A Golden Age for Assholes (Episode  

​@@passiveactionAgree, humans are in the hands of the tech god and captured in the illusion it is a good god.

Why not blame both the narcissist and the enabler?

“My hate is general, I detest all men; Some because they are wicked and do evil, Others because they tolerate the wicked, Refusing them the active vigorous scorn Which vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.” ― Moliere, The Misanthrope

@@gordonbgraham “Looks like we’ve got another mystery on our hands.” - Fred Jones

blame both

​@@saviormoney.That description doesn't fit for Sam

@@saviormoney.Are you gaslighting Sam? Obviously you are living in alternative universe than us.

@saviormoney. his lack of shame is because he hasn't said or done anything shameful, and his lack of self-doubt is because he's reciting a well reasoned essay.

@saviormoney. The one at the top of this comment section, I thought that was tacit in my comment.

It was shocking to me when Trump became pres in 2016...but particularly after the Jan 6 insurrection. It is an opening into the world of what we have seen in other countries; countries that we (at least me) used to regard as idiotic for having masses believe the crap that their leaders would spew. Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan etc...now I see the same idiotic citizens cheering when their leader throws down pure unadulterated lies, right here in the USA. And I think this is going to get worse, much worse after next year. I fear something horrible could happen to us. I hope I'm wrong.

We perceive others from the level we are at. I am at the level where the illusions of individuals is a concept. A horrible one. Theres no point meditating unless its an attempt to stay in meditation. Looking to a puppet for hope or calling non puppets ..A holes is a sorry state to live in. The problem with your world is that you think it matters

Paraphrased maybe from Yeats "the second coming"-"the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity" he was referencing ww1 I believe.

Ahh, yes ... and Joe Biden has NO doubts whatsoever. Sweet! LOL - @NotFlexing

​@@scotthullinger4684And in steps an example of who Sam is talking about.

@@imacmill - Based on specifically WHAT? Name it. Yes, name it.

Like is a great honor.

Sam and the left as usual completely ignore that the left created Trump, He also ignores the fact that even women, LGB and other left-wing groups are speaking out about extreme left ideology. He ignores the destruction of free speech. He ignores the fact that the mainstream media's reputation has been destroyed and the role of the media has been destroyed. The media has historically been the institution that questions power and holds politicians to account, Now the mainstream media is the propaganda arm of the Democrat party, News and media's role has changed from holding politicians to account, to protecting those in power and running propaganda to protect them 24/7

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. Edith Sitwell

@@insinserious It would if he lacked it.

Americans are the simplest people i swear WOOOOW THIS SUPER BASIC PLATTITUDE IS SOOOOO DEEP

Like the babies in the basement

@@jonhelguson yawn, even if I grant you it was a weird comment and probably not the best way of making the point he was trying to make, does that really undo any of the moral claims we can make about Trump based on obvious evidence?

@@jonhelguson get over it dude

Obvious evidence. 😂 there you go. It’s done

@@favourites4 Nothing Sam says about Trump exculpates Trump. The point is that Sam does not care when it's his team behaving like assholes. It's pure Schmittian friend/enemy distinction. I accept that politicians are imperfect vessels for political goals, and I don't look at my political opponents as necessarily bad because they chose Biden, whose moral failings we can go through if you want.

I remember Sam calling the isis mothertuckers in an eloquent speech 😂 that shit was glorious

Eloquent if gently worded word salad containing suppressed egotistical rage is eloquent

@@fredwinslow744suppresses egotistical rage…spot on

the intelligence of supporting a literal oldf olks home patient destroying the world and escalating towards nuclear war, over thebest presiden in modern history because the guy was mean on twitter

@@fredwinslow744 It was eloquent and full of facts. You just don’t like your dirtbag heroes criticized.

He also very well spoken.

For him is simple tho, he’s always a 100% right, period.

Love your phrase "audience capture" That seems to describe people like Jordan Peterson perfectly (really feel sorry for that guy).

Because he is a coward and does not want to stand up against the elite.

