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#243 — A Few Points of Confusion

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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I'm Just a White Guy, I'll Just Get Past Race

To insist upon the primacy of race is to be obscenely confused about human potential and about societies potential. The idea that racial identity is something that we can't get past is total bolshet insight into the nature of mind. My attitude toward wealth and equality is born of the recognition that no one is truly self made. As we get wealthier, the floor beneath which no one should be allowed to fall should keep rising. Compassion has to be built into capitalism, because it seem to occur naturally. Otherwise, totally normal people begin to resemble cyclopaths in how they conduct themselves in business. So thiss just to say that what i think i've learned through the practice of meditation

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