The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - January 01, 2024


Sam Harris Goes After Elon Musk (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_635)


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Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

139.11725

Word count

581

Sentence count

26

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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Summary

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A clip from Jordan Peterson's recent podcast with Sam Harris, in which Harris is seen talking down to Elon Musk. Imagine someone being so immersed in his narcissistic elitism that he feels perfectly emboldened to talk down to someone else.

Transcript

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00:00:00.620 Hi everybody, this is Gad Saad. Happy New Year to everyone. May your year be filled with nothing but health, happiness, and love.
00:00:11.320 I was hoping to not start off the new year with a clip that is critical in nature, but as often happens, to criticize someone allows us to garner some important lesson.
00:00:26.140 Otherwise, of course, the criticism is frivolous. In this case, I returned to someone that I was hoping to never have to criticize again, Sam Harris, and I only was made aware of this clip while seeing it on Jennifer Say's Twitter handle.
00:00:44.980 So, tip of the hat to Jennifer Say. But I think the clip is taken from Jordan Peterson's recent podcast with Sam Harris.
00:00:58.620 And in the clip, which I'll play so that you can believe it with your own eyes and ears, Sam Harris is talking down to Elon Musk.
00:01:10.220 You know, it's really, Elon is really damaging his reputation and, you know, he's, you know, he's talking to people, you know, the, as Jennifer Say said, you know, to the, to the great unwashed, to the, to the, to the rubes, to the plebs. 0.90
00:01:27.960 And this is going to damage his reputation in circles that count, you know, the circle of Sam and his friends.
00:01:36.820 Imagine someone being so drowning in his narcissistic elitism that he feels perfectly emboldened to talk down to Elon Musk.
00:01:53.280 Watch and I shall return.
00:01:54.960 I mean, look at what Twitter has done to Elon's life.
00:02:00.500 It's just, you know, Elon used to be a friend, you know, he's somebody I knew reasonably well.
00:02:08.920 You know, his engagement with Twitter has been catastrophic for him as a person from my point of view.
00:02:16.020 I mean, it's just, it's clearly a compulsion.
00:02:18.480 I mean, he was so addicted to it that he felt he needed to buy the platform.
00:02:22.040 Um, but it is a, you know, his use of it has been so irresponsible and, uh, produced such, I mean, forget about the harm he's produced in other people's lives.
00:02:34.540 Uh, and, and, and, and nothing I'm saying now, it relates to changes he's made to the platform.
00:02:41.020 I mean, that's, that's a separate thing that we can talk about.
00:02:43.420 You know, I'm, I'm, I've always been agnostic as to whether or not he could actually improve Twitter as a, as a platform.
00:02:48.060 And he may yet wind up doing that, but I'm just talking about the way he has personally used it as a user of the platform and the way he's interacted with people and boosted, signal boosted massively, um, the profiles of anonymous QAnon lunatic trolls, right?
00:03:05.460 I mean, he's, he's been completely cavalier in who he interacts with all the while knowing that anyone he boosts suddenly gets, you know, a million followers and has a platform that they otherwise couldn't imagine having.
00:03:18.900 Um, so I look at him and I think, all right, if, if someone of his talent who has so many other good things to do with his 24 hours in any given day, uh, is, is this derailed by this platform?
00:03:36.360 You know, is this, is, is using it this compulsively to the obvious degradation of his reputation in most circles that count?
00:03:48.900 Did you enjoy that?
00:03:50.640 Imagine drowning in a gigantic Olympic sized swimming pool of narcissistic elitism that you think that, uh, you are emboldened to talk down to Elon Musk.
00:04:08.580 Take care, everybody.
00:04:10.020 Happy New Year.