From the "Philosophical Parables" column

Once, while working at the British Library in London, Lenin came across an article about Libet's experiment. Lenin immediately suspected that something was off with the bourgeois interpretation of the experiment, so he requested the raw data from the authors.

Soon enough, a courier delivered the data, and Ilyich set to work examining it. Having a unique brain, he instantly noticed that Libet's test subjects chose the number "7" on the clock face much more frequently than any other number.

"Aha!" Lenin declared. "Until the structure of society is changed, the proletariat will continue to suffer from superstitions imposed on them by priests."

And Lenin also decided never again to eat dinner at 7 o'clock in the evening.

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