Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1026 Scott Adams： Today I Solve Systemic Racism, But Only in the Independent Nation of my House

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody. How good it is to see you. Isn't it nice to be appreciated in

00:00:21.520 the morning? Well, I'm appreciating all of you. True story. So, let's get to it. We've got a lot

00:00:32.300 of problems to solve today. Systemic racism. We've got breakaway nations in the United States.

00:00:40.060 We've got economic problems. We've got stress. But I'm here to fix all of that.

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00:01:22.840 Hmm. So, I just tweeted a video inside Antifa land. I guess we're calling the autonomous zone

00:01:35.020 that they call CHAZ. Other people are calling Antifa land. And I saw a video where they were

00:01:41.900 having a pickup game of dodgeball. And let me ask you, how do you think a pickup game of dodgeball

00:01:50.900 turns out in a land in which people don't like to have rules? Just about the way you thought. So,

00:02:01.100 that's funny. I just saw a notice that the main street in my town is going to close main street

00:02:11.980 where all the restaurants are, most of them anyway. They're going to close main street on weekends so

00:02:18.400 that the table seating can extend into the streets. Not a bad idea, is it? Who came up with that idea?

00:02:31.000 Yes, I did suggest that to the restaurant owners through the one restaurant owner that I know the

00:02:38.260 best. So, I did suggest that to him. And he did say he was going to talk to the town about it. I don't

00:02:44.240 know if that's why it happened. But I like to think that one of the best things that came out of these

00:02:50.740 crises, you know, it's way too early to be looking for any good news during the middle of a triple

00:02:59.040 crisis. But it is true that we've noticed this a number of times, that people became very flexible

00:03:08.420 to a good suggestion. Right? Didn't you see this everywhere? Suddenly, the entire world became

00:03:16.020 flexible to listen to a good idea. And if you had a good idea, a week later, the law would change.

00:03:24.280 You saw it with telehealth and doctors being able to practice across borders.

00:03:31.740 Somebody comes up with an idea, hey, let's change that because it would help a lot with this COVID

00:03:36.320 situation. A week later, there's an executive order. And the law of the land is different.

00:03:43.140 You've never seen this before. You've never seen an ordinary citizen say, hey, I got an idea.

00:03:50.220 Why don't we do X? And then a week later, X is actually implemented. I mean, it's kind of fun

00:03:57.720 in its own way. There's something fun about that. I don't think that'll last. But certainly,

00:04:03.520 certainly an identifying characteristic of this time is quite different. How many of you saw my

00:04:12.060 appearance on Tucker Carlson's show last night? Raise your hands. I can't see you. Oh, that's right.

00:04:19.900 I'm the only one on video. Well, I don't think my answers on Tucker's show went exactly in the

00:04:29.040 direction he was expecting. I was talking about Chaz. That was the topic I was asked to talk about.

00:04:34.900 And I was unusually, probably surprisingly, supportive of the Chaz people. And I'm going to continue to 0.99

00:04:47.820 say that. Now, I'm not ignoring all the cost of it. I'm not ignoring that. You know, I'm taking full

00:04:55.540 appreciation that there are victims involved, the people who live there and have businesses there.

00:05:01.580 It's a gigantic inconvenience slash abusive, you know, situation. So none of that is minimized.

00:05:11.740 But we're adults. We can talk about the whole picture. And part of the whole picture is it's a

00:05:17.940 really interesting experiment. Honest to God, I don't think I could be more interested in what's

00:05:24.880 happening in Antifa land than just about anything that's happened in the news in a long time. You

00:05:31.960 know, President Trump has gotten a little quiet lately. Have you noticed that? I mean, by his

00:05:38.980 standards, he's getting a little bit quiet, maybe to a fault, given that he could be doing some

00:05:45.720 useful stuff. But Antifa and Antifa land or Chaz, if you prefer, is really interesting. Good and bad,

00:05:56.900 it's really interesting. So here are the things that interest me about it. Number one is to see how

00:06:03.960 quickly they, let's say, evolve toward the system that they were trying to escape. So the things that

00:06:12.980 we've already seen them immediately realized they needed, and you know, I'm not the first to point

00:06:18.220 this out, but walls, they needed a border. The very first thing they did was create a border.

00:06:24.900 That should be important. In other words, our national consciousness should be moved a little bit

00:06:34.500 without any argument being involved, simply because we observed that the people who, one assumes,

00:06:41.860 are the most against borders, the moment they were in charge, the first thing they did was create a

00:06:49.360 border wall. First thing. It wasn't even the second. It was just first thing. Got to have a border wall.

00:06:55.700 So even though this is not directly connected to, you know, any border immigration question,

00:07:01.620 I don't know how this couldn't affect you, right? Because the question of,

00:07:07.000 are borders necessary? I feel like that's been answered now. The other thing that Antifa land had

00:07:14.700 to do, well, I don't know if they had to do it, or it just emerged, that the few people who had guns

00:07:20.960 turned out to be the security force. Now, imagine if Antifa had no guns. It turns out they've got some

00:07:30.320 guns. But what if they had no guns? Well, then you and I could conquer Antifa land with just a couple

00:07:38.420 of guns. If nobody else had a gun, all you need is a couple of high-powered, you know, weapons. Just go

00:07:46.120 into Antifa land and say, I'm your new king. So I think one of the things they're realizing is if you

00:07:52.340 don't have a credible and functional security force, anybody can conquer you. And indeed,

00:08:01.820 it looks like a rapper named Raz has conquered Antifa land. I don't know if they know it yet.

00:08:08.360 Now, of course, I'm exaggerating for comic purposes. It could be that Raz is just trying to help out

00:08:14.520 because we know that he has at least access to guns. And we know that he's sort of self-appointed,

00:08:21.420 security there. He could be just helping. I mean, it could be nothing but productive. No, no. But

00:08:29.100 you have to wonder if the people there are completely, let's say, comfortable with somebody

00:08:37.740 assuming the mantle of armed security force in their new nation. That's got to make them think

00:08:45.580 about things in a different way. Here's another thing. Because everybody in Antifa land has a phone

00:08:53.880 and as soon as there's any kind of action in public, they turn on their phone. Antifa land is the first

00:09:02.200 place to, I would say, fully implement 100% public surveillance. Think about it. Everybody there has

00:09:13.760 a phone and they're all trained that as soon as there's anything going on, they pull out their

00:09:19.960 phones. So even though it's not, you know, security cameras affixed to light poles, you know, to whatever,

00:09:26.920 it's not security cameras. But they've created for themselves a situation in which there's 100%

00:09:34.140 complete coverage because they're outdoors and there's so much outdoors activity and they all

00:09:40.480 have phones with them, that they are a completely monitored society. Now, I think that might have

00:09:47.800 been closer to the opposite of what they had in mind, but that's how it turned out.

