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I'm an avid listener of Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, and Jung. I agree with all except for Jordan Peterson Christian doctrine, other than that he is an immaculate speaker. As for Sam Harris? He needs to wake up and smell the coffee. Even though I did not vote Hillary or Trump, I too was shocked an dumbfounded to know Trump had won. But before hand I knew Trump was going to win. How did I know? Thanks to Bill Moyers and Charles Maury. With Bill Moyers, I saw a 30 year documentary about two American families. a two parent black family, and a two parent white family. When I watch this documentary, I tend to chock up and tear, and at one point I cried. Its one of the saddest things I ever saw. Folks trying to live under the regimes of Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr, and Obama. Five presidents of broken neoliberal promises. These presidents that I mentioned above left "Middle America" in a mess. This documentary proved how Trump will win. Also the black family had 6 virtues mentioned by Charles Maury in his book Coming Apart state of white America, while the white family in the documentary lost their virtues over time. Those people who lost their virtues, are the very people who will vote for Trump.
Trump did not win due to white supremacy, white privilege, or male patriarchy. Trump won the election due to the fact that large swath of the population in middle America, white black and others suffered for 35 years under different presidents and their local and state allies. In conjunction with the recession in 2008, and slow job growth, Trump presidential run was a perfect storm for victory. The recovery was for liberal cities and the coasts. All of those suburban white kids when they finish high school and go to college. After college these kids cant move back to suburbia. These kids have to move to Brooklyn to find a 50k a year office job which was once reserved for an Italian, a black, or a Puerto Rican. Now are populated with suburban folks all over the country. America needs fixing, but problems are fixed when things breakdown, but not when they are breaking. Only time will tell!
Well America couldn’t belive a community organizer with little experience was president for 8 long years and that Hillary didn’t rig the Democratic primaries but truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.
Trump won because Americans were sick and tired of all these sleazy lawyer shysters turned professional politicians running everything. They are a scourge.
Sam Harris has a few redeeming qualities but understanding things outside of his area of expertise isn’t one of them.
As smart as Sam is, he doesn't seem to grasp the idea that human behavior is utilitarian. He seems to believe that humans are looking for truth for the sake of truth. Or that truth can even be found.
No, humans are only looking for useful truths. Humans, all humans, including Sam Harris, are afflicted with severe confirmation-bias. The truth is whatever we want it to be.
And Sam Harris, with his severe case of Trump-derangement-syndrome, practically asserts that politics was honest before Trump came along.
He pays some lip-service to how tribalism is corrupting society and the truth. But doesn't really explain why tribalism exists in the first place, other than to blame social media(and maybe all media).
Sam Harris used to be relevant. Had he come out and just reasonably explained the Trump phenomenon, and not been such a spazz, he might still be relevant.
As smart as Sam is, he doesn't seem to grasp the idea that human behavior is utilitarian. He seems to believe that humans are looking for truth for the sake of truth. Or that truth can even be found.
No, humans are only looking for useful truths. Humans, all humans, including Sam Harris, are afflicted with severe confirmation-bias. The truth is whatever we want it to be.
And Sam Harris, with his severe case of Trump-derangement-syndrome, practically asserts that politics was honest before Trump came along.
He pays some lip-service to how tribalism is corrupting society and the truth. But doesn't really explain why tribalism exists in the first place, other than to blame social media(and maybe all media).
Sam Harris used to be relevant. Had he come out and just reasonably explained the Trump phenomenon, and not been such a spazz, he might still be relevant.
"Humans are only looking for useful truths"
Well put!
You've all got it wrong. Trump won because he colluded with Russia. Mueller's going to get to the bottom of this and then Trump will be rightfully impeached and removed from office and America can get back to Business as Usual. That's what America wants, right? To get back on the road that the political establishment had laid before us. Trump is just a speed bump on the Highway to Hell.
Very famous in the online atheist community, who consider him a logical thinker and a genius.
Among academics he's considered an intellectual lightweight, which is probably why you've never heard of him:
1. A verificationist, so doesn't understand knowledge theory.
2. His written work (which he considers original and groundbreaking) reinvents utilitarianism. Thinks science can define morality.
3. His dialectical skills are poor. Fares badly in debates where opponents frame their arguments competently. For example.
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