Sam Harris

I mean, it's just not... And that was one of the things that, you know, when I was looking into the Funhaus mirror, I was also seeing the Funhaus mirror on his side of Twitter, and it was just even more exaggerated.

It's like, well, we...

When I was asking myself, why is he spending his time this way?

I then reflected on why, you know, why was I spending my time this way to a lesser degree, right?

And at lesser scale and at lesser risk, frankly, right?

And so, and it was just so, it's not just Twitter.

I mean, this is in part an internet phenomenon.

It's like the whole Hunter Biden mess that you...

Explored.

Explored.

That was based, I mean, I was on somebody's podcast, but that was based on a clip taken from that podcast, which was highly misleading as to the general shape of my remarks on that podcast.

I had to then do my own podcast, untangling all of that and admitting that even in the full context, I was not speaking especially well and didn't say exactly what I thought in a way that would have been recognizable to anyone, even someone with...

not functioning by a spirit of charity, but the clip was quite distinct from the podcast itself.

The reality is, is that we're living in an environment now where people are so lazy and their attention is so fragmented that they only have time for clips.

99% of people will see a clip and will assume there's no relevant context I need to understand what happened in that clip, right?

And...

Obviously, the people who make those clips know that, right?

And they're doing it quite maliciously.

And in this case, the person who made that clip and subsequent clips of other podcasts was quite maliciously trying to engineer some reputational immolation for me.

And