What Sam Harris Taught Me About Police Brutality
Democracy dies when we avoid tough conversations
“All we have between us and the total breakdown of civilization is a series of successful conversations. If we can’t reason with each other, there is no path forward but violence.” — Sam Harris
Sam Harris’s podcast: “#207: Can We Pull Back From The Brink?” challenges the listener unlike any other show I’ve ever heard. In this salient episode, the American author, philosopher, and neuroscientist disseminated the facts on police brutality.
Instead of laying out subjective conclusions or arguments to solve police brutality, Harris asked well-informed, contentious questions.
“On the most important topics, there now seems to be fury, sanctimony, and bad faith,” said Harris.
“We appear to be driving ourselves crazy, incapable of coming into contact with reality; unable to distinguish fact from fiction, and then becoming destabilized by confirmation bias and lashing out on that basis.”
