This article is about GritCult's view of Sam Harris. For a general overview, see Sam Harris on Wikipedia.
| Sam Harris | |
|---|---|
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| “this guy is on the same level as sam harris” (27 November 2022) | |
| In the archive | |
| Portal | The Doctrine |
| Posts | 21 |
| Retweets | 157 |
| Likes | 2,096 |
| First post | 28 October 2018 |
| Latest post | 23 April 2026 |
| Posts by year | |
| Related | |
Sam Harris appears in 21 posts, almost all of them hostile. GritCult does not engage with Harris's arguments so much as use his name as a marker: of midwit taste, of sterile rationalism, and of a class of public intellectuals he believes were promoted to shape opinion.
Views
The name does most of its work in lists. Harris sits near the end of "The midwit diet", GritCult's most retweeted post on the subject, between Tim Ferriss and Ben Shapiro [1]. In 2021 he replied to Harris's own account to call him a midwit [2], and in 2020 he described him as "a counter signal. most would be better off doing the opposite of him" [3]. By 2024 Harris was on the list of "biggest midwit signal authors" whose books spread "mind viruses" [4]. He also denies him the title of philosopher: Harris, he says, "is more of a logician" [5].
Behind the mockery sits a theory. In 2022 he wrote that he was "Convinced sam Harris. Shapiro. Hitchens. Maher et Al. Were all funded by the same psy op", accusing them of building acceptance for America's Middle Eastern wars [6]. Months later he called the intellectual dark web "a failed experiment to shape ideological consensus" [7]. The deeper complaint is cultural: Harris, Hitchens and Dawkins "accelerated the decay of culture itself", because culture is organic and "rationalism is sterile" [8]. The hostility has outlasted the moment. In 2026, when someone called Harris a moderate, he answered that Harris was an extremist.
Recurring themes
- the midwit diet
- counter signalling
- manufactured public intellectuals
- rationalism as cultural decay
- logician, not philosopher
Notable post
The most retweeted GritCult post on the subject, with 82 retweets:
TED talks. Sapiens. Malcolm glad well and 10000hours rule. Thinking fast and slow. Techno garbage blogs from VCs. Everyone living in tech and Silicon Valley. The Big Bang theory. Rick and morty. Twitter navalisms. Joe rogan. Tim ferris. Sam Harris. Ben ShapiroGRITCULT on X, 15 October 2022
The midwit diet.
Selected posts
All 21 posts in the archive about Sam Harris, ranked by retweets. Select a column heading to sort.
| Date | Retweets | Likes | Post | Media | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 October 2022 | 82 | 849 | TED talks. Sapiens. Malcolm glad well and 10000hours rule. Thinking fast and slow. Techno garbage blogs from VCs. Everyone living in tech and Silicon Valley. The Big Bang theory. Rick and morty. Twitter navalisms. Joe rogan. Tim ferris. Sam Harris. Ben Shapiro The midwit diet. | View | |
| 15 August 2022 | 40 | 385 | TED talks. Sapiens. Malcolm glad well and 10000hours rule. Thinking fast and slow. Techno garbage blogs from VCs. Everyone living in tech and Silicon Valley. The Big Bang theory. Rick and morty. Twitter navalisms. Joe rogan. Tim ferris. Sam Harris. Ben Shapiro The midwit diet. | View | |
| 13 January 2021 | 7 | 210 | @SamHarrisOrg sam harris is a midwit. example above. | View | |
| 18 December 2024 | 7 | 199 | biggest midwit signal authors: bari weiss, sam harris, ben shapiro, yuval noah harari, jordan peterson, daniel kahneman, douglas murray you would be better off not reading anything of their work than to be contaminated by their mind viruses | View | |
| 22 November 2022 | 5 | 147 | I was right about sam bank man fried. I was right about sam Harris. I get a very weird feeling from @chamath Seems very disingenuous and very shady. Be warned. Watch this video about them BRAGGING on dumping on retail. He already has done shady SPACs | View | |
| 29 August 2023 | 5 | 59 | TED talks. Sapiens. Malcolm glad well and 10000hours rule. Thinking fast and slow. Techno garbage blogs from VCs. Everyone living in tech and Silicon Valley. The Big Bang theory. Rick and morty. Twitter navalisms. Joe rogan. Tim ferris. Sam Harris. Ben Shapiro The midwit diet. | View | |
