Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 31, 2021


Episode 1392 Scott Adams： Study Says Young Liberal Women Have Mental Problems, Translating CNN, and Experts Get Stuff Wrong


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44 minutes

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152.3063

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6,736

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193

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

19


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00:00:46.340 Yeah, yeah, that's the stuff.
00:00:49.540 That's the good stuff.
00:00:52.100 Morning stuff.
00:00:54.540 That's a reference from Land Before Time.
00:00:58.140 One of the funniest scenes by Will Ferrell.
00:01:01.560 Well, on CNN, I was reading an article about how the Republican-led states of Texas, Florida, Georgia,
00:01:10.100 and some other ones, have, quote, and this is the phrase from CNN,
00:01:16.140 have seized on former President Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election.
00:01:21.600 They've seized upon his lies.
00:01:24.280 And I don't know exactly what it means to seize upon some lies,
00:01:30.760 because it's hard to get a handful of a lie.
00:01:35.240 They're kind of slippery.
00:01:36.540 But apparently you can seize them.
00:01:38.920 And then once you've seized them, bad things happen.
00:01:42.000 And apparently the bad thing is that these states are adopting new restrictions
00:01:49.920 that will make it harder for some of the residents to vote.
00:01:53.460 Well, that sounds bad.
00:01:55.800 My God, why are these states making it harder for people to vote?
00:02:01.200 I feel like I've heard the whole story now.
00:02:05.720 There couldn't possibly be anything that would explain why they're making these changes.
00:02:12.620 Well, the reason they're making the changes to the voting system
00:02:16.340 is because they seized on President Trump's lie.
00:02:21.880 You can see how these are connected, right?
00:02:23.580 So you've got the seizing on the lie.
00:02:27.000 And that causes you to change your laws so that fewer people can vote.
00:02:32.920 It's true, because it's right here in CNN.
00:02:35.880 Oh, do you think there's another way to interpret this?
00:02:39.280 Well, let's go to the CNN-speak interpreter.
00:02:45.740 All right.
00:02:46.900 Calling up my app for interpreting CNN.
00:02:50.500 Then we'll look up seizing on a Trump lie.
00:02:54.980 Seizing on a Trump lie.
00:02:56.720 That's translated to improving election integrity.
00:03:01.780 All right.
00:03:02.040 So seizing on a Trump election lie.
00:03:05.260 Same thing as improving election integrity.
00:03:09.760 Let's see.
00:03:10.420 Are there other things that are confusing?
00:03:12.900 Let's see.
00:03:13.320 Restrictions on voting.
00:03:14.640 Let's go to the translator.
00:03:16.700 Restrictions on voting.
00:03:17.780 means restrictions on vote rigging.
00:03:23.220 Yeah.
00:03:24.100 Restrictions on voting
00:03:25.460 translates into restrictions on illegal votes and vote rigging.
00:03:33.000 Anything else we should look up?
00:03:34.560 How about...
00:03:35.760 I see them use the phrase capital insurrection a lot.
00:03:39.180 Let's go to the translator.
00:03:40.840 Capital insurrection.
00:03:42.260 Click, click, click, click, click.
00:03:43.240 Capital insurrection translates from CNN-speak into a capital protest.
00:03:49.860 A protest.
00:03:52.220 How about courts find no widespread election fraud?
00:03:56.980 Put it in the translator.
00:03:59.140 Courts find no widespread election fraud.
00:04:04.000 And that translates to blind man watches no movies this year.
00:04:11.580 Well, that's just an analogy.
00:04:13.380 That doesn't help me.
00:04:15.300 Let me think.
00:04:16.120 Blind man watches no movies.
00:04:18.080 Well, of course.
00:04:21.100 Because he's blind.
00:04:22.940 Because when you're blind, you can't watch things.
00:04:25.100 And if you're a court and nobody brings you a case that you're willing to hear,
00:04:30.920 well, maybe you don't find any widespread election problems.
00:04:34.920 Could be because there aren't any.
00:04:37.280 Could be.
00:04:38.240 Could be they didn't find any because there aren't any.
00:04:41.120 It could also be because they didn't look for any.
00:04:44.160 Either one of those two things would get you in the right place.
00:04:47.320 All right.
00:04:49.280 Here's some good news.
00:04:51.620 Have you ever noticed that when people, let's say, invest in companies,
00:04:56.460 or even managers at big companies,
00:04:58.540 they tend to make their decisions based on the personnel
00:05:01.100 more than the details of the proposition?
00:05:05.160 So if you're high up in management of anything, if you're a leader,
00:05:09.780 you're usually depending on the person who brings you the idea
00:05:13.400 to know if it's a good idea.
00:05:15.820 Like, you can't independently know what all of your underlings know,
00:05:20.380 so you just depend on them.
00:05:22.380 So if you've got the right people, well, you've got a good investment.
00:05:25.880 Warren Buffett would tell you that they invest not only in solid businesses,
00:05:30.980 but they make sure that the management is solid.
00:05:33.180 That's one of their top things.
00:05:34.500 Of course.
00:05:35.340 Of course.
00:05:36.460 So if you're looking at any problem in the world,
00:05:40.240 and you're saying to yourself,
00:05:41.720 if you're saying to yourself,
00:05:46.980 what's going to happen with that problem,
00:05:49.480 I think you look at the personnel involved,
00:05:52.020 and that will predict pretty well.
00:05:54.600 And so here's some good news.
00:05:57.020 Michael Schellenberger is taking on fentanyl addiction
00:06:02.540 and homelessness in California primarily.
00:06:05.880 And let me tell you why that's good news.
00:06:10.640 First of all, if you don't know Michael Schellenberger,
00:06:13.740 you should follow him on Twitter.
00:06:15.220 That's the first thing you should do.
00:06:17.120 If for no other reason than to boost his voice.
00:06:20.240 Because what makes him different from almost everybody, really,
00:06:25.360 is that you can't even detect politics in his work.
00:06:31.040 I swear to God, I can't tell if he's left or right.
00:06:33.760 I mean, I really don't.
00:06:35.600 He claims his roots are in the left,
00:06:39.300 but got a little bit red-pilled by finding out
00:06:42.420 some of the green stuff wasn't really what it was promoted to be.
00:06:47.500 So Michael Schellenberger is pretty much a facts-first,
00:06:51.820 data-first, data-always, facts-always, rational player.
00:06:57.160 But he's also like a pit bull.
00:07:00.240 So now that he's got his jaws on this thing,
00:07:03.760 we'll probably get a lot closer to understanding what works
00:07:08.240 and what doesn't work with the whole homeless situation.
00:07:10.680 I'll give you just one simple example.
00:07:13.840 One of the restrictions on temporary housing is that you can't do drugs.
00:07:19.440 But so many of the people are drug addicted
00:07:22.120 that that makes the solution completely unmatched to the problem.
00:07:27.420 These are pretty basic things.
00:07:28.940 And it's something that if you're political, you just can't say
00:07:33.100 because your politics says,
00:07:35.680 I've got to treat it the way other people are treating it that are on my side.
00:07:40.360 And if you're on the other side, you say,
00:07:41.840 I have to treat it the way my side treats it.
00:07:43.900 But Schellenberger just goes in and says,
00:07:46.760 well, what works?
00:07:48.720 What works?
00:07:49.340 Well, it makes sense.
00:07:50.780 And then he just hammers it until you can't ignore it anymore.
00:07:54.960 So the best news you've ever heard on homelessness
00:07:58.320 and drug addiction, in California anyway,
00:08:03.020 and we would imagine that anything good that happens here could spread,
00:08:06.620 the best news you've ever heard is that Michael Schellenberger
00:08:09.500 decided to take a big bite out of it, and he's not letting go.
00:08:13.260 So keep your eye on that and give him a boost if you can.
00:08:18.020 Rasmussen Pohl asked people if Biden is a stronger or weaker commander-in-chief.