Take A Moment My fellow ape ❤ 💯 Peace and love etc Stay Safe and Stay Free 🌐

Pretty sure Sam Harris wouldn't know Buddha hood if it came up and bit him in the ass.

I didn't listen to it coz I don't believe in the BS of anyone but the first truth that buddha taught was "life is suffering" which basically means 'life is sh!t"....people who cruise and are in peace and bliss don't compete and fight and stress in the sh!t for crumbs...they get out of it and go live on the land growing their own food and living simply...I've always said buddhism is a polite way to say "fck the world" because we dont stay in the sh!t we get out of it for peace...the most peaceful people live in nature and have very little or no dealings with people and it's how the extremely rich live too...private lives with big high fences to keep people out and very few contacts...like semi recluse lifestyles...it's what monks do too...they build thick high concrete walls around the temple and have big iron gates to lock each evening to keep random assholes out...I'd say the happiest people on this planet are misanthropists...not hating people but just not needing them...when there is a rich spiritual life to explore and one spends several hours in meditation each day often having out of body experience (astral travel) one lives more in the spirit world than physical world

​@@sasa-ix9ydI agree with most of your words. Except the spirit world. The spirit world is the world in your head, the fantasy of the mind. Which could be much better place than reality.

There are many problems with your position. First, life is suffering as a statement of western pessimism is a bad mistranslation of the concept 'dukkha'. Buddhism at its philosophical apotheosis produces the notion of the bodhisattva- the man who has one foot in nirvana and one foot in samsara (the so called "fucked world") and realizes that nirvana IS samsara, that the thing he thought was awful was actually ideal all along, it was his wrong seeing or ignorance that was the problem. The bodhisattva will not transcend this plane until he has enlightened all other beings first. What you're describing IS true samsara, a "fleeing the difficulty of the world" that only CREATES the difficulty of the world. And using meditation as a way to silo yourself from pain and difficulty "because people suck" is absolutely the opposite of the spirit of the whole Buddhist project, not to say we should all hang out in crackhouses all day. But we must live in society and tend to it, otherwise it will quickly become impossible to live in isolation in the woods, because they'll all be razed by nuclear fire. There is no escape, we must fight@@sasa-ix9yd

@@user-io6eq9gt6w hmm...opinion is asshole..we all got one...no need to label myself as anything but u could call me 'misanthropic'...aside from relativistic and subjective judgements or measurements of good or bad or right or wrong or true or false which are illusion anyway because anything goes in a world in which everything is anything u wanna make it out to be..my view is just my view...some will agree and some will disagree but reality is life is pointless and meaningless and and the highest understanding is nothing is happening and nothing exists....I see your point about the boddhisatva helping people but it is my understanding that step is not required for buddhahood...plenty of buddhas have gone to live alone in a cave living on only a small amount of food each day and either had little or no contacts with anyone and attained buddhahood...it does not require work or service as u may think...just letting go of all desires and spending several hours in meditation each day and the karma which forms the spirit body disipates more and more until the arahant has no soul or individual spirit body due to existing in everything everywhere which is nothingness..his spirit is the infinite essence...the akasha in which everything seems to exist...as we know nothing is not simply nothing it is one thing or power which is two things (dualism) which is everything (endless multiplicity of details) which is nothing...therefore everything is nothing and nothing is everything...I acknowledge the path of the boddhisatva in buddhism but it is by no means a requirement for buddhahood (non returner with no next life) ...due to their past karma some people have taken on the role of boddhisatva and also due to their karma some have literally said "fck the world" and gone to have thousands of hours of samadhi in a cave and become arahants...as for fighting hmm...the monk does not need to fight...in thailand the military protect the monks...the rough tough and brutal guys will protect the calm peaceful guys...often a rich man will take security guards with him who will forcefully handle anyone who threatens the saftey of rich man...how many soldiers in battles have killed and died to protect kings? or a royal family?...let the fighting take place how it will we need not be busy with that...many asians have a mentality of laying low and not wanting to get involved and they get attacked in western nations...I see it...many attacks by black americans on asians seen as weak and easy targets...what can be said...they need to be packing heat...they need a gun for protection...for the monk calling on angels and various deities for protection they can even stop a gun from firing which has been proven a lot in thailand and also cambodia...lord buddha did not teach about all the magical stuff...animist practices that our ancestors joined with buddhist katas or mantras for amazing results...it's a whole other topic how an individual can be protected by unseen forces connected to a blessed amulet or takrut which will cause physical harm to an attacker such as sudden weakness in body or decision to walk away or even heart attack and death if the person persists with their attack...I will state that spiritual men and warriors have always had a connection...oftentimes the warrior who had killed many became a peacful soul of meditation in later years...sometimes the spiritual man with special abilites has left the monkhood to resume killing people again...people are busy creating karma that is their road...those who want to get off the road can do so with some guidance...its all happening and there are really no rules but the ones we convince ourselves to believe or the ones others created to influence us and manipulate and control us for various reasons

