The Social Media Problem | Sam Harris

[@IOJFJM]

This is the most genuine friendship I know: a lifetime debating, and still respecting each other. This is how false dichotomies are dismantled. Thank you!

[@junevandermark952]

Those that debate subjects on social media do not want to be perceived as being aggressive ... as that shines a negative "light" on their characters. But don't let them fool you. Personally they think that those that don't agree with them are dim-witted. “People don't want to hear your opinion. They want their opinion to come out of your mouth.” Author unknown

[@joeday4293]

​@@junevandermark952 Uh... even when they disagree? Which is often, and deeply? How exactly does that work?

[@vaneast411]

great point - we need to be comfortable with others who see things differently, and be capable of speaking of our perspectives with one another. many blessings

[@vaneast411]

@@junevandermark952that dynamic you speak of is such a difficult hurdle to overcome with the arrogant clothed in false humility

[@junevandermark952]

@@vaneast411 I agree that it is difficult for any of us to look in the mirror and want to see flaws in our own characters. But if we don't ... we will all continue to point outward only at flaws (real or imagined) in other people.

[@gypsyfiresign1064]

This is so true! When I unplugged from FB and took a big step back I was so much happier & had so much more time to put toward self improvement. Thank you Dr. Peterson, once again for having a great guest & thought provoking discussion.

[@estelaguidote3658]

Social media is a total waste of time. Totally agree with both Jordan and Sam. There are better things to do than preoccupy yourself on FB, Tik Tok, Instagram and unnecessary apps.

[@garyandtricia1]

You know that YT is social media, right?

[@N_Loco_Parenthesis]

Porn instead?

[@nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489]

God i hate such hyperbole ridden garbage viewpoints. Like dummy, your comment READS LIKE A FACEBOOK HEADLINE. obviously it isn't a total waste of time, it trained you like a monkey to speak like they want you to.

[@nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489]

Besides, you can't agree with them AND say what you said here. That's not what they said!?!?! God damn!

[@estelaguidote3658]

@@garyandtricia1 I did not mention You Tube, did I? I only choose what is educational, entertaining and motivating subjects. Doesn’t mean I believe everything they say and apply it in my life. The choices you make is your own and I am entitled to my own opinion when I watch videos.

[@MihaVatovec]

Im old school i still believe that everything belongs to the entertainment field. I still have the problem cracking jokes when everyone is serious. I didn't grow up with the phone

[@russianbot4418]

I'm Gen X and 50 and now starting to grow into the DGAF old man persona that just says what I think without concern about who gets upset. Today I was doing re tar d jokes to Gen Zers. Never seen kids trying not to laugh, and then just give up and roll with it, so hard in years. 😅

[@mikenixon2401]

Very good interview. It is interesting that people of our age are bucking anti-social media. I know I'd rather have a real life conversation with someone over coffee. Civil conversation is an ability worth saving. Yet, here I am responding to your intelligent posting.

[@Razear]

We have a negativity bias that draws us to the type of salacious drama that social media amplifies. It also encourages people to say things that they would otherwise never say in person. The anonymity combined with the lack of immediate consequences is a recipe for bringing out the worst of humanity.

[@miquelr2353]

I dont think anomynous comments are the problem... yes they are vicious trolls but in no way is it even close to real problems.. like corruption, war, disease, delusional people supporting hamas..

[@robintropper660]

It's amazing, and inspiring, how you 2 continue to get along, despite what appears to be truly vitriolic conflict in the past. You are both providing real role models of how people who disagree can respectfully interact and perhaps even become friends.

[@junevandermark952]

Thanks for honoring free speech. We all thrive on conflict and dishonesty ... and that is why social media thrives on conflict and dishonesty.

[@frankfilice8321]

Try being the smartest guy in the room with these two…😂😮😅😢!

[@rockzalt]

The hallucination machine can be found in plain print. Smearing a person can be confused with telling the truth but that takes looking in your own mirror.

[@seoulmansupra]

It wasn't intended to be such, but here we are.

[@hvalenti]

"Hallucination machine" Nice to agree w Sam again, if only here.

[@jaydabelliou3186]

It’s so healthy for the brain to save the index-neurons for important and worth reminding things. smartphone and social media must be mastered

[@Dorin_Azril]

I've found myself on X not long ago just casually browsing something and I was horrified by what I was seeing. I'm not sure if this is common but every other post I saw as I was scrolling was some terrible clip of people fighting or someone getting killed or otherwise just something vile and shocking. Such things have always been on the internet but to see it so casually presented was appalling. I can't imagine how many kids are just scrolling though these clips gripped by morbid curiosity and becoming desensitized to atrocity and violence like it's a big joke.

