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

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00:00:46.340 Yeah, yeah, that's the stuff.

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00:00:54.540 That's a reference from Land Before Time.

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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, 1.00

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. 1.00

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, 0.97

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. 0.97

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 0.82

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 0.99

00:19:21.500 somehow

00:19:22.860 now being involved

00:19:24.660 in the mating process 0.99

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 0.82

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 0.95

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 1.00

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 0.99

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 0.99

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 0.89

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 0.54

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 0.74

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 0.85

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 0.95

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 1.00

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 0.82

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 0.94

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.99

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 0.91

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 0.98

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 0.98

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.86

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

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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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