00:09:51.420 So watching this is interesting. Now, what I said on Tucker's show, and I'll say again,

00:09:58.600 is that I think these small experiments, we need to do more of these, but do them, you know,

00:10:04.780 in a more organized, legal, planned way that doesn't take over anybody's existing property.

00:10:11.200 There must be plenty of property in the United States that would be a good place to try a little

00:10:16.860 community. See what happens with no police. Maybe they use some other mechanism, maybe they use

00:10:22.960 technology. And what I said on Tucker's show is that we have a country that largely was designed

00:10:28.980 pre-internet. And then we just tried to tack the internet onto it as best we could to an existing

00:10:35.360 system. But I think one of the things that the protesters have exactly right is that we really

00:10:42.460 haven't tried the other options. You know, you and I can certainly say, Scott, if you try the no police

00:10:51.900 option, it's all going to go bad, and it's not going to work. To which I say, you could be right.

00:10:57.480 You could be 100% right. But I don't know that, because I don't know what the options are.

00:11:04.320 I don't know, you know, could you have a hybrid situation? Could you have half as many regular police,

00:11:10.940 so at least you reduce the number of armed people in the public? But, you know, you compensate with

00:11:16.900 other kinds of services? Let's test it. But let's test it in a clean, well-funded, organized way.

00:11:25.460 See what happens. Could work. I just don't think it'll work everywhere.

00:11:30.740 Here's my big question about Antifa land. Will Black Lives Matter and Antifa coexist in peace

00:11:37.380 in the long run. In the short run, Antifa and Black Lives Matter had a common enemy, 0.57

00:11:43.720 you know, the system. What happens when they don't have a common enemy anymore?

00:11:49.260 Well, in theory, what should happen is anytime you don't have a common enemy, you end up fighting with

00:11:54.880 each other. It's pretty much guaranteed. Now, we saw already that there was a sign, who knows how much

00:12:01.280 is real, because, you know, photographs coming out of Antifa land. It could be staged, it could be

00:12:06.340 doctored, it could be out of context. So, you know, be careful about any pictures or video you see

00:12:11.180 in general. But there was a sign there that looked like they had to segregate their communal garden.

00:12:19.180 So they had to segregate it into a black garden and a white garden.

00:12:23.620 Now, if a few days into your nation, you've decided that you need borders, armed cops,

00:12:32.420 you ended up with 100% surveillance in public, and segregation,

00:12:38.840 maybe things are not heading in the right direction. But on the other hand, we're learning a lot here.

00:12:47.300 I think they're learning a lot. It's just really useful in a way that I don't think we fully realize.

00:12:53.620 This is really useful, but very expensive. And I would argue that the value that we're going to

00:13:01.400 get out of it might exceed the cost in the long run, just because of how it will change how we

00:13:08.360 think about things. And of course, that's no comfort to the people losing their property and

00:13:14.680 inconvenience at the moment. I'm hearing more and more people who are afraid the whole world has

00:13:21.600 fallen apart. Do you feel that way? Do you feel afraid that we're on the brink of total societal

00:13:32.720 collapse, that the republic could be, you know, bending and ready to break, that civil society is about

00:13:42.920 to fall apart? And we can't talk to each other. And everything's, everything's a mess. How many of

00:13:48.380 you think that? Somebody, somebody says they think I'm stoned? Unfortunately, no, this is what I

00:13:56.420 actually sound like. I wish I were. But sorry to disappoint you. I'm not. So here's my take on that.

00:14:11.500 There's one central fact of life that you should keep in your head and never let it leave. So it should

00:14:20.060 be the filter that you put on just about anything you're seeing in the world. And it goes like this. In

00:14:26.240 the old days, the news was sort of reporting the news. In the modern world, in 2020, the news is really

00:14:33.580 just a way to spike the chemicals in your brain. It's not news in the way that news is supposed to be

00:14:40.440 news, like useful information that you can take advantage of to make a better world or any of that. The news is

00:14:48.300 not that. So if you still think the news is something like a way to transmit information,

00:14:55.760 you're going to be very lost and confused. Life won't make any sense. Because the news doesn't do

00:15:01.780 that anymore. It's not their business model. There's no intention to do that. It's not even an intention.

00:15:08.960 The news is there to make money. They've got a business model. They need eyeballs and attention. 1.00

00:15:13.060 And the way to do that is to jack up your emotional state, the audience that is,

00:15:19.440 to the point where they can't look away. All right. Now, here's what I've noticed.

00:15:26.920 If I were to walk outside my home today, how many problems would I encounter? None. None. If I were to

00:15:37.740 encounter an African-American gentleman somewhere in my travels or my workday today, would he and I

00:15:46.200 have any issues? Nope. None. Not a single issue. If I go into public, is there going to be some

00:15:56.060 problems or some riots where I live? Nope. Nope. In fact, if you took the map of the country,

00:16:03.800 and then you tried to, you know, with a magic marker on your map, you tried to, you know, mark all the

00:16:10.000 places where there's bad stuff happening. Let's say looting. Let's say Antifa land. Put them all

00:16:17.200 together. It would look like this big map that had just some pinpricks on it. That's it. Of the entire

00:16:23.780 geographic United States, there are a few pinpricks that are making a lot of news. The vast majority of

00:16:32.020 the country are sort of not engaged. They're just trying to go to work and take care of their

00:16:39.200 family, live their life. So the first thing that I would, if you're, if you find yourself stressed out

00:16:48.860 because you think the Republic's on the brink of failing, I would say this. You should reduce in

00:16:54.520 your mind just intellectually dial back however much you're worried by 80%. Okay. So that, that would

00:17:04.200 be about the right dial back to get from your attenuated state that's artificial because you've

00:17:10.520 been watching these little pinpricks. You know, you're watching the George Floyd situation. I mean,

00:17:16.240 the actual video of literally the moment, the last moments of his life. These are super, super powerful

00:17:24.740 emotional things. So everybody in the country who's watching the news is just cranked up beyond belief.

00:17:32.880 But the people who are not watching the news,

00:17:36.360 they're not having a bad time at all. So I would say this, that the perceived problem is 80%

00:17:46.600 larger than the actual problem. The actual problem is small compared to what the United States can

00:17:55.300 handle. If you'd like to feel good about something, let me suggest this. If you live in the United States,

00:18:01.840 if you're American, you're living in a country that is simultaneously handling a race protest slash

00:18:10.340 riot slash looting, whatever you want, but a racial crisis. We're handling a health crisis,

00:18:16.560 the biggest we've seen. And we're handling, I don't know, maybe AIDS was bigger, depending on how you

00:18:21.200 count things. And then an economic crisis. We're handling three gigantic crises at the same time.

