Podcast | Making Sense of the Chaos with Sam Harris: Politics, Tribalism, and the Outrage Machine

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Sam Harris has two brains. One is making sense of the political chaos. The other is waking up from it.

 In this episode, Jeff sits down with Sam Harris, neuroscientist, author, and host of the Making Sense podcast, for part one of a two-part conversation on surviving the modern world with your sanity intact. They unpack the outrage machine, political tribalism, and what it actually takes to stay clear-headed inside the noise.

 They discuss:

• Why Sam finally quit Twitter after 12 years, and what changed
• How the attention economy fuels hyper-partisanship and authoritarianism
• The moral panic around race, and how it radicalized the center
• Immigration policy, deportation, and the abandonment of Afghan allies
• Free speech, Orbán's defeat, and the future of liberal democracy

If you want to learn Sam’s approach to staying engaged with the world without losing your mind to it, go to onecommune.com/sam to get 30 days of his Waking Up app for free.

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About the Commune Podcast

Hosted by Jeff Krasno, the Commune podcast features thoughtful conversations for modern times. Not always comfortable but definitely needed, we explore both humanity and our human-ness. How can we live healthy, purpose-filled lives and be in service of something bigger? Guests include spiritual teachers, poets, scientists, philosophers, and activists for food sustainability, functional medicine, mental and physical health, and collective healing.