Can We Pull Back From The Brink? (Episode  

@DYNAMITE DJANGOWTF lol

@DYNAMITE DJANGO dinosaur

People are being driven by uncontrolled emotion and misinformation. It’s literally causing mental instability and insane behavior

@@erhaboriE you might have copped it worse than many because they attack the ones they perceive as 'their own' if they've comitted heresy with more vigour, because they represent a danger to their 'truth'. You were probably shocked you apparently committed such heresy, when you were making an appeal to sense.

@@nicknomski8399 To be honest, I've been butting heads with the gatekeepers of blackness since I came to this country. Back when I was a kid, I was called an oreo because I loved to read and thus knew big words. Was told my black card was cancelled because I didn't watch BET or listen to much rap. Was told I hated my own men because my first crush was an Asian boy. As an adult, I ran into it when I said I don't like the methods of BLM. I could literally go on all day. I wasn't surprised that I got attacked. I know certain people go after black people who dissent with more fervor. I was surprised that I was attacked for saying don't burn ATALANTA. Atlanta. Where so many things are black owned. What exactly is the goal of the protests when saying don't burn black businesses is met with jeers...from black people?

These words are golden. They should be the 11th commandment!

Nice

Sounds about white.

Jimmy Carr put it smartly like this, "Offence is taken not given."

quote for our generation if not entire species!!

How so, my man?

How so?

As a blond man, I also thank Sam ;)

Im a fan of Sam but he's tone deaf on this one. There is a big problem with policing in this country, it's easier to become a police man then it is to become a barber, which takes over twice as long with twice as much training. It's so easy to become one, many departments are believed to be full of white supremacists. Sam needs to understand this is a hugely systemic problem, and why are there protests, because some of these murders of innocent people of color are absolutely egregious borderlining on cold blooded and at time calculated murder

@@Elcherino123 Hi. Your points are police are under trained and there is a belief that there is a white supremacist presence in the police force. For the first, you and Sam seem to agree entirely. And I think the obvious answer is more and better training. For the second, I think you again agree entirely that there is no room for white supremacy in the police force and there needs to be serious, rational discussion on how to address this and other issues.

Yo Bo So would defunding police aid or impair better police training? 🤔

There is a problem with policing, and with race and policing. To say it's only a racial issue, and that it is pervasive and defines every facet of policing is not supported by any evidence. I honestly believe law enforcement is the least understood profession in the country, and yet everyone claims to be an expert on it. We already ask too much from our officers, and yet some want them to be social justice and race relations experts. It's a difficult job with too many incapable or underqualified people. but the requirements are too high partially because people have impossible expectations.

*_Justice will only exist where those not effected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended._* ~ Plato *_In a free society, standards of public morality can be measured only by whether physical coercion ~ violence against persons or property ~ occurs. There is no right not to be offended by words, actions or symbols._* ~ Richard E. Sincere, Jr. *_Nobody has the right to not be offended._* ~ Salman Rushdie *_I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way._* ~ Terence McKenna

@@davidhunt7427 It's best to read Salman Rushdie's full quote to understand what he meant. Obviously this was following the riots about his book "The Satanic Verses: Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people. I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it. To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended

So brilliant, but so obvious on reflection.

AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! There’s Ben Affleck’s contribution.

*in Affleck voice* "Are you an expert on the black experience in America? What do _you_ know about it? That's gross! That's racist!" ...Does that cover it?

Ben Affleck is a modern day intellectual.

Ben Affleck. He will be in rehab or taking a vacation until it's safe to come back to La la land.

@@sebastianag2966 By Hollywood's standards, yes...Affleck is indeed a modern intellectual. He is so brilliant that he wears his face mask scrunched over his nose, so his mouth is not prevented from access to cigarettes...yes, I'm serious. There are photos. I made a commentary sequence with two of them.

What would be very helpful would be if all the media outlets spent a few moments giving actual race/crime statistics and for those who don't do straightforward math, show videos of white people being treated roughly by police such as the Tony Timba video.