00:18:30.920 And do you know how we're doing? Pretty well. Pretty well, actually. We're actually doing really

00:18:37.920 well. That's the whole story. The United States is handling three unprecedented crises, any one of

00:18:46.760 which would be a pretty big issue. I mean, obviously, a really big issue. Any one of them individually.

00:18:54.500 We're handling three. Three at the same time. And we're handling it. We're totally handling it.

00:19:05.140 And take, for example, I'm hearing more craziness about President Trump. Let's see,

00:19:11.840 what was it Biden said that if Trump lost the election, the military would have to take him

00:19:17.480 out of the White House. And Sam Harris has similar concerns that the president will tend toward a

00:19:25.840 dictatorship if he gets reelected. Now, does any of that sound even a little bit like the world you

00:19:33.980 live in? Because the world I live in, President Trump would actually be the last person in the world

00:19:41.700 who would try to stay in the White House if he lost the election. Like, in my mind, it's inconceivable.

00:19:50.040 It would be like saying, Scott, here's what I'm worried about. I'm worried that rabbits will grow

00:19:56.340 fangs and wings and start flying after us and attacking us with their fangs. To which I say,

00:20:04.160 hmm, maybe that's not what you should be worried about. Because I suppose anything's possible,

00:20:11.500 but I don't think a rabbit's going to grow fangs and wings all of a sudden for no reason and

00:20:16.040 start attacking people. So anyway, I wouldn't worry about things that are that unlikely.

00:20:25.240 So certainly the president leaving the White House if he loses the election, well,

00:20:31.880 I don't even know how to take it seriously, honestly. Like, I wanted to give you reasons why

00:20:39.780 he wouldn't leave. But it is so frickin stupid. No, it's not stupid. I'll withdraw that. It is so

00:20:47.680 delusional to imagine that the president who doesn't even want to use the military overseas

00:20:54.220 is that, and let me ask you this. Has this president killed fewer people than any other

00:21:02.580 president? I'm wondering if you compare presidents over time, I would guess, I'm not sure about this,

00:21:09.360 I could be wrong about this. But I'll bet if you looked at President Trump's body count,

00:21:14.700 if you count other countries, right? You know, and anybody that a president has somewhat directly

00:21:19.740 killed by their orders, I would think Trump would be among the lowest, wouldn't he?

00:21:29.600 Yeah. All right. So if you're worried about the world falling apart, I think that that is an

00:21:37.640 artifact of television and the news, and that you should worry a lot less about it, like 80% less.

00:21:43.440 Bill Maher continues to be extra interesting lately, because, and I say this, I compliment him

00:21:52.680 often, even when I disagree with his opinions, which is fair, I think. And I compliment Bill Maher

00:21:58.760 because he is one of the few public people who is capable of seeing both sides. Now, that doesn't

00:22:05.580 mean he sees them the way I see them. That's a little bit different. But Bill Maher literally is

00:22:11.560 capable of looking at arguments on both sides. Now, why is that impressive? Well, it shouldn't be.

00:22:20.100 Like, why am I impressed at that? That should be the most routine, ordinary thing that anybody can do.

00:22:26.180 But in fact, it's so rare that I would like to compliment Bill Maher in public for being one of

00:22:32.740 the most useful thinkers. Because even if you disagree with him, it's really useful to watch somebody in

00:22:39.960 public have an actual independent mind. Like, the more of that you see, the more likely it's going

00:22:46.060 to rub off on you a little bit. So again, it's not about what he says. It's the fact that he's even

00:22:51.620 able, just even able, to look at both sides in his view of both sides. So here's an example.

00:22:58.660 So Maher was saying that it's a bad strategy to call it defund the police. Now, in his view,

00:23:09.100 liberals want to just divert some portion of funds. Maybe it's additional funds. Maybe it's some a 0.99

00:23:16.920 little bit taken from the police. But in Maher's version, it's not eliminating the police. It's just

00:23:22.440 building a better system that has some additional elements. But I don't think that's everybody's

00:23:27.780 opinion. As the New York Times ran an opinion piece that said, no, we really do mean get rid of

00:23:34.380 the police. But even that, I don't know if that means get rid of the police. It might mean we change

00:23:40.420 their names, we get rid of all the existing ones, we train new ones, but they're sort of police-like,

00:23:46.460 but we don't call them police. So I don't think that Maher is wrong in the big picture. The big

00:23:54.380 picture meaning there'll be something like police no matter what. So I think he's right about that.

00:23:59.020 But he criticizes defund the police because it just hands, basically hands Trump the victory.

00:24:07.820 So Bill Barr is smart enough to know that the Democrats, the Democrat strategy of, you know,

00:24:15.540 everybody getting on board, Nancy Pelosi, everybody else, to defund the police is basically just

00:24:21.980 handing the election to Trump. Now, who knows? You know, there's still way too many days between

00:24:30.300 now and election day to say that anything means anything. There will be too many changes between

00:24:35.300 now. But I think he's on to something. I don't think there are too many people who are against law

00:24:42.920 in order in general. So let's talk about the two most interesting pieces of content yesterday. And I

00:24:53.040 tweeted that you should consume them in this order. Dave Chappelle did a surprise, I guess it was a

00:25:00.920 special on Netflix that they put on YouTube. So instead, I think you can see it on YouTube, you don't

00:25:06.340 need Netflix. So as Dave Chappelle, so he did, it looked like maybe it was a local event outdoors

00:25:13.260 during Coronavirus. So it's fairly, fairly new. And it happened since the George Floyd incident.

00:25:21.140 So it's a comedy act in which Dave Chappelle does no comedy. So that's the first thing you need to know

00:25:30.160 about it. It's a Dave Chappelle stand up comedy, in which he doesn't do any comedy, nor is he trying to

00:25:36.040 do any comedy. He, he's just really, he's really angry and worked up about the George Floyd incident. And so

00:25:46.980 most of his act was a very, very watchable, very interesting explanation of how he feels and how black

00:25:58.460 Americans feel about the whole situation. Now, yeah, I'm seeing in the comments, the other thing you need to

00:26:05.640 know about it, is that he was very inebriated. Now, he was either drunk or he was on some kind of drugs.

00:26:12.700 So he could barely stand up. I would say that he didn't do himself any favors. You know, in terms of

00:26:19.480 whatever you think of Dave Chappelle, I don't know that doing an act that drunk, you know, it's very

00:26:27.660 common for comedians on stage to be buzzed or even pretty drunk. But I've never seen anybody try to do a

00:26:34.700 stage act that drunk, actually. I mean, he was in bad shape, or drunk or high or whatever it was.

