The curtain came down on Sam Harris during the Covid pandemic. His status as some outsider (and eccentrically calm) intellectual with scrutiny as sharp as a scalpel - wielded with superhuman objectivity - was just obliterated when it came to his take on the 'vaccine science'. He lost a great deal of viewers during this period. I recall checking his Youtube channel at some point early this year after YT recommended me one of his podcasts; he'd made an apology video to his fans about the entire affair (although he walked nothing back).
Here, again, he is in shameful form. He actually uses the word 'infinitesimally' to make a comparison between two people's corruption.
The Jew has come out, at last for all of those people who couldn't see it before.
It should have been obvious to everybody that paid any attention to his publications; all of his religious polemics ceaselessly target Christianity and Islam, but he has no ongoing criticisms to make about Jewry. Hmmm.
Well, it turns out his grandmother was some big-time television producer in the 1980s or something. I want to say she was responsible for the 'Golden Girls'. A brief look into Sam's history reveals that he spent the decade of his 20s travelling abroad and studying Buddhism, to return and get a PhD, make one publication in cognitive science (which was his dissertation), and then never publish as a working scientist again.
Instead he used that credential and his ancestry to get himself a publishing contract to release 'The End of Faith'. He has been marketed, especially in the 2000s, as a hardened cognitive scientist. He only published his dissertation paper and then smoothly transitioned to pop philosopher and cultural critic.
The fact is, Sam is a bright and outrageously well-spoken person with a sharp intellect, but his views on politics and religion have always been half-rate, and his work is never spoken about seriously in either the fields of religion or philosophy.
I would compare him to a talk-show host. Philosophers and theologians interested in gaining a popular audience are keen to interact publicly with Sam, but Sam is like a gatekeeper of the 'intellectual web' since he is virtually a god to midwits. Sam is like the Joe Rogan for the average person who deems himself an intellectual. And being a liberal-leaning secular science freak during the mid-to-late 2000s was the fucking coolest thing you could be.
I'll be glad to see Sam and others like him in the 'intellectual dark web' fade from relevance, sooner as opposed to later. Frankly, I think our culture has become a bit too charmed with conversation and smooth talkers on the web.
Joe Rogan is kind of a dumbass, but he has interesting people on his show and lets them say what they want to say. The fact that that is enlightening says more about the state of media than about Joe Rogan.
Ive never paid much attention to him. Im a but suspicious of anyone who says “we’ve got to put an end to this god thing” . They never want to talk about the potential consequences of that. But you are saying he’s not a serious academic, just a glib jew who flirted with LSD for a few years. Huh.
The IDW appears to have been a coping mechanism for intellectual lefties who detest the tyranny of their own movement but were not brave enough to admit their fundamental premises were wrong. So they straddle the fence. A lot of jews seem to end up here. The interviewer is a jew.
Nevertheless I have enjoyed some idw type debates and I think theyve had some good discussions. Perhaps it has served as a gateway drug for some on the way to the truth.
That bit though where he cites liz cheney as evidence that this is not a partisan conspiracy feels so weak and dishonest, it’s a wonder he can say it with a straight face. He’s totally insane! Trump university?
I mean, defending a dissertation in that field is not something a slouch can do. I think he is a very smart person. But, as the intellectuals of every age do, they prove smart and dumb can coincide in the same person.
I liked Bret Weinstein best out of the entire crew; he had the most balls, although he still, in true academic fashion, refused to state things in any way that didn't look like someone tip-toeing through a minefield. In terms of the vocation itself, this is understandable. But by God, don't try to profit from a truth grift and then dance around the obvious. Eric was little more than an ambitious charlatan, although also a brilliant guy. His schtick about his 'unpublished PhD thesis' is an interesting rabbit hole if you ever get really bored - basically argues he has a paradigm shift in physics to offer the world, but he didn't publish it through regular channels because the academic atmosphere was hostile to him. (can it get any more Jewish?)
