Communism is psilocybin.
It grows from humble places. It brings out hard truths through intense dialogue and self-examination. It gives the ability to see patterns in things.
Nevertheless, another reading can be made of Marx. The often cited phrase--"religion is the opium of the people"--is truncated. What follows this remark lets it be understood that human beings need opium, because they are metaphysical animals who cannot avoid asking themselves questions about the meaning of life. They give what answers they can, either adopting those offered by religion or inventing new ones, or else they avoid worrying about them.
You know, he could have bothered to actually read Marx before saying dumb shit.
The full quote from Marx, in context, is:
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. 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.
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions.
For Germany, the criticism of religion has been essentially completed, and the criticism of religion is the prerequisite of all criticism.
The profane existence of error is compromised as soon as its heavenly oratio pro aris et focis [“speech for the altars and hearths,” i.e., for God and country] has been refuted. Man, who has found only the reflection of himself in the fantastic reality of heaven, where he sought a superman, will no longer feel disposed to find the mere appearance of himself, the non-man [Unmensch], where he seeks and must seek his true reality.
The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.
Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world.
You see Peterson cannot elaborate on this because he's a religious person who hates modernity, so this short circuits his entire belief system and ideology.
isn't like half his philosphy that he's a christian? what does this MEAN peterson? are you saying religion is bad but communism is worse? are you saying religion is good because opium is good? is religion harm reduction? are chrsitian socialists junkies? tell me your secrets, benzo man.
It's a new version of the old "communism is a cult too" take typical for the cultists to have, accusing communists of hypocrisy, but being firmly anchored of hypocrisy itself (and of course not reading). Also it wouldn't be Peterson if he didn't doubled down since he's not only cultist but also junkie.
sorry I couldn't hear you over all these Lenin-branded dextroamphetamine tablets could you stop vibrating for a sec and repeat that I'm in kind of a hurry too gotta storm the winter palace with the boys before it wears off
The "meth of the masses" analogy would mean that it still has the unhealthy, deceptive and deafening aspects of a drug addiction, but without the "soothing last refuge of peace" part