#397 — A New Year's Message from Sam
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Welcome to the Makein' Sense podcast. This is Sam Harris. Well, another year has elapsed and 2025 is upon us. If you're over a certain age, every year now appears absurdly futuristic. How young do you have to be for 2025 to not look like the Chiron at the start of a science fiction movie?
I don't know when that started for me. Somewhere around 2014, maybe? Where are the robots? As I look back over the year and look ahead to what may be coming, it's hard to escape the sense that we are witnessing more than the usual degree of change and chaos. Liberal democracies are under threat globally.
The conflict between Israel and her neighbors continues. And there's the looming prospect of a proper war with Iran. There was the fall of the Assad regime in Syria and the uncertainty about what comes next. The war in Ukraine continues to rage, and there is a simmering hostility between the US and China. Unlike most periods in memory, if someone came from the future and said, Don't you realize that World War III started months ago?
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