I tend to think of most of these conversationalists as moderate gatekeepers. They let people blow off some steam and in that way behave like minor catharsis, but they always implicitly or explicitly normalize (and prescribe) this middle-of-the-road academic caution in which one is meant to be left sitting, constantly waiting for 'better data'. I know smart people who got vaccinated and couldn't question the Covid narrative until it was far too late because they were always waiting for 'better data'. This is the locked in mentality I'm referring to.
I have a similar assessment of the Epstein boys. With Bret its like there’s a gentile in there trying to get out, lol. He jews out once in a while but ususally he stays pretty objective. I was pleasantly surprised to see him really pushing back on the covid narratives including his early support for lab origins theory and also for ivermectin.
Eric got all the jew genes. I hadnt heard of unpublished thesis but he did tout a similar story about Bret of the “we wuz robbed” variety : how some bitch stole his idea about lab mice and telemeres and got a nobel prize or somenthing. I tend to believe it but I tend to believe everyone in academia has a story like that.
'. I know smart people who got vaccinated and couldn't question the Covid narrative until it was far too late
Never underestimate how dumb smart people can be. We are monkeys. Its hard to imagine how someone with a 140 iq could get so many things wrong, but having certain cognitive skills for comprehending biological systems or financial systems or digital systems just does not translate to imperviousness to psychological manipulations or deep personal biases.
We havent figured out how to not act like animals. Im not talking about nigger chimpouts. Im talking about the fact that we are running the same emotional program as a chimpanzee. Intellectual normies can’t just defect to the other camp when new information arrives which shows they were wrong. They double down on their error. Ive done it. We all do it.
We cant handle reality as it really is. We handle paradigms. So intellectuals try to rehab their failing paradigm rather than accept a better one. Thats how you get shit like Quillette.
[ - ] UncleDoug 1 point 1.7 yearsAug 19, 2022 21:53:15 ago (+1/-0)
Sam Harris is a jew and he was personally responsible for the Atheism+ intersectionality movement, one that was used as a test bed for what we are seeing culturally elsewhere.
Jew gods should be dismantled, but not by jew-controlled opposition and petty grifters. He's also not a neo-con, he's a pro-Israelite.
Is didnt really know what sub to put this in. I could have put it in “jews” but I always do that. And the moment didnt seem quite jewish enough. You will argue it was all about his being a jew. But sometimes Im just not into making it about that. Yeah he’s a big ole jew and so is the little brown guy.
I don't even know who that faggot paki is. Regardless Harris can choke on a yarmulke, his presence disparages the progress made by the likes of Dennett, Hitchens and Dawkins in the contemporary world's preeminent literary and critical thinking movement.
[ + ] CHIRO
[ - ] CHIRO 3 points 1.7 yearsAug 19, 2022 20:47:12 ago (+3/-0)*
Here, again, he is in shameful form. He actually uses the word 'infinitesimally' to make a comparison between two people's corruption.
The Jew has come out, at last for all of those people who couldn't see it before.
It should have been obvious to everybody that paid any attention to his publications; all of his religious polemics ceaselessly target Christianity and Islam, but he has no ongoing criticisms to make about Jewry. Hmmm.
Well, it turns out his grandmother was some big-time television producer in the 1980s or something. I want to say she was responsible for the 'Golden Girls'. A brief look into Sam's history reveals that he spent the decade of his 20s travelling abroad and studying Buddhism, to return and get a PhD, make one publication in cognitive science (which was his dissertation), and then never publish as a working scientist again.
Instead he used that credential and his ancestry to get himself a publishing contract to release 'The End of Faith'. He has been marketed, especially in the 2000s, as a hardened cognitive scientist. He only published his dissertation paper and then smoothly transitioned to pop philosopher and cultural critic.
The fact is, Sam is a bright and outrageously well-spoken person with a sharp intellect, but his views on politics and religion have always been half-rate, and his work is never spoken about seriously in either the fields of religion or philosophy.
I would compare him to a talk-show host. Philosophers and theologians interested in gaining a popular audience are keen to interact publicly with Sam, but Sam is like a gatekeeper of the 'intellectual web' since he is virtually a god to midwits. Sam is like the Joe Rogan for the average person who deems himself an intellectual. And being a liberal-leaning secular science freak during the mid-to-late 2000s was the fucking coolest thing you could be.
