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#231 — Crossing the Abyss

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is There a Mob Mentality?

I want to talk about the underlying problem of, you know, what people believe is true about the nature of the world and how unreachable certain people seem to be at the moment. I think many people marvelled at the fact that there was such an inadequate police presence. And they're loking for reasons why that is soand some are conspiratorial and seemingly fairly sinister. Some are just can be ascribed to bad assumptions or bad luck. But let's just focus on and what actually happened at the capital and everything that is still mysterious about that. Just take that single variable of why there wasSuch an inadequate staffing, and just why therethere was a basic assumption that more security

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