#335 — A Postmortem on My Response to Covid

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense podcast.
0:23.9	This is Sam Harris.
0:26.2	Okay.
0:28.2	Well, long housekeeping here.
0:31.3	As many of you know, I've been off social media for a long time at this point.
0:35.8	It's like nine months, but social media apparently is not off of me.
0:42.0	Occasionally, someone sends me a tweet that they think I really must see.
0:45.8	Do we still call them tweets?
0:48.2	What do you call it post at X?
0:50.4	Anyway, people send me these things.
0:53.5	And after the astonishment subsides, I'm usually left with two feelings.
0:59.1	The first is that social media is destroying society.
1:03.6	And the second is that I'm very glad I'm no longer witnessing this on an hourly or even
1:07.4	weekly basis.
1:08.8	I generally then ignore what was sent to me, but there's been a flurry of these communications
1:14.6	of late.
1:16.2	Focus on what I did and didn't think or say throughout the COVID pandemic, which I should
1:20.8	probably comment on.
1:23.0	Now some of you get annoyed when I address controversies of the sort I'm now going to
1:26.8	touch.
1:27.8	You tell me I'm defending myself from things that don't require defense.
1:32.0	Some of you say it's boring or that it looks petty and I get that, but consider it from
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