Moonwalking

If religion was once coined "opium for the people" surely the assumption was that the masses would be lulled with the promise of abundance in a yonder world.  

Little did Marx realise that, when given the chance, the masses would dump all spiritual ambitions and sign up for capitalism.  

Regardless of whether its underlying principles of profit optimization would mostly come to benefit but a small circle, the promise of instant gratification and on-demand distraction from any potentially irksome thought, was all that was needed to make the slaves endorse their masters.  

And so we have arrived at the most sobering and admittedly dumbest stage of human civilization - the era when there are no longer any excuses for inequality, exploitation, destruction, abuse and violence.  The point in time where the only explanation for human suffering is human nature.  It remains to be seen for how long this planet will support it. 

I heard, however, that there are already plans underway to continue this nonsense elsewhere on a distant moon...