00:26:43.060 But he also doesn't hide that part of his personality. And so, you know, just, just take

00:26:51.520 that into account. It's not like he's being the hypocrite or something. He, you know, even in his act,

00:26:56.060 he talks about his love of marijuana, etc. So I don't think he's being a hypocrite. And obviously,

00:27:02.180 comedians are their own separate category of professionals. Yeah, and he said some nasty

00:27:10.040 things about Candace Owens, etc. But here's what I want. Here's the reason I recommend it. On an

00:27:16.040 entertainment level, don't look for any laughs, because he's not trying to give you any. He's

00:27:21.300 trying to make you think. He definitely makes you think. So I would say that the emotional trip

00:27:27.900 that he takes you on is really worth going on. Because you want to take the trip with him as your

00:27:35.040 tour guide, because you're going to feel how he feels. Now, here's what's interesting about it,

00:27:41.580 because the next content I'm going to recommend is Sam Harris, who I believe has probably been

00:27:47.020 canceled already. I'll have to check in on him. But he dropped a podcast last night. And if he

00:27:53.420 doesn't get canceled for this thing, nobody's ever, I'll be amazed. Because what Sam Harris did was he

00:28:01.800 went, he went to every third rail. And basically, I feel like he felt it was, you know, I don't want

00:28:08.960 to read his mind. But I could sense in his podcast, which was extraordinary, by the way, this is Sam

00:28:17.360 Harris's podcast, I think it's one for the ages, really. I mean, one of the top podcasts you might

00:28:27.240 ever hear, like of all podcasts, from anybody in all time, it's actually that good. Because it's a

00:28:34.520 it's sort of a masterpiece of critical thinking, against a backdrop of none of that. And when you

00:28:43.360 see, when you see him lay out the critical thinking, right after you've watched Chappelle's

00:28:49.540 lack of critical thinking, the contrast is just amazing. Chappelle is a very smart guy. But of course,

00:28:59.860 could you be objective and just purely rational? If you know, if you had identified, and this is

00:29:06.940 what Chappelle says in his act, if you had identified with George Floyd, like, Oh, my God, that's me. Or

00:29:13.420 Oh, my God, that could be my son or something. If you identified on that level, how could you possibly

00:29:19.940 be rational about it? Or really? Is that even something you would ask of somebody? You know, if,

00:29:25.900 if you saw a family member being killed, can I ask you to be rational about it? No, it's not,

00:29:31.980 it's not a fair question. It's just not a fair request. I'm not going to ask you to be rational

00:29:36.800 in a situation where a rational person should not be rational. Not at all. But seeing Dave Chappelle's

00:29:44.600 version of the world in which black people are being hunted down by white people and killed 0.57

00:29:50.180 is, is really useful. You know, if you're, if you're not black, it's really useful to get his

00:29:58.900 good explanation of it. Because what Chappelle does better than most people in the world is he's an

00:30:05.880 amazing communicator. So he communicates it with a depth of emotion. And, you know, getting back to

00:30:12.480 the thing about how drunk he was, I think maybe he just needed to be. I think maybe he needed to be.

00:30:19.900 Because I think the, the place he went, I just don't know if you could go there if you weren't,

00:30:26.320 if you weren't on, on something. And I think he needed, he felt he needed to go there. So,

00:30:34.540 but here's the fascinating thing about the Sam Harris. So that, so what Sam Harris did was went

00:30:40.380 through the statistics. And if you go through the statistics, it does not support all of the

00:30:46.220 claims of Black Lives Matter. I think that's an understatement. But to hear him go through it, 0.99

00:30:51.280 and it's just, I mean, it's devastatingly well done. But he goes to some really dangerous places.

00:31:00.800 And the most dangerous place he goes, I have also flirted with, which is the idea that it wasn't

00:31:07.880 the cop with the knee on the neck that killed him. It probably wasn't. And if you listen to Sam

00:31:14.820 Harris's explanation, he gives a very, a very, very compelling argument that in all likelihood,

00:31:23.880 what killed him was the cop on his back. Because we know that's deadly. The cop on his back would be

00:31:30.780 compressing his chest. He was having trouble breathing. There are, he gave another example of

00:31:37.160 on somebody on video that police killed exactly the same way and fentanyl was involved. So there's

00:31:45.040 actually another video of a white guy being killed exactly the same way by police. And they also didn't

00:31:51.320 know that the guy was dying. Because there was somebody was, had a knee on the suspect's back.

00:31:56.820 And this was the other case. And the suspect was saying, I can't breathe, I can't breathe.

00:32:03.060 And the cops were just joking. Because they didn't think they were doing anything that could

00:32:07.900 in any way be considered, you know, deadly or dangerous. And then the guy died right in front

00:32:13.440 of him. So when you hear Sam Harris, you know, call out, add the context and show you there are other

00:32:20.060 cases. In my opinion, I don't think the guy with his knee on the neck necessarily was the cause of

00:32:28.380 death. And, and we don't know, because there's some ambiguity there. But even calling out the

00:32:35.360 ambiguity is probably cause for cancellation. So anyway, so the Sam Harris view of the world,

00:32:42.800 completely opposite of the Dave Chappelle view of the world. And if you listen to them one after

00:32:47.140 another, you're really going to be fascinated, I think, because they both do such a good job

00:32:52.960 of painting a picture of their different worlds. It's like, it's like visiting two different planets

00:32:58.180 in two hours. But here was what interested me the most. Because although Sam's explanation of the

00:33:06.560 race relations situations, I would say matched my own almost identically. And he added things that I

00:33:14.060 didn't know about, which were compatible with what I was thinking as well. But of course, we differ,

00:33:20.360 we differ starkly on the question of President Trump. So of course, Sam throws in some things that

00:33:28.100 I would consider TDS, he would consider, I think, plainly obvious. But those are two different worlds

00:33:34.840 about Trump. Now, here's the part that really, really interests me. Sam Harris doesn't seem to be

00:33:44.260 aware that he's part of the race problem. Or at least he didn't mention it. So I can't assume he's

00:33:51.080 not aware of it. But it goes like this. Other smart people have said that the race, the protests and the

00:33:59.220 racial animus is much worse under Trump. Would you all agree that that's true? The racial division,

00:34:08.560 at least at the moment, seems like it probably would never have been this bad if Trump had not

00:34:14.980 been president. Would you agree? Would you agree that maybe if Obama had been president,

00:34:20.080 people would have just felt differently? I'm saying no, no, no. So I don't know what your no is to. So

00:34:29.200 I'm not sure I'm interpreting that correctly. Now, if you were to look at statistics, oh, let me

00:34:35.820 clarify. I think I know what you're saying no to. If you were to look at statistics, I don't believe

00:34:41.720 that there's any worse race relations. So I think that's what you're saying in the comments. Statistically,

00:34:47.260 I don't think race relations are worse. So I'd agree with you that Trump did not make that worse.

