Making Sense - Sam Harris - December 07, 2020


Making Sense with Sam Harris


Episode Stats

Length

2 minutes

Words per Minute

184.0013

Word Count

378

Sentence Count

56

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary

Sam Harris speaks with Robert Plowman about the threat of nuclear war and why we need to prepare ourselves for the possibility of it. He also speaks with Jonathan Haidt, William J. Perry, and others about how we should prepare for it and why it s a good idea to be prepared for it. Sam Harris is a writer, essayist, and philosopher. He has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Guardian, and is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post. He is the author of several books and has been a frequent guest on the BBC, CNN, NPR, and NPR. His work has been featured in the Guardian, The Atlantic, and Slate, and he is a frequent contributor to the New York Magazine and The New Republic. He is also the host of the podcast Making Sense, which he co-hosts with his wife, Samantha Harris, and her husband, Sam Harris, who is a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, and a writer and professor of English at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an expert on global affairs and international relations at the Council of Western universities, and the founder of the Centre for the Study of International Relations, which is a leading think tank on global security and policy, and has a podcast on nuclear proliferation. The Threat of Nuclear War about nuclear proliferation and the threat to our society, and how we can prepare for nuclear war, among other things, in the latest episode of the Making Sense Podcast. Let s do it. Let s go get ready for it, shall we? Let's do it, let's get ready to prepare for the worst possible day of the end of the world, let s get ready, and get prepared for the coming nuclear war. Let's go get it! Make sense. (Make Sense. "Let's Do it. We have a reason to prepare our life and a little bit of Christmas cheer.") (Sam Harris) Let's Do It. - by Sam Harris . And we have a plan to prepare. And let s prepare ourselves. We have some Christmas cheer. This is a good one. ...and we'll do it and let s let's do something. and we'll talk about it. And we'll get it, right? and get it. let's go do it right, right


Transcript

00:00:00.880 There's so much here that's confusing.
00:00:04.260 So let's first talk about what went wrong and what could have not gone wrong.
00:00:08.620 Your whole podcast is about just having honest conversations about topics.
00:00:12.500 It's offensive to your and my sense of justice.
00:00:15.540 Do you actually care?
00:00:17.360 How has my mind been fundamentally warped?
00:00:19.820 So the topic today is the threat of nuclear war.
00:00:22.860 Slow erosion of the social fabric.
00:00:25.240 Synthetic media revolution.
00:00:26.860 Collapse of our economy.
00:00:28.120 The role of religion in public life.
00:00:30.160 Morality and moral disagreement breakdown of truth.
00:00:32.740 I'm scared that us two in a room will egg each other wrong.
00:00:36.500 You can't have a subtle argument anymore.
00:00:38.500 There's no place for nuance.
00:00:40.160 Everything has to be binary for the right people to agree and disagree.
00:00:45.060 It's not a healthy place for society to be when everyone is afraid to say anything.
00:00:50.700 I've learned to exercise censorship on myself in a way that is deeply disturbing.
00:00:56.480 I don't feel that I should have to.
00:00:59.020 I appreciate who you are really.
00:01:01.080 And you elevated me and those ideas.
00:01:03.780 I'll never forget you for it.
00:01:05.280 Real danger during the Cold War but blundering into nuclear war.
00:01:09.240 And I believe that that is the same situation today and with at least the same likelihood today.
00:01:14.620 You're so full of Christmas cheer.
00:01:17.660 Today I'm speaking with Robert Plowman.
00:01:19.340 Here I reached out to Jonathan Haidt, William J. Perry.
00:01:21.880 I am here with Gabriel Dance, Siddhartha Mukherjee, David Miliband, Graham Wood, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Frye, James Dillard, Tristan Harris, Michael Sandel, you all know a horror.
00:01:29.940 Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast.
00:01:33.520 This is Sam Harris.
00:01:34.540 I have a reason.
00:01:41.160 You are an effort to prepare your life and be able to prepare yourselfstanden'o.
00:01:41.300 Let's do it.
00:01:41.780 Let's do it.
00:01:42.100 Even if somebody has
00:01:43.320 Let's go get it.
00:01:43.800 I'll get it.
00:01:43.940 Let's do it.
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00:01:47.540 espera on stuff.
00:01:48.580 Let's do it.
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00:01:57.240 Let's do it.
00:01:58.300 Let's do it.
00:01:59.160 Let us inquire the little bit.
00:02:01.100 Let's do it it.
00:02:01.960 We have aень.
00:02:02.800 Let's do it.
00:02:03.020 Let's do it.