Making Sense with Sam Harris · 2026-09-09 · 38 min · 5,997 words

#492 — The Second Plane, 25 Years Later

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Welcome to the Make Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris. So it's been twenty five years. Since the morning of September eleventh, two thousand and one. Which means that many of you listening to this will have no memory of that day at all.

You can be out of college now and married and Raising kids. And the defining event of my generation is something you only know from books. Or documentaries. For those of us who do remember it.

The memory is of Passing from one reality. to another. There's a sense of before and after that I never experienced

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