The government doesn't want the conversation to shift towards inequality of opportunity. That's a much harder problem to solve and a problem that they don't want to solve.

I really wish more people in government listened to Sam Harris. There are too many people on both sides of the aisle who aren’t willing to be reasonable and examine the nuance of everything that is happening. Zealotry of any kind helps no one.

LMAO!

"can you believe they platformed sam harris in congress? just shows you how much systematic racism exists to platform a white supremacist like sam harris"

Yup, and practically nobody who needs to hear this message will last those 40 minutes, or even 10, IMHO.

He also can't help but bash Trump with zero 'clarity of thought' and absolutely no explanation on how Trump's re-election would be an 'existential threat to Democracy'. You wanna disagree with Trump and vote for someone else in November, fine. But an 'existential threat to Democracy'? Come on. That's ludicrous. I definitely agree with most of this, but Sam's got a terrible case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that really puts a lot of rational people off.

Trump's assault on reason, truth, and the very basic tenets of decency have changed politics for the worse. No president has ever acted, or been able to act this way because of Twitter and the internet.

TrapshooterTV “Everything he said was great until he criticized trump! I like trump!” I’m so tired of hearing from trump supporters that everyone should be able to speak freely- but they shouldn’t ever criticize trump; they should stay out of “politics”. As though it’s not relevant that the POTUS is a maniac who has had a severely deleterious effect on the discourse in this country.

@@trapshootertv2610 There are many other speeches and podcasts where Sam goes into great detail about how Trump is destroying democracy. That wasn't the topic of this one, hence his only light touching upon it.

It's also dangerous to the person speaking it.

The democrats have completely failed the working class in the US. They are the worst performing left party in the western world. No public health care, low minimum wage, no annual leave, no sick pay, no permanent unemployment benefits etc. The US has NONE of the entitlements all other western countries take for granted. It was Democrat failures that lead to the era of identity politics to keep themselves relevant and to get votes from women and minorities.

Is it surprising really? Many people aren't swayed by reason. Do you think cancel culture is an act of reason? Do you think rioting is an act of reason? No, they are acts of emotion and you can never win an argument based on emotion with reason. This is why you can't have a conversation with people that are charged with emotion, you can't win and you will only be a new enemy to them for not agreeing. This is why it's clear we are over the brink in the US, the only end will be a violent uprising or authoritarianism oppression.

that’s what it was like to live in medieval europe. The ony sane man in all of europe is the one who’s suddenly realized he is surrounded by madmen as he is burned alive for witchcraft

There was lots of sense spoken here about policing, but it was not courageous. It's frustrating that Sam completely omits what is surely one of the most (if not the most) important factors in the general underperformance of the group in question, that is low average IQ. There's a lot of big talk here about having "honest conversations" about "relevant causal factors" but he seems so fixated on achieving his race-blind rainbow utopia, that he wants to not deny, but simply avoid reality: that the different performance of groups is because the groups are actually different. There is an incredibly well established link between intelligence and criminality (regardless of race), and the fact that Sam will bring up the legacy of slavery before he will mention IQ differences as a causal factor is very telling. Three years ago he had Charles Murray on and talked frankly about this subject but even in that episode Sam acted as though the only relevance of the science was merely of academic interest and that it was better if the public at large don't know about it. Well what we're dealing with now is what happens when everyone in society has the expectation that every group should be performing equally well, and because the biological reason behind it has been hidden, they are left to conclude that it must be "structural", "institutional", or "systemic" racism. "Courageous" would have been talking about the causal factors that are extremely consequential but taboo, not trotting out the usual CNN talking points of "legacy of slavery".

Only if you Trumptards read his, "Letter to a Christian Nation" first. It's hilarious how you guys bury your heads in the sand while the republican party wipes its ass with the constitution.

@@hartkopz86 Definitely.

