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🗓️ 1 May 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about the Covid-19 pandemic and its future implications. They discuss the failures of global leadership, the widespread distrust of institutions, the benefits of nationalism and its current unraveling in the U.S., politics as a way of reconciling competing desires, the consequences of misinformation, the enduring respect for science, the future of surveillance, the changing role of religion, and other topics.
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0:00.0 | I am here with you ball Noah Harari. |
0:22.5 | You ball, thanks for joining me again. |
0:24.4 | Thank you for inviting me again. |
0:25.8 | I think the last time we spoke, I think it was, we did a live event in San |
0:29.8 | Francisco, which I really enjoyed. |
0:32.2 | And then we had done one podcast before that. |
0:34.4 | But now the entire world has been pushed off a cliff since we last met. |
0:40.0 | So first before we get into big picture topics, how are you doing? |
0:45.3 | How are you weathering the pandemic? |
0:46.8 | Well, we are fine, I think. |
0:48.5 | I mean, my husband, we are self isolating in our house. |
0:52.8 | And you know, it's difficult because we can't meet our family in friends and so forth. |
0:57.5 | But we haven't lost our job, our business agent collapse. |
1:00.9 | We're actually working harder than ever. |
1:03.2 | Many of our friends and family members have lost their jobs or businesses. |
1:06.8 | So we know we are one of the lucky ones. |
1:09.3 | Yeah. |
1:10.3 | Yeah, it's a difficult time. |
1:12.6 | And you look ahead and I'm less worried about the epidemic itself, but the economic |
1:18.0 | and political consequences could be really catastrophic if we don't get a handle on it. |
1:22.6 | So it's quite a worrying time. |
1:26.1 | That's what I want to talk to you about. |
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