[kahljorn]

"We would be living on mars if it weren't for plato and socrates. I mean, those motherfuckers spent an inordinate amount of time on an unfruitful inquiry into the nature of the human soul, and inspired others to do the same."

Are you serious? "unfruitful"?? Doesn't modern psychology pretty much mimic socrates and platos notion of the soul? Isn't their inquiry into the soul about human motivations behaviorisms?
I'm guessing you're joking but you know just curious.

"if the religion and its mouthpieces werent around to provide justification it would have made it that much harder for the real power interests to mask their actual motives and quash dissent."

I kind of mentioned that in my first post in this thread, actually. It's on the page before this if you're interested.