[@michaelmasserang8922]

Its simple. Fear Based selling tactics. That is why people get ripped off in my industry. Drama is a powerful weapon weaponized against the weak minded.

[@keithjohnsonYT]

Airports and rotary subs…I’m with you.

[@LA-wv7gf]

Dr. Peterson, I am curious if you have ever Sat down with Jaron Lanier? It would be a VERY interesting conversation.

[@MariaOrtiz-s6p]

I finally got it 😮

[@harveybrown2382]

I have never had a FB (META), Twitter (X), Instagram, Tick Toc or any other social media account in my life and I never will. I want real, meaningful in-person human interaction, not artificial, digital interactions. Maybe I am just old-fashioned?

[@aliyaaliya3866]

if happening in real life it started for me in kindergarden

[@ejenkins4711]

Indeed the catholic warning when this began seems accurate, I still class my self B4 internet. Is the internet a time machine Id like to ask 🙏🍀🤔

[@alwaysfighting8676]

I got nothing except this youtube account

[@darthmorgoththesecond9990]

But we can use that against the main stream Social media back at it; a proper Swing back

[@katherinechidiac1057]

The airport thing 🥹 I feel it in my bone marrow. But I will try to be less grumpy after going through the dignity stripping charade next time 🙏

[@AquariusGate]

Culture thrives on secrecy and duplicity, human expression is conditioned by this context. 1:05 a meaningful sense of life guides the expression anyone makes. Sam Harris just seems a flaky intellectual.

[@duarteleonardo8352]

Sam Harris is probably one of the few, if not the only leftist political debater i can still respect, even if i disagree with most of what he says, because he always presents his arguments very calmly and never goes on those blind raging rants like most leftists do.

[@Dominic-gd1gc]

I'm guessing you haven't seen his triggernometry interview. The dude has a serious case of TDS. He can be calm just not when it comes to Trump. It was quite hilarious.

[@duarteleonardo8352]

@Dominic-gd1gc hmmm don't think I've seen that one, no. But did he actually just go on a blind rant, speaking over the hosts and whatnot, or just kept defending his arguments no matter how indefensible they might have been? Because I totally agree he has TDS and some of his arguments just fall flat very easily, but I meant he at least behaves himself most of the time.

[@Dominic-gd1gc]

@@duarteleonardo8352 you're right he still had that proper decorum. he's still better than most liberals on their good days. He did have quite the unhinged takes though.

[@duarteleonardo8352]

@Dominic-gd1gc yep, I'm going through it right now actually and still think the same, well-behaved, but really poor arguments, some of them.

[@duarteleonardo8352]

@Dominic-gd1gc just the whole thing that he thinks companies should be allowed to decide who they allow on their platforms. Wasn't the issue that the government was telling those companies which people were allowed and not the companies own decision?

[@JaradLB]

I reeeaaally don’t like harris. The great awakening has revealed little weasels like him completely.

[@britanikothegreat8513]

Proverb 3:5-6. Proverb 4:7. Proverb 8:8. Isaiah 54:13-17. 1Corinto 15:34. Malachi 1:11. Genesis 12:1-3!!!:

[@britanikothegreat8513]

Jordan P. Pwede mo gamitin ang Banal na katanungan para marami kang maturuan. Job 13:1-9?!. Psalms 44:21. Hebreo 4:12.

[@NoobRideseMTB]

What I find most interesting about the likes of Sam - mostly that he’s anti-intellectual. Would never have guessed it, seeing as he’s primarily an intellectual… We won’t be rid of social media. So we have to view it as a part of our existence - Sam wants us to be rid of part of ourselves, to act as if that part of us isn’t real (if we close our eyes, stamp feet, and delete content that rubs us the wrong way). For good, or ill, that part of human existence is now very real. Die hard liberals, the fundamentalist free market types, I think will soon find out that you can’t have your cake and eat it - we either start to reign in the excess of big enterprise (big food, pharma, finance, ‘social media’ algorithms) or we have to become very illiberal in shutting down the freedoms of individuals… Oddly, the elephant that I see; is that we need a little Marxist wrapped in trad conservative to fix what is happening, structural policy that curbs excess of market forces plaguing humanity. But both types of mentality (Marx/Trad Conservatives) are a sure fire way to become ostracised from polite society. So then we’re left with smart people like Sam to tell us all we should not be us. We’re not allowed to be human - much better to box us off and pretend only right minded folk get to talk policy.

[@britanikothegreat8513]

Genesis 3:9-13?!. Hebreo 5:13. Jeremiah 8:1-9?!. Isaias 56:11. Proverb 28:9. Kung maibabalik ko lang. Psalms 144:9. Sayang. Hebreo 4:12. Luke 19:9-12. Malakias 1:11.

