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Next Decoding Source Material: Sam Harris (Patreon)

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2023-12-15 02:40:09
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2026-06
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Yes that's right it's time.

A full length Decoding of Sam Harris based on an interview conducted by Chris Williamson.

I think this interview does a good job of highlighting the duality of Sam.

It is certainly not as vapid as the Red Scare material.

After this we will take a trip into some unknown waters but Sam's on the docket for too long.

Let us know your thoughts!

(We are aiming to get this out before Christmas)

Files

Sam Harris - Take Back Control Of Your Mind (4K) | Modern Wisdom 661

Sam Harris is a best selling author, philosopher, neuroscientist and a podcaster. Go to my sponsor https://betterhelp.com/modernwisdom for 10% off your first month of therapy with BetterHelp and get matched with a therapist who will listen and help The entire world seems to be at each other's throats and finding peace in the chaos is becoming increasingly difficult. But there are tools at our disposal to improve the quality of our lives. As Sam says on this episode, “Wisdom is a matter of making your mind your friend”. Expect to learn what Sam’s life is like after Twitter, Sam’s reflections on his famous talk on death and the present moment, how to live a life full of meaning, how to take your mindfulness off the cushion and into the real world, Sam's thoughts on Tucker Carlson's Twitter move, his opinion on Andrew Tate, RFK Jr, Andrew Huberman and Jordan Peterson, whether have reached peak woke, Sam’s take on young Western men converting to Islam and much more... Sponsors: Get $150/£150 discount on the Eight Sleep Pod Cover at https://eightsleep.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours with your first box at https://www.drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) Extra Stuff: Sign up for 30 days free from Sam's Meditation app Waking Up - https://wakingup.com/modernwisdom Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom #samharris #philosophy #mindset - 00:00 Intro 00:23 Life After Twitter 09:42 Is Tucker Carlson Leading the Media Revolution? 18:16 How to Live Well While Accepting Death 26:39 The Rise of Andrew Tate 33:19 Is the Bible As Wise as We Make it Out to Be? 37:12 Will Sam Rekindle His Relationship with Jordan Peterson? 45:37 What Sam Thinks When People Say He’s ‘Lost It’ 49:38 Why Has RFK Jr Become So Popular? 58:50 Principles for Being More Present in Life 1:08:34 How Meditation Can Improve Your Mindset 1:13:31 How Our Consciousness is Influenced By What We Feel 1:22:39 Why Are Our Inner Voices So Critical? 1:25:55 Finding Balance Between Gratitude & Ambition 1:37:17 The Ability to Find Pleasure in Smaller Experiences 1:47:46 The Power of the Story You Tell Yourself 1:53:12 Does Sam Regret His Deconstruction of Religion? 2:02:46 Society’s ‘Keeping Up With the Joneses’ Mentality 2:08:21 What if Christopher Hitchens Was Alive Today? 2:14:37 Reacting to Western Men Converting to Islam 2:24:49 Will Our Civilisation Make it to the Next Century? 2:28:15 Are We Prepared if a Worse Pandemic Occurred? 2:43:23 Sam’s Advice to People Feeling Lost in Life 2:49:03 Sam's Opinion on Andrew Huberman 2:53:21 How Sam Avoids Audience Capture 3:07:49 Recording Sam’s Daily Meditations 3:11:26 Where to Find Sam - Get access to every episode 10 hours before YouTube by subscribing for free on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn or Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

Comments

Dr Badmouth

One of the few SH podcasts I skipped (mainly because in the last 3 years when you've heard one Sam harris guest appearance, you've heard them all

jodcr

Does anyone else find it comical how buff the longform podcasters are?

Logan

He hates being quoted out of context yet this episode is a gold mine for out of context clips 😂

Diane Morrison

3 hooours??? I’m putting the podcast version on 1.5 speed , let’s see how long I last

Eric Stern

Is this film in the basement where Fight Club takes place?!

Diane Morrison

4 minutes- ‘twitter is not the real world, we should spend more time in the real world ‘ 2 guys who make a living purely from online shenanigans

Protagonist Science

Influencers are bad for society, and that includes Sam. Individuals are just so mired in their own worldview that they always turn out propagandists, apologists or activists about issues they are emotionally engaged in but have too little expert knowledge to accurately reflect upon.

NIALL DAVISON

Ohhhh, this is going to be a controversial decoding. There are only two podcasts I pay a subscription for - Making Sense and Decoding The Gurus. Like me, I suspect a lot of DTG listeners are also Sam Harris fans. Sam definitely has his flaws and 'tribal' blind spots, but I think he is a source of good in the world, overall. I hope he takes up the right to reply offer (again) because I genuinely think he cares what you guys think of him. Can't wait for this one.

RareTripleBait

Is this somewhere available in podcast form? Could not find it in my podcatcher

Josh Lemer

I'd be interested in the motivation to decode Sam again, wasn't he already decoded, gurometrized, and then even came on for a Right To Reply? Is the thinking that the first round wasn't deep enough or representative or that he's changed signfiicantly? Or maybe just for the fun of it, that is also valid!

Kevin Nyberg

I have never heard an interviewer ask Sam about his mother, Susan Harris. Dude, your mom created The Golden Girls, one of the most famous TV shows ever. How does this not come up in the telling of his back story?