| 26 March 2022 | 4 | 67 | Convinced sam Harris. Shapiro. Hitchens. Maher et Al. Were all funded by the same psy op Public intellectuals are to be never trusted. The above were all very implicitly building and maintaining acceptance of Americas Middle Eastern wars. To allow upper middle class justified | View | |
| 27 November 2022 | 3 | 98 | this guy is on the same level as sam harris | | View |
| 3 November 2020 | 2 | 22 | @0x49fa98 @SwipeWright @SamHarrisOrg > sam harris he is a counter signal. most would be better off doing the opposite of him | View | |
| 19 June 2021 | 1 | 17 | the public intellectuals too are a sign of the cultural decay, infact i would argue christopher hitchens, dawkins and sam harris accelerated the decay of culture itself. culture is organic, holistic. rationalism is sterile. elite overproduction | View | |
| 28 October 2018 | 1 | 10 | *emails Buddha (the guy Sam Harris thinks is Jesus) to tell him he isnt as woke as he thinks he is* | View | |
| 19 August 2022 | 0 | 11 | told you, sam harris is not to be trusted. big backers. all of the ideological dark web, a failed experiment to shape ideological consensus. | View | |
| 17 April 2026 | 0 | 8 | @CarlZha Sam Harris as a public intellectual it's extraordinary. | View | |
| 30 October 2018 | 0 | 3 | @gtaogle So you think neoliberal atheists will come back ? Like Sam Harris and Dawkins | View | |
| 27 January 2021 | 0 | 3 | @michaeljknowles The intellectual dark weebs like Hitchens and Sam Harris and Dawkins and Murray even Majid are all left wing but I respect none of them. Industry plants. | View | |
| 3 October 2020 | 0 | 2 | @hyonschu @Shestovian @jean_hayashi sam harris is not a philosopher... he is more of a logician.. the best philosopher i know of is @Firas_Zahabi | View | |
| 26 August 2021 | 0 | 2 | @metaproem @PresentWitness_ @stoneflesh @SamHarrisOrg Sam Harris took mdma and started a podcast | View | |
| 23 April 2026 | 0 | 2 | @KweenInYellow Moderate? Sam Harris is an extremist | View | |
| 25 November 2022 | 0 | 1 | @Knesix or sapiens or sam harris | View | |
| 18 April 2026 | 0 | 1 | @MakingSenseHQ Why do people still listen to Sam Harris 😂😂😂 | View | |
| 20 February 2026 | 0 | 0 | @MmisterNobody @grok lost all the embarrassing things that have happened to Sam Harris | View |
History
GritCult first posted about Sam Harris on 28 October 2018, and most recently on 23 April 2026. Across the archive the subject comes up 21 times, most often in 2022 (7 posts).
See also
References
- ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (15 October 2022).
Twitter navalisms. Joe rogan. Tim ferris. Sam Harris. Ben Shapiro... The midwit diet.
X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (13 January 2021).
sam harris is a midwit.
X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (3 November 2020).
he is a counter signal. most would be better off doing the opposite of him
. X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (18 December 2024).
biggest midwit signal authors:... you would be better off not reading anything of their work than to be contaminated by their mind viruses
. X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (3 October 2020).
sam harris is not a philosopher... he is more of a logician
. X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (26 March 2022).
Convinced sam Harris. Shapiro. Hitchens. Maher et Al. Were all funded by the same psy op
. X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (19 August 2022).
told you, sam harris is not to be trusted. big backers. all of the ideological dark web, a failed experiment to shape ideological consensus.
X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (19 June 2021).
i would argue christopher hitchens, dawkins and sam harris accelerated the decay of culture itself... rationalism is sterile.
X.
Further reading
- “Human Programming With GritCult”, GritCult on High Agency Podcast (March 2021)
External links
- Posts about Sam Harris by GRITCULT on X
- Sam Harris on Wikipedia
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