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Chris Bray's avatar

I realize that I started to draw a circle, but didn't close it.

1.) Sam Harris came up as a critic of religion who argues that faith is an affront to rational thought.

2.) But he participates in a kind of faith-based and performative quasi-religion that posits alternative realities and rejects dealing with the world as it is.

3.) He's a critic of religion, on the grounds of preferring a rational engagement with the world, who isn't rationally engaged with the world.

It's necessary to connect both ends of his career, and to see that his dueling trajectories don't align.

Annnnnnnd good night.

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John Henry Holliday, DDS's avatar

Gee, it's like he lacks a moral compass, or something. Cue Nietzsche's madman speech.

He and Scott Adams are so arrogant, they cannot ever admit to having been duped. And, oh boy, were they ever played for suckers. At least 2 jabs for each. Enjoy, O Supremely Intelligent Ones.

We need new elites. Real ones, this time.

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