00:08:24.860 What do you imagine the results were?
00:08:27.600 Well, surprise, surprise.
00:08:29.720 Liberals, by a strong majority, think Biden is a better commander-in-chief.
00:08:34.380 Stronger, meaning.
00:08:35.160 And conservatives, by a strong majority, almost the same.
00:08:39.660 In the other direction, say he's a weaker one.
00:08:43.360 But what do the moderates say?
00:08:45.860 Let's talk to the moderates.
00:08:47.720 The moderates are the only ones who matter.
00:08:51.720 And I'm starting to think that you could just ignore
00:08:56.620 anybody who identifies as liberal or identifies as conservative
00:09:01.060 because you already know what they're going to say.
00:09:03.000 What would be the point of doing a poll on either liberals or conservatives
00:09:09.820 on a question that's been in the news for a long time?
00:09:13.420 Because the longer something is in the news,
00:09:15.740 the more people just retreat to the groupthink of their side.
00:09:19.460 Now, if something is brand new, let's say anything involving the pandemic,
00:09:24.920 you know, that was a sort of a new thing.
00:09:26.400 We hadn't thought about it for years already.
00:09:29.340 That's actually pretty useful.
00:09:31.140 I do actually want to know what the liberals and conservatives think
00:09:34.980 because it's just a whole new fog of war situation.
00:09:37.480 But certainly with these older, more, let's say, questions,
00:09:45.100 which we've thought about for a long time,
00:09:46.800 or they're just so automatically you're going to go to your side,
00:09:49.680 like who's a better commander-in-chief?
00:09:52.540 I mean, really?
00:09:54.160 We kind of know how that's going to turn out, right?
00:09:57.140 But interestingly, the moderates were a little bit closer to split.
00:10:01.300 And the moderates are the only ones who can make an election
00:10:06.820 go one way or the other, aren't they?
00:10:09.880 It seems like the moderate opinions are the only ones that matter.
00:10:13.780 And I'll even go further and say that the extremes on both sides
00:10:18.180 probably are closer to mental illness than political opinion.
00:10:24.180 The extremes on both sides, left and right,
00:10:27.620 are certainly, and I feel really confident in this opinion,
00:10:32.560 I don't have to be a medical,
00:10:34.780 I don't have to be a mental health professional
00:10:36.700 to have this opinion and feel pretty confident about it.
00:10:41.060 Most of the people on the far left and the far right,
00:10:44.720 it's just mental problems.
00:10:46.600 That's all it is.
00:10:47.700 And we're acting like they're just like everybody else.
00:10:50.800 You know, hey, these guys are liberals,
00:10:52.740 and these other people are liberals,
00:10:54.640 so let's average them together.
00:10:56.140 What sense does it make to average mentally ill people
00:11:00.720 with people who are not mentally ill?
00:11:03.200 What does the average tell you?
00:11:05.820 Nothing.
00:11:07.020 Doesn't tell you anything.
00:11:08.760 My guess is that people who identify as political moderates
00:11:12.360 are largely free of mental illness.
00:11:16.400 And that probably identifies them more than their political leading.
00:11:19.820 So, it's absurd to look at mental illness
00:11:24.960 and average it in with political opinions.
00:11:28.700 Speaking of mental illness,
00:11:30.820 there's a new study that came out from somebody credible
00:11:33.860 that says women are 40% more likely to develop depression than men.
00:11:39.460 I think this is just a little context.
00:11:41.580 We'll get to the story.
00:11:42.300 First of all, did you know that?
00:11:45.060 That women are 40% more likely to develop depression than men?
00:11:49.320 I would say it sure looks like it.
00:11:53.220 You know, if I had to base it on my own life experience,
00:11:56.180 I'd say that might be low.
00:11:59.720 Might be low.
00:12:00.960 I mean, I certainly have known men who are depressed,
00:12:02.940 but I don't think it's even close.
00:12:06.320 So, that, you know, directionally this seems about right.
00:12:09.380 But I would also note that when it comes to depression,
00:12:13.340 it's something that women get,
00:12:16.360 and men get it from women.
00:12:19.440 In other words, it does have a viral element to it.
00:12:22.780 You can catch it from somebody.
00:12:24.880 And I would say that the old saying that,
00:12:29.200 you know, happy wife, happy life,
00:12:31.460 is literally true.
00:12:33.520 For a man.
00:12:34.860 For men, if your wife is not happy, you're depressed.
00:12:39.440 That's it.
00:12:40.360 If your wife is unhappy, you are depressed.
00:12:43.160 You catch it from women.
00:12:45.220 If you just took, you know,
00:12:47.440 women's depression out of a man's life,
00:12:50.680 I don't know if they would have any.
00:12:52.440 I mean, if they got their basic needs met,
00:12:54.500 I don't know if they would be depressed.
00:12:56.880 Now, obviously, some people are organically,
00:12:59.700 genetically predisposed.
00:13:01.400 I'm not talking about that group.
00:13:02.940 That's just a pure medical problem.
00:13:06.420 But certainly there are people who are being depressed
00:13:08.560 with the, you know, not a capital D
00:13:10.420 that has to do with lifestyle and what you're doing.
00:13:14.480 So, but there's more on this topic.
00:13:17.960 It gets worse.
00:13:20.260 Apparently, there is one demographic group
00:13:22.960 that is extra, extra suffering from mental problems.
00:13:27.840 Now, it would be easy to laugh about this.
00:13:30.320 Now, it would be easy to laugh about this, wouldn't it?
00:13:33.120 Because, you know, comedy is just tragedy
00:13:35.320 happening to somebody else, right?
00:13:37.340 It would be easy to laugh about this.
00:13:39.740 Except that, look at these rates.
00:13:42.400 White women ages 18 to 29,
00:13:44.660 who identified as liberal,
00:13:46.780 were given a mental health diagnosis
00:13:48.300 from medical professionals.
00:13:49.540 And at a rate of, what, 56.3% of them
00:13:56.740 had mental problems?
00:13:58.460 As compared to 28% in moderates
00:14:01.400 and 27% in conservatives.
00:14:04.200 So, for the same age group,
00:14:07.200 white women, 18 to 29,
00:14:09.840 twice as many who identify as liberals
00:14:12.920 have medically certified,
00:14:16.080 in medical diagnosis,
00:14:17.400 it's not self-reporting,
00:14:19.060 medical diagnosis,
00:14:20.860 that twice as many of them,
00:14:22.360 twice as many,
00:14:23.640 have mental problems.
00:14:28.580 Now, are you surprised?
00:14:30.980 Nope.
00:14:32.180 Nope.
00:14:32.540 Is there anybody who was even
00:14:34.280 a little bit surprised by that?
00:14:36.560 Now, I think maybe the extent of it
00:14:38.760 might be a surprise,
00:14:40.140 a little bit,
00:14:41.340 or just shocking.
00:14:42.220 I don't know if it's a surprise
00:14:43.200 or it's just shocking.
00:14:45.400 But,
00:14:46.000 I feel like we thought that, right?
00:14:48.980 I think most of you thought,
00:14:50.380 yeah,
00:14:51.680 yeah,
00:14:52.060 I'm looking at the comments now.
00:14:54.040 You're not too surprised, are you?
00:14:56.120 And let us speculate
00:14:57.740 how this happened.
00:15:01.100 What was it that caused
00:15:02.480 has it always been this way?
00:15:05.220 First of all,
00:15:06.220 do you think this is a change
00:15:07.760 that we didn't notice
00:15:11.340 and it snuck up on us?
00:15:12.640 Or is it something
00:15:13.540 that's always been true
00:15:14.640 and we just figured it out?
00:15:17.020 Well, I don't know the answer to that.
00:15:19.040 I feel as though
00:15:20.040 they're presenting it
00:15:21.480 as if it's a change or a trend.
00:15:23.200 And I would offer the following.
00:15:29.660 Possible reasons for it
00:15:31.000 are number one,
00:15:32.500 fake news.
