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#207 — Can We Pull Back From The Brink?

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Problem With Protests Isn't Just With the Looting

People by the millions are now surrendering themselves to a kind of religious awakening. But like most religious awakenings, this movement is not showing itself eager to make honest contact with reality. Of course, there are real problems of inequality and despair at the bottom of these protests. These people are also supporting this movement uncritically for many reasons. If you have millions of dollars and you shoot botocks into your face and your vacation on saint bart's and you're a liberal, the easiest way to sleep at night is to be as woke as a o c. And just like everything she tweats....

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