408. Jordan Peterson & Sam Harris Try to Find Something They Agree On
- Podcast episode
- Dec 25, 2023
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with author, philosopher, and app developer Sam Harris. They discuss the benefits of routine meditation, deleting X (twitter), the issue of defining...
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Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Dec 26, 2023
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"I'm afraid we're setting up virtual perceptual environments and communication environments that aren't well matched to the underlying reality, which means they are delusional. And the delusional direction of Twitter is in the direction of enabling psychopathic behavior." - Jordan Peterson, about 25 minutes in
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Dec 26, 2023
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"There is a heirarchy of uniting structure [in the unified narrative] and what the post-modernists do is make that arbitrarily halt a certain level. It's like you're allowed a uniting narrative or structure up to a certain level, but beyond that, you're not allowed at all." - Jordan Peterson
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Dec 26, 2023
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"So much of what we consider evil, and so much of what we would produce as needless human misery is the result of otherwise, normal people psycologically, behaving terribly becaue they believe fairly crazy and unsupportable things about what reality is and how they should live within it." - Sam Harris
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Dec 26, 2023
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"[Twitter] encourages many things that I think are ultimately producing some consequential delusions for us, individually that scale. It provides an illusion of conversation... we seem to be talking but we're really talking in front of our audiences. So much of our conversation is performative and that starts to degrade the good faith characteristics of a real conversation and people end up just scoring points on each other.
It selects for a type of dishonesty. There's an ethic... of activists on the left and right... doesn't feel much of a need to get their opponent's position correct before savaging it. They don't mind distorting it. They will use that as a way of just smearing the person... you want to hold someone accountable for the wrost possible version of what they might have said, however implausible it really is as long as that can be made to stick. They almost always never go back and clean up their mess." - Sam Harris