#165 — Journey into Wokeness

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Samharris, Currentevents, Politics, Ethics, Religion, Neuroscience, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 29.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Sam Harris speaks with Caitlin Flanagan about her work as a writer. They discuss controversies on social media, the contradictions within feminism, media bias, #MeToo, the new norms of sexuality, the wokeness of academia, affirmative action, college admissions, HR departments, sexual harassment, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're
0:12.1	hearing this, you are not currently on our subscriber feed and will only be hearing
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0:46.8	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris.
0:49.8	Okay, well, a major housekeeping seems to be in order, but it is big enough that I think I will do it
0:58.8	separately. So this housekeeping will be brief. I just want to say a few things about the app. We are
1:06.4	finally releasing the group's feature. I know I promise that a few weeks back. That's rolling out
1:12.8	this week with the new update, and we'll go kind of week by week with progressively larger
1:21.4	cohorts of the subscribers. So if you don't get it immediately, that's what's happening.
1:27.7	You will eventually get it. We just don't want to break anything. So anyway, groups are coming.
1:34.5	And in lieu of housekeeping, I wanted to present a lesson that was recently released on the app.
1:40.7	And this lesson is titled Space, Time, and Attention. So enjoy that, and then I'll be back with today's guest.
1:55.6	I'd like you to consider what is real in this moment. That is what actually exists,
2:01.8	and what are the things that exist actually matter, and what makes things matter. We tend to think
2:11.4	of reality in terms of space and of things in space. We think of people and places that matter to
2:18.4	us. We accumulate possessions, things in drawers and closets that we care about, or once cared about.
2:26.3	We move from room to room in our homes into spaces that we maintain for different purposes.
2:33.2	So the sense of what is there for us in each moment is bound up with this sense of space.
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