Opiates of the People Are Good!
I was reading the comments section of an online article about soccer and the World Cup the other day and someone wrote that religion isn't the opiate of the masses, sports are. And I thought to myself, You say that like it's a bad thing! Marx, of course, made the famous statement about religion, and henceforth it has been quoted ad nauseam by those wanting to sound knowing. His thinking was that if the regular people weren't distracted and pacified by religion -- with it's assurances of a better world beyond and it's frequent emphasis on focusing on the good you can do for your neighbor -- that they would naturally come to see that what was needed was amass uprising against the powerful in society and an enactment of communist principles, including the abolition of private property and business, along with any sort of personal achievement that might raise yourself above others. Two problems here: The first is that a lot of people don't want what you are selling...
