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Is there a single more insufferable """thinker""" alive today?

>> No.16343422

>>16343406
Pinker

>> No.16343439
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>>16343422

Pinker at least has something cogent to say. Sam Harris has made a career of being that guy at a party who corrects you saying poignant thinks like "actually you dream every night but don't remember :)"

>> No.16343469

you meant to type "irrefutable"

>> No.16343480

>>16343406
>I don't like a person
>let's make a thread about them, giving them free publicity
Why does this shit keep happening? If you want shit to disappear, you ignore it.

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>>16343480

Because it's fun to complain about people and things? Are you not human? Do you not know this?

>> No.16343489

>>16343439
>Pinker at least has something cogent to say
The fact that it appears cogent makes it much more insufferable

>> No.16343530

>>16343487
Not when it also helps the people you complain about. Is the "lol, what a pretentious faggot" really worth it the guy selling one more book or getting one more subscriber?

>> No.16343560

Consider this possibility. Imagine if everyone in your city was me, Sam Harris. Your mayor, your doctor, your entire postal service. The criminals in prisons. Even your dog, somehow, was me.

I invite you to ask - would that really be such a bad thing? Imagine the possibilities of a world comprised of only a single, solitary, utilitarian mind. Just think about how smooth and well-maintained the public utilities would be, for example. Your pizzas would show up exactly fifteen minutes after you ordered them. Your kids would get great marks in school.

All I'm raising with this thought is the possibilities of a world in which all are one. Where we think about not being Sam Harris in the same way we think about the slave trade, or FGM. This is a glorious horizon of possibilities I fail to find any flaws in.

>> No.16343565

>>16343530

>lol talking shit about people actually helps them!

This is a midwit cope. Are one star reviews of a book on the internet a boon to the author because it's attention to the book in question? No of course not. Discussing and giving context to something isn't analogous to 'support'.

>> No.16343614

>>16343565
>No of course not.
Of course it does. It brings them to attention to people who wouldn't even consider the negative reviews and are bought in by the premise and generally don't like the people and opinions that would lead to one star reviews.

Donnie or Patterson are probably the most obvious example, when the negative points about them from one side, is what attracts people from the other side to them in the first place. Once you get enough negative stuff, the media coverage comes and adds more free publicity, which is bound to reach potential customers.

>Discussing and giving context to something isn't analogous to 'support'.
If the person is basically a nobody like Sam, it is. Cutting off air would let the shit just die down. Look what happened to Milo.