00:15:34.060 Right?
00:15:34.640 I'll give you a few other possibilities.
00:15:38.360 But would you agree
00:15:39.240 that fake news
00:15:41.180 probably causes depression
00:15:42.980 in liberals
00:15:44.000 in a way it maybe doesn't
00:15:46.200 for conservatives?
00:15:47.520 Would you accept the first statement
00:15:49.080 as reasonable?
00:15:50.740 Right?
00:15:50.940 You know,
00:15:51.400 this is not a science.
00:15:52.440 We're just putting our
00:15:53.420 best opinion on it.
00:15:55.760 But I feel like the fake news
00:15:58.080 does make them depressed.
00:15:59.640 Imagine waking up
00:16:00.620 and thinking that you lived
00:16:01.680 on a planet
00:16:02.240 that was going to be destroyed
00:16:04.240 by climate change
00:16:05.520 and nobody was doing
00:16:07.240 anything about it
00:16:08.160 that would make a difference.
00:16:09.840 Because that's what
00:16:10.660 the news is telling you.
00:16:11.940 The news is telling you
00:16:13.080 you're going to die.
00:16:14.800 Don't have children.
00:16:16.220 They're just going to burn up
00:16:17.240 in a fireball.
00:16:17.980 But if you're a conservative
00:16:19.920 you look at the news
00:16:22.000 and you say
00:16:22.440 yeah, I see that
00:16:24.160 maybe or maybe not
00:16:25.820 I believe
00:16:26.360 that it's getting warmer
00:16:28.140 but even if it is
00:16:29.420 getting warmer
00:16:29.960 and even if humans
00:16:31.260 are causing it
00:16:31.980 we'll figure it out.
00:16:33.840 We always do.
00:16:35.240 We'll figure it out.
00:16:36.400 And by the way
00:16:37.020 even the UN says
00:16:38.800 the economic impact
00:16:40.100 over 80 years
00:16:40.960 won't be that big.
00:16:42.560 Now CNN reports it
00:16:43.640 as it's really big
00:16:44.800 but if you look
00:16:46.060 at the actual
00:16:46.620 latest economic projections
00:16:48.460 from the most
00:16:50.000 certified
00:16:51.820 you know
00:16:52.880 credible source
00:16:53.920 they say
00:16:55.600 maybe a 10% difference
00:16:56.880 in the GDP
00:16:57.520 over 80 years
00:16:58.660 which you wouldn't notice
00:17:00.420 because the GDP
00:17:01.760 will be so high
00:17:02.660 by them
00:17:03.140 because just
00:17:04.020 it's normal increase
00:17:05.040 that if it's 10% less
00:17:07.000 than it might have been
00:17:07.980 in 80 years
00:17:08.680 nobody will even know.
00:17:11.500 That's how small it is.
00:17:12.800 The problem is so small
00:17:14.560 economically
00:17:15.400 and that's really
00:17:16.420 the primary
00:17:17.700 variable is economics
00:17:19.780 because if your economics
00:17:21.260 are good
00:17:21.660 you can relocate people
00:17:22.880 and you can
00:17:23.520 move away from the coast
00:17:25.220 you can remediate
00:17:26.540 you can buy more
00:17:27.380 air conditioning
00:17:28.000 you can do what
00:17:28.600 you need to do.
00:17:30.080 So if you get the economics
00:17:31.000 right you're in good shape
00:17:31.960 or at least
00:17:33.700 as good as you can be.
00:17:35.500 So part of it
00:17:37.300 is fake news
00:17:37.940 I believe.
00:17:38.580 Then another part of it
00:17:42.960 is I've heard other people
00:17:44.020 say this
00:17:44.500 that we've created
00:17:45.380 a nation of narcissists.
00:17:48.460 Now in this case
00:17:49.700 I'm not using narcissism
00:17:51.260 in the way I've used it
00:17:52.720 recently
00:17:53.180 which is a constellation
00:17:54.960 of behaviors
00:17:55.860 that are way beyond
00:17:57.760 just thinking
00:17:58.560 you look good
00:17:59.200 but in this narrow context
00:18:01.480 I think they're talking
00:18:02.560 about narcissism
00:18:03.520 as in
00:18:04.140 looking at Instagram
00:18:05.500 and everybody's got
00:18:06.620 a better life
00:18:07.120 than you do.
00:18:07.760 Everybody is
00:18:09.080 criticizing everybody
00:18:10.260 for everything
00:18:10.900 all the time
00:18:11.700 so you worry
00:18:12.820 that your self-esteem
00:18:13.740 might be part of that
00:18:14.600 hey people must be
00:18:15.660 criticizing me too
00:18:16.640 I don't look as good
00:18:17.900 as this Instagram model.
00:18:19.940 So
00:18:20.100 certainly your phone
00:18:22.120 is doing some of it
00:18:23.080 certainly your mobile
00:18:24.640 devices are part of it
00:18:25.900 there's no doubt
00:18:27.260 that that's something
00:18:28.300 and
00:18:29.720 then what about this
00:18:31.760 I have a theory
00:18:33.760 that you can't be happy
00:18:35.100 unless
00:18:36.420 your lifestyle
00:18:38.080 is compatible
00:18:39.060 with biological truth
00:18:41.360 you see what danger
00:18:44.760 I'm heading into
00:18:45.460 here right
00:18:45.960 so pray for me
00:18:47.660 pray for me
00:18:48.600 before I finish
00:18:49.320 my sentences
00:18:49.940 in my observation
00:18:53.240 so I'm not going to say
00:18:54.340 there's any
00:18:54.880 science behind this
00:18:56.300 I'm just going to
00:18:56.960 present this as
00:18:57.840 an observation
00:18:59.420 over my own lifetime
00:19:00.840 and an observation
00:19:02.360 over the life
00:19:03.160 of other people
00:19:03.820 plus a little bit
00:19:05.260 of sprinkling in
00:19:06.600 of polls
00:19:07.200 I've seen
00:19:07.720 and surveys
00:19:08.340 of what makes
00:19:09.100 people happy
00:19:09.640 so there's a little bit
00:19:10.860 of sense of science
00:19:11.760 to it
00:19:12.100 but I'm not presenting
00:19:12.880 it as science
00:19:13.520 it goes like this
00:19:15.360 biology says
00:19:17.740 you should be involved
00:19:19.940 in the mating process
00:19:21.500 somehow
00:19:22.860 now being involved
00:19:24.660 in the mating process
00:19:25.540 if you're young
00:19:26.580 might be going
00:19:27.780 to school
00:19:28.280 because those people
00:19:29.900 who are improving
00:19:31.080 themselves
00:19:31.700 are also improving
00:19:33.260 themselves
00:19:33.920 for mating
00:19:35.260 now you might think
00:19:36.840 you're improving
00:19:37.340 yourself because
00:19:38.420 I don't know
00:19:39.400 it's expected
00:19:40.060 you might think
00:19:40.740 you're doing it
00:19:41.540 for economic reasons
00:19:42.600 you're not
00:19:43.540 everything you do
00:19:45.120 has a mating
00:19:46.040 motive to it
00:19:47.980 and once you realize
00:19:48.980 that
00:19:49.320 the whole world
00:19:50.420 is more clear
00:19:51.620 I can speak
00:19:53.260 personally
00:19:53.760 that every
00:19:54.980 move I've ever
00:19:56.040 made
00:19:56.440 economically
00:19:57.660 was really mating
00:19:58.760 it was all about
00:20:00.000 attracting a mate
00:20:00.800 when I decided
00:20:02.300 on my college major
00:20:03.420 I said to myself
00:20:05.100 which one of these
00:20:05.900 will make me
00:20:07.300 a more attractive mate
00:20:08.580 yes
00:20:09.540 explicitly
00:20:10.580 I said that
00:20:11.440 I didn't say
00:20:12.640 to myself
00:20:13.140 hmm