[@Richard_Paradise]

Sam is so funny. I am not sure he is aware of it though.

[@Scratcherzzz]

Ignorance is bliss Sam. Keep being ignorant

[@ComommonlyCensored]

Sam's TDS is terminal. He needs to seek help from MAID to cure it.

[@investornabil8825]

True. All these covert narcissists have it. Joe Rogan too.

[@xanderlewis]

The irony of TDS is that it exists only in the mind of Trump supporters. And I’m not even American, so I don’t have much of a view either way.

[@russianbot4418]

@@xanderlewis The irony is that you all keep getting caught lying about everything that is now extremely well-documented when there is nothing to gain for it. What do you al think you are gaining for your efforts?

[@xanderlewis]

@@russianbot4418Word salad alert.

[@russianbot4418]

@@xanderlewis

[@Havre_Chithra]

Sam Harris really needs to meditate and relax that forehead of his, damn bro.

[@Havre_Chithra]

Dude has forehead muscles 😅😅

[@Aynerkjk]

Isnt the guy on the right is cem yılmaz?

[@deathtakes]

Sams discredited himself enough in the political arena to render any opinion he has on the matter irrelevant to me.

[@BMTroubleU]

Noone cares what you think

[@Robert-fx3ng]

Too many people agree with him not to listen. At least he doesn’t use the name Trump in every sentence while twitching and throwing out insults.

[@yoanageorgieva3068]

LOL, you are saying this under a Jordan Peterson video

[@Robert-fx3ng]

@ if you have a different understanding please educate us. Try not to use insults, bullying, and mocking a form of debate.

[@Sandra_D.9]

❤

[@Catherine-vq3zp]

Isn't it interesting that these two so called relatively intelligent people by societal mores standards, actually needed the attention of those on twitter to validate their egos/fame, thus, their whole locus of evaluation attributed to how abhorrent theirs and other 'comments' are received on twitter. And then the audacity to blame twitter for these comments. Recalling here Peterson's, for example, comments that Piers Morgan challenged him about, and yet again he blamed twitter for them. And this person advocates free will and personal agency, thus taking responsibility for our actions as fundamental to growth and development as a human being. Goodness me... I wonder if they are actually capable of having a real conversation, one on one, with another person and enabling the Inbetweeness that emerges thereof, the phenomenological experience to arise from true, authentic and empathic dialogue, and an 'I thou' rather than I it' relationship. Or are they only capable of interacting on a platform like a stage, and/or with a non sentient, inanimate object and then blame that entity for their own inhumanity and verbal indiscretions.

[@sven8633]

Went does Sam still have a platform. He is like destiny, just another mentally broken person attempting to sound intelligent for money.

[@alexforget]

The cognitive dissonance is too high on Twitter for Sam. He would have to content with the fact that his perception of Trump is not connected to reality. But I agree that it's mentaly draining to use.

[@davidgardner4779]

It's hard listening to Sam after his behavior of the last 4.5 years. Glad you could do it.

[@wcsavage]

Stop talking to Sam he’s evil

[@kamarikucheza]

J is 2

[@mk45gunnr25]

No. Dr Peterson is a good man, which I highly doubt you are ​@kamarikucheza

[@hellobaby133]

What a ridiculous comment to make.

[@flaviaboa9822]

​​@@kamarikuchezaAccordingly to you, Troll?

[@whousa642]

I agree; he is a monster

[@AttilaTheBun]

Ham Sarris should stick to making kids movies about museums.

[@AloneIranKing]

Sam is a relativist

[@gypsyfiresign1064]

First!

[@ComommonlyCensored]

I cant believe I used to like Sam. Now I loathe his very existence.

[@AshAndCream]

Same.

[@miquelr2353]

Very christian of you good job

[@AshAndCream]

@@miquelr2353 sshhhhh

[@user-vh8yn9cc9h]

Severe Trump Derangement Syndrome

[@Robert-fx3ng]

He helps us to better understand the effects of TDS upon people.

[@S.D.323]

It's almost like he's a con man and narcissist

[@user-vh8yn9cc9h]

@S.D.323 Let's compare: Biden/Kamala are pressuring social media platforms to censor your right to freedom of speech meanwhile Trump supports your right to freedom of speech. Trump has done hundreds of interviews putting himself in a position to be criticized on any issue meanwhile Kamala can barely answer any question from CNN, sounds like maybe you've been brainwashed. RFK endorsed Trump meanwhile Neocons and warmongers like the Cheney crime family endorsed Kamala, the corrupt establishment is behind kamala

[@user-vh8yn9cc9h]

​@@S.D.323 Drop your Trump Derangement Syndrome