00:34:53.060 But if you were to look at the news, and you look at the pundits, do you think the news and the

00:35:00.040 pundits are talking about race in a far more provocative way because it's part of getting 0.99

00:35:05.500 at Trump? In my opinion, all the people with Trump derangement syndrome who have been calling him a

00:35:12.880 racist for years have created this situation. So meaning the spark, obviously, they didn't create

00:35:21.320 the legacy of slavery, they didn't create systemic racism, if we can identify it, they didn't create

00:35:28.140 racism. So that, you know, that that part's already there. But in terms of the energy that's being put

00:35:34.020 into it at the moment, that's a combination of two, two factors in addition to the baseline

00:35:41.720 racism that is, you know, a problem. And the two other factors are there was a video that probably

00:35:48.620 is misleading, but nobody will ever believe it. That's that's the first thing videos are all lies.

00:35:55.580 By the way, let me say this as clearly as possible. From now on, you should say to yourself that all

00:36:00.960 videos are a lie. And the reason you should do that is because all videos are a lie. All of them.

00:36:08.580 Sometimes by exclusion, sometimes because of the angle, sometimes because you can't hear what's

00:36:14.140 happening, but you can see it. But I would say that all video is a lie. And that applies to the next

00:36:20.060 video you see as well, whatever that is. I'm not even talking about the the George Floyd video in

00:36:25.940 particular. It's a universal statement that in small ways and big ways, all videos lie, period.

00:36:33.380 You could say that about photos as well.

00:36:38.700 So there is no awareness by the media that they have created this situation by continuously calling

00:36:47.260 half of the country racist. If you're calling the president racist, and you're saying anybody who

00:36:52.620 supports it must be also, either they are a racist or they're supporting a racist, you've created a

00:36:58.460 situation where you guarantee race riots. How do you not get a race riot? If the most powerful forms 0.98

00:37:04.960 of persuasion, which are social media plus the news, if the two most powerful weaponized pieces of

00:37:11.860 persuasion are telling you every day, something that's mostly not true. It's fake news. How much did the

00:37:21.200 fake news about the fine people in Charlottesville, how much did that obviously fake news, because the

00:37:27.960 president said the opposite of what was reported, how much of that fake news is behind these problems?

00:37:34.660 Will the media ever report on their own culpability in creating a hallucination that half of the country

00:37:42.100 bought into and shut down the whole nation over it? The fact that we don't look at CNN as the primary

00:37:49.340 cause of these problems is shocking. It's just shocking. CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, the anti-Trump press

00:38:02.080 is one of the three parts that cause this problem. One part is the racism itself. I'm not minimizing that,

00:38:13.280 of course. The other part is the video, which is a lie. We don't know how. And obviously, something terrible

00:38:21.760 happened. And, and it looked like a crime to me, too. Right? So everybody who saw it was horrified. It looked like a

00:38:28.420 crime. But you don't know what was happening, because you don't know what was in their minds. You don't know exactly

00:38:33.940 what killed them. Was it the guy in the back? You don't know what they were thinking. The video is a lie. The video is a

00:38:41.460 lie. We just don't know in what way. It could actually be worse. You know, one of the ways it

00:38:47.220 could be lying is what if it's worse? You know, right? What, because what if, what if they had just

00:38:55.040 been saying some, you know, N-word things five minutes before the video rolled? If you didn't see

00:39:01.480 something happening before the video came on, and it was even, it would make the situation even worse,

00:39:06.980 worse? Well, that's a lie, too. Because the situation would be much worse. As bad as it

00:39:12.500 was, it could even be worse. So the video always lies. You just don't know how. All right.

00:39:24.740 There are four days left in my one-week challenge to have somebody explain to me what systemic racism

00:39:32.380 is before I disregard it as an illusion. Right? Now, I have a rule that has been developed over my

00:39:42.300 lifetime, and it goes like this. If you can't describe something to somebody else, you don't

00:39:48.960 know what it is. In other words, you don't understand it yourself. Now, when you ask people

00:39:54.100 to describe systemic racism, you will get a million different explanations, which first of all tells you

00:40:01.640 that only one of them could be right. Yeah, it's not really a million, but you get a lot of different

00:40:06.500 explanations. And if one of them is right, it means that all the other people who thought they knew

00:40:12.240 what systemic racism is, they're all wrong. And it doesn't matter which one is right, because there

00:40:18.620 are lots of different explanations. If any one of them is right, everybody who thinks they know what

00:40:24.380 it is is wrong. So you don't have something you can deal with, because I don't know which one of

00:40:29.380 them is right. And it's usually word salad when you ask somebody. Let me give you an example.

00:40:38.340 All right. I wanted to give you an exact example that I hope I wrote down. Damn it. I forgot to

00:40:46.460 write that down. Anyway, look at my questions about this, my tweets on asking people for examples.

00:40:55.100 And you'll see that it's sort of word salad-y and crazy. So people will use analogies, because

00:41:02.940 they don't have anything that they can point out. They'll use historical examples. They'll

00:41:08.560 imagine that things are legal today that are not legal, like redlining. So I don't know what

00:41:15.960 the problem is, but nobody can give me an example. Okay. If somebody can't explain it to you,

00:41:21.420 they don't know what it is. Every single time. All right. I asked a following question,

00:41:30.340 and I've been asked if I'm trolling or serious or I'm just trying to cause trouble. Interestingly,

00:41:38.060 I wasn't trying to cause trouble. You know, I think I get blamed for being too much of a troll,

00:41:45.980 even when I'm not. So here's the question I asked. Do we have any statistics on Ivy League educated

00:41:53.440 black people who have been killed by police? And compare that to Ivy League educated people from 1.00

00:42:02.200 other ethnicities. And the reason I asked it that way is because that would control for a lot more 0.98

00:42:09.380 variables. In other words, race would be the thing that really stood out as the one thing that's

00:42:14.900 different. Because you imagine that an Ivy League graduate would be smarter, you know, on average,

00:42:23.320 if you went to an Ivy League school, you're probably smarter than somebody who didn't.

00:42:27.100 So if you're a smart black person who gets stopped and you're a smart white person or a smart Asian 0.99

00:42:32.800 American, whatever you are, you're just a smart person and you're probably polite.

00:42:37.720 If you went to an Ivy League school, are you more polite than the average person? Probably.

00:42:46.140 Probably. Probably. Yeah, that's been my experience. They just have good manners because it's just part

00:42:51.780 of the culture, part of the learning experience. And at the very least, even if you didn't have good

00:42:57.160 manners before you went to your Ivy League college, well, you spend four years around people who have

00:43:01.920 really good manners and you probably pick up something, right? So if it's true that police

00:43:08.980 would, let's say, injure or kill an Ivy League educated black man in America at some significantly

00:43:16.620 larger rate than any other Ivy League educated person who gets stopped, let's say you can control

00:43:22.960 for other factors too, like income and time of day and whatever, would that tell you something?

