#383 — Where Are the Grown-Ups?
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Waking Up with Sam Harris
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🗓️ 17 September 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Sam Harris talks about the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the cesspool of X, Tucker Carlson’s conversation with Darryl Cooper, freedom of speech, and other topics.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast, this is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're hearing this you're not currently on our subscriber feed and will only be hearing the first part of this conversation. podcast, you'll need to subscribe at Sam Harris.org. There you'll also find our |
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| 0:29.0 | don't run ads on the podcast and therefore it's made possible entirely through the support of our subscribers. |
| 0:34.0 | So if you enjoy what we're doing here, please consider becoming one. Okay, well, there appears to have been another attempt on Trump's life, although this one seems to have not been a close call happily. |
| 0:58.8 | Also seems to have been another lunatic who, I mean he was ideological, but he was ideological but he was first and foremost a lunatic at |
| 1:08.4 | least at the time I'm recording this that seems to be the case. What to say about this? |
| 1:14.0 | Well, the first thing to say is that it's a tragedy for our society that we have to worry about |
| 1:20.0 | political violence of this kind. |
| 1:22.0 | I think it does say something about our politics, |
| 1:25.5 | but that would require some fine print to spell out. It certainly says something about |
| 1:31.0 | unregulated mental illness and the prevalence of guns in our society, |
| 1:36.6 | and what to do about either of those things remains an open question. |
| 1:40.6 | I think it's totally irresponsible to politicize the event itself and the allegation |
| 1:46.9 | that it was provoked by the rhetoric of Democrats is patently absurd and cynical. |
| 1:55.0 | Let me just make my view about this crystal clear. |
| 1:59.0 | The claim that Donald Trump is so outside the norms of our politics so as to put many of our institutions and |
| 2:07.5 | even our democracy in jeopardy is not a dishonest provocation hoping to incite violent lunatics. |
| 2:16.0 | It is in fact a sober judgment made by serious journalists and scholars of both parties about the consequences of promoting a malignant narcissist of this sort, |
| 2:28.0 | riding atop a personality cult to the presidency. |
| 2:32.0 | None of those facts change because a madman or two make attempts on his life. |
| 2:39.0 | We can't suddenly pretend that Trump is a different person or that Trumpism is a healthier political movement |
| 2:46.2 | than it is because of these incidents. |
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