tly the recording of a psychologist. You are all aware
             that the sacrilege which led to the destruction of the Nuclear Age was
             primarily caused by the decline in religious belief and values. A
             psychologist was the person who supplanted the role of the confessor in
             this blasphemous time. He labored under the delusion that the immortal
             soul was accessible on a scientific, human level; and, like most of the
             scientists of the day, impiously discounted Allah as an unnecessary
             complication. We found an infamous saying which pervaded much of the Pre-
             Apocalypse literature: `Religion is the opiate of the people'. Well,
             psychology became the new `opiate of the people.'
             The patient with whom the doctor is dealing with in the recording, has
             been identified as a prominent businessman of the day. He is what was
             called an arbitrageur. A man who specialized in dealings on their stock
             market, a term I am sure all of you are familiar with. In any case, an
             arbitrageur bought and sold companies for a profit. In the few pieces of
             literature we have been able to recover, it seems that such men were
             regarded as the heroes of their age. I refer of course to the numerous
             copies we have of the autobiographies of Donald Trump, Robert Campeau and
             the like. Evidently the culture considered these books to be of great
             importance, for we found huge amounts of them in large buildings. This was
             apparently for safekeeping since the storage facilities were located well
             away from the centres of attack in the event of a nuclear war. The
             periodicals of the day also reflect the reverence in which these men were
             held, as they are frequently mentioned. It is another mark of the
             degradation of the society that the primary estimate of a man's worth
             became the amount of money he earned. It is difficult in this holy age to
             conceive of such blasphemy, but it is necessary that we do so in order to
             avoid the same trap...