@@saviormoney. Or you got fooled by a politician

@@stanleyalanSam is a smug arrogant asshole who can’t admit when he’s wrong. He was wrong on Covid vaccines and he was wrong on censorship. This is Sam’s ego having a tantrum.

@@gordonbgraham But Sam would have been right if Covid had been worse or if masks had worked better or if vaccines had worked better blah blah blah.

you guys are islamaphobes. no one insulted trump until after he converted

​@@samdg1234You fundamentally misunderstand the point he was making in the speech of his you just referenced.

It seemed to get better- thanks for confirming that. I just wish he would have released it with those last 3 minutes as a kind of PSA rather than paywalling it.

⁠@@AndyAckeryeah, PSA woulda been nice, I agree. But t'was super easy to "apply" for the free subscription. And so now I'm set to hear other future goodies beyond the paywall.

Pithy and potent are great distillations of Sam’s take on these themes-sorta pithy and potent yourself in a comically redundant way😂

why is there elon musk in there ? did sam also talk about elon too ?

@@darthvader1793 Elon Musk is another Trump only he actually has money.

I might be wrong but buddha (atleast guatama) was described as pretty apathetic yet compassionate

​@@levisnotjeansYeah read Buddha's statement about women Real compassion right there😂

@@deeznutz8320 What statement?

Sam's podcasts make best lullabies..

Lol. That's right.

This is a weirdly sycophantic comment but I agree that Sam is boring enough for it to work.

It's funny how lefties believe they have morals that should be emulated. All I see is fake elitism.

@@macdietz yeah intelligence is boring to the dumb.

i cant wait for the meme!

Take a drink, every time he says assholes…

Pity that subtitled seem to be so pc that it's just omitted.

YES ! 😅😊

@@tinatrottier582 😭😭😭

"wrapping my head around the ability to describe " Trying to be polite. :-)

​@@bakedbean37No, the quotation marks aren't strictly necessary and if one so chooses to use them, they would only be applied to the clause "wrapping my head" because it is the only part of the sentence that is metaphorical

@@madallas_mons "the "quotation" marks " Are there to make it clear what is being responded to.

literally same

Bruh Imagine being 40 years old and having trouble to describe basic morality😂

Elegant, humerus and very spot on. Thank you Sam!

Does being a smug arrogant narcissist who can't admit when he's wrong qualify Sam as an asshole?

That doesn't help if he couldn't hit a barndoor.

@@Galdring Yeah, "hits it out of the park" foul

*You cannot possibly serious, mate. As an atheist, I used to like the ole' Sam Harris that would debate William Lane Craig or the one who would tried to educate twerps like Ben Afleck on the "Real Time with Bill Maher" show (see: Bill Maher and Sam Harris vs. Ben Afleck). But, for someone who claims to care about TRUTH and SCIENCE -- he's conveniently quiet when it comes the one of the biggest A-holes (to use his preferred word here) of our time: That is Dylan Mulvaney -- a the one who appropriates womanhood, farcically advertises "tampons" on social media (yeah tampons), and makes millions of dollars whilst still swinging his MALE genitalia for laughs and giggles. Where is Sam Harris to call out such a monumental A-hole? At least Richard Dawkins has the guts to explain biology and debunk the garbage peddled by Mulvaney and his kind. Again, Harris is conveniently quiet. Why is that? Because he's a coward who is scared of getting "canceled" for speaking the truth. And in my book -- than not only makes Harris the A-hole -- it makes him a coward and intellectually dishonest.*

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INDEED.

