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Thursday, October 6, 2016

Smoke on your pipe and put this in (West Side Story reference)


Karl Marx once said: "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people".

Given the decrease in people’s attendance at churches over the past 40-50 years and the epidemic level increase in the use of opioids, I am starting to wonder if the reverse could now be true, as opiates now seem to be the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions…and the new religion of the people.
Or maybe it's Donald Trump.
 
 

Something to reflect on

This column in the NY Times focuses on a young celebrity photographer and friend of Timothee Chalamet and Charli XCX and Billie Eilish (Did ...