Still, every computer I buy comes with Microsoft tax and their OS preinstalled. In all these years I always left a small Windows partition, in case I need it. Never booted it.

> Why The Great Gatsby is the world's most misunderstood novel

The first thought I had when reading the headline was: by what measure?

I wanted to give the benefit of doubt, but there is not even an attempt to answer the question set out at the beginning.

Instead, like you say, somewhat of an advertisment for later derivations with no clear idea of where to go.

For me underwhelming.

For me at least both your arguments are not obvious.

There are a lot of things that are harder to put in the atmosphere than to remove them. Stones for example.

The second one is less of an argument, but rather a question. Why not the UN, the US, China, or Europe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_of_the_people

;-)

"opiate of the masses... heart of the heartless world"

Marx was despairing at the heartlessness of the condition of working class people in industrial slums, people one generation or less removed from the flight from rural landless dispossession and starvation into the polluted cities and factories and tiny apartments in slums in search of survival. He saw religion as one tool people used to salve the pain, to reduce the suffering.

Far more complicated than "religion bad, we should ban it, mmkay"

There's probably an analogy here around the "attention economy" and "social media."

Look for root causes. If you turn everything and everyone into a commodity -- "market yourself!" -- don't be surprised when the consumptive model takes over all consciousness.

The commodity form is the [post|hyper]modern religion.

If you don't design your career, in most cases I guess no one will. In the comments are good examples, like the random walk of the drunken sailor. The cases in which you could use the phrase "someone else designed it for me" in a meaningful way seem rather rare to me.