Sebastian Junger
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The serfs like your lot sucks.
You were oppressed.
You're poor, blah, blah, blah.
But don't worry about it because there's an afterlife.
So and Marx is like there'll never be revolution as long as people think that once they die, everything gets nice.
And so that's that's why the Marx hated religion.
And it's a totally legitimate point.
And the version of religion that he was rebelling against is like, look, the meek shall inherit the earth.
You're crushed under the boot heel of czars, the czars boot heel here in life.
But, you know, the meek shall inherit the earth.
So just wait a little while and then it's all going to come to you.
Like that's what, you know, Marx wasn't objecting to a sort of like transcendent not knowing.
Transcendent mystery.