The End Of Sanity

[@dantherpghero2885]

A big part of the issue is that bad information and misinformation is being monetized.

[@russellharrell2747]

Anything can be commodified and monetized. That’s definitely part of the problem that leads to this kind of abuse of power.

[@AnotherChannel-ns1do]

It always has been monetized. It's just in a digital form this time around.

[@janice369]

And a bigger part is stupid people don't have enough sense to want to know what the facts are. And when you show them, they reject them. You can't fix stupid.. Only the weak become cultists. And after 9yrs, IDGAF about them.

[@oldestgamer]

IKR?, I mean, look at all the youtube ads that get pushed, "do this to keep from getting cavities, lose weight, never wear glasses, etc., etc.," Only an idiot would fall for the crap that is constantly pushed at us!

[@camille9803]

Narcissistic personality is an epidemic in America.

[@Dr_Brown_Bro]

We love you, DB. You offer much needed solace in this crazy, fucked up time.

[@chrisschultz8598]

There are people who want certainty and want it immediately. Persuasive argument is uncertain and takes time. Coercion is certain and provides immediate results. That attitude seems to be ingrained in many individuals.

[@steveborkowski4330]

Amen to that.

[@BIMMERBOYTIM1981]

I dont want to be around these crazy ppl at all

[@bennycarter5249]

You have to! Talk to them! Figure out why they are crazy! Or else you will go crazy yourself!

[@practicaliching2311]

​@bennycarter5249 Exactly,.....How to Understand the Well-Being Gap between Liberals and Conservatives by Musa al-Gharbi Chan, E. Y. (2019).

[@Ellie-j6g7q]

Ignore the others... you don't have to talk to anyone! Look after your own mental health and, if talking with them is detrimental to you, then don't. If you can reach out to someone, all well and good, but don't feel remotely responsible for someone else's ignorance and hate. You can't polish a turd... Take care. 💖

[@FireFlyMaxx]

This line of conversation is exactly what the video is about. 4 truths, none wrong for feeling the way they do. My truth for you is, don't give up. My reason is because, my younger brother (35) is a trump supporter but non voter. He has a 2 years old daughter. I won't give up taking to him, because I know when push comes to shove, he'll make the right choice for her when the time really comes to Shit or get off the pot.

[@janice369]

​@@bennycarter5249 What an assinine comment!! NO we don't have to figure out stupid brainwashed cultists!!! They CHOOSE to be that way!!! After 9yrs, I'm done with them. And btw---- stupidity isn't catching!!!! Only the weak become cult members.

[@seekthetruthcheckthefacts4532]

When you dumb down people they are very easy to manipulate.

[@ncwordman]

Our society has (largely) gone so far down this road of anti-intellectualism, anti-spirituality, anti-compassion, mercy, forgiveness, and empathy...I wonder if it has reached the point of no return. How do you appeal to "the better angels of our nature," when so many have been taught to appeal to the worst? I've been working on that problem for my entire adult life.

[@cammieg4381]

We kind of screwed ourselves up by taking the MEism just a wee bit too far. We always feel better about ourselves when we help each other, instead of expecting them to make us feel better!

[@Naomi-kf1un]

that's lovely. now.....play that over loud speakers in DC for 24hrs non-stop. maybe that'll help us to cope in these dark ages😳

[@UberLummox]

THAT would be hysterical! Thanks for that image. 😁 (And the great idea)

[@NevFinan-uo2mu]

We're going to need a whole lot of meditation over the next 4 years.

[@janice369]

You go with meditation. I'm going with gin...

[@paulcameli6666]

It’s so good that we have Sam Harris. And watching him this way is great for staying focused on what he’s saying, without distraction.

[@thegreaterbilby2171]

Serenity now!

[@yasuke9317]

Hootchie Momma!

[@goodtohaveinajam8148]

Excellent. Calm, and logical.

[@Mike_Genisys]

In a world of ever changing truths, the living lie prevails.

[@lordchaa1598]

The medical community has issued 72 hour psych evaluations for over a million people since November 6th. There is now a term for it. They refer to it as “Election induced psychosis.” This is a very serious and troubling thing.

[@ncwordman]

Wow. I could see it happening, but didn't realize it was official. I felt all of it at first, for about 24 hours. Then I realized the worry, anxiety, and anger wasn't doing me any good. When I can't change something, and there's nothing I can do, it's out of my hands. I release the worry. It took a lot for me to learn to do that. I had several life-and-death surgeries within 7 years. But I learned it.