Kat

I wish I believed in hell.* I wish there were a special place in hell for those who help with the chorus to the song of genocide**. It’s one thing to deny genocide (like Chomsky), it’s another to encourage it*** Harris keeps repeating all the time Israel (that wonderful bastion of western civilization and democracy confronting the evil savages) doesn’t target civilians. Who is he kidding?**** Good on you to decode what looks on the face of it to be one of his more innocuous interviews. I hope you roast him as hot at the non-existent baby Hamas***** didn’t throw into an oven.******* Not sure I’ll have the stomach to listen to it. My rant below. I apologize for burning your ears. Glad you’re finally getting to Harris. EDIT: adding a couple footnotes ----------------------------------------------------------------- *I’m an atheist too **Here’s John Mearsheimer laying out the case for genocide: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/death-and-destruction-in-gaza. Song is referenced in footnote [18], Snopes checked the reference’s accuracy. Here’s Craig Mokhiber, former director of the New York office of the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp-CpWppw00. Here’s Raz Segal (Israeli national), director the MA program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies program at Stockton University in New Jersey: https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide. Here are 800 scholars saying it may be genocide: https://www.commondreams.org/news/legal-scholars-israel-genocide. ***What a freakin’ refrain of dehumanization coming out of Harris’s mouth, Muslims uniquely bad, must be eliminated, by first strike nuclear bomb if necessary. Israel a model of democracy and western civilization. Although maybe he’s right about it being the model, western civilization created the technology for industrialized murder under the Nazis. (I’m not making any claims regarding northern, eastern, southern, or any direction of the compass civilization as better) ****I suppose if you ignore the assassination of poets (Refaat Alareer, clearly targeted), scientists and academics (Dr. Sufyan Tayeh among others), journalists (Anas Al-Sharif, actually, his family but he got death threats from the IDF as well, Wael al-Dahdouh, his family was targeted too, some 60 or 80 in Gaza and several in Lebanon), doctors and other health workers (should I just list a couple out of the 100s?); I suppose if you ignore destruction of hospitals, schools and universities, civic buildings, and cultural heritage sites, torture and humiliation, the deliberate starvation & denial of water, fuel and health care to 2 million people, turning off electricity so that babies requiring ventilators just die (& rot in their hospital beds for weeks because their caretakers were forced to leave in haste), telling civilians to flee to designated “safe” areas then bombing them there… What bullocks. *****Oh yeah, Hamas threw some people of a building (Harris said). As I recall, their explanation was “personal vengeance”. That’s bad! No one should be thrown off a building without a fair trial******, ********. Then you look at the hostages filmed as Hamas turned them over to the Red Cross, carrying their little dog, some of them with friendly words and some not. And you look at the prisoners Israel freed, many reporting ill treatment, beatings, hands broken and assaults, some afraid to talk to the press because their families are threatened. What’s going on? Allegations by Israeli sources of lurid rape by Hamas, but thin on substance and no actual victims? Statements from IDF-associated investigators along the lines (I paraphrase a bit extremely) “sometime in the next decades the victims of Hamas rape will be willing to come forward)” Huh? Is there a propaganda war going on? Yeah, I can agree Hamas killed and sometimes targeted civilians, they’re evil terrorists & all, I feel bad for their victims, but you know, how does that compare to the erasure of a whole people as a people that’s been going on for 75 years, much of it predating Hamas? Hamas is not the party committing genocide. ******I’m against the death penalty anyway. But look, the human/civil/women’s rights organizations in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories have been protesting Hamas abuses like that since Hamas took power. What? There were rights advocates in Gaza under Hamas rule? Operating without being thrown in jail or murdered for criticizing the government? (Murdering critics is just one charge Harris lays against Muslims) (These human Gazan human rights organizations are, however, barely surviving the Israeli bombing, Raji Sourani, head of pchrgaza.org, is now in exile). Josh Paul, former US state department official, had some interesting things to say about what Israel does to human rights advocates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrb_cb6-rHI *******Notice I carefully didn't recommend Harris be burned as hot as child actually burned by Israeli settlers? That would be murder! https://www.cbsnews.com/news/suspected-jewish-extremists-burn-sleeping-palestinian-toddler-to-death-outrage/. Yeah, Harris would, of course, say the radical settlers are non-representative, which is true, but on the other hand they get the support and protection of the Israeli government. Gotta hand this one to him. You're right Harris! Not burning babies is representative of Hamas! ********No one deserves to be bulldozed alive, either: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2023/12/18/people-buried-alive-during-israeli-raid-on-gaza-hospital. No one deserves to be bulldozed alive in their homes and their bodies thrown on the trash heap with the rubble, just to make a wider space for Jews to pray: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughrabi_Quarter (sorry, Jews, I don't mean you asked for that or are to blame)

TheRealEricWeinstein

It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Chris was extremely boring and unoriginal but not as toxic as I was prepared for. It’s still amazing though to me that Sam is still so aligned with Douglas Murray.

Linda Sears

I’m about halfway through. I understand the wisdom behind realizing that we are always in the present and to be aware about spending too much of our time and attention in the past or future. But what if the present is painful or unpleasant or just plain dull? I wouldn’t fault a person imagining a future good event or reminiscing on a happy past one while they’re cleaning a hotel room, sitting in a prison cell, or doing extremely tedious paperwork at their job. If the happiest people are is before an expected good experience, is that such a bad thing? Since we have the capacity to imagine other worlds than the ones we are currently in, it seems we should at least acknowledge some of the benefits of that ability.