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The Russell Brand Interview

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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How Do You Get Seven Billion Strangers to Collaborate?

I think ideas are the most powerful things we've got. And if we fail to build a civilization that works, it will be because of the failure of ideas. There's really just two modes, conversation and violence. When conversation fails, all we have is violence. The beliefs matter. The details matter. Why do you fetishise the an agonism towards that particularap violence? Eiis ooobetes, of course, a thats violence exists in the contect of a far more potent opponent's violencen. O like you can't. We can't talk about palestinian violence and ruiertin firstain te oratic nis saying, no,

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