@@hartkopz86 Why'd you call him a Trumptard?

@@hartkopz86 you came across as the major head burier in this instance.

@@gordieallen6422 solar isn't, it was meant as a generality but I understand why you could read it that way.

stupid emotions.

african american is such a stupid term

Just right wing Nazis gathering for a nice podcast, nothing to see, move on

No Name Sam Harris is a liberal. I’m also assuming you didn’t listen to what he said

The comment above yours is the reason why we have issues in this country

They don't.

it's tough to stop and listen to this measured, logical convo when you are fighting poverty, police violence, and a madman running our country.

Arse kissing for the benefit of the other readers.

You cried? Really? Get a hold of yourself. You're a help to no one if you're that emotional.

@Joey Shmoey U guys are totally related.

Absolutely agree with you. I found this to be the most helpful analysis of the situation, all in one piece. Brilliant work deserving to be published.

No the Liberals who believe America is an idea and this was going to pass are the ones who can't get the egg off their face.

Word.

he's a f-ing idiot.

3rd time here also. Cool Calm Collected discussing facts. So refreshing

Jarl Borg if you have something better, publish it in thoughtful discussion. Name calling isn’t going to work.

Jarl Borg frankly I did not know the crime stats and have verified them all. This is not my expertise and have learned a great deal but all of the questions he asks. I guess I was confused - I thought you were calling me or Sam an asshole...

Yep yep yep

Right now this it the biggest problem facing the country bar none.

Yes and one side tends to go by feelings a lot of the time and if you aren’t in that persons shoes you will never understand .. they are basically both begging us to try and understand them and at the same time telling us we will never understand them

@@buckstraw925 not just the Us too. this plague of polarised thinking's spreading further

sorry, typo. i meant US, not Us

I couldn't possibly agree more than I emphatically do. To say that Sam Harris is a calming voice of reason is a gross understatement.

Every human could benefit regardless of nationality.

I wish everyone in the world would just listen to all of Sam's podcasts and read his books. He's one of the the most thoughtful and insightful public intellectual/philosophers around at the moments. Even if one doesn't particularly align with all of Sam's views there can be no doubt that he parses difficult topics with unrivaled cognitive clarity and a zen like tempered tone . This is hands down my favorite podcast. It's a shame that I'm recently out of work and had to cancel my mlm monthly sub to his now paywalled podcast. At least he tosses us a free/full episode on YT still, on this rare occasion.

@@acetate909 I could not agree more with you. It is a real gift to be able to convey complex abstract concepts clearly and understandably to us less intelligent life forms!

I'm a data analyst and usually good with statistics, but this has been a lesson for me.

I don't know if you've ever read a history book but socialists, atheists, and gay people might not remember when they were simply left alone while doing their own thing.

Those suckers back then obviously either didn't believe what they said or didn't really care about the topic. Destroying someone with the opposite view demonstrates you do both.

My father and his family fled his home state of Alabama in the late 40s, probably too late to properly call it part of the Great Migration. They were fleeing racial violence, and this was a couple decades after the worst lynching of the 20th century. My father became a communist, the only reasonable reaction to fleeing violent racism in the south only to experience the politically racist ghettoization of NYC. You could talk to him for years and never suspect that. He was hesitant to tell his own children, never explained his beliefs to his wife. Why? Because he never lived in an America where people just agreed to disagree over controversial opinions. You remember a more calm and peaceful world because you were sheltered. All around you people were being oppressed and killed by people for their beliefs or just for existing. The motivations for their subjugation were things you're coddled enough to consider differences of opinion. The people who suffered you considered so less than you forgot they existed. Maybe you never even knew they did. Your bubble has been popped. Your safe space is gone. History is on the march. Your illusory, peaceful America has been unmasked as an illusion, and the screams of the dregs of society will deafen you until you die. Sorry for the inconvenience, lib.

Hell of a quote right there

@peak jvs You are right but you are not commenting the comment. You are just saying an atrocious person can do atrocious things. This is not philosophy, it is a mere evidence.

