Are smartphones the new 'opium of the people'?

For most of recent human history, by which I mean the last few millennia, social organisation has been rooted in practical faith. Religion, which departs from philosophy when it gives meaning to this life through reference to a transcendentally different realm, has been the method of settling disputes within local populations, if not between them.
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