Hard to believe people looked at this guy like the next Christopher Hitchens or Richard Dawkins less than decade ago.
Now he just repeats CNN pundit lunacy.
TDS really should be a subject of scientific study. I'm convinced these people must have some sort of clinically detectable brain chemistry. They genuinely need pathologizing.
Even before Trump he was a lunatic. Fully committed to act utilitarianism as a societal remedy. The kind of social engineering he advocated for in The End of Faith would give even the WEF pause.
One of them is almost entirely an argument about what is truth, which is a really interesting question but neither of them say anything worthwhile about it. If they had started to seriously approach truth, they would have risked shattering liberalism. It's not worth listening to at all.
Several, they're a good watch, but the first one which was on Sam's podcast was very bad. It may be worth listening to hear the trainwreck, but the second one on Sam's podcast was good and all subsequent ones were good.
Sam Harris is the same elitist intellectual bug he's always been. He recognized that the populist movements like America First represent an existential threat to the ivory towers which prop him up. He hasn't changed, he's revealed himself.
Sam Harris is just the honest one. The Stephen Pinkers, Charles Murrays, all those guys voted Biden; and nothing would have stopped them from doing so.
Sam was super popular back when when the New Atheist movement was alive and well (~10-15 years ago) when hating on conservatives and Christians was popular with anyone under the age of 30.
Then the slippery slope hit the West hard and the cracks in the movement began to show. People realized none of the claims the New Atheists made about religion were actually true, and began to see how the New Atheists were just as dogmatic as the religious people they hated. This was assisted in no small part by JBP who introduced a new way of looking at religion that allowed atheists to appreciate its utility without requiring them to acknowledge supernatural influences. This was basically the nail in the coffin for the movement.
After the death of New Atheism, most atheists now are either (#1) fanatical followers of the woke religion, or (#2) normal non-religious people who see religion as silly at worst or useful at best, but either way far preferable to the woke religion that is in the process of destroying our culture from the inside.
Sam always had "Jesus Derangement Syndrome", and since Trump entered the political scene it appears he has "Trump Derangement Syndrome". Sam clearly has something wrong with him; a weak point or blind spot that he just can't get past.
People realized none of the claims the New Atheists made about religion were actually true, and began to see how the New Atheists were just as dogmatic as the religious people they hated.
It was the "Atheism plus" movement that killed it.
When a bunch of marxists tried to turn it from being about relentlessly debunking religious arguments to being about progressive politics. When supposed atheists began making excuses for islamists.
That was when all the sane people - myself included - bailed.
The final nail in the coffin was hammered in by none other than Richard Dawkins himself, when he publicly concluded that he had begun to see Christianty - as flawed as it was - as 'a bulwark against something worse'. That was at the start of 2016.
Yep. His brain has completely broken.
Hard to believe people looked at this guy like the next Christopher Hitchens or Richard Dawkins less than decade ago.
Now he just repeats CNN pundit lunacy.
TDS really should be a subject of scientific study. I'm convinced these people must have some sort of clinically detectable brain chemistry. They genuinely need pathologizing.
Even before Trump he was a lunatic. Fully committed to act utilitarianism as a societal remedy. The kind of social engineering he advocated for in The End of Faith would give even the WEF pause.
Any particular examples you recall?
I only know about Sam Harris in passing from his old Rogan appearances and his feuds with Jordan Peterson.
One of them is almost entirely an argument about what is truth, which is a really interesting question but neither of them say anything worthwhile about it. If they had started to seriously approach truth, they would have risked shattering liberalism. It's not worth listening to at all.
Several, they're a good watch, but the first one which was on Sam's podcast was very bad. It may be worth listening to hear the trainwreck, but the second one on Sam's podcast was good and all subsequent ones were good.
Sam Harris is the same elitist intellectual bug he's always been. He recognized that the populist movements like America First represent an existential threat to the ivory towers which prop him up. He hasn't changed, he's revealed himself.
Sam Harris is just the honest one. The Stephen Pinkers, Charles Murrays, all those guys voted Biden; and nothing would have stopped them from doing so.
Murray voted for Biden? I would imagine he'd sit out the election before doing that.
Harris may be honest, but he's a dull ass. His tone reminds me of the NPR girls from "Delicious Dish" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPpcfH_HHH8
Early life. Check it.
LibsofTiktok, can you tell me more of who is behind it? Does it break the leftist narrative you want to peddle?
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Sam was super popular back when when the New Atheist movement was alive and well (~10-15 years ago) when hating on conservatives and Christians was popular with anyone under the age of 30.
Then the slippery slope hit the West hard and the cracks in the movement began to show. People realized none of the claims the New Atheists made about religion were actually true, and began to see how the New Atheists were just as dogmatic as the religious people they hated. This was assisted in no small part by JBP who introduced a new way of looking at religion that allowed atheists to appreciate its utility without requiring them to acknowledge supernatural influences. This was basically the nail in the coffin for the movement.
After the death of New Atheism, most atheists now are either (#1) fanatical followers of the woke religion, or (#2) normal non-religious people who see religion as silly at worst or useful at best, but either way far preferable to the woke religion that is in the process of destroying our culture from the inside.
Sam always had "Jesus Derangement Syndrome", and since Trump entered the political scene it appears he has "Trump Derangement Syndrome". Sam clearly has something wrong with him; a weak point or blind spot that he just can't get past.
It was the "Atheism plus" movement that killed it.
When a bunch of marxists tried to turn it from being about relentlessly debunking religious arguments to being about progressive politics. When supposed atheists began making excuses for islamists.
That was when all the sane people - myself included - bailed.
The final nail in the coffin was hammered in by none other than Richard Dawkins himself, when he publicly concluded that he had begun to see Christianty - as flawed as it was - as 'a bulwark against something worse'. That was at the start of 2016.
Accurate and really well-put.
No it was popular with the retarded