"Anyone who has the power to play bongo drums has the power to play bongo drums" - Sam Harris

Gzus that is powerful.

"race isn't real; men can be women; age ain't nothin but a number; criminals are actually victims of society; holobunga happened" Shitlibs runnin wild on Earth rn.

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@@AI-Ops only an ignorant mind can see intelligence in sam harris

Dobbingoz982 Dobbingo I agree, his priorities are a bit off on this one.

Every police report is a lie yet Sam wants us to take his statistics as facts

IQ

Or "the police looking for a Ben Stiller lookalike" 😂

funny how you don't expect intelligent people to sput complete A-historical nonsense hey?

And it's nothing short of miraculous that we actual managed to pull it off considering human nature.

@@keirbrown6544 Claiming that giving a monopoly on force to the state is one of the best things humans have ever done is a-historical? If you’re point is simply that this can go wrong if the state is tyrannical, then duh. I think it’s pretty obvious that Harris was referring to a democratic state, or even just a state that is at a minimum not completely tyrannical. Or did you mean something else when you called this analysis “a-historical nonsense”?

you spelt "to" wrong BRO

@@taylorhumphrey617 I didn't spell it wrong, I used the wrong spelling. lol

This was very sad to read, I am so sorry it turned that way with your family and work. I hope things in your family and work will change for better, people needs to open their eyes and ears on those issues. And don't worry about those false friends, you will find better ones. At least as long as their are not constantly related to your work, because than it can be a pain in the ass. Anyway, stay safe and healthy.

I'm really sorry

Same here. My wife agrees with me, but I lost my job because of COVID and she doesn’t want me to ruin future job opportunists by appearing “racist” on Facebook.

All the best to you, Honest John, all the best. I have broken contact with my best friend and more over this. Like you said, many people are unwilling to consider the evidence when you put it right in front of their faces. This is especially powerful coming from Sam. My guess would be that half or more of his audience believed the fake narrative. Many of them are going to have their heads split wide open from cognitive dissonance when they listen to what Sam is telling them on this subject.

There is no money to be made for the media if they tell the truth

Maybe check our Atheism is Unstoppable, or Glenn Loury/John McWhorter, or Coleman Hughes, or even Sargon of Akkad. They represent the list of all humans that I’ve ever heard making sense on these issues. AIU and John/Glenn are my go to guys. They generally say the same things but with different styles. AIU being my favorite, since he represents what a whites person armed with the facts would sound like without a shred of white guilt or hesitation of possibly offending someone. He simply treats black people like they are humans who need to be held to the same standards as everyone else is, in a world where holding everyone to account regardless of race is often seen as racism in itself. It’s kind of wild, when you see an actual robust anti-racist and you have to untangle your own racism and ignorance to understand how what they say and do is not racism but is actually affirmative anti-racism.

It's going viral

@@mellowtron214 thanks for those recommendations, I am checking them out now

I also notice how many young russian-americans and other immigrants say the same thing...

Please explain more. I don’t know much about the Cultural Revolution. What is happening exactly on America that is so similar to what happened in China?

@@Rokaize The re-writing of history to demonize it to the point where people are willing to erase monuments like statues and burn books.

People being fired because of something their spouse said. www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mls/2020/06/05/galaxy-drop-aleksandar-katai-after-wifes-social-media-posts/111912488/

@@Rokaize Widespread mass delusion and adherence to no other power than political correctness. Public shaming as a means of total social control. The list goes on.

@Dave O time stamp?

How dare you discriminate against all the lite rooms!!!

Hes not a flicker, he is not a coward. The reason why we're in this shi# to begin with, is because we're surrounded by spineless cowards. White people have f'd up big time here! I dont understand how people have no clue what they did and what is about to happen. I'm speechless.

@@user-kb1hw2yq2f yes let's blame it all on white people. Your ridiculous.

