Sam Harris & Konstantin Kisin Debate: Corruption, Israel-Hamas, Tucker Carlson, DEI & Migrant Crisis PT 1
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🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Welcome to another intense episode of Impact Theory, I’m Tom Bilyeu!
In today’s episode, I’m joined by Sam Harris and Konstantin Kisin to dive deep and debate the pressing issues surrounding misinformation, corruption, credibility, and the societal impact of distorted realities.
Sam Harris is a neuroscientist, philosopher, best-selling author, and podcast host whose work focuses on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live.
Konstantin Kisin is a Russian-born comedian, author, and podcast host that explores complex topics with a blend of humor and serious inquiry, making acute observations about modern societal trends and challenges.
Together, we dissect the challenges of navigating the modern information landscape, combatting cognitive biases, and championing the pursuit of truth in a world where truth itself seems increasingly elusive.
We also discuss:
- - Importance of Pursuing Truth and Independent Thinking
- - Overcoming Bias in Perception
- - Influence of Social Media on Discourse and Truth
- - Necessity of Error Correction in Knowledge Growth
- - Challenges in Determining Truth and Reality
- - Media Influence on Public Opinion and Reality
- - Individual Rights in the West
- - Upholding Liberal Democracy
This is just Part 1 of our conversation, so make sure you don’t miss Part 2 as the debate continues between Sam Harris and Konstantin Kisin!
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| 0:00.0 | What social media and just the democratization of everything has given us some insight into how rotten our institutions were in the first place. |
| 0:08.0 | There's a kind of wokeification of the right that is happening. |
| 0:12.0 | It's like professional wrestling. Nobody cares that it's fake. If I was caught doing that, I would lose 100% of my audience. |
| 0:19.0 | You have to hear what they have to say. |
| 0:21.3 | No, but that's a self-reinforcing error loop. |
| 0:24.7 | Let me just finish the point. The smell of bullshit is detectable far enough off that you just don't have to spend time with it. |
| 0:32.1 | You're not going to put new media back in the tube, right? That's toothpaste is out. It's out there. |
| 0:37.3 | People are going to have those |
| 0:38.9 | conversations whether you like that or not. And we have, you know, Islamist stealth groups in |
| 0:44.0 | every Western society, certainly in America and the UK. |
| 0:49.1 | We are living in an age now of conspiracy. People believe that the people empower, the experts, |
| 0:56.8 | the institutions are lying to them. And I want to know, does this create problems that we should |
| 1:01.2 | be worried about? And if it does, why should people listen to the two of you? Why are you guys |
| 1:06.2 | trustworthy? Well, you want to start? No, you go first. Okay. |
| 1:11.4 | Well, I mean, it's something I'm quite worried about. |
| 1:13.7 | I think we're getting profoundly misinformed by the tools we've built. |
| 1:20.5 | And I mean, I think it's a multi-level problem. |
| 1:25.9 | On the one hand, many of us feel that what social media |
| 1:30.6 | and just the democratization of everything has given us some insight into how rotten our |
| 1:36.0 | institutions were in the first place. Right. So like we just, it was just, it's much more transparency. |
| 1:42.2 | You know, the emperor has no clothes in many cases. But I think it's, in part, |
| 1:48.1 | that's true. But I think what has also happened is that the institutions have become corrupted |
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