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The whole life after death thing weighs heavily on me. I'm 67, always believed that there's nothing after death, however, over the last decade I've lost my two adult children, one to motor vehicle accident. The other to brain cancer. Sadly, also my wife died a couple of months ago to cancer. I still believe that there is nothing, but....a tiny piece of me is just hoping that maybe these people that believe in life after death may have been right. I so want to see my wife and children again.

When two people that actually want to explore ideas talk, ideas flourish.

Getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to Warren.

The way Warren explained the JK Rowling situation was absolute perfection . She has literally never said ANYTHING anti Trans . Thank you both for sharing this.

I love Warren's style of debate. Always calm and respectful, but always logical and encouraging critical thinking.

You guys seemed to genuinely like each other. I hope you both made a friend. Great talk!

Wonderful, wonderful Warren... Intelligent, balanced, integrous, fair, honest, emotionally elegant .... Thank you Andrew for bringing him on.

Here's my unfiltered hot take: We are living through the largest-scale psychological warfare operation in human history, and it's being conducted by our own social systems against basic human emotional needs, and the casualty count is so massive that we've normalized mass emotional death as "adulting."

Every single institution we've built - schools, workplaces, healthcare, dating, social media, even fucking therapy - has become a factory for producing emotionally lobotomized humans who can perform productivity but can't access their own inner experience without having a panic attack. We've created a civilization that requires you to be emotionally dead to participate in it, and then we act shocked when people either break completely or retreat into AI relationships because at least the machines won't punish them for having feelings.

The therapy industrial complex is particularly fucking insidious because it's convinced people that their natural responses to an insane world are pathological. Someone's depressed because they're trapped in a meaningless job in a society that offers no authentic connection? Let's give them SSRIs and teach them breathing exercises instead of acknowledging that maybe, just maybe, depression might be a rational response to irrational circumstances. Someone's anxious because they can feel the existential void where community used to be? Let's call it generalized anxiety disorder instead of recognizing that their nervous system is correctly identifying that something fundamental is missing.

And don't even get me started on how we've gamified human connection through dating apps that literally train people to treat each other like products in a catalog while simultaneously wondering why seemingly nobody can form deep meaningful relationships anymore. We took the most sacred human activity - finding your people - and turned it into a dopamine-harvesting slot machine designed to keep people perpetually searching and almost never actually connecting.

The most fucked up part is how we've convinced people that the solution to systemic emotional abandonment is individual optimization. Can't find meaningful connection? You must need to work on yourself more in some vague fashion. Feeling existential despair about the state of the world? Have you tried shallow gratitude journaling? Lonely because society has dismantled most forms of community? Maybe you need to put yourself out there more I guess 🤷.

It's gaslighting on a civilizational scale. We've built systems that largely prevent human flourishing and then blame individuals for not thriving within them. It's like poisoning someone's water supply and then selling them detox supplements.

And the people who see through this shit and try to talk about it openly? They get labeled as schizo, too intense, or unemployable because their emotional honesty threatens the whole house of cards. We've made emotional authenticity a cause of social ostracization.

No wonder people are having breakdowns. No wonder mental health crisis rates are skyrocketing. No wonder birth rates are plummeting. We've created a civilization that's hostile to human emotional needs, and we're surprised that humans are struggling to survive in it.

The real miracle isn't that some people are falling apart - it's that anyone is managing to stay sane at all.

Warren is amazing.  I remember his JK Rowling video and thought this is the of something special.  Critical thinking is being encouraged again! Thank Andrew for bringing Warren on your show.   I’m so excited to see this interview.

If everyone took the same approach as Warren the world would undoubtedly be a better place!

Oh my, this conversation resonated with me so much. Warren Smith has just gained a new follower. Brilliant and timely.

His description of how being fired affects your identity is spot on. I was fired, unjustly I believe, from a job, and it spins you off your feet for a while because it's a huge condemnation coming at you like a brick wall. And you do question everything, including your own sense of self.

It's so refreshing to see people challenging each other, openly thinking it through and discussing it further. I miss rational people, this was good 😂

I loved this chat.....so beautiful 😍 I have stage 4 cancer and have been delving into loosing the human suit and "moving on" to the cosmic journey which I truly believe awaits us all....surrounded by love- no fear and no mistakes 😊❤

50:45 I'm a cop. Society hates me. It does not feel good a lot of the time. But someone has to do it. I'm willing to see all the bad things in the world so that hopefully i can prevent innocents from experiencing it. I wish you guys yalked about this a little more. The whole "you get to be a hero" thing is not why first responders do what they do. We don't feel like heroes most of the time. We're underpaid, often overworked, and see things many people never will and should never have to.

I think Warren is right when he said doing "what feels good" seems more in line with what you think you're arguing against. Very interesting conversation, even though it was cut way too short.

This is why I don't go public with debating. I would hate to be in the middle of a debate (or conversation) and encounter a point that I hadn't thought through enough to be able to explain why I hold that view and would instead take verbalizing all I went through to be able to understand it and come to that conclusion. It would look like I was wrong because I was searching for a way out of my lie, when in reality I'm just trying to find the structure that best conveys my point. My quote: "An eloquent fool is believed more readily than a stammering sage."

Fantastic conversation. It's so nice to watch two sane people have such an insightful and practical conversation.

I truly enjoy listening to Warren Smith, and hope and pray the very best for him. Do great things Warren! ❤

Wow I'm so happy you have Warren on! Definitely not a psychopath Andrew, but he's such a brilliant critical thinker and educator ❤ just brilliant 👏