What are the Reasons of Sam Harris's Unhinged TDS?

Intellectual Cowardice and Pseudo Intellectual Smugness

I don't understand people like Sam Harris. I understand even Woketards better - yeah they're deluded beyond measure but they're at least consistent in their delusion. If you indeed swallow all MSM propaganda whole, Woketarditis is the logical consequence of it.

But people like Sam Harris who claim to be nuanced independent critical thinkers and yet exhibit such levels of unhinged TDS which would make even diehard Woketards blush? I fail to understand those people.

If Sam Harris understands that establishment and MSM lied to him about BLM, illegal immigration and Islam (those issues he spoke against I recall), then WHY does he believe exactly the SAME people on Trump? Logic?

Alright, perhaps many smart people apart from Sam Harris were fooled about Trump back in 2016. But most of them had woken up by now though. Why isn't Sam Harris?

What's wrong with this man really? How could you be a ‘critical thinker' and still have a sky high level of unhinged TDS in 2024? Impossible.

I don't even understand the reasons behind this guy's unhinged TDS. I mean, I could understand why some Black, Hispanic or gay guys might still be buying MSM ‘Trump racist and homophobe' false narrative. I could understand why some vindictive women might still be unable to forgive Trump his ‘pussy grabbing’ comments. Yeah, it's still bad to think like that in 2024, but at least understandable.

But Sam Harris? A white straight guy? What's his problem with Trump? Or is it exactly the point? Deep inside, Sam Harris is Woke AF and feels guilty for being a ‘privileged’ white straight man, so he ‘renounces’ his ‘privilege’ by condemning Trump? Sounds a bit far-fetched though.

Is Sam Harris just a Propagandist or Genuinely Delusional?

Even that is not clear! The trick with this guy is that he’s SO murky that he could easily be both.

That is, he could easily be one of those Leftist pseudo intellectuals whose primary audience is ‘educated’ Woketards. But to distinguish himself from countless other Woke propagandists, to show he isn’t a clone like them and hence get more recognition and fame, Sammy dons a mask of a ‘critical independent thinker’. That is, he occasionally critisizes issues which he believes won’t get him into much trouble with his Leftist audience - Islam, BLM, etc. But his unhinged TDS unmistakedly shows who his main audience is though.

On the other hand, Sam Harris’ TDS is SO unhinged that it might as well be genuine. And this returns me to the question of the whys of it which I would analyze in details below.

Possible Reasons for Sam Harris TDS

I’m very persistent guy and won’t drop an issue until I’d gain a certain understanding of it so I refuse to drop Sam Harris issue as well. After some careful thinking and discussion with my subscribers, I came to two most likely reasons behind Sam Harris’ TDS (provided he’s genuinely delusional here and not a crafty propagandist). It also still can be that Sam Harris is a self-hating Woketard who hates himself for being a ‘privileged’ white straight guy and projects his self-hate on Trump but I know believe the main reasons are other ones. So, to those reasons.

1) Sam Harris’s TDS is a rage of an Atheist against allegedly Christian leader, and of an ‘Intellectual’ Bourgeois against the Working Class

At the first glance, it might seem counterintuitive because many atheists do actually support Trump, and he himself didn’t really reveal himself as a devoted Christian. Also, many intellectuals support Trump, who is a billionaire by the way, not really a ‘working-class man’. Yeah, all of it is true.

However, Trump himself might not be a devoted Christian and a working-class man, but majority of his supporters are. Moreover, it’s crystal clear that Republicans are party of the working class at this point, while DemoNrats are 100% elitist billionaire bootlickers. Even more obviously, Republicans welcome people of faith while DemoNrats aren’t just atheist, they’re truly anti-Christian at this point.

So, if someone had issues with either Christian or working class demographic, they actually have solid reasons to oppose Trump, and I argue that Sam Harris has problems with BOTH Christians AND working class people. It’s not just because he’s an atheist and self-proclaimed intellectual. Many atheists have no problem whatsoever with people of ANY faith (save maybe Islam because Islamic ideology is totalitarian and anti-human in many ways) and have a due respect to working class as well. Sam Harris case is rather exceptional here.