00:20:13.640 if I could be
00:20:14.660 a lawyer
00:20:15.020 that would be
00:20:15.560 a good job
00:20:16.140 it matches
00:20:17.080 my capabilities
00:20:18.060 nothing like that
00:20:19.620 I literally said
00:20:21.280 which one
00:20:22.180 will give me
00:20:22.860 better mating
00:20:23.560 possibilities
00:20:24.240 I said it
00:20:26.060 explicitly
00:20:26.640 it was my
00:20:27.720 only motivation
00:20:28.660 for anything
00:20:30.140 because
00:20:31.100 I'm very tuned
00:20:32.500 into my
00:20:33.000 biological truth
00:20:34.100 which is
00:20:34.820 unfortunately
00:20:35.440 I was born
00:20:36.460 that way
00:20:36.840 I could try
00:20:38.120 to deny it
00:20:38.940 I could try
00:20:39.920 to act like
00:20:40.460 there's some
00:20:40.840 other motive
00:20:41.400 in me
00:20:41.720 but there isn't
00:20:42.460 there is no
00:20:43.320 other motive
00:20:43.880 it's just
00:20:45.420 mating
00:20:46.300 now I can
00:20:47.680 treat the
00:20:48.200 mating motive
00:20:48.840 as the
00:20:50.100 sub motive
00:20:50.960 just for social
00:20:52.180 reasons
00:20:52.600 so I can say
00:20:53.700 stuff like
00:20:54.280 well I'm
00:20:55.140 just naturally
00:20:55.760 ambitious
00:20:56.620 that's like
00:20:58.780 CNN speak
00:20:59.580 if I tell you
00:21:00.820 I'm ambitious
00:21:01.700 which is true
00:21:02.600 it's an
00:21:04.200 observably
00:21:04.880 true statement
00:21:05.640 I'm really
00:21:07.520 telling you
00:21:08.040 I'm improving
00:21:08.720 my mating
00:21:09.420 brand
00:21:11.420 if you will
00:21:12.020 even if you're
00:21:13.300 married
00:21:13.580 even if you're
00:21:14.320 not looking
00:21:14.700 for mates
00:21:15.240 even if
00:21:16.220 mating is
00:21:16.760 nowhere in
00:21:17.320 your mind
00:21:17.720 even if
00:21:18.140 you're not
00:21:18.460 having children
00:21:19.040 even if
00:21:19.860 you're never
00:21:20.160 going to have
00:21:20.500 children
00:21:20.780 we're still
00:21:22.080 mating creatures
00:21:23.040 you can't
00:21:23.660 turn it
00:21:23.940 off
00:21:24.200 and I'm
00:21:25.220 always
00:21:25.660 completely
00:21:26.200 aware
00:21:26.640 that everything
00:21:27.600 I do is
00:21:28.240 connected to
00:21:28.880 that
00:21:29.100 now on top
00:21:29.940 of that
00:21:30.300 I believe
00:21:31.060 that we're
00:21:32.320 designed to
00:21:33.220 take care of
00:21:33.780 ourselves first
00:21:34.760 and then expand
00:21:36.300 our power
00:21:37.540 if you will
00:21:38.120 to taking care
00:21:39.380 of you know
00:21:40.020 your family
00:21:40.600 your tribe
00:21:41.340 your town
00:21:42.180 your state
00:21:43.180 your country
00:21:43.720 the world
00:21:44.220 roughly in
00:21:45.420 that order
00:21:45.780 and if you're
00:21:46.940 improving yourself
00:21:47.920 say in school
00:21:48.940 or you're
00:21:49.560 learning things
00:21:50.180 at work
00:21:50.700 you're moving
00:21:51.660 towards something
00:21:52.300 better
00:21:52.680 which is
00:21:53.400 moving toward
00:21:53.920 being more
00:21:54.560 of a mating
00:21:55.120 opportunity
00:21:57.100 even if you're
00:21:58.560 not taking the
00:21:59.060 opportunity
00:21:59.480 you're just
00:21:59.980 moving in a
00:22:01.240 biologically
00:22:01.800 compatible way
00:22:02.720 and I feel
00:22:03.720 that society
00:22:04.400 has moved us
00:22:05.200 out of that
00:22:05.700 track
00:22:06.340 and that it
00:22:07.740 guarantees
00:22:08.500 mental problems
00:22:10.760 because if
00:22:12.680 you don't know
00:22:13.520 why you're doing
00:22:14.140 what you're doing
00:22:14.780 and it doesn't
00:22:16.080 seem to have
00:22:16.560 a purpose
00:22:17.020 or a reason
00:22:17.860 it's not
00:22:18.760 connected to
00:22:19.400 anything
00:22:19.800 how could
00:22:21.040 you be
00:22:21.420 mentally healthy
00:22:22.160 how could
00:22:23.500 you be
00:22:23.920 I've been
00:22:25.080 I've been
00:22:25.580 mainlining a
00:22:26.320 bunch of
00:22:26.840 Jordan Peterson
00:22:27.800 videos lately
00:22:28.740 let me tell you
00:22:30.900 something
00:22:31.240 I'll tell you
00:22:33.000 he can spin
00:22:34.020 your brain
00:22:34.540 around so hard
00:22:35.520 in five minutes
00:22:36.540 it's just the
00:22:37.260 most amazing
00:22:37.800 thing
00:22:38.120 I tried to
00:22:39.440 resist watching
00:22:40.300 a lot of
00:22:40.760 Jordan Peterson
00:22:41.340 videos for
00:22:42.180 for years
00:22:43.260 actually
00:22:43.700 but I got
00:22:46.500 addicted recently
00:22:47.420 got sucked in
00:22:48.380 and they
00:22:49.680 are amazing
00:22:50.260 they're
00:22:51.140 just amazing
00:22:52.540 but when you
00:22:53.520 listen to him
00:22:54.020 you can see
00:22:54.500 that he's also
00:22:55.240 keyed in
00:22:56.120 in his own
00:22:56.720 way
00:22:56.960 I don't want
00:22:57.500 to represent
00:22:57.980 his opinion
00:22:58.560 but you can
00:22:59.440 see that he's
00:22:59.900 quite keyed in
00:23:00.640 to the
00:23:00.960 biological truth
00:23:02.260 of reality
00:23:03.440 and if you're
00:23:04.360 not
00:23:04.600 if your life
00:23:05.740 and your
00:23:06.200 personality
00:23:06.740 and your
00:23:07.260 thinking
00:23:07.680 are not
00:23:08.700 aligned with
00:23:09.260 your biological
00:23:10.020 truth
00:23:10.720 you're just
00:23:12.280 not going to
00:23:12.640 be happy
00:23:13.000 you just
00:23:13.700 don't have
00:23:13.960 a chance
00:23:14.360 so I
00:23:16.740 think that
00:23:17.100 could be
00:23:17.380 part of
00:23:17.600 the problem
00:23:18.020 too
00:23:18.560 but when
00:23:20.420 you look
00:23:20.800 at the
00:23:21.120 differences
00:23:21.500 in politics
00:23:22.380 you even
00:23:22.880 look at
00:23:23.380 Trump
00:23:24.380 losing
00:23:25.000 the
00:23:25.540 election
00:23:26.100 in 2020
00:23:26.680 I feel
00:23:28.080 like mental
00:23:28.640 health
00:23:29.060 is the
00:23:29.940 biggest
00:23:30.220 part of
00:23:30.640 the
00:23:30.840 that
00:23:31.680 let me
00:23:33.940 say that
00:23:34.300 again
00:23:34.540 because that's
00:23:34.960 a big
00:23:35.220 statement
00:23:35.640 I believe
00:23:36.760 that poor
00:23:37.700 mental health
00:23:38.620 determined
00:23:39.840 the election
00:23:40.900 outcome
00:23:41.400 because it's
00:23:43.380 the biggest
00:23:43.760 factor
00:23:44.220 now you
00:23:45.320 have to
00:23:45.820 have all
00:23:46.160 the things
00:23:46.540 that happen
00:23:46.980 happen just
00:23:47.560 the way
00:23:47.820 they happen
00:23:48.220 for an
00:23:48.600 election to
00:23:49.100 go the
00:23:49.340 way it
00:23:49.560 goes
00:23:49.800 right
00:23:50.040 so it's
00:23:50.780 always a
00:23:51.180 little bit
00:23:51.520 absurd to
00:23:52.100 say here's
00:23:52.500 the one
00:23:52.820 reason
00:23:53.180 it's the
00:23:54.280 one reason
00:23:54.900 because it's
00:23:56.000 all the
00:23:56.260 reasons
00:23:56.580 otherwise it
00:23:57.180 doesn't
