Sam Reader Forum 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Copyright (c) 2020 ExpressionEngine tag:https:,2020:07:15 Sundown Town Stories—With Adrian Lee Oliver tag:https:,2020:/ 2020-07-15T16:59:18Z 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z diding Y’all should hear this guy.  He’s outside the box.

Black Intellectual Roundtable-Bret Weinstein tag:https:,2020:/ 2020-07-13T23:42:44Z 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z diding It’s good to hear other voices.

An Interview with Derek Black tag:https:,2020:/ 2020-07-10T05:18:27Z 2020-07-10T05:19:03Z weird buffalo With Friends Like These - When Denouncing Racism Isn’t Enough

Short background (it gets partially covered in the podcast, there are lots of articles about him and a book as well), Derek is the son of Don Black, the founder of the Stormfront website.  He grew up among the elites of white nationalists and was the host of a white nationalist radio show in his youth.  He de-converted out of the movement while going to college.

Several things stood out to me. 

First, from the perspective of white nationalists, they see how the broader white population acts as evidence that the population largely agrees with them.  White people tend to live in white neighborhoods.  White people tend to vote for white politicians.  White people tend to vote against programs that help non-white people.  To white nationalists, this is proof that the white population in America is for the most part actually on their side.  They think our country is racist, and they like it.

Second, his father said that the way to recruit people was to find someone who would say “I’m not a racist, but….”  Then by gently pushing the person further down this path and thinking, it was possible to recruit them to the cause of white nationalism.  I’m not saying that the phrase “I’m not racist, but….” makes you a racist or white nationalist, but it is the key phrase that white nationalists listen for when trying to recruit people to their cause.

Third, as an active white nationalist, and now an active anti-racist, his warning to other white people is that both sides have approximately the same number of activists (in his estimation).

Social Media Vigilantism. Pros and Cons. tag:https:,2020:/ 2020-06-28T01:08:55Z 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Brick Bungalow

*Social media has revealed a great deal of formerly covert racism, sexism and various other sorts of bigotry.
*People have a greater ability to locate a consensus of values and boundaries over greater distances.
*The leverage of public feedback puts pressure on companies and institutions to consider ethical norms more closely.
*The risk of public shame can motivate better behavior from people in public spaces.
*Institutions have a larger available database of perspectives to consider when making choices that affect a community.
*The historical value of public protest is empowered and supported by the ability to communicate sounds and images on portable devices.


*The internet tends toward the lowest common denominator with regard to both insight and compassion.
*Many people who participate in internet threads are not fact checking or even correcting for obvious logical contradictions
*Retribution is habit forming and quickly consumes a sober appreciation of justice
*Internet media is reverse engineered for confirmation bias and echo chambers
*Even when a manifestly guilty person is consequenced by online mob revenge a number of innocent people invariably get hurt.
*Vigilantes frequently sabotage formal legal recourse


Get Shinzen Young on the waking up podcast tag:https:,2020:/ 2020-06-25T19:12:59Z 2020-06-25T19:13:29Z REDALD I feel that Shinzen Young would make a very suitable guest for the waking up app podcast. The way he speaks about meditation is so very inspiring. Maybe if more people sudgest it we can make it happen.

Fantastic Fungi tag:https:,2020:/ 2020-05-20T18:24:12Z 2020-05-20T18:27:23Z unsmoked  (watch trailer and scroll down to see reviews)

Has anyone here seen this film?

Why 9/11 Truthers Are Wrong About The Facts | (Part 1: Mick West) tag:https:,2020:/ 2020-04-28T02:32:55Z 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z aSkepticalHuman What are the flaws in some common truther arguments? Did the collapse of the Twin Towers truly resemble a controlled demolition? What’s the process like when a person becomes and quits being a conspiracy theorist? These are some of the key questions I discuss with the legendary skeptic Mick West, author of “Escaping The Rabbit Hole” and founder of

Sam on “The Drive with Peter Attia” tag:https:,2020:/ 2020-03-29T01:11:09Z 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z mapadofu #100 – Sam Harris, Ph.D.: COVID-19—Comprehending the crisis and managing our emotions

Marriage, Sexuality, and Premarital Sex tag:https:,2020:/ 2020-03-01T17:50:39Z 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Quadrewple Sadghuru on Premarital Sex

I had to share this because it’s the best wisdom I’ve ever heard on the topic of sex and marriage.

Our conversations around sexuality in today’s society seem to be dominated by either traditional dogma or anti-traditional viewpoints.  This is one of the few times I’ve heard something that just makes sense.

The Reproducibility Crisis tag:https:,2020:/ 2020-02-18T00:15:04Z 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z bbearren “There’s been a problem with psychology results not replicating…”