For Sam Harris, atheism isn’t just having no faith and not even a healthy scepticism towards the unproven and unknown. Nope, for people like him atheism is a deep, almost cultist conviction, which stems from their inflated ‘intellectual’ ego. That is, people like Sam Harris are absolutely convinced that ‘smart educated intellectuals of 21^st century’ can’t possibly believe in anything supernatural – neither God nor magic nor superstition nor myths – nothing of a kind! Belief in anything which is not proved by science 100% to people like Sam Harris is stupid, naïve, childish, idiotic, etc.

It’s easy to see that it’s a pure arrogance of a pseudo intellectual who despises all believers as people of the ‘lower IQ’. It’s kind of an intellectual fascism – the same ‘we are better than you’ toxic conviction – only based on alleged intellect capacities instead of ethnicity and skin color. Ofc, it’s an absolute falsehood. First, intellect and intelligence are very complex issues combined of multiple factors, and to castigate someone as a ‘low IQ’ purely because they believe in something unproven is wrong and actually stupid. Second, even if those people indeed were less intelligent, is it good enough reason to despise them? Ofc not, but for people like Sam Harris with their inflated egos it is, though.

In truth, however, nothing in this world is 100% proven, and I’m speaking not only about the fact that science constantly changes or that we still don’t know answers to the fundamental questions like ‘what was the origin of the universe and of life and of humankind’, and what happens after death. No, it’s much deeper. Remember solipsism philosophy? In a nutshell, it tells that the whole universe is just an illusion created by our sensory organs (eyes, ears, etc.) I’m not claiming it’s the case but this statement cannot be disproved, however. All the information about ourselves and our world we gained via our sensory organs. We have no other source of information so we have to trust them. What if, however, they trick us? With many proven optic and audio illusions, it’s very possible. And if our sensory organs do indeed trick us, where’s the guarantee that our world is exactly as we perceive it? Or that it exists at all for that matter? There’s no such guarantee.

I’m telling it all not to throw you into depth of existential crisis, but to mock Sam Harris’ arrogance. If there are so many things in this world we don’t know about, if there’s no solid proof this world (and ourselves too!) even exists, how could we be so arrogant and so dismissive of other perspectives on it? For all we know, our science might be as wrong as religion, or they both might be right but only in some ways. Our world is a big enigma, and it’s the only truth we can be confident about. Luckily, as for a Taoist, this thought doesn’t drive me into despair but reassures, in the contrary. If nothing is determined, everything can change, and I find it pretty reassuring.

Coming back from Taoist depths to Sam Harris shallow arrogance, I can say that exactly the same pseudo intellectual arrogance lies behind Sam contempt for working class people. Educated elite like Sam Harris believe working class people to be dumb, rough, prejudiced ‘plebeians’ who aren’t equal to college ‘intellectual aristocracy’. This holds true for many Woketards actually – they despise working class people as ‘deplorables’ while at the same time using the products of their labor! Hypocrisy is glaring again but as I was always saying, if the Left didn’t have a double standard, they wouldn’t have any.

To conclude this line of thought, the reason of Sam Harris contempt for both Christians and working class people is the same – his inflated ego and arrogance of a pseudo intellectual bourgeois. It also explains why Sam Harris speaks against Islam – not that he is particularly concerned of Islamist atrocities but because his pseudo intellectual smugness can tolerate ‘barbaric medieval’ Islam even less than his own Christianity.

2) Sam Harris Desperately Wants to Trust Institutions

Another reason of Sam Harris unhinged TDS might be his intellectual cowardice and an unwillingness to follow up his critical thinking until its final conclusion – no institution in our society is trustworthy any longer. But because Sam Harris is a coward really, this thought scares him too much and takes the ground off his feet so he prefers to stop questioning when it becomes too uncomfortable.

That is, Sam Harris is willing to criticize ‘radical Woke progressives’ but not Democratic party as a whole. He’s willing to question some of the MSM narratives but not MSM as an institution. He might object to forced vaccinations but never questions Big Pharma fakeccines. He always stops halfway. This is what I call an intellectual cowardice.

Some people might wonder why have I devoted the whole article to this one guy. The reason is because Sam Harris puzzles me. He’s not a typical Woke propagandist, but neither he’s a real critical thinker. So what is he exactly? This question led to this article.