/lit/ - Literature

My problem with Sam Harris is that he wants to cram ideology into science to suit his political views. He's pretty clearly waving the banner of "guys, let's become organized like theists and associate atheism with tangential stereotypes of rationality and humanism to make our own little subculture". I'm firmly a monist materialist, but this shit would literally ruin the attempt at neutrality that makes scientific methodology worth anything in terms of being instrumental. It reeks of Deepak Chopra's usage of muh quantum physics to seem intelligent in the eyes of plebs.