00:23:57.420 happen
00:23:57.700 all the
00:23:58.260 reasons
00:23:58.540 have to
00:23:58.880 happen
00:23:59.180 or you
00:24:00.120 don't get
00:24:00.400 that outcome
00:24:00.880 but
00:24:02.020 one that's
00:24:03.660 let's say
00:24:04.320 underappreciated
00:24:05.580 is Trump
00:24:07.440 derangement
00:24:08.000 syndrome
00:24:08.380 and Trump
00:24:09.720 derangement
00:24:11.140 syndrome
00:24:11.480 was from
00:24:13.400 moment
00:24:13.860 one
00:24:14.340 always
00:24:15.420 serious
00:24:16.040 it was
00:24:17.320 always
00:24:17.940 serious
00:24:18.620 meaning
00:24:19.560 that when
00:24:19.940 I use
00:24:20.280 the phrase
00:24:20.800 and when
00:24:21.160 others
00:24:21.740 well I can't
00:24:22.400 speak for
00:24:22.720 others
00:24:22.940 I'll just
00:24:23.560 talk about
00:24:23.940 myself
00:24:24.360 when I
00:24:25.160 used the
00:24:25.540 phrase
00:24:25.860 Trump
00:24:26.200 derangement
00:24:26.740 syndrome
00:24:27.060 there was
00:24:28.260 no joking
00:24:28.920 about that
00:24:29.520 it was a
00:24:30.720 real
00:24:31.180 important
00:24:32.460 phenomenon
00:24:33.160 which I
00:24:34.140 think more
00:24:34.780 largely could
00:24:35.380 be called
00:24:35.760 mental health
00:24:36.740 it was a
00:24:37.780 mental health
00:24:38.220 problem
00:24:38.500 and I
00:24:39.320 think that
00:24:39.660 Trump
00:24:39.920 represented
00:24:40.640 every bully
00:24:42.320 and every
00:24:42.940 problem
00:24:43.520 that many
00:24:45.280 young women
00:24:45.880 have suffered
00:24:46.480 what percentage
00:24:48.000 of young
00:24:48.560 women have
00:24:49.180 suffered a
00:24:50.040 sexual abuse
00:24:52.300 or whatever
00:24:53.980 is in that
00:24:54.360 category
00:24:54.720 some kind
00:24:55.120 of me too
00:24:55.620 stuff
00:24:56.060 any kind
00:24:57.040 of sexual
00:24:57.700 crime
00:24:58.300 what percentage
00:24:59.760 of young
00:25:00.440 women 18
00:25:01.140 to 29
00:25:01.760 have experienced
00:25:02.580 that
00:25:02.940 100%
00:25:04.340 it's like
00:25:05.960 100%
00:25:06.780 yeah
00:25:07.800 I've never
00:25:08.780 heard of
00:25:09.040 anybody who
00:25:09.520 hasn't
00:25:09.800 I've literally
00:25:10.880 never
00:25:12.080 heard of
00:25:13.760 an adult
00:25:14.340 woman
00:25:14.820 who has
00:25:15.860 not had
00:25:16.280 this experience
00:25:17.060 and usually
00:25:17.520 multiple times
00:25:18.400 yeah
00:25:19.280 so if you're
00:25:20.960 in a category
00:25:21.500 who is getting
00:25:22.200 literally sexually
00:25:23.400 abused
00:25:24.080 daily
00:25:25.540 almost
00:25:26.640 and then
00:25:27.900 the guy
00:25:28.280 running for
00:25:28.760 president
00:25:29.160 reminds you
00:25:30.040 of all that
00:25:30.680 because he
00:25:31.360 does
00:25:31.740 right
00:25:32.260 like I'm a
00:25:33.180 supporter of
00:25:33.680 the president
00:25:34.120 but you
00:25:34.820 can't
00:25:35.280 you can't
00:25:35.780 deny the
00:25:36.260 fact that
00:25:36.760 his
00:25:36.940 personality
00:25:37.620 the allegations
00:25:38.820 against him
00:25:39.660 true or
00:25:40.440 false
00:25:40.800 create an
00:25:42.460 image of
00:25:42.940 him that
00:25:43.500 is the
00:25:43.860 scariest
00:25:44.260 thing
00:25:44.720 a white
00:25:46.100 woman between
00:25:46.800 18 and
00:25:47.360 29 could
00:25:48.020 ever see
00:25:48.400 in her
00:25:48.620 life
00:25:48.940 it's the
00:25:49.780 scariest
00:25:50.080 thing in
00:25:50.500 the world
00:25:50.820 and imagine
00:25:52.140 that guy
00:25:52.500 becoming
00:25:52.860 president
00:25:53.300 imagine
00:25:54.660 somebody
00:25:55.080 who had
00:25:55.520 I'll
00:25:57.480 use another
00:25:58.840 situation
00:25:59.360 just so you
00:26:00.180 can imagine
00:26:00.640 it better
00:26:01.000 imagine
00:26:01.720 you'd
00:26:02.060 been
00:26:02.300 imprisoned
00:26:05.440 wrongly
00:26:06.640 by some
00:26:07.160 leader
00:26:07.500 and then
00:26:08.020 later that
00:26:08.780 leader ran
00:26:09.880 for president
00:26:10.500 and won
00:26:11.000 and it was
00:26:12.100 somebody who
00:26:12.520 had imprisoned
00:26:13.080 you illegally
00:26:14.740 for years
00:26:15.340 and tortured
00:26:15.840 you or
00:26:16.200 whatever
00:26:16.420 how would
00:26:17.020 you feel
00:26:17.440 it'd be the
00:26:18.080 worst feeling
00:26:18.560 in the world
00:26:19.040 to watch
00:26:20.320 your abuser
00:26:21.240 become the
00:26:22.040 leader of the
00:26:22.460 world
00:26:22.720 now in the
00:26:23.640 case of
00:26:23.960 Trump
00:26:24.200 he would
00:26:24.500 be like a
00:26:24.940 proxy or a
00:26:25.780 stand-in
00:26:26.280 for all the
00:26:26.880 problems that
00:26:27.820 people have
00:26:28.180 had that
00:26:29.000 are real
00:26:29.360 he just
00:26:30.800 comes to
00:26:31.420 represent them
00:26:32.080 because he
00:26:32.440 he plays
00:26:33.220 into that
00:26:33.660 so so
00:26:34.260 strongly
00:26:34.660 so I
00:26:36.180 would say
00:26:36.460 mental health
00:26:37.100 was the
00:26:37.500 primary reason
00:26:38.180 that the
00:26:38.460 election went
00:26:38.960 the way it
00:26:39.300 went and
00:26:40.240 we're seeing
00:26:40.720 some of the
00:26:41.280 outcome of
00:26:41.880 that by
00:26:43.220 Biden having
00:26:44.860 to resist
00:26:46.040 everything that
00:26:46.800 Trump did
00:26:47.260 on the
00:26:47.540 border
00:26:47.840 which is a
00:26:49.320 disaster
00:26:49.800 Biden has
00:26:51.020 to resist
00:26:51.560 everything that
00:26:52.200 Trump did
00:26:52.620 in the
00:26:52.860 Middle East
00:26:53.340 disaster
00:26:54.640 Biden's doing
00:26:56.280 a little
00:26:56.640 better and
00:26:57.240 not changing
00:26:58.320 things in
00:26:58.880 China but
00:27:00.220 at least
00:27:00.500 he's talking
00:27:01.500 about talking
00:27:03.040 about it
00:27:03.400 differently and
00:27:04.160 that might
00:27:04.620 not be
00:27:04.920 good all
00:27:05.660 right so
00:27:07.880 somehow the
00:27:08.460 country got
00:27:08.980 conned into
00:27:09.660 believing that
00:27:10.320 poor mental
00:27:10.920 health is the
00:27:12.200 same as a
00:27:12.740 political opinion
00:27:13.600 and it's
00:27:14.680 not it's
00:27:16.040 not poor
00:27:17.100 mental health
00:27:17.880 is not a
00:27:19.000 political opinion
00:27:19.700 it just looks
00:27:21.460 like it and
00:27:22.580 sometimes you
00:27:23.480 can't tell the
00:27:23.960 difference and
00:27:26.340 let me put it
00:27:26.860 in this specific
00:27:28.200 way if
00:27:28.840 you're worried
00:27:29.320 about imaginary
00:27:30.280 risks like
00:27:31.840 you wake up
00:27:32.380 in the morning
00:27:32.860 and you start
00:27:33.780 worrying about
00:27:34.480 imaginary risks
00:27:35.820 while ignoring
00:27:37.320 actual real
00:27:38.080 ones that's a
00:27:39.780 mental health
00:27:40.220 problem but if
00:27:41.660 you wake up in
00:27:42.220 the morning and
