives a lot of my thoughts and writing. I see so many ‘opiums’ around – including internet addiction. Nobody wants to think.
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Good point about it being easy to manipulate those who are fired up.
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Thank you, Frank!
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