Buckle up for this one. Not my usual content, but I’m just getting on a plane that was delayed for three hours and listening to a talk with one of our most prominent “new atheists.” I’m convinced this chat bears some relevance to the community, if tangentially.
I do love Sam Harris. One part of this I find objectionable is his assertion that capitalism is the best tool we have to solve wealth inequality, but that’s maybe off-topic here and I don’t expect most of this community to share my feelings on that anyway. I’m happy to discuss it in Matrix.
On the other hand, he makes some excellent points on how the left is hungrily eating its own tail and how.
His insistence on embracing what he considers to be spiritualism (and isn’t it always different depending on who you ask?) turns me off of him. Then there’s this…
that an entire article is people saying what other people are saying other people are saying. Also IQ scores are pseudoscience invented by the eugenics movement.