Sam Harris on Religious Moderates

All of these bring each other more to mind: here, now, me, us;
trend-deviating likely real local events; concrete, context-dependent,
unstructured, detailed, goal-irrelevant incidental features; feasible safe
acts; secondary local concerns; socially close folks with unstable
traits. 

Conversely, all these bring each other more to mind: there, then,
them; trend-following unlikely hypothetical global events; abstract,
schematic, context-freer, core, coarse, goal-related features; desirable
risk-taking acts, central global symbolic concerns, confident predictions,
polarized evaluations, socially distant people with stable traits. 

via
overcomingbias.com

I’m trying to ingest this concept of near/far that Hanson is constantly
referring to. I can’t help but feel as if, once I understand what he’s
trying to say, I could explain it much better.