“This is our most important problem”
I watched a short video recently where Sam Harris says something that is, on its face, completely right. The short, entitled “ This is our most important problem ,” states we’re losing our grip on what’s “real.” Conspiracy thinking is “noxious.” (Harris always features the fantastic vocabulary of a bright mind.) Shared reality is fracturing. As a result, technology is driving us a little crazy. All true. If you zoom out and squint, he’s basically nailed the description of the mess we’re in. Where I think Harris is slightly askew is not on what is happening but on what he thinks is doing the happening. Human beings have never had a shared reality. They have never agreed on what is real. Every culture on earth differs on the particulars of this at some level. This has never been otherwise. This is why there are so many different cultures, different “true” stories, different religions. We have been war-like for millennia because we do not share quite the same reali...