00:27:42.740 you have a
00:27:43.320 reasonably good
00:27:44.180 sense of what's
00:27:44.920 important what is
00:27:46.620 a real danger and
00:27:47.520 what is not and
00:27:48.400 then you proceed
00:27:49.040 that way you
00:27:50.020 probably don't
00:27:50.540 have a mental
00:27:51.020 problem at least
00:27:51.880 not in that
00:27:52.480 narrow context so
00:27:54.680 we've somehow
00:27:55.540 bought into
00:27:56.500 people worrying
00:27:57.920 about imaginary
00:27:58.820 risks can just
00:28:00.380 be in the
00:28:00.720 conversation too
00:28:01.540 at the very
00:28:03.460 least you
00:28:04.560 should separate
00:28:05.140 the people who
00:28:05.680 have imaginary
00:28:06.360 problems from
00:28:07.840 the people who
00:28:08.400 have real ones
00:28:09.140 but then who
00:28:11.040 is the judge
00:28:11.680 right who
00:28:12.580 gets to be the
00:28:13.260 one who says
00:28:13.700 oh these ones
00:28:14.340 are imaginary
00:28:14.940 and these are
00:28:15.500 real who
00:28:17.840 gets to be the
00:28:18.420 judge well we
00:28:20.140 don't have too
00:28:20.620 many people we
00:28:21.220 can trust in
00:28:22.140 this world
00:28:22.660 because politics
00:28:23.820 overwhelms
00:28:24.440 everything I
00:28:25.540 would say that I
00:28:26.260 try to be that
00:28:27.020 person but
00:28:27.860 probably fail
00:28:28.880 because I just
00:28:29.900 don't know if
00:28:30.360 it's doable I
00:28:31.660 try to be the
00:28:32.540 person who's not
00:28:33.320 just giving you a
00:28:34.360 political opinion
00:28:35.140 I mean I try
00:28:36.500 pretty hard and
00:28:37.580 you've seen me
00:28:38.320 take positions on
00:28:39.340 all sides so you
00:28:40.700 know that at least
00:28:41.360 I can do that
00:28:42.100 but this is why
00:28:43.600 you have to look
00:28:44.160 for your your
00:28:45.220 Matt Taibis your
00:28:46.700 Glenn Greenwald's
00:28:48.260 your Michael
00:28:49.680 Schellenberger's
00:28:50.620 because these are
00:28:51.700 the ones you
00:28:52.120 know can take
00:28:53.620 an opposing
00:28:54.080 opinion to
00:28:54.760 whatever side
00:28:55.360 they're on you
00:28:55.840 know they can
00:28:56.400 because they do
00:28:57.320 it they do it
00:28:57.920 all the time so
00:28:59.200 if you're not
00:28:59.740 following the
00:29:00.600 opinions of
00:29:01.160 people who you
00:29:02.020 know can take
00:29:03.460 opposing opinions
00:29:04.400 to their own
00:29:05.020 team on a
00:29:05.820 regular basis
00:29:06.580 you're just
00:29:08.100 involved in
00:29:08.760 something absurd
00:29:09.720 absurd
00:29:10.680 following the
00:29:12.400 the partisans
00:29:13.580 only that's just
00:29:16.000 a hobby you
00:29:16.940 shouldn't really
00:29:17.400 be part of the
00:29:18.380 conversation
00:29:18.980 let's talk
00:29:21.200 about the
00:29:21.600 fentanyl war
00:29:22.440 as you know
00:29:23.200 China is
00:29:23.740 killing something
00:29:24.380 like 50 to
00:29:25.120 70,000 Americans
00:29:26.260 per year in
00:29:28.100 drug overdoses
00:29:29.900 primarily fentanyl
00:29:32.060 which China sends
00:29:33.780 into Mexico
00:29:35.040 the cartels send
00:29:36.180 into the United
00:29:36.700 States and as
00:29:37.880 you know China
00:29:38.720 knows exactly who
00:29:39.780 their dealers are
00:29:40.580 because we've told
00:29:41.140 them here's the
00:29:42.140 name of your
00:29:42.580 dealer could you
00:29:43.220 go go pick this
00:29:44.380 guy up nope
00:29:45.220 nothing happens
00:29:46.520 so in the
00:29:48.580 fentanyl war that
00:29:49.400 China is winning
00:29:50.260 convincingly because
00:29:51.480 America is not
00:29:52.160 playing I looked
00:29:54.880 at a list of
00:29:55.480 American war dead
00:29:56.840 and so far the
00:29:59.360 fentanyl war alone
00:30:00.660 is it's sort of
00:30:02.760 hard to calculate
00:30:03.880 it exactly because
00:30:04.900 overdose deaths a
00:30:06.520 little hard to know
00:30:07.320 exactly why you
00:30:08.560 died but if you
00:30:10.100 take say 10
00:30:10.980 years times 50 to
00:30:12.780 70,000 deaths
00:30:13.900 that's what it has
00:30:15.020 been or will be
00:30:15.660 soon there are
00:30:17.920 already more
00:30:18.500 fentanyl war deaths
00:30:19.680 than Vietnam and
00:30:22.180 more than World
00:30:23.140 War I American
00:30:24.600 deaths so we're
00:30:25.620 just I'm just
00:30:26.260 looking at American
00:30:26.920 deaths here but if
00:30:29.940 you took the
00:30:30.480 fentanyl war
00:30:31.220 casualties and you
00:30:33.360 added the COVID-19
00:30:35.020 casualties so that
00:30:36.780 you took all of
00:30:37.480 China's effect the
00:30:39.160 fentanyl being the
00:30:40.200 chemical and the
00:30:41.840 COVID being the
00:30:43.180 biological warfare
00:30:45.120 warfare be it
00:30:46.680 accidental or
00:30:47.520 intentional and if
00:30:50.320 you add those
00:30:50.760 together and I
00:30:51.380 think you could I
00:30:52.900 mean there's a
00:30:53.320 there's a reasonable
00:30:54.340 way to do that
00:30:55.180 you're approaching
00:30:58.120 World War II numbers
00:30:59.360 now World War II is
00:31:00.760 the biggest war loss
00:31:03.060 of life for
00:31:04.620 Americans but COVID
00:31:06.560 looks if you added
00:31:07.680 COVID and fentanyl
00:31:09.000 together it looks
00:31:10.560 like it might pass it
00:31:11.500 eventually now it
00:31:12.840 will take several
00:31:13.540 years but the
00:31:15.760 fentanyl war together
00:31:17.240 with the COVID war
00:31:18.100 will be the biggest
00:31:20.060 war casualties that
00:31:21.620 America has ever
00:31:22.460 suffered and all of it
00:31:23.680 at the hands of
00:31:24.240 China who we still do
00:31:26.520 business with and we
00:31:29.620 still negotiate with
00:31:30.580 them we treat them
00:31:32.120 like oh hey how you
00:31:33.320 doing China let's have
00:31:34.840 a meeting amazing it's
00:31:39.240 amazing that we we can
00:31:40.740 walk around in that
00:31:42.500 fog one of the best
00:31:46.380 things that's come out
00:31:47.320 of the last few years
00:31:48.520 and I credit Trump for
00:31:50.340 this and I also
00:31:51.580 predicted it in 2016 I
00:31:53.560 told you Trump would
00:31:54.400 change everything about
00:31:56.040 how we view reality and
00:31:58.220 the biggest part of that
00:31:59.180 I think is discrediting the
00:32:00.960 news rightfully and
00:32:03.640 discrediting experts again
00:32:06.380 rightfully Trump is has
00:32:09.340 been the leading voice
00:32:10.640 and saying that the
00:32:11.700 experts are not to be
00:32:13.380 trusted and that the
00:32:14.840 news is not to be
00:32:16.020 trusted and here we are
00:32:17.920 we don't trust them did
00:32:20.420 did Trump succeed yeah
00:32:22.380 he did he totally
00:32:23.800 succeeded he taught us
00:32:25.580 not to trust our
00:32:27.640 experts just automatically
