Sam Harris

Some of it's a self-fulfilling dynamic where, so like lockdowns, in theory, lockdowns, a lockdown would work

if we could only do it, but we can't really do it.

And there's a lot of people who won't do it because they're convinced that this is the totalitarian boot, you know, finally on the neck of the good people who are always having their interests, you know, traduced by the elites, right?

So like this is, if you have enough people who think the lockdown for any reason in the face of any conceivable illness, right,

is just code for the new world order coming to fuck you over and take your guns, right?

Okay, you have a society that is now immune to reason, right?

Because there are absolutely certain pathogens that we should lock down for next time, right?

And it was completely rational in the beginning of this thing to attempt to lock down.

We never really locked down.

to attempt some semblance of a lockdown just to, quote, bend the curve, to spare our healthcare system, given what we were seeing happening in Italy, right?

Like, that moment was not hard to navigate, at least in my view.

It was obvious at the time.

In retrospect, my views on that haven't changed, except for the fact that I recognize maybe it's just impossible, given the nature of people's response to that kind of demand.

We live in a society that's just not going to lock down.

Right, so that's a point I made, which was maliciously clipped out from some other podcast where someone's trying to make it look like I want to see children die.

It's a pity more children didn't die from COVID, right?

This is actually the same person who, and that's the other thing that got so poisoned here.

It's like that person, this psychopath or effective psychopath who's creating these clips of me on podcasts, this second clip of me

seeming to say that I wish more children died during COVID, but it was so clear in context what I was saying that even the clip betrayed the context, so it didn't actually work.

This psycho, and again, I don't know whether he actually is a psychopath, but he's behaving like one because of the incentives of Twitter.