Eleanor Gordon Smith

You know, I have close friends who have, like, weird conspiratorial beliefs, and otherwise they're completely rational and ordinary people. And yet they have these very strange beliefs about like the truth of the moon landing.

You know, I have close friends who have, like, weird conspiratorial beliefs, and otherwise they're completely rational and ordinary people. And yet they have these very strange beliefs about like the truth of the moon landing.

You know, I have close friends who have, like, weird conspiratorial beliefs, and otherwise they're completely rational and ordinary people. And yet they have these very strange beliefs about like the truth of the moon landing.

And it's the kind of thing where you can either descend into the quicksand of trying to get them to see reason, or you can think that this is something which is a strange blip in an otherwise coherent person, and it will waste both of our time to try to unpick it.

And it's the kind of thing where you can either descend into the quicksand of trying to get them to see reason, or you can think that this is something which is a strange blip in an otherwise coherent person, and it will waste both of our time to try to unpick it.

And it's the kind of thing where you can either descend into the quicksand of trying to get them to see reason, or you can think that this is something which is a strange blip in an otherwise coherent person, and it will waste both of our time to try to unpick it.

I age so much slower and you'll sleep better at night. Exactly.

I age so much slower and you'll sleep better at night. Exactly.

I age so much slower and you'll sleep better at night. Exactly.

Right. I think it's really hard for us to see this because we live in this climate which encourages us so often to be pursuing debate and to be thinking that debate will be effective, i.e. that every time we try to debate someone and we fail, it's our fault. And it means that if only we did something slightly differently, we would have been able to get through them.

Right. I think it's really hard for us to see this because we live in this climate which encourages us so often to be pursuing debate and to be thinking that debate will be effective, i.e. that every time we try to debate someone and we fail, it's our fault. And it means that if only we did something slightly differently, we would have been able to get through them.

Right. I think it's really hard for us to see this because we live in this climate which encourages us so often to be pursuing debate and to be thinking that debate will be effective, i.e. that every time we try to debate someone and we fail, it's our fault. And it means that if only we did something slightly differently, we would have been able to get through them.

And that means you can kind of spend your life sinking effort after effort. trying to persuade someone and we live in like a very combative time where so much of our political media is structured around argument as entertainment and I think it's really easy to forget in that climate that argument is not entertaining. It's catastrophically boring and it's very often a waste of time.

And that means you can kind of spend your life sinking effort after effort. trying to persuade someone and we live in like a very combative time where so much of our political media is structured around argument as entertainment and I think it's really easy to forget in that climate that argument is not entertaining. It's catastrophically boring and it's very often a waste of time.

And that means you can kind of spend your life sinking effort after effort. trying to persuade someone and we live in like a very combative time where so much of our political media is structured around argument as entertainment and I think it's really easy to forget in that climate that argument is not entertaining. It's catastrophically boring and it's very often a waste of time.

Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

Thank you so much. I appreciate it.