San Harris is that flicker of light in a dark room that thinks the darkness just has to be reogranized to create light.

The IDW has to come back together.

@@aadityamurali18 Bret and Eric Weinstein have been especially important sources of rationality and objectivity with the Dark Horse and Portal respectively.

My thoughts exactly. 👍

I am curious to know how many instances of African American police officers killing of white people. Both in numbers and proportionally.

@@frenchfrog70 not exactly sure about those statistics but here are some statistics about police shootings per race. www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/ ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls

Can we really control our emotions? I am not arguing. I think that is an interesting idea to discuss.

@@frenchfrog70 I think we can.

This is only my thought process... Take it for what it is. I believe that our emotions are manifestations of something deeper within that we are not yet conscious of. I think it is the notion of control that disturbs me. At the same time I do believe that we can influence our emotions or at least the manifestations of them by introspection and mindfulness. Why do we have emotions to start with?

I also think that the illusion of control might be the best way to not have any control.

@@frenchfrog70 not really interesting if you start meditation and answer this question with a resounding YES YOU CAN and its the best thing i learned to improve my life. You cant control the rise of emotion but you can control how long the emotion lasts by learning to feel it deeply and then let it subside on its own, its the difference between 1 hour of anger to literally seconds of anger. Once you realize all the things you tell yourself the stories, the fictive scenarios that would make you angry, sad, depressed or anything in between are mostly ways to prolong a specific feeling and that its just not worth it you start to develop a habit of letting go of bad emotions and amplifying good emotions with the self talk of how amazing the world is or something. If you are aware of your anger you cease to be angry. Try the waking up App from sam its a godsend. You can be more yourself because you dont let emotions control your narrative that your tell yourself. If some things dont make sense just try it out you will soon see how much control you have over your inner state, it honestly blew me away and there ist near infinite possiblity for growth in that domain, it really is a ocean inside you that you never noticed is there its fucking amazing

Thats the exact problem with employing people over their political beliefs and not capabilities

Goodwill is a prerequisite for productive conversation.

I wouldn't say "never" but yeah. It's difficult. He's right on about half of what he says; but not right on another half. I'd love to debate Sam, but I'd hate to debate Sam.

Would you point out which claims you disagree with?

Sounds like one of those funny quips that Tom sowell makes

Ohhhh, Idk about that. You should come study economics with the rest of us economists. I'll show you a whole new world of non-factual supported opinion ;)

@@tah3460 Hahaha. Good point, although economists are generally disinclined to engage in public protest to advance their flawed economic theories.

Thank you, Thuggz Bunney. Elmer Fudd will soon only be hunting you with a scythe.

Agreed on this being his best work

@Dig Byck and yet you still listen

@@stephenbyrneireland Ouch!

@Stephen Byrne Well done! 👏🏼

He clearly learned the lesson from his debate with Hannibal Buress. If you spend a half hour laying down disclaimers and exculpatory prose, once you bring up the statistical reality we live in, your opponent will be reduced to a screaming madman. What you need to do is spend two hours laying down disclaimers. In 2021? Five hours.

Yep, for now, this podcast/video is the most important thing out there. UNTIL Sam tells us the truth about BLM and Antifa and their hidden (in plain sight) agenda of old-fashioned revolution. I mean burning of the Constitution, rewriting our history, radical appropriation of wealth, punishment of privileged whites, and coercive political re-education for all. I do not believe that I have exaggerated at all. It is more speculative to imagine that this revolutionary regime will engage in mass murder of its enemies on the historical scale of revolutionary France, Nazi Germany, the USSR, and Communist China. But just because I don't speculate that this definitely will happen does not mean that I think it is off the table.

J Davies - Respect to you for reconsidering what you thought to be true.

This made me think too, we should view having our beliefs challenged as a form of pleasure

You need to read more about cultural marxism. Read about how these tactics were deployed on blacks post jim crow and during. And then notice how its being deployed on the United States as a whole now.

