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#261 — Belief & Identity
Making Sense with Sam Harris
The Importance of Belief Flexibility
Belief flexibility is just essential to everything we do as a society in so many different ways. It's really important that we're able to influence each other on the basis of conversation, because if we can't, the only option available is violence. Thet public health messaging during this pandemic has been almost impossible to get across,. Every shred of reasonable scepticism on any point gets amplified into a complete breakdown of epistemology. People have balcanized into these echo chambers on line. This political partisanship of a sort that i don't think we've ever seen in our lifetime theyre ar conspiracy theories on almost every topic of social importance. And it's really te the only place
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