00:43:28.600 Now, it was pointed out to me that that would be a bad comparison because your Ivy League educated

00:43:37.080 people, no matter what their ethnicity, are probably going to be stopped by police in an upper class

00:43:43.840 town. Fair enough. It still works. Because even if only rich people were being stopped by well-qualified

00:43:53.160 police in an upscale town, if you didn't have any difference between how the black motorists were

00:44:01.640 treated by the police and anybody else, I think that would tell you something. Now, the trouble with

00:44:07.720 all of these statistics is that any one measure of any of this stuff doesn't tell you enough.

00:44:17.320 It just doesn't tell you enough. When somebody says insufficient data set, I don't know. I doubt it

00:44:23.480 because there must be thousands, thousands and thousands of people that you could poll for that data set.

00:44:31.000 All right. So let's talk about how to cure this systemic racism. We'll go to the whiteboard.

00:44:49.880 So as I'm thinking through this, like what's the system? So if there's systemic racism, it means there's a

00:44:55.960 problem with the system. By definition, it's not a problem with the people. It's something about the

00:45:02.680 systems. So your first system that everybody is involved with in life is your family. If your family

00:45:09.960 system is bad, how well are you going to do in school? Well, on average, not so well. If this system

00:45:17.080 is broken, your school is broken, and then you don't get the good job, you don't get to the good college.

00:45:21.480 Basically, everything that you can measure in these systems is all pre-broken. So if you imagine

00:45:30.360 that these systems are racist, you might be looking in the wrong place. Because if you get this part

00:45:37.480 right, there's a lot less problem in all the rest of it. But how do you fix this part? You know,

00:45:43.960 I think conservatives, conservatives are a little bit harsh, I think, on this question. Because if

00:45:51.880 you're lucky enough to have an intact family, and you know, your family unit is pretty strong,

00:45:57.720 you know, nothing's perfect, but your family unit is strong, you don't have any divorce, and it's

00:46:02.360 two parents and all that. Well, congratulations, aren't you lucky. But you know, that's not the rest of

00:46:09.960 the world. You know, a kid doesn't get to choose if they have two loving parents. In the real world,

00:46:17.880 it doesn't always work out. Here's the problem with the family. I finally came up to a way that

00:46:24.280 I can just use math to explain the problem. The problem with family as a system is the same problem

00:46:33.320 as trying to invest in an individual stock. What's the problem in investing in one stock?

00:46:41.880 No diversification, right? So if that one stock turns out to be bad, you've lost all the money you

00:46:48.360 ever had. Because in this example, you put all of your money you would ever made into one stock.

00:46:54.680 If it goes bad, you've lost everything. That's why it's a bad idea. Instead, you buy a basket of stocks

00:47:01.000 that represent the whole market. Some of them can be bad, some of them can be good, but on average,

00:47:06.360 they'll be more good than bad. So that's just using math to learn how to invest. The family unit is the

00:47:14.120 same problem. You got two parents. One of the odds that both of them are good, meaning that one of them

00:47:20.840 is not an abuser. One of them is not a pedophile. One of them doesn't have a drug problem. One of

00:47:26.840 them isn't cheating. What are the odds that you get two good ones? Well, there are lots of people

00:47:34.200 who got lucky. Maybe a third of the country, I don't know what the number is, but maybe a third of

00:47:41.080 people got lucky and they got a strong family unit. But I don't think it's more than a third.

00:47:48.120 I'll bet two thirds have at least one bad parent or none, or no good parents, right?

00:47:56.680 So what could you do to compensate for the fact that you don't have diversification

00:48:02.920 in your family? So if you get a bad one, you're in bad shape. Now imagine, if you will, that you also

00:48:10.680 have the ripple effect from the legacy of slavery, the original sin. Is it likely that even these many

00:48:19.480 years after it, and Dave Chappelle makes a good point, it was his, Dave Chappelle's great-grandfather

00:48:25.400 was actually a slave. He was actually a slave. So as Chappelle says, that's today. If you knew

00:48:35.160 somebody, or you can name somebody in your own family who was actually a slave, that's today.

00:48:44.120 That's his point, that that ripple effect, it's not like some tiny ripple from a million years ago.

00:48:49.480 Now, it's pretty present, you know. If you look at history in general, it's kind of close.

00:48:57.240 And so one could imagine that that would have effects on the family, which would then have a ripple effect

00:49:02.680 all the way through. Now, what do you do about that? Nobody knows. Nobody knows. Literally, nobody has a

00:49:11.160 good idea what to do about this. Because there's no way to really fix a family, is there? How do you fix families?

00:49:17.640 The problem is, the problem is, the problem is, math. There's a simple diversification problem,

00:49:25.080 and you just can't diversify with just two people. The math doesn't work. The odds that one of them

00:49:31.640 will be bad is just so high. And that has nothing to do with ethnicity. It's just math. There aren't

00:49:38.920 that many good people in the world that you could expect most people to have two good parents. And so

00:49:44.440 I suggest the following as something to be tested. Here's my hypothesis, and it goes like this.

00:49:55.080 There are some people in some situations that need something more like a tribe. Now, we're not getting

00:50:02.680 ethnic here. Tribe applies to Antifa, all the white people in Antifastan. It feels like they have built a 0.95

00:50:11.320 tribal kind of society, which is why I'm so interested in it. If you look at the videos

00:50:16.680 coming out of Antifastan, there are two things that occur to me. One, it's not economically viable.

00:50:25.640 In other words, it can't last because it doesn't have the systems in place to make it last. So that's

00:50:31.000 obvious. But number two, they seem to be having a good time.

00:50:35.320 Right? They seem to be having a good time. Secondly, I don't think there's been that much

00:50:43.640 violence compared to how much you would expect without police, right? And I wonder if there are not,

00:50:52.200 at least for some period of life, a situation where you'd be better off in a village. And here's why.

00:51:00.040 If you have two parents, what are the odds that one of them would be a good mentor?

00:51:05.640 You only have two. Well, let's make it harder. You only have one parent. Very common, right?

00:51:12.680 How many households have one parent? It's big. It's like 40%, giant number. You only have one parent.

00:51:19.640 What are the odds that that one parent has good advice for life?

00:51:24.120 They might. They might. I would say that my mother had good life advice. So I got lucky.

00:51:33.240 My father suggested that I go work for the post office because they have good benefits.

00:51:38.600 So I had two parents. One of them, my mother, gave me extraordinary life advice in a variety of ways.

00:51:48.280 My father gave me the worst life advice I've ever heard in my whole fucking life,

00:51:54.440 which is go get a job for the post office, which is where he worked, because the health care benefits

00:51:59.640 are great. What if I'd had no parents who were good at giving life advice? What if there were none?

