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# Technology Is the Opiate
- URL: https://www.jaimecalaf.com/technology-is-the-opiate/
- Published: 2026-04-05T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-05T18:30:09.000Z
- Description: Karl Marx said religion was the opiate of the masses. He was wrong for this era. Technology took the role — and unlike religion, it manufactures the suffering it claims to relieve.
- Author: Jaime Calaf 
- Tags: Inter Alia, archive, technology, distraction, culture, philosophy, attention, marx, society, #Import 2026-08-26 22:18

Some are waking up to the fact that we have built an alternate version of 1984, where technology keeps us distracted and psychopathic. I think they've discovered that Karl Marx was wrong for this era — that it is not religion that is the opiate of the masses, but technology in its current state. If left unchecked, and if humanity continues to misunderstand it as just a tool, it will be the end of us.