Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "Jordan Peterson \u0026 Sam Harris Try to Find Something They Agree On | EP 408" video.

  1. No, it is not accurate to say all evil is ignorant of its malevolence, or that Stalin was "noble" in intent. Read Stephen Kotkin's book on Stalin. Trump does not equate with the other three, as his self-delusion is more in the pattern of a PT Barnum or Ray Kroc. Also, you left out Napoleon, evil, good, a soldier in the battle for Enlightenment, and still revered with a massive tomb in France. Kissinger did not think himself "Noble" when he made many calculated decisions as Secretary of State, he understood they were not noble, but pragmatic, and was willing to shoulder the consequences.
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  2. Sam is calling for the State to chemically lobotomize the incarcerated with psilocybin. There are more than a dozen start-ups and big pharma selling stock, like Cybin, who picked up Small Pharma's experimental psychedelic drugs SPL026 and SPL028, both of which are being evaluated in early-stage. What could be the "unintended consequences" of the State to use this new drug on people. Sam is calling for a new era of EUGENICS, something not unlike Huxley's Brave New World, with it chemical, SOMA. When Sam speaks of the "Nobility" of self-denying evil, he's talking about himself.
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  3. Isaiah 5:20 KJV Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! The "Enlightened" West and Religious East have monetized the bitter as sweet, from death cults and honor killings to the graffiti of Banksy and men who menstruate, the Ugly is now called beautiful. .
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  4. Not to mention he equated Elon with Alex Jones?
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  5.  @brandonl4762  I don't know much about Alex Jones except for the court case about the mass shooting. My take on Elon is, as he said, he bought a "crime scene". Perhaps he wanted to end Twitter and turn it into something else, he has said as much in other interviews. Sam presents as a secular humanist, but in every interview he sounds like a version of Dr. Tim utopianists of my day in the 1960s and 70s. He's like a Peter Max painting with stars in his eyes.
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  6. Oxford English Dictionary /ˈdɔɡmə/ , /ˈdɑɡmə/ [uncountable, countable] (often disapproving) a belief or set of beliefs held by a group or organization, that others are expected to accept without argument political/religious/party dogma one of the central dogmas of the Church.
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  7. “This, to me, was an absolutely stunning revelation,” he said. “It told me that whatever is going on in our understanding is not computational.” - Sir Roger Penrose
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