#172 — Among the Deplorables

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

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Andrew Marantz about his book “Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation." They discuss the effect of social media on politics, the distinction between publishers and platforms, the problem of guilt by association, getting too close to interview subjects, the confusing nature of troll culture, the notion of “dog whistles,” how to respond to the current reality of racism, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Make It Sense podcast.
0:18.8	This is Sam Harris.
0:20.4	Okay, brief housekeeping.
0:24.0	Once again I am now adding afterwards at the end of these podcasts.
0:28.2	I will save some of my remarks for there.
0:31.5	Again I'd like to urge supporters of the podcast to visit my website and go to the subscriber
0:37.5	content page and download the subscriber feed of the podcast.
0:45.4	If you are seeing a black making sense icon in your podcasting app, you do not have the
0:51.0	subscriber feed.
0:52.9	You have the public one and you will be missing some content.
0:57.3	There will be more of that kind of thing happening very soon.
1:00.0	So you have been warned.
1:02.9	And as always, thank you for your support.
1:06.2	Also many of you have asked whether the conversations that I am now having on the waking up app can
1:11.9	be made available to podcast subscribers.
1:15.6	The answer is yes.
1:17.4	Although we've decided to put them on my website only, not pipe them to the subscriber
1:23.5	feed.
1:25.1	This is because they really are narrowly focused on the topic of living an examined life, meditation,
1:33.8	the nature of consciousness.
1:35.6	And many of these conversations are just too specific for the podcast generally.
1:41.7	So I just don't want to hit the average podcast listener who is supporting the podcast with
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