00:32:29.140 you still have to trust
00:32:30.460 experts if you don't have
00:32:31.500 a better idea there's no
00:32:33.300 other option maybe all the
00:32:35.180 experts agree and they've
00:32:36.460 agreed on it for years
00:32:37.820 maybe there are lots of
00:32:38.840 studies so there's some
00:32:40.180 things you can do that
00:32:41.080 will give you some
00:32:41.720 comfort with expert
00:32:43.420 advice but but believing
00:32:45.980 the experts somewhat
00:32:47.000 automatically is stupid
00:32:49.380 it's just stupid you
00:32:51.420 should try to wean
00:32:53.000 yourself off of that
00:32:53.800 habit there's an article
00:32:55.340 in the Washington Post
00:32:56.560 that tells you the the
00:32:57.960 trend by Allison Young
00:32:59.640 and she says quote it
00:33:01.780 seems that expert
00:33:02.720 consensus was somewhat
00:33:04.240 illusory now she's
00:33:05.560 talking about the lab
00:33:07.740 leak hypothesis with
00:33:09.200 COVID that expert
00:33:11.160 consensus was somewhat
00:33:12.340 illusory and it would
00:33:14.100 have been well to
00:33:14.840 remember that like the
00:33:16.300 rest of us scientists
00:33:17.740 are prone to group
00:33:19.020 think and nines non
00:33:20.520 scientific concerns can
00:33:22.680 creep into their public
00:33:23.640 statements now here's the
00:33:27.260 amazing part it's not
00:33:29.120 that you didn't know
00:33:29.900 that you know raise your
00:33:32.300 hand if you didn't know
00:33:33.280 that we all knew it
00:33:35.240 here's the weird part
00:33:37.060 everybody knew it but
00:33:39.940 for some reason we had
00:33:41.180 agreed to act like we
00:33:42.640 didn't right when you
00:33:46.200 say that let's say five
00:33:47.660 years ago that everybody
00:33:49.640 would know that experts
00:33:51.160 can be biased everybody
00:33:52.520 knew that a hundred
00:33:53.300 percent of people know
00:33:54.120 that experts can be
00:33:55.040 biased but we had all
00:33:56.660 agreed sort of as a
00:33:58.540 a silent unspoken
00:34:00.460 agreement in society
00:34:01.680 that we would act as
00:34:03.440 if it weren't true
00:34:04.240 why why was there
00:34:09.180 ever a reason to act as
00:34:11.260 if the thing we all knew
00:34:12.420 was true to act as if
00:34:14.360 it's not why did we do
00:34:16.480 that it never made sense
00:34:18.400 and Trump I would say
00:34:20.320 fix that he fixed that
00:34:23.400 it's probably his greatest
00:34:25.000 accomplishment we'll never
00:34:26.540 get credit for it you
00:34:28.480 know the history books
00:34:29.380 will not write that
00:34:31.160 Donald Trump taught us
00:34:32.660 to stop blindly trusting
00:34:34.800 experts who are lying to
00:34:36.360 us but he did that he
00:34:39.020 did that right I mean
00:34:40.860 you know it was a ripple
00:34:41.980 effect that started with
00:34:43.040 him so many of us were
00:34:44.880 involved with it I would
00:34:45.820 say I'm part of that
00:34:46.580 process as well as as many
00:34:48.640 people are but it was
00:34:50.300 him I mean I wouldn't
00:34:52.000 have been doing it if he
00:34:52.880 hadn't started it it was
00:34:54.160 him and it's one of the
00:34:56.060 most useful things that's
00:34:57.160 ever happened in wait
00:34:59.060 for it the history of
00:35:03.320 civilization that's right
00:35:06.480 this this mental shift
00:35:08.860 that Trump did for us
00:35:10.820 stopping our trust and
00:35:13.200 experts blind trust right
00:35:14.660 you still need some trust
00:35:16.180 and experts you don't
00:35:17.760 want to get rid of all of
00:35:18.840 it because sometimes you
00:35:21.500 know you can you can be a
00:35:22.600 little more comfortable
00:35:23.240 with them but I would say
00:35:25.880 that Trump has made the
00:35:27.700 biggest psychological
00:35:29.840 improvement improvement
00:35:32.000 in the humanities thinking
00:35:35.320 maybe one of the greatest
00:35:39.100 shifts in all of human
00:35:40.640 history and you didn't
00:35:42.520 really notice it because
00:35:43.720 there was so much noise
00:35:44.660 going on we were just
00:35:46.080 arguing about stuff and
00:35:47.280 we were sort of arguing
00:35:48.860 about experts and sure
00:35:50.140 enough experts were wrong
00:35:51.280 and sure enough the news
00:35:52.220 was wrong and it's more
00:35:54.400 hoaxes than real and you
00:35:56.040 didn't really realize the
00:35:57.180 transition as it was
00:35:58.160 happening but we're here
00:35:59.860 you know it now and you
00:36:02.720 know it wouldn't have
00:36:03.360 happened without Trump
00:36:04.320 right I'd like to see if
00:36:07.040 people agree with that part
00:36:08.200 of my opinion that Trump
00:36:10.300 was the cause that that
00:36:13.280 really launched that all
00:36:15.800 I'm just going to read some
00:36:17.560 opinions here as they go
00:36:19.180 by
00:36:19.440 the great disillusionment
00:36:23.120 somebody's calling it
00:36:23.980 I see some people agreeing
00:36:26.260 yes yes yes 100%
00:36:28.040 blah blah blah I see one now
00:36:30.800 from Dale
00:36:31.520 Dale
00:36:32.380 somebody named Dale says no
00:36:34.960 it's the only no I see
00:36:35.840 all right yeah it looks like
00:36:39.620 most of you agree with that
00:36:40.560 statement
00:36:40.860 all right and then lastly
00:36:44.460 because uh it's Memorial
00:36:48.240 Day and because there are
00:36:52.420 some stories that are
00:36:53.360 important but should not be
00:36:55.020 reported with vigor and
00:36:57.500 here's one of them there was
00:36:59.060 another mass shooting I'm not
00:37:01.180 even going to tell you the
00:37:01.960 state I mean if you if you
00:37:03.820 want to look into it you can
00:37:05.500 google it but I'm not going to
00:37:07.540 tell you how many people died I'm
00:37:09.040 not going to tell you where it
00:37:09.880 was I'm not going to tell you
00:37:11.300 what state it was in I'm not
00:37:12.460 going to tell you what weapons
00:37:13.360 were used I'm not going to
00:37:14.900 tell you a hero stopped it if
00:37:16.400 they did I don't know I just I'm
00:37:20.360 not going to talk about this
00:37:21.360 anymore because every time you
00:37:23.260 do it just gives attention to the
00:37:24.660 shooters and there's nothing good
00:37:27.860 that can come from that now I'm
00:37:30.480 not ignoring it if you're saying to
00:37:32.900 me Scott it's a giant problem and
00:37:35.400 you're ignoring it no no that's not
00:37:37.660 happening I'm not ignoring the
00:37:39.520 problem I'm just not not making it
00:37:43.280 worse so by ignoring talking about
00:37:46.740 it I'm helping to fix the problem
00:37:49.580 so by ignoring it I'm trying to be
00:37:52.240 part of the productive part of the
00:37:54.580 world that's putting it back in its
00:37:56.740 place and not persuading people that
00:37:59.040 it's a good idea to get some fame we