Never? I mean, everyone is entitled to opinions but... ...never?

@@macdietz How about rarely?

@@macdietz hy·per·bo·le noun exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

@@macdietz almost never, for sure fewer times than any intellectual

the intelligence of supporting a literal oldf olks home patient destroying the world and escalating towards nuclear war, over thebest presiden in modern history because the guy was mean on twitter

So many in our society have fallen victim to praising the asshole. It does speak to who they are. And they don't seem to care. As said elsewhere, "cruelty is the point". It's sad to witness the crumbling of society. Yet the proponents of social media never mention the dark side of inflicting hate behind the digital curtain.

​@@davidsalo8397quit crying Notice how society is falling with Atheïsm on the rise😂 No correlation

Notice how Sammy ignores his Jewish buddies from the ADL True tribal nose moment

Yes Sam does suffer from Narcissistic Personality Disorder, that is why he is incapable of admitting when he is wrong. Sam Harris logic- If everything was different right, I would not be wrong right, and since eveything could be different right, I am correct right. Somone suffering from NPD is incapable of admitting when they are wrong.

A narcissist is, by defenition, an asshole. An asshole isnt by defenition an narcissist...

You sure are@@ikik3406

Sam needs to look in the mirror too😭

but the way Sam is describing an asshole...thats pretty much a narcissist @@ikik3406

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 you win the comments for this episode!

The clarity is deep and refreshing to hear. Clearly spoken.

Like a nun?

Don't look in the basement

@@saviormoney. in god's name, give us a break will ya.

@@saviormoney.oh look, another “asshole” who admires other assholes 😂

@@saviormoney.also, I like how people like you never have the balls to write your own comments on videos like these… you can only manage to respond to others comments with knee jerk contrarianism, without any thoughts of your own.

Great idea

And also a video about Muslims leaving Islam because of it's fallacies.

Islam is superior in its nature bro, this is why its gathering a lot of attraction lately

​@@Dakapponit's not superior, its barbaric and since social media is making people more and more hollow and apathetic from inside, islam seems to appeal to them more and more.

@@Dakappon That's certainly not true and very arrogant to think that. Clearly I can tell you probably have a deficit in your education just by making that remark. Therefore let me ask you some logical questions about your belief system: If you were born into a strict different religious family would you still hold the same beliefs? How do you know the God you are believing in is the right one and all the other religious divinities are wrong? If God is omnipotent, why do children get born only to suffer and die at an early age, of which is unattached to free will? If there is a god why did he/she create the dinosaurs and then destroy them, did he/she make a mistake? If you can answer these questions appropriately, I may be able to have an intellectual conversation with you...

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Let me get this straight....you're chastising people for not showing empathy to the guy calling people he disaaproves of assholes for ten minutes straight?! That's next level mental gymnastics

@@nihilistlivesmatter More or less the opposite. Reread my comment (which admittedly I just scribbled out & should have edited a bit.) I'm saying *most Harris defenders here have little or no political empathy* & go immediately to people critical of Sam as "TRUMPERZ" or something similar. Sorta like their ersatz hero. This is _extremely_ common with (authoritarian?) leftists. Haidt addresses this obliquely in "The Righteous Mind" with the study showing that centrists & rightists have a much easier time telling you the good/proper motivations of lefties than the converse. Or you can just look to the old saw "conservatives think leftists are wrong, leftists think conservatives are evil." Not to mention the preponderance of "nazi" & "istaphobe" blather.

@@theminister1154 Maybe you haven't been around as the right called everyone who didn't kiss billionaires assets "communists", for generations now. Have you missed all the accusations of "cultural marxism"? How about all the "groomer" accusations? That "conservatives think leftists are wrong" quote must have come from a conservative who thinks themselves above it all and sees only the injustices of "epithetery" when pointed in their direction.

