Sam Harris

But...

You know, Trump, arguably there's never been a person that anyone could name in human history who's lied with that kind of velocity.

I mean, it's just, he was just a blizzard of lies, great and small, you know, to pointless and effective.

But it's just, it says something...

fairly alarming about our society that a person of that character got promoted.

And so, yes, I have compassion and concern for half of the society who didn't see it that way.

And that's gonna sound elitist and smug or something for anyone who's on that side listening to me, but it's genuine.

I mean, I understand that like, I barely have the, I'm like one of the luckiest people in the world and I barely have the bandwidth

to pay attention to half the things I should pay attention to in order to have an opinion about half the things we're gonna talk about, right?

So how much less bandwidth is somebody who's working two jobs or a single mom who's raising multiple kids, even a single kid.

It's just, it's unimaginable to me that people have the bandwidth to,

to really track this stuff.

And so then they jump on social media and they get inundated by misinformation and they see what their favorite influencer just said.

And now they're worried about vaccines.

We're living in an environment where the information space has become so corrupted

And we've built machines to further corrupt it.

We've built a business model for the internet that further corrupts it.

So it is just, it's chaos in informational terms.

And I don't fault people for being confused and impatient and at their wit's end.

And yes, Trump was an enormous fuck you to the establishment.