00:38:01.980 saw with I think it was the Parkland
00:38:03.740 shooter there are some videos that
00:38:06.380 came out that showed that he really
00:38:08.080 wanted the fame he did it for the
00:38:10.200 fame now what gave him that idea well
00:38:14.120 the fact that it's widely reported and
00:38:15.900 talked about if you didn't widely
00:38:18.080 report it and talk about it he would
00:38:19.740 have had a different idea maybe less
00:38:22.440 dangerous I don't know so let's not
00:38:27.880 lose how important these shootings are
00:38:30.840 but let's not fetishize them let's not
00:38:33.500 make them something that somebody wants
00:38:35.640 to participate in if you do you
00:38:38.680 should be lost in obscurity and I'll
00:38:41.240 help you all right yeah you know I
00:38:47.720 worry about these you hear these cases
00:38:49.720 where everybody was warned about the
00:38:52.260 shooter you know the the police had
00:38:54.660 already talked to him the FBI was
00:38:56.500 warned I don't know if you can make
00:39:00.500 that criticism really because it's
00:39:02.440 always out of context the context is
00:39:04.960 that the police and the FBI probably
00:39:07.620 get so many warnings that they
00:39:10.000 couldn't possibly treat them all as
00:39:11.520 serious they've got to do a little
00:39:13.200 they got to do a little judgment on
00:39:15.860 okay this one looks like it'll blow up
00:39:17.700 maybe this one isn't such a big
00:39:19.200 problem but they don't know they have
00:39:21.980 to guess because otherwise you can't
00:39:23.900 get to the all the work so I tend to be
00:39:27.300 more forgiving than most when I hear a
00:39:30.180 story like the FBI talked to this
00:39:32.380 person and all the signs were there but
00:39:34.220 they didn't act because I've got a
00:39:36.080 feeling the signs are there with a lot
00:39:37.900 of people who don't act and I would
00:39:40.940 imagine the FBI knows that it's like
00:39:42.580 you know there'd be a lot of people we
00:39:45.240 could arrest based on the suspicion it
00:39:47.820 might happen but you need a lot more
00:39:49.920 than that you know we live still live in
00:39:51.660 a free country you can't be arrested
00:39:54.020 because somebody suspects you might want
00:39:55.900 to commit a crime all right
00:40:02.040 Brian says you've lost trust with every
00:40:06.420 element of our justice system well let
00:40:09.020 me give you some perspective do you
00:40:10.920 believe that our justice system is worse
00:40:13.300 than any time in history I'll bet not
00:40:18.440 I'll bet if you had any way to
00:40:21.200 objectively rate the justice system in
00:40:24.540 the United States and then if you had
00:40:26.900 magically the same ratings across time
00:40:29.300 I'll bet it's better than it's ever
00:40:31.600 been but we just might have more
00:40:33.880 information about the bad stuff so I'm
00:40:36.980 not positive but I think it's probably
00:40:39.920 better and probably a lot better that
00:40:42.800 would be my guess my guess would be a
00:40:45.020 lot better not even close but those of
00:40:48.340 you say it's worse keep in mind that
00:40:50.160 you're seeing non-stop bad news because
00:40:53.940 bad news is the only news about the
00:40:55.640 justice system if the justice system just
00:40:58.040 does its job that's not news so the only
00:41:01.160 news you're hearing is the problems just
00:41:03.000 keep that in mind I wouldn't automatically
00:41:05.340 think the justice system is a disaster and
00:41:08.460 I would say that if you're looking at what
00:41:10.360 the the purpose of the justice system is
00:41:12.640 it's to keep society together right if you lose our
00:41:17.420 justice system the whole thing falls apart I
00:41:19.900 think you'd agree with that right so the
00:41:21.900 justice system is mostly about keeping the
00:41:24.980 wheels on and has it done that and has it
00:41:28.340 made the United States a place that people
00:41:30.300 want to leave their country and live here
00:41:32.780 in part because our justice system is
00:41:35.040 better I'd say yes if I if I were to give
00:41:38.640 our entire justice system a grade I'd have
00:41:42.000 to grade it against other countries if you
00:41:44.740 grade our justice system against some notion
00:41:47.260 of perfect it's pretty bad right because
00:41:50.920 it's not perfect it's not it's not too
00:41:53.880 close to perfect so if that's your
00:41:56.280 standard yeah it's a mess but if you
00:41:58.660 compare it to other countries not bad it's
00:42:02.620 not bad and if and if you look at it on a
00:42:05.620 functional level does it make people want
00:42:08.000 to come here does it allow our commerce
00:42:10.380 system to work efficiently because commerce
00:42:13.500 requires a judicial system you can't do
00:42:16.140 commerce unless you can sue somebody who
00:42:18.540 screws you right nothing works unless you've
00:42:21.260 got a judiciary so I would say our commerce
00:42:24.160 system is working great which suggests that
00:42:27.060 the foundation for it the legal system is
00:42:29.220 at least doing a sufficient job if not
00:42:32.920 spectacular
00:42:33.580 so he's Henry says they threw the January
00:42:38.560 six people into solitary confinement yeah
00:42:41.540 individual mistakes yes there are plenty of
00:42:45.920 individual mistakes and we should not lose
00:42:48.180 sight of that the justice system is not the
00:42:50.280 sort of thing that's going to work perfectly
00:42:51.760 all day long it's the sort of thing that's
00:42:54.180 going to be breaking continually and you just
00:42:56.580 got to keep fixing it continually which we do
00:42:58.960 the very fact that you know that that
00:43:03.240 you're aware of the fact that those people
00:43:05.000 were put in solitary which by the way I'm
00:43:07.000 not entirely sure is true but if there's
00:43:11.000 enough transparency to put pressure on
00:43:13.240 that at least there's some counterforce and
00:43:16.480 maybe that makes a difference
00:43:17.680 500 people is not an individual mistake well I
00:43:25.240 don't believe that there are 500 people in
00:43:27.280 solitary confinement and I'm not sure that
00:43:31.060 anyone was for a long time but I'm open to
00:43:34.420 it I'm not saying it didn't happen it just
00:43:36.620 feels like a little bit feels like a little
00:43:39.760 too on the nose like maybe maybe it wasn't
00:43:42.940 that bad but I'm open to the fact that it
00:43:45.400 might have been all right that's all I got
00:43:47.640 for now and I'm gonna go do something else
00:43:49.600 and I'll talk to you tomorrow
00:43:51.600 tomorrow
00:43:53.600 you
00:43:57.600 you
00:43:59.600 you
00:44:01.600 you
00:44:03.600 you
00:44:05.600 you
00:44:07.600 you
00:44:09.600 you
00:44:11.600 you