00:52:07.240 One, right? That's got to be very, very common. But now imagine that you're part of a tribe,

00:52:14.200 and you can define tribe any way you want. But let's just say it's a loose structure of people

00:52:19.000 who have some mutual support there. Well, the odds that at least one person in the tribe

00:52:26.760 has some good advice is pretty good. It's pretty good. So the argument that I'm going to make is just

00:52:34.680 math that there might be some people in some situation, not you, not you. If a family works

00:52:41.400 for you, do the family. That seems like a pretty good deal. But I just don't think it works for

00:52:47.000 everybody. And I think we have to recognize there's not one size fits all. Now, a trend that I think

00:52:55.160 supports this idea, the tribal experiment idea, is that apparently young people are growing up

00:53:02.600 slower. Have you heard that? Now, I don't know exactly what that means. But there's some sense

00:53:08.120 that even biologically, that young people are not, they're not maturing in the same way as in the past.

00:53:16.040 You know, in the old days, if you were 16, you could run a business,

00:53:19.080 business, literally, like, you know, a friend of mine was running a bowling alley, he was in charge,

00:53:25.480 he was the boss, his father had invested in it, he just ran the bowling alley. So he was running a

00:53:31.480 business completely at age 16. How did it work out? Great. He went on to become a rich entrepreneur,

00:53:39.400 he's retired and travels around in golf now. Now, was that experience, you know, but how often does that

00:53:47.720 happen today? Do you know any 16 year olds who were running adult businesses? I mean, I think

00:53:54.040 people are just postponing the adult part as long as possible. And I think if you've got people who

00:53:59.880 have aged and of high school, they're not in college, but they're not yet mature enough to have their own

00:54:07.240 family, what do you do with them? What do you do with people who are not so young, their parents are

00:54:11.960 taking care of them, but they haven't matured to the place where they can just start their own

00:54:16.680 family or go into business and be a good citizen? There's a whole bunch of people who need a little

00:54:21.960 extra maturing. And maybe college is not not their calling. What do you do with them? Well, it could

00:54:29.160 be this, it could be Antifa stand, it could be a tribe. And if you get the first part right, in other

00:54:35.640 words, if you don't break a kid in the first few years of their life, if you get the first few years right,

00:54:41.000 that's a pretty good basis for the other systems to work out. So here's my overall point. When we talk

00:54:49.960 about systemic racism, we're talking about everything from college to jobs to banking and loans to

00:54:57.640 what? Basically everything, right? The legal system. But is it not true that every one of those systems

00:55:07.480 is really just an outcome of the very first system being broken? The first system being the family.

00:55:16.600 And I think that's the conservative view. But what's not the conservative view is that the way to fix it

00:55:22.760 is just have a better family. That's not a thing. Conservatives, let me let me speak to the

00:55:28.840 conservatives who are listening here. If your advice for black people is have better families,

00:55:36.040 because that's what worked for you. That's terrible advice. I mean, it would be great if you could do it,

00:55:41.880 right? If that were something people could just want to do. Oh, now you told me, why didn't you tell me

00:55:48.040 all I had to do is have a strong family? All right, problem solved. It's just not actionable

00:55:54.600 advice. It's just useless to have that opinion, because it doesn't help anybody. Unless you're

00:56:00.840 going to say, all right, here's how to fix it. And nobody's suggested anything like that.

00:56:07.240 You're gonna have to try something else. So I say, let's experiment a little bit. Maybe all this,

00:56:13.480 especially the male energy, which is the most dangerous, maybe you put it in a tribe.

00:56:19.800 So here's the other thing. You saw, if you see the pictures from Antifa stand, you see that they

00:56:25.400 want to be in groups. You know, they had a dodgeball pickup game that didn't go well because

00:56:32.200 they don't have rules. But the fact that they just wanted to be together in a tribal kind of

00:56:39.400 situation, it might be that that's exactly what they need. But maybe you do that for a few years.

00:56:47.320 And then you're mature enough. And then you say, huh, I met somebody in my tribe. Now we're going

00:56:52.360 to go start a family. But now we're ready. We've matured enough. We got some good mentoring.

00:56:59.480 You know, we're in a good situation. And now we'll, we'll go to the next system because we're ready.

00:57:03.720 All right. Howard Stern's in trouble for blackface. That's the whole story. Howard Stern's in trouble

00:57:11.400 for blackface. There, nobody's safe. Why in the world anybody had ever put on blackface? Like, 1.00

00:57:18.440 was there ever a time in my lifetime that that was okay? Like, even, even if you were a shock jock,

00:57:25.880 like at what point was that ever okay? I don't remember any time when that was okay. Yet a lot of

00:57:31.640 people did it. All right. Let's see if I covered all my incredibly fascinating points.

00:57:44.120 It seems that the protests, if they're still going on, are still not being covered by the news. Is

00:57:48.440 that true? Are you still noticing that the news is not covering the protests? If there's one thing

00:57:56.040 you need to understand, it's that the news is assigning our opinions. If you, if you could

00:58:01.880 understand that one thing, you would know what needs to be changed in the system. What needs to

00:58:07.640 be changed in the system is you either, you either need more competition for the news. So you're not

00:58:13.800 being fed sort of, you know, a mainstream narrative, which is what's happening now, or just a better way to

00:58:21.160 understand what's going on in your world. Now, let me make a general statement that what I thought of

00:58:29.720 it is sort of a crushing thought, but I think we can get past that it goes like this. For my entire

00:58:38.120 lifetime and probably several lifetimes before mine, would you agree with the following statement that

00:58:44.680 humanity has been doing its best to move from an emotional, irrational civilization, you know,

00:58:53.720 early, early humanity, to a fact-based, rational, data-driven civilization. You'd accept that as a

00:59:05.080 truth, right? That we're, that we have really been trying hard to move toward using facts and data to

00:59:11.160 make our decisions. So I think you would agree with that. But there was one problem we didn't see

00:59:16.600 coming. And that is that all of our data would be a lie. So we've, we've built an entire civilization

00:59:25.960 to depend on having facts and data that we would then put our analytics on to make decisions. But what

00:59:32.360 we didn't see coming is that 100% of our data is fake. Now, it doesn't have to be. It didn't have to

00:59:42.840 be. But the people who give us the data, at least the stuff we make decisions on in politics, it's all

00:59:49.960 lies. It's all out of context. The videos are all lies. As I said before, there's always something

00:59:56.360 before or after the video, something that's not shown on the video. So we've created a civilization

01:00:02.840 that can't work. Let me say that again. We have consciously created a system, a civilization,

01:00:12.040 that depends on good data to make decisions, while also creating a system that guarantees that data will

01:00:18.840 never be good. Not even sometimes. Not even by accident. It will never be good. Because people

01:00:26.520 are making up their versions of their political data. Well, I think I'll leave out this data,

01:00:31.400 because that doesn't support my side. I think I'll leave out the other data, because that doesn't

01:00:36.040 support my side. Oh, all the data turned down to be wrong? Let's run a correction that nobody will see.

