Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "Intellectual Authority and Its Discontents (Episode #395)" video.

  1. The bit about refusing to care, is false bravado. Of course you should care to some extent, and to say you don't or didn't seems dishonest. I get what you are trying to say to market yourself, but your work really speaks for itself, and it does have warts that are liable for criticism from either side that are valid.
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  2. Also, Sam, you say aroung 2018 you were smeared by the Left. I have no idea about that, or what constitutes a smear, and whose smear actually matters, BUT, I think it was about that time that you got associated with the Far-Right, the folks in that supposed Intellectual Dark Web. The point and consistency of that group and those videos, at least the ones that I saw, were all over the place. Mostly the good ones in my opinion were ones you participated in, and to me it seemed like after the smoke cleared, not that you are perfect, but you were the only one of that group that had an ounce of integrity. It seemed they were in some way associated with a Plutocrat-Trump-Billionaire-Toxic-Elite political group, which always devolved into justifications for the Far-Right government. So, of course you can be justifiably criticized for being associated with that group, and the smear aspect mostly pertains to you not being courageous enough to stand up to them, which you eventually did.
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  3. This is really great. Sam Harris ... even better. Loved the essay on reality, because billionaire media owners are working to scramble the brains of humanity so very small deranges elites can take over the world pretty much. The vast majority of humanity is being screwed, and milked of all human autonomy for the meaningless folly of genius-idiots like Elon Musk. We have no way to build a system that allows people to express their grievances or criticism and suggestions. This is what should have been coming along with all the tech we have allowed to develop, but we just get war on near infinite recursive levels.
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