I'll be glad to see Sam and others like him in the 'intellectual dark web' fade from relevance, sooner as opposed to later. Frankly, I think our culture has become a bit too charmed with conversation and smooth talkers on the web.
[ + ] bonghits4jeebus
[ - ] bonghits4jeebus 2 points 1.7 yearsAug 19, 2022 22:30:57 ago (+2/-0)
[ + ] PostWallHelena
[ - ] PostWallHelena [op] 1 point 1.7 yearsAug 19, 2022 21:37:10 ago (+1/-0)
The IDW appears to have been a coping mechanism for intellectual lefties who detest the tyranny of their own movement but were not brave enough to admit their fundamental premises were wrong. So they straddle the fence. A lot of jews seem to end up here. The interviewer is a jew.
Nevertheless I have enjoyed some idw type debates and I think theyve had some good discussions. Perhaps it has served as a gateway drug for some on the way to the truth.
That bit though where he cites liz cheney as evidence that this is not a partisan conspiracy feels so weak and dishonest, it’s a wonder he can say it with a straight face. He’s totally insane! Trump university?
[ + ] CHIRO
[ - ] CHIRO 0 points 1.7 yearsAug 19, 2022 21:47:42 ago (+0/-0)
I liked Bret Weinstein best out of the entire crew; he had the most balls, although he still, in true academic fashion, refused to state things in any way that didn't look like someone tip-toeing through a minefield. In terms of the vocation itself, this is understandable. But by God, don't try to profit from a truth grift and then dance around the obvious. Eric was little more than an ambitious charlatan, although also a brilliant guy. His schtick about his 'unpublished PhD thesis' is an interesting rabbit hole if you ever get really bored - basically argues he has a paradigm shift in physics to offer the world, but he didn't publish it through regular channels because the academic atmosphere was hostile to him. (can it get any more Jewish?)
I tend to think of most of these conversationalists as moderate gatekeepers. They let people blow off some steam and in that way behave like minor catharsis, but they always implicitly or explicitly normalize (and prescribe) this middle-of-the-road academic caution in which one is meant to be left sitting, constantly waiting for 'better data'. I know smart people who got vaccinated and couldn't question the Covid narrative until it was far too late because they were always waiting for 'better data'. This is the locked in mentality I'm referring to.
[ + ] PostWallHelena
[ - ] PostWallHelena [op] 1 point 1.7 yearsAug 19, 2022 22:44:54 ago (+1/-0)
Eric got all the jew genes. I hadnt heard of unpublished thesis but he did tout a similar story about Bret of the “we wuz robbed” variety : how some bitch stole his idea about lab mice and telemeres and got a nobel prize or somenthing. I tend to believe it but I tend to believe everyone in academia has a story like that.
Never underestimate how dumb smart people can be. We are monkeys. Its hard to imagine how someone with a 140 iq could get so many things wrong, but having certain cognitive skills for comprehending biological systems or financial systems or digital systems just does not translate to imperviousness to psychological manipulations or deep personal biases.
We havent figured out how to not act like animals. Im not talking about nigger chimpouts. Im talking about the fact that we are running the same emotional program as a chimpanzee. Intellectual normies can’t just defect to the other camp when new information arrives which shows they were wrong. They double down on their error. Ive done it. We all do it.
We cant handle reality as it really is. We handle paradigms. So intellectuals try to rehab their failing paradigm rather than accept a better one. Thats how you get shit like Quillette.
[ + ] UncleDoug
[ - ] UncleDoug 1 point 1.7 yearsAug 19, 2022 21:53:15 ago (+1/-0)
Jew gods should be dismantled, but not by jew-controlled opposition and petty grifters.
He's also not a neo-con, he's a pro-Israelite.
[ + ] PostWallHelena
[ - ] PostWallHelena [op] 0 points 1.7 yearsAug 19, 2022 22:50:53 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] UncleDoug
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