Larry Sanger
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
If our encyclopedias and newspapers, et cetera, are one-sided, if they are propaganda organs, then we are not in charge of our own beliefs, essentially.
So I think it's very important that we be left free.
And be supported in what we believe.
And again, that's because, you know, I myself am a truth seeker, have been all my life.
That's why I got a PhD in philosophy and so forth.
Now, as to the cult stuff, as we were saying before, this sort of needs to be properly set up.
So I thought before 2019 that were generally, you know, lone wolves who preyed on children.
I had no notion that they were organized in any way.
I suppose if you had asked me, I would have said, OK, I guess that's probably true that there are like rings of really particularly depraved people there.
But I had no idea that it could be at all common or big business.
I mean, the thing is, I knew about, like, the Catholic...
controversies priests and well you know to be fair other churches have their own problems and schools wherever basically children are are found you know the will follow and so
Yeah, I just hadn't really given it that much thought.
So a friend of mine, well, he wasn't a friend yet.
In the process of sort of opening my eyes to these things, he became a friend.
Basically, he told me about Jeffrey Epstein's island before it really became front-page news.
In fact, it was just like a couple of months after he introduced this stuff to me that it became much discussed.
Let's put it that way.
And...
In the process of learning about this, I learned that at least some of these people have been caught, like Jimmy Savile, for example.