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hi i’m bored waiting for an uber pls tell me a conspiracy theory you actually believe

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Not a conspiracy, Marx observed it was an opiate for the people long ago. (though nowadays we just give opiates to the people).

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I'm going to have to "erm, actually" you there

Unless I'm wrong, and GPT is also, Marx referred to religion as an opiate for the masses. 

Later people expanded his thinking to include sports. 

It's so much more efficient to just let big pharma hook us all on opiates though.

Here is what GPT says:

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Karl Marx famously called religion the "opium of the people" (or "opiate of the masses") in his Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1844). Here's the key line:

> "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."



In this context, Marx was using "opium" metaphorically—he saw religion as something that provided comfort to people in oppressive conditions, dulling the pain of exploitation but also, in his view, preventing them from rising up and changing those conditions.

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