[@lordchaa1598]

@ , I’m not proud, but I was one of them. It made me physically ill. Now I have a good treatment team and am only going to focus my energy into my farm and things that I can actually change. The hopelessness I felt was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before..

[@knightofblood8855]

I went through this Nov 5. Keep Jesus close, brother.

[@Repdem]

Leading psychiatrists are describing the "trump Contagion". Basically, he's a super spreader of mental illness.

[@ryanbrown7975]

I think 1 of the worlds biggest problems is most people will easily take a look at others and find faults but they won't take the same look at themselves because it's too hard to admit that you might be wrong even knowing that nobody is perfect so everybody should be willing to look inward and find our own flaws not just those in others

[@edmonddantes935]

Know thyself

[@practicaliching2311]

​@@edmonddantes935 Exactly, ....... How to Understand the Well-Being Gap between Liberals and Conservatives by Musa al-Gharbi Chan, E. Y. (2019).

[@cutl00senc]

The only thing worse than misinformation is disinformation….

[@swals05able]

I strongly dislike this whole algorithm thing, although it did provide me DB, I find myself more alone than I’ve possibly ever felt. I am so rabidly Democrat, hate the lies I hear but sometimes start worrying that maybe I’m the crazy one. Then I think, nah, it’s definitely them.

[@practicaliching2311]

Exactly,........How to Understand the Well-Being Gap between Liberals and Conservatives by Musa al-Gharbi Chan, E. Y. (2019).

[@knightofblood8855]

I went through this Nov 5. Keep Jesus close, brother.

[@iyeetsecurity922]

So long America! *You gave it a try, and now you've failed beyond fixing.*

[@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648]

As long as there is a will to do what is right, there needn't be a complete failure. But there can be a very painful lesson about "private truths." This does echo the attitudes of the 19th century US civil war. I won't say it was ALL about slavery, but slavery was a very prominent manifestation and anchor of a selfish spirit in the South, and that spirit warped what was supposed to be Christian teachings.

[@iyeetsecurity922]

@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648 There's no invisible sky wizard to grant your wishes.

[@ncwordman]

@@iyeetsecurity922 Can't you just talk to them, instead of belittling them with cliches about sky wizards? Also, Americans didn't give up when the British torched the White House in 1814, or when Lincoln couldn't find a general to lead his forces...as they were facing one defeat after another. But you give up now? What good does that do you? You aren't in charge of the country, and are unable to disband it. Maybe try communicating.

[@mostrecenthero]

Positive communication and understanding will always be an absolute.

[@ncwordman]

@@MangoMenace-b8v Why do you say that? Would you like to go back to barbarism? Because, otherwise, the only way forward is positive communication and understanding.

[@justinwolfe7381]

Listening to Sam always makes me feel more centered and ok and like we are going to progress in society... then I interact with the world again.

[@michaelbeaver4650]

If peace and prosperity aren't enough for this world, then nothing will be enough! Regardless of our personal interests, we can all work toward this common goal.

[@dorisbelleisle646]

💙

[@terryshaw9471]

Need law and order and sanity. And we need peace and stop the wars and fighting

[@PeterHamiltonz]

Discussing the paradox of tolerance, within this framework would be interesting.

[@captainspaullding]

I'm afraid to admit on this platform that I really like Sam Harris - ... because (when) he's right about a topic, you want his voice on your side.

[@martin2289]

I feel you on that score. He's more than a broken clock.

[@captainspaullding]

@martin2289 his intelligence works against him sometimes. When he's wrong, he's unable to - unwilling to - consider that alternative.

[@auntiquek2845]

🎶Don’t Be Cruel …🎶 ~E.A.Presley. It isn’t a good thing for anyone.

[@FLASH-MATT]

Sanity is so underrated. 👀

[@ThePmloc]

Welcome to the 🇺🇸 Cakastocracy of America 🇺🇸

[@CloudyBogdan]

Feels like humanity will never be at peace.😂

[@busterwolf4042]

I honestly have been having some anxiety over the uncertainty that seems to exist today. I'm trying outlets but that's only going to work until there's nightmare shit going down. The nightmare feels close.

[@JustinKuleck-n1h]

Sam Harris is an absolute gem to Western Civilization

[@Galatian1]

Sam is a hypocrite who does nothing but play both sides against one another, He doesn't even talk about the hypocrisy of religion anymore........which made him great to begin with.

[@FASBLAQUE]

​@Galatian1 Uh huh... He used to talk and say the exact opposite of what he's saying now. I don't trust him. A leopard doesn't change its spots. It knows how to use the landscape for camouflage to make it appear that it has though.