01:00:42.680 So we've, we've actually created a system, which if you were to look at it objectively, you know,

01:00:47.880 I like to use the example of the, the advanced species of alien land on the planet, and they're

01:00:53.560 the only ones who are unbiased. So they look at the, they look at our system, and they're trying to

01:00:58.520 study us as just scientists who are, who are dispassionate about our existence. They just want

01:01:04.280 to understand it. They look down and say, all right, what's the system they got there? Okay, good.

01:01:09.000 They really like facts. Excellent. They, they want to use reason and science. Okay, good, good.

01:01:17.160 And now let's look at their facts. Oh, they also invented a system to lie to you on all the facts.

01:01:26.120 All of them. Now, your first thought is like, oh, Scott, you're talking about political facts. You

01:01:32.200 know, I get that. Everybody discounts that, because you know, both sides are lying about their political

01:01:37.160 facts. Oh, no, I'm not talking about political facts. Because it turns out that all facts are

01:01:44.680 political. You know, it didn't have to be that way. How about gun control facts?

01:01:49.960 How about climate change facts? How about race relations facts? How about economic facts? How about

01:01:59.640 trade relations facts? International facts? Who, who got, who got gassed and who didn't facts? None of it's

01:02:08.200 true. None of it. Absolutely none of it is dependable. In fact, the using of models to predict

01:02:16.760 is sort of a confession that it's made up. It really is. You know, that's a longer argument.

01:02:25.720 But the models are to fool you into thinking that they're, that the data is useful. Because if you

01:02:32.920 looked at the data, you'd have questions. You'd say, huh, I'm not sure that data is correct for this

01:02:38.200 reason or that reason. But if you look at the model, it makes you think past the sale, right?

01:02:45.000 The model makes you focus on the model. It doesn't make you focus on the data that went

01:02:50.280 into the model. So that's part of the magic trick. Look at my model. Where'd you get the data? Look at my

01:02:56.760 model. Can I take a look at your data? Look at my model. My model is beautiful. Look at that curve.

01:03:04.760 But where's your data? Have you seen my model? So that's the world we've created. One, one in which

01:03:12.440 we consciously build systems that can't work together. You know, one requires facts and the

01:03:18.680 other, make sure you don't know them. That's the system. So I think we can improve on that. And I

01:03:26.520 think we'll be fine, by the way. And I do agree with the uber optimists, the top optimists for the

01:03:36.600 economy. I think the economy is really going to surprise you how well it does. And here's the

01:03:42.760 other thing that the news is lying to you about at the moment. Have you seen all the reporting about

01:03:48.200 the new cases of coronavirus? There's a lot of them, right? Now, some of it might be because there's

01:03:53.160 more testing, but there does seem to be, you know, I do buy into the likelihood that there's also just

01:04:00.280 lots more infection because people are getting out more. But do you know what they are de-emphasizing?

01:04:08.120 They're de-emphasizing deaths. Do you know why they're de-emphasizing deaths? Because deaths are

01:04:14.120 going down or at least staying flat. We're not having more people dying. We're just having lots more

01:04:20.520 infections. If it stays that way, and I think it might, because you could be, you could have lots

01:04:26.280 of infections so long as you're extra protecting the vulnerable people. As long as you've learned

01:04:34.040 to use ventilators correctly. Maybe the therapeutics are already working. Some people say the hydroxychloroquine

01:04:42.760 already works, and that might be behind some of the drop in deaths. I'd say that's unconfirmed.

01:04:51.320 So look at the deaths. If you see that all of the reporting is about the number of infections,

01:04:58.120 that's fake news. Because what you care about the most is deaths. If people get it and get better,

01:05:05.480 now, of course, there is the worry that there are long-term repercussions. I'm not minimizing that.

01:05:11.160 But so far, that doesn't seem to be a giant problem. It seems to be on the smaller side,

01:05:17.720 unless you haven't. If it's you who gets at them, of course, it's a big problem.

01:05:26.680 Yeah, I don't know if the number of new tests explains the number of infections completely. I'm

01:05:33.400 speculating that it doesn't. But you're right, that's an open question.

01:05:36.200 Hospital admissions are only relevant if they're impacted, meaning that if their capacity is tested.

01:05:47.080 And it seems to me, if the death rate is going down or staying the same, that even if the hospitals

01:05:52.840 are impacted, it's not the kind of impact that we saw in the beginning. If people are dying and being

01:06:00.280 put in on ventilators, that is a big impact. But if people are simply being treated and outpatient,

01:06:10.040 maybe they're in the hospital for a little bit, but they don't go all the way to the ICU,

01:06:15.960 that's not nearly as bad as packing your ICUs and then the people die anyway. That's your worst situation.

01:06:22.680 How many people died from the flu this year? Well, you know, there's a big question about whether the

01:06:33.000 regular flu kills more than a few thousand people because the number is not counted. It's actually

01:06:38.600 estimated. And I believe, I would say the evidence strongly suggests that the people who estimate the

01:06:46.600 number of people who die from the regular flu are probably lying, probably know it, and they're

01:06:53.560 doing it to get you to take the flu shot. So my guess is that, like all the other data in the world,

01:07:02.200 that it's just fake, the number of regular deaths. And the reason that, well, you can know it's,

01:07:07.320 you, let me say it's stronger. The number of regular flu deaths is fake news. It's just fake.

01:07:14.440 Here's how you know. And you can test this, right? The number of people that they say die from the

01:07:20.280 flu, which really means pneumonia, because the flu causes the pneumonia, that's how it usually happens,

01:07:26.360 is around in that 50,000 a year range. Something else that's in that same range of deaths per year is

01:07:33.160 the number of people who die from fentanyl. Now, do you know anybody who died from a fentanyl overdose?

01:07:40.280 Almost certainly. I'll bet you do. I certainly do. My stepson died from it. And, you know, and I know

01:07:48.600 other people. But I'll bet you've never heard of anybody who died from a flu that gave them pneumonia

01:07:54.920 that they died. I've never heard of it. I've been around for a long time. Never heard of it once.

01:08:01.400 That doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I mean, there's just a smaller number.

01:08:04.920 So, you know, if I had heard of people dying of regular flu that caused pneumonia that caused

01:08:12.520 them to die, then I'd say, oh, that probably is 50,000 of those a year, because that's about how

01:08:19.720 often I hear of somebody dying from an overdose. If you're hearing about them at about the same rate,

01:08:25.720 even approximately, you could say to yourself, okay, they're probably in the same general range.

01:08:32.040 But if you've heard of nobody, nobody, it just, it was always fake news. All right,

01:08:39.400 that's all for now. And I'll talk to you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 13, 2020

Episode 1026 Scott Adams： Today I Solve Systemic Racism, But Only in the Independent Nation of my House

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