I've listened to Sam Harris trying to justify himself before a disappointed podcast audience. It's been a while, the last one I'd listened to was his debate with Peterson. I'm utterly bored by his doomsday thinking and talk of threats to democracy because the red wave is coming.
I was reminded of what I dislike about self avowed "sceptics". He utters weak arguments, like all of us are liable to, but dresses them up as some sort of Enlightened Edict. Just because you've spent a long time thinking about something doesn't mean the end result is good enough.
All of this was already available in weak works of his such as "On Lying". Gosh that was shallow. Why bother writing a book when the best thing you have to say is that it's OK to lie to children about heaven. How enlightening. Meh.
Now I want Republicans to nominate Ron DeSantis not only because it's a better choice, but so that he finally shuts up about his Trump derangement syndrome. FFS.
By the way, for what is worth, he was right on the Peterson debate. Peterson becomes one the postmodernists he dreads so much when he's cornered into having to say something nice about religion. Hence the incomprehensible and relativist stance of his on truth.
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