[@ncwordman]

@@Galatian1 Calling a someone a hypocrite is the simplest way to dismiss what they have to say, without addressing what they have to say. Isaac Newton was into astrology and alchemy, but he wasn't wrong about motion, optics, gravitation, and calculus.

[@Galatian1]

@@ncwordman Show me where I said everything Sam Harris ever said is wrong. I'll wait.... You obviously haven't been following Sam very closely.

[@DSAK55]

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[@OldWorldAscension]

Hyena: "Why you make the pain if we are your children?" Dr. Moreau: "...you are my children but law is necessary." Hyena: "Then, if there is no more pain, is there no more law? Hmmm?" Dr. Moreau: "There is always law." (Tries shocking hyena) (Hyena shows removed shock device) Hyena: "Pain. No more" (laughing) Hyena: "To walk on all fours. That is the law." "To slurp our drink. That is the law." "We are not men." "To feast on flesh and fish anytime. That is the law." "Now, I AM THE LAW!"

[@Stellathomas90]

Good but the music is a little too loud.

[@whoaaanelly65]

I was scrolling just to see if it was just me. I liked the concept, but the music made it, for me - a guy who has severe tinnitus - hard to differentiate from what he was communicating.

[@UberLummox]

It's perfect on my lapt op.

[@Galatian1]

I idolized Sam Harris until he started his both sides political rhetoric. He should stick to calling out the hypocrisy/absurdity of religion and stop pandering to both sides of the aisle. For someone who claims to not be religious, it's strange how Sam's views have shifted dramatically to the right since the attacks on Israel.......which I condemn. Yes, I know Sam is of Jewish heritage, but his hypocrisy cannot be denied. Sadly, Sam has become a clown like Richard Dawkins......whom I also once respected. Sam Harris is complicit in our failed political system, though his overinflated ego would never allow him to say that.

[@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648]

Well, the idolization was wrong from the start. Any mortal can change perspective, and that not always according to reason. I obviously do not condemn religion qua religion. The bible even spells out what good religion is, and it's benevolent and altruistic, and it's based on a real spirit. But I condemn a religion that centers itself on the wrong spirit. Maybe Sam Harris, by refusing to acknowledge the right spirit, fell in with the wrong spirit.

[@ncwordman]

You didn't address what he said there: just tried to dismiss him as a person...ad hominems, in other words. Can't you just focus on what he said? Isaac Newton was an astrologer and alchemist. Doesn't change his work on motion, optics, gravitation, and the calculus.

[@ncwordman]

@@MangoMenace-b8v Full of ad hominems, huh? Got one for everyone? Maybe just try communicating.

[@Galatian1]

@@ncwordman Are you stalking all of my comments?

[@TheDZHEX]

"how to make strangers cooperate" ask Valve about design of TF2 xD

[@Golems_victory]

Lol

[@TheDZHEX]

@Golems_victory seriously, though - this was a real problem with the game that they had to solve. Judging by the fact that TF2 might outlast both overwatch games, they are probably on to something.

[@Golems_victory]

@@TheDZHEX fair point XD

[@jasonwiedeman4825]

I asked on another page earlier, how do we build our own community to insulate us from this madness. How to set up barter systems, community gardens, animal husbandry, and cash crops like cannabis (where legal) how do we defend ourselves, because no one is coming to help us. This progessive left audience has been attacking me all day. Do we work together or do we let them win? Because im a nihilist. I will gladly disappear into the mountains and watch it all burn, so why would everyone left of center right attack each other over every single thing instead of building coalitions? Im confused.....

[@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648]

I'm not a nihilist, in fact not even an atheist, but I also note painfully that only good faith can drive out bad faith. I'd say to everybody: stop worrying about the mediums. Ponder on the ends. We had a not-terrible system with progressive liberalism that was close to that of the center of other advanced nations. But ginned up hatred with bad faith embedded in it ruined our country.

[@brentbonham4398]

Outstanding. Any doctrine that separates us is inherently bad. It feels so much better to celebrate our similarities than to criticize our differences! But the 1% are devout students of Hannibal - and the worst part is how easy we make it for them.

[@michaelnoelte15]

Too much TV & social media not enough individuals seeking knowledge through other means. Not the Internet that is almost always manipulated.

[@jonstirling9169]

Wow

[@Ellie-j6g7q]

It's weird... I've never really had much sanity but I've never felt the impulse to hate people for not being like me or even turning remotely fascist. Insanity has many forms so stay mad but good! 😇🥳

[@derrickscott9469]

Dogma and violence will win out because it's easier.

[@tywebb355]

How people can get sucked into campaign of lies and hate even though it has to override their most basic sense of what's right and wrong is beyond me .....

