I'm increasingly worried that we have effectively rendered ourselves

ungovernable based on the way we have shattered the information landscape.

This is a consequence of hyper-connectivity and stunning ease of communication.

You can just go down a rabbit hole and find endless confirmation that's fairly anonymized.

We have to ground our perceptions in an axiomatic framework.

The old norms that the gatekeepers, I mean, for all their faults, they had standards.

I don't trust anything the New York Times prints at all.

The gatekeeping institutions have also revealed themselves as catastrophically flawed.

The antidote to that, to the failures of institutions, is not new standards.

It's really to apply the old standards.

Music the old standards. I've spent a lot of time over the years speaking with Sam Harris.

We've spoken publicly half a dozen times

and privately far more than that. We're coming at the same problems, I would say, from quite

different perspectives and establishing some concordance over time. Today we went down the rabbit

hole of rabbit holes, I suppose, discussing the fragmentation of the narrative

landscape on the social media front and what that means for cultural incoherence, weakness,

demoralization, deceit, self-deception, and inability to understand one another. And so join us as we attempt to clarify the

catastrophe of infinite plurality. Well, Mr. Harris, it looks like it's time for our

approximately annual conversation. Yeah, nice. You're the clock that ticks once a year.

Yeah, well, I suspect that's more than enough.

So tell me what you're thinking about lately, Sam, on the intellectual side and what you're

doing.

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