I highly recommend this m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gIdBuK7_g3M.html

Exactly. Anyone not attempting to be open and ask basic questions is a dishonest actor. There are a lot on this subject

He's being a bit soft on the destructive Marxists for my liking

He got the crime statistics right, but Sam Harris is completely clueless about communism. This is why Jordan Peterson was telling people to read Gulag Archipelago. They teach children in elementary school that all problems in the world are created by white men because that's what universities teach. Even in red states. Jordan Peterson - Social Justice Textbook Stuns Wilfrid Laurier Professors - tmcleanful m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jIOX1hVRE8Y.html BLM founder admits they are trained Marxists - YoungRippa59 m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rdpIIiBe7Wc.html This won't end until millions of people are murdered, if something isn't done about the public school system Chinese Cultural Revolution: the boy who denounced his mother - The Guardian m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CCA6ME81RLQ.html

Also for someone who has so critical if Muslims in the past, he is totally overlooking Al-Jazeera, which is funded by Qatar, who's run by the Muslim Brotherhood. They are brainwashing people too. This is 4th generation warfare. facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/2060421310700419/

You shouldn't be

Radical Lefty okay larp

Same here!

Please do not feel alone. I have hope that more people are willing to think on the matter and actually discuss, than there are people who don't. The problem lies in the fact that the people who dont want to discuss or think scream. And over the screaming of few irrational, the calm voice of the rational can not be heard.

@@c.raynor7723 The other issue is that you have SO MANY institutions - from our schools to corporations to even your neighbor - fall victim to the organization that is mostly the leftist hellhole (I won't not acknowledge the right-wing response to this) and bend the knee. And that's what's the issue here - the message and the facts that can back up your arguments have been thrown out the window; it's a matter of being for or against a certain group. And it's not even being for or against something, being put into that black and white choice. It's the violence that they start using if you don't agree with THEM.

Yes - exactly what I was thinking!

Don't be an arrogant prick. Just because you don't agree with someone doesn't mean they're not thinking critically.

I have listened to this podcast all the way through at least 4 times. The first time I heard it (during the absolute peak of the anarchy during summer of2020) as soon as it ended, I started it over and listened again.

International*

Would wonder if Sam has the ability to think about if his premises would change if perhaps Trump is not as bad as the hypothesis implies? Obviously, no human and definitely no president has ever been perfect but what if Trump is not as evil as perception and personal assumptions implies? Or is it a feable exercise bc some people believe Trump is so evil whether it is true or not? And then must consider who or what is truly to blame for that conclusion?

That, and Coleman Hughes's in conversation with Meghan Murphy.

Don't forget half the people here (mostly Trump supporters) called Sam hysterical when he brought data to bear on COVID and he still thinks the most rational response is to get Trump out of that basis alone. When he cites statistics regarding COVID, it's fake news and Sam is an ideologue, now it's "the voice of reason!" Whatever fits the narrative

blaming trump for the george s0r0s riots. yeah so balanced. they were rioting under obama. obama called them thugs.

@@dariusmalone740 yea still too much TDS

@Kvothe Windrunner Please try and get out of the liberal echo-chamber. Please form a truly balanced view. It can be hard sometimes. Most of humanity lies somewhere in the middle of the political spectrum. The media amplifies the worst of both sides and so it can be hard to see what's true.

sam is all emotional about trump. listen to the scott adams episode.

Communist

Yes, so we can all finally understand how utterly out of touch with reality Sam actually is.

@@squatch545 Feel free to elaborate

I would, if he could shorten it by excluding the TDS and CNN worship. The insights into policing are vital.