[@janice369]

What's even sicker, is this is the 2nd final round. As if 2016 never happened!! America has produced some of the weakest, easily brainwashed imbeciles on the face of this earth. Only the weak become cultists.

[@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648]

The madness that resulted from this extreme specialized media concentration will punish its own perpetrators. Sometimes it really is a case of "fart" around and find out. Big Brother was supposed to put televisions in houses by force, something that could be more easily resisted. He wasn't supposed to sell you smartphones, and then lies on smartphones, by guile. We didn't have the right warning memes in our culture, arguably. Eventually there were (e.g. Bo Burnham's "Welcome to the Internet") but even those were more about mindlessness than about refocusing a whole popular mind set. It'll depend on exactly how the pieces fall into place as to whether, and if so, how, we'll emerge. I'm thinking now about C. S. Lewis' "The Abolition Of Man" in which Conditioners would fall under brute nature in their Conditioning of mankind and thus wipe out the ethics that turn out to be quite common among many world philosophies and faiths, not just Christianity. It turns out the Conditioning wasn't difficult once we had the smartphone and yes! it's gone brutal. The GQP did not show us Shakespeare; it didn't even show us opera; it showed us WWE and a pack of plausible lies (plausible if never fact checked, that is, and narrowcasting made that possible). Oh, to have actually foretold this with more specifics! One could have saved a world from madness. And I don't agree with all the nuances of Lewis. But Lewis pegged this one.

[@BUDDYCB4]

I was a Soldier for 20 years. I choose conversation Over Violence.

[@knightofblood8855]

DB I hope you believe in Jesus. Jesus and Family has got me through

[@glaucusatlanticus6097]

paradox of tolerance

[@ncwordman]

Why is tolerance a paradox?

[@glaucusatlanticus6097]

@@ncwordman It's not so much that tolerance is a paradox, but the extension of it to those who are intolerant is. in this situation which risks allowing intolerance to dominate, thus, undermining the idea of tolerance.

[@dougcouch4032]

This could only have been better if you would have included a Toon of Annaka with him.

[@brianstorm5488]

No argument except there’s one big omission. Division is easily and purposefully fostered by the billionaire / mega corporation ruling class.

[@OJTPhD]

Digital Media out of control? By Dark Brandon! With 122,000 devoted subscribers and RISING!

[@dorisbelleisle646]

Wonderful. So much possibility

[@edmonddantes935]

Capitalism and christ are at odds. One says 'love thy brother' The other 'screw thy brother'

[@practicaliching2311]

Making a better service or product so you can take market share and make more money is screwing people? Um....No. There are always greedy people. They has nothing to do with free market capitalism.

[@ncwordman]

@@practicaliching2311 It isn't just about "making a better service or product." Why would you even say that? What they pointed out is true. Now, you could argue whether or not we can do anything about it, or what would it take to do something, instead of just rejecting how what they said is obviously true.

[@markolson2466]

My principle belief in which I am inflappable is that it is always an error to proceed through life intentionally harming other people! It was not concluded in isolation. This talk is B.S..

[@Jupiter2009-e9s]

Nice try.. But it's impossible to fix Americans.

[@johnpickett3137]

COVID started two weeks before I started yoga teacher training, and I couldn't attend. For work, I am a forester for a large logging company. Loggers are absolutely fine with Yogis. This isn't it. Don't be a dick to loggers.

[@georgedennison3338]

I'm very curious why you think that. Never heard this guy, never heard of him. I've lived in Oregon most of my 71 years; a good portion of it in small town Oregon. Don't know him, but I do know & have known a lot of loggers, though. GeoD

[@JaxWylds]

Sam Harris!! ❣

[@MrMysterious420]

Sam needs to practice what he preaches and release his dogma around Muslims

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

Agreed

[@thaphreak]

Welcome to the ignorance age. AKA Idiocracy rising

[@JonySmith-bb4gx]

U mean Sam Harris

[@bubbabare6811]

What a hoot!

[@egx161]

Sam Harris needs to get out more often.

[@ncwordman]

Sounds like he's exactly right, whether or not he needs to get out more.

[@Anomalous3-od9gq]

Learn How to love not What to love. Learn how to think not what to think. Have a happy please and thank you,😎

[@KirkRowley]

It’s interesting how angry ppl get at different opinions purely because they are held by someone other than their role model or tribal leader. Investigating he other point of view isn’t even an option. Eg discussing socialism in the US.

[@MJ-rl7pj]

AI Sam Harris is just as annoying as the real one. I dont listen to people who's mommy had to donate millions to get him a phd.