Extract of a conversation between Luke Ford and Elliott Blatt discussing the importance of having the correct opinions
People once had the opinion that the earth was flat and nothing bad happened to them.
2:00 Opinions have "practical applications" eg whether to wear a mask, whether to vote Trump, whether to say you thought the 2020 election was stolen.
3:00 How we interpret events have an effect on our mood and mental health
6:00 Another American Civil War
7:00 The meretriciousness of Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer
10:00 CLAIRE KHAW begins to speak.
11:00 Giving our opinion when asked
13:00 Yuval Harari's Sapiens
14:00 Acting on our beliefs
15:00 We are all trying to change each other's beliefs.
17:00 Having an opinion on US foreign policy and on whether representative democracy should be abolished
20:00 Our ability to tell the difference between truth and falsehood and good and evil
22:00 Men like Luke and Elliott lack a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
Should men and women be required to carry out their gender roles?
23:00 Elliott has no firm beliefs.
24:00 Does God exist and should we obey His laws?
25:00 The Abrahamic God requires us to obey Him and believe in the afterlife.
27:00 Trump and his supporters are dissidents against the liberal order.
28:00 Neoliberalism and neoconservatism
29:00 The nature and purpose of religion
America does not have an official moral system.
30:00 Liberal democracy
31:00 What are the principles of liberalism?
32:00 Secular Koranism
"In God we trust"
33:00 What Americans want
34:00 Attempts to reconcile reality with what Americans want to believe about themselves has caused cognitive dissonance and ever deepening and widening neurosis.
35:00 People who delete their tweets
36:00 Truth, Logic and Morality
37:00 Elliott contemplates his mortality.
38:00 Ultra Orthodox Jews also believe in reincarnation.
40:00 Predicting the future correctly is not morality.
44:00 "Iranians got their country back with Islam."
45:00 Imam Khamenei the Supreme Leader of Iran should acknowledged by Sunnis to be the Caliph.
46:00 Winning the culture war
49:00 The truth is what is not in dispute.
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