Joe Smith He was here, he pressed some keys, then he left.

i heard this was a good podcast. im 10 mins in and sam the chosen person harris says these riots (falsely called protests) wouldnt be happening if trump wasn't president. they were happening when obama was president. don't you remember ferguson, baltimore, charlotte, milwaukee, etc. sam is the enemy of the people. scott adams needs to hand you another ass beating.

trust your knowledge that this is a very anti racist video. Reality of the issues is what we can base quality legislation on. We need good laws. We need good facts. We need a proactive civil servant force, aka politician, to represent our society's best interests, and not our current leadership. And I take responsibility first. Leadership starts with me, and I elect those to represent me, Good Luck with your endeavors. And trust that Sam makes quite a bit of sense here.

That chilling fear has spread around the world. Anything but the approved, fashionably outraged view is met with censorious demands and threats of being “cancelled” on line and in real life. Thank goodness voting is by secret ballot. The public square is no longer common, or safe, unless you parrot approved messages and profess to believe things that you may not believe.

I feel the same but this Harris has nailed it. It needs to be shared.

@Susannah Jackson This is also a great video Coleman Huges makes such great points ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8C-VrsK93GE.html

Share it before the media labels it as racist

They were protesting here in Canada, we had 450 in 17 years. Ppl have no clue what's actually going on.

Don't lose faith in us! There are some intelligent people in the US, but the zombies are taking over.

Yes. These were the most important 113 minutes I've spent on RU-vid this year.

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Courageous? Lol He’s a rich white guy with an opinion. That’s standard.

@@sophonax661 ditto

@@KingstonHawke Wait, you're being sarcastic right?

Half of Sam's podcast is pre feeling bad for himself. The other 40% is him saying he cannot talk about the thing he's talking about, then 10% racial paranoia in long calm sentences.

@@rawbebaba what exactly is the problem with hearing factual information and thorough thought on the topic? Especially from someone not shouting or yelling that you must agree or else your life/livelihood be subject to forfeiture at the whims of any particular group on any particular day. I encourage you to listen to this podcast again and actually look at the facts he presents.

@Robbie H. Do you think the need for his preamble is precisely because of people like you? People whose only response to well thought out arguments put bravely and in good faith, is to call it racist? DH.

I find that Sam is *so* articulate that you feel at least 28% smarter just listening to him.

.... or are too afraid to articulate.

Liberals don't like him. They typically don't like renouned economists

100%, this would be great!.

Does he still deny climate change?

@@jesselee34 I'm not 100% but I think you can go as far as to say he probably doesn't agree on the man made part. Plus I would want him on Sam's podcast more for the economics side of things.

The right wing climate change denying bigot? Great idea!

Agreed. I'm not normally a huge fan of Sam Harris, but he was right on here.

Soooooo agree. The extreme left brainwashed anti white anti history marxists have become the accepted norm. My son has to sit through videos of Greta Thunberg talking about race or climate. She left school at 13 ffs!! She has a fully paid 'Climate coach' but no one teaching her History or Civics or Maths.

@Bobby C _Should_ is the operative word in my comment.

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The only person on TV brave enough to mention the truth is (TUCKER CARLSON )

It is highly biased towards cases in the news cycle. I think police brutality is a problem, particularly because comes from state sanctioned violence, but it is statistically insignificant.

had you never seen fox news ?

@@Johnwilkinsonofficial both sides are biased. I didn't say it was one sided?

@@CeasiusC I agree that there are cases. But the fact that it is statistically insignificant means we have other things we should should focus on that would make a bigger impact. Especially for the black community, we should be focusing on education and the income gap.

Katelyn Smith more importantly a 2 parent household.

*assuming you aren’t getting shot or chocked. And it helps if you are a white millionaire with a popular podcast

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@@jamesguy1030 lol "Leftists" are not the ones controlling the government. And they do not control your child's mind, education or thoughts. Or anything, really. You are delusional, like so, so many. Trump is the main problem we all face.

If you're a white privileged person, you see civilization. I am going to press on civilization's neck.