The right judges people on actions. The left judges people on what the media elites tell them to think.

Excellent comment. I don't support Trump and I believe Tate is a narcissistic conman, but I also believe Sam Harris has lost the plot and has no longer has the ability to rationally think about certain topics. I used to be a paid subscriber to Sam's content so I'm coming at this from a place of empathy. Trump broke Sam's brian and Covid exposed his authoritarian tendencies and duplicitous personality.

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Putting AH's on a Pedistal has got to stop. 30 years ago these men would have been locked up shamed and forgotten about today they are "Brave" and "unflinching". No they are deep down just AH's.

Does being a smug arrogant narcissist who can't admit when he's wrong qualify Sam as an asshole?

Who cares? He was a good president better than the black war criminal

It's not an arbitration, this is his podcast and his viewpoint you can either agree or disagree

Greatest thinkers of our time MY FUCKING GOD THIS IS SAD😂

Public figures and even normal people almost always do. In the end, those that appear to experience some form of shame are actually the good guys.

I agree. I think a lot of people also don’t have the time or desire to truly understand things, which often consists of a complex web of moderate view points that often require foundational knowledge to truly grasp. It’s far easier to let algorithmic profit seeking content/influencers tell you a simplistic and one sided narrative to believe or way to think via short form content, instead of taking in hours upon hours of long form discussions among actual experts/intellectuals or reading their books. There is a very real internet culture that has emerged where a lot of ignorance and misinformation is weaponized by bad actors or exploited for profit by content creators, that is propagated across algorithms that are biased into feeding off of the disproportionate attention humans give to fear and outrage. When you pair that with wide spread chronic smartphone usage, you get a society with warped views on various things. There is no regulation or incentive for media platforms to give users more transparency or control over the algorithms feeding them content if doing so would decrease the user’s engagement to the platform. What we get instead is People with shallow or selfish values being the main drivers of engagement on these platforms by exploiting the previously stated. The relative few of us that care to notice this are not caught up in the cycle and telling other people about it is often on def ears for one reason or another.

Waaay less

That's entirely an illusion though. Men like Trump and Tate can never actually be trusted; shame runs their entire personality whether they can admit to it or not. They WILL sell you out the instant it becomes convenient for them. There was never any form of trust to begin with. It's not authenticity they're displaying, but antisocial behaviors due to their own inherent lack of trust of anyone. Tate can easily be triggered and happens all the time in his interviews. Trump can be too but he is much more careful to control his environment so he appears on top. These "men" are the absolute bottom of the barrel when it comes to any level of self-awareness, integrity, and compassion (for themselves or others).

Congratulations, you just stated this video's central thesis - but from the wrong side!

assholery...assholism ..assholedom

I think you mean, "couldn't agree *more"*

Nice poem, I can't place the author. Could you tell me? I would like to read it in full, thanks.

I wrote it specifically about Trump

I kept it short. That's all there is.

@@ryanbooth2666very well written nice work

@@ryanbooth2666 FYI Clinton was a far worse president & human being but the Left always looks the other way when it's one of their own.

There's nothing here. Lefties fight religions that offer objective moral standards in support of individual autonomy but then they come back to hold other people on their personal subjective moral standards. It's narcissistic when you think about it. They think they know better than anyone else. I don't understand why people listen to liberal elites.

​@@Todd361 those went above your head, cultist.

@@Todd361In this case the fact that people mistake shamelessness for integrity and take refuge in the no-apologies persona of unethical public figures because it’s easier to feel like you have nothing to be ashamed of than it is to take responsibility and try to be a good person. Seems like a problem that has plagued humanity for a long time so yeah, an important and perennial fact about the world.

And many are not. What's your point?

@@Alnivol666 I think it's that many are.

@@paulrussell1207 Well...when you are biased and basically all you have is a hammer, makes sense that you only see nails.