LMAO!

sam has zero courage. he talks about having the important conversations but refuses to talk to david duke or jared taylor. look what scott adams did to sam harris. rip

utterly spectacular

Except he calls use of force statistics facts when we all know police reports are lies. Huge error and to me he needs to take down the video

Yet again and as if magically on cue you appear out of the woodwork to kiss arse. Your seal of approval is not needed neither is your judgment on oratory skills. I'd advise you to keep your Harris worship to a minimum because what does it actually say about you? That you should be so easily impressed and elevate Harris to such a degree. Then so beneath him you be!

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The idw spin on things

​@Stand together america exactly

I'm not sure how to share it without people getting the wrong idea. Everybody loves to take a side, and everyone loves to hear themselves talk.....

That unfortunately is, was and always will be true with most great content. Most people are simply not interested in expanding their horizons and we can't blame them because they didn't choose not to be interested.

nor do they have the intellect or self-awareness to understand it. and those who have the intelligence have already lost their thoughts to ideology.

Totally agree.

He's straight lying in this. He said a business owner was beaten, that's a LIE by conservatives. The man in Dallas was not a business owner just an idiot who said he wanted to defend his neighborhood... WIth a MACHETE. There was some sort of conflict because there's a video if him walking away while they throw small rocks at him and then in another video he turns around and chases one protesters swing his machete and missing, the they grab him and best his ass. NOT a business owner just a man assaulting with a deal weapon

Google curates all you see now, try searching BLM riots, and nothing relevant to you inquire comes up. Try also incognito on YT front page. It’s crazy out there.

The dummy's that need to hear this wouldn't understand Sam, and they would just call him a racist.

You know, I love this comment. It is pretty hard to have happen, changing ones mind. Or widen your horizons. It is almost painful at times. It is regardless one of the most liberating things. To experience AND see. So thanks for that. We live in an extremely polarised society, also here in Europe, which has made the 'middle-ground' lay down in a very, very deep chasm. And thus the extreme. It is as fascinating as it is terrying. It is almost like mass-hypnosis, the dancing plague the middle-ages. People need to get a hit intellectually, this podcast is a good starter, to atleast get into rational and or pragmatic mode just a tad bit more. The truth mostly lies somewhere in the middle.

@@aiarta2280 Oh don't worry, I jumped down the rabbit hole and found Jordan Peterson and now I'm just rethinking my entire life haha. I just so respect people being able to actually talk and have these tough conversations. You can't expect to make any kind of lasting change without having an understanding of what is actually going on and what it is that you're trying to change, and that is the fundamental thing missing from so many extreme left wing people, who by all accounts have incredibly well meaning virtues and goals, but the way they pursue them is misguided and naive. The method of "agree with me or you're wrong" is not helping anyone.

I'm right there with you: lifelong Democrat/liberal. Now, I'm at odds with most of my party members and friends over their acceptance of the new trend of suppression of the most basic principals of progressive thinking such as free speech, tolerance, and willingness to participate in discussions about current events. The characteristics liberals used to despise about conservatives have now been wholly adopted like a cult. I'll return to this party when/if it ever resembles what it once was...and honestly, I don't think that'll happen during my lifetime.

Joe Rogan is incapable of having this conversation honestly.

Vastly Educated I agree.

@@wallstreetwoes431 That's fine, Harris can do the explaining.

Joe Rogan is a moron, btw.

There’s a podcast of Sam Harris on joe Rogans podcast debating Hannibal Burris where Sam makes a lot of the same point as this, and joe agrees with almost everything sam Harris says

Someone rational wouldn't claim use of force statistics as facts when every police report is a lie

To remove context from any single part of that podcast is to invite misrepresentation. There is a reason he spent the better part of 30 minutes adding caveat after caveat so that he could rationally disentangle the whole mess that is BLM and what is happening today.

Eric Hoare True and I understand that. But the small clips would be good as they would get to people who are more in the middle of these issues and not to convince the crazy’s on the polar opposite ends of the right and left.

The earth is round.

Nice or terrifying?

fabien blot even that is a matter of debate to some people.

twilit No doubt lol

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