​@@Alnivol666That metaphor is quite difficult to interpret, given the context. You just really wanted to use one, didn't you? :D

@@genericusername8337 It is not that difficult. People who already worship Sam are incapable of seeing his fallacies or critique his obsessions. They will consider anything he says as some sort of deeply intelectual thought when it is anything but. Luckily, the spell broke for me long time ago. Can see the level of depth the man can provide. What astounds me is to see how he still has so many followers considering the utter dumb stuff he has been caught saying which would not be a problem except for the fact that he can never admit he is sometimes wrong. Never.

Omg so true. You should meet my family

Wise words, especially considering it's coming from a youtube comment. usually only get ad-hominem attacks, spam to porn or crypto sites, or emojis with no words.

Being 'nice' is just good manners

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@@fubar12345 i know you are but what am I? No, I'm not a puppet, YOU'RE the puppet. I'm the most honest president ever except maybe for Abraham Lincoln.

Same. In a bizarre sort of way Donald Trump probably saved my life: tuning in to his repulsive narcissistic qualities actually made me realize there was a person in my midst who shared a lot of those same qualities and that realization shocked me into ending that non-relationship before it very likely would have destroyed me, as it did his previous wife. Life is strange.

Ah but, what about Boris Johnson, the King of the World?

Great comment. You really have me for for thought. . I've learned so much about how to recognize narcissists from observing Trump. I didn't realize how many people I know that are narcissistic.

Trump represents where I end. It is often said "The world is a mirror". We see what we like and dislike about ourselves reflected back through the actions of others. An avatar of personality like Trump shows me what I am not, but he also represents what a lot of people feel. Trump and others like him remind me how I never want to be: egotistic, childish, selfish behavior, full of hatred, racist to the core, seeking power regardless of how it affects others. He also reminds me how I strive to be the opposite: kind, compassionate, own my mistakes, inclusive of others regardless of differences, even his. The motivation for power is an energy that has alluded me, so I can't speak on what that motivation is or feels like. Perhaps that hunger for power is what causes these personality traits to intensify, similar to symptoms of a disease. Those people seeking power over others feel like a different species to me at this point.

Did you ever realize how many public figures, politicians are narcissists? Look around at global leaders. Trump is in his element.

They're all dissidents targeted by leftist smear campaigns. Not really much similarities besides on an abstract level.

Enemies of the authoritarians.

@@precisedime1377 Exactly. Sam believes, that academics should have the total control over the society, since their supperior intelect will guide humans towards better future. Therefore, free speech, anti-lockdownism etc is the prime example of his hell.

Free speech is hell? Wait what ...

Clever people can cover a multitude of issues….he’s not a one trick pony!

Sam has opinions on more than one subject? Truly mysterious

As a population percentage there's more Trump supporters in England. Sad but True 😭 England is the asshole of an unwanted Union. Just bullies taunting the brave. As a lifelong Sínn Fein supporter I've experienced England's shamelessness for all 58 year's of my existence. At least they don't put us in cages for thinking anymore and we've got a vote that isn't worthless. We don't miss state sponsored Death squads roaming our streets that's for sure. The English will believe any old shite, unfortunately, their critically thinking skills are severely limited. Imagine living in a country of worthless, minority, gerrymandered government's with worthless votes. Oh yeah we can imagine it because that's England and the US. I remain committed to a better, fairer, reunited Ireland with economic liberty for all. Slava Ukraine 🌈 Saorise Ireland End the tyranny of foreign occupation.

Ahhh yes, accuse someone of the nonsense term "TDS" instead of any actual introspection

Nothing could be further from the truth.Sam Harris often exercises self introspection and can clearly define the limits of his own understanding and knowledge.Assholes,on the other hand as he has articulated don't seem to be introspective,have humility,lack moral judgement and are self-absorbed.

What a weak ass take 😂

Absolutely true.. hate when heroes are revealed as zeroes

Maybe I've found the first non-politically motivated criticism. I'm asking people because I'm curious: Do you dislike Sam Harris and also condemn Donald Trump as fundamentally negative influence in the world? I can't find people who dislike both and it makes me suspect that a lot of the negativity is politically motivated.