00:00:00.120Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the best thing that ever happened to you.
00:00:04.620Not only that, but the best thing that ever happened to anybody.
00:00:07.900Now, you might say to yourself, Scott, do you have any data to support your claim that this is the best thing that has ever happened to anybody everywhere?
00:01:22.180I've used it when I talk about Russia and the United States, but I'm going to tell you the trick, and then you can use it in your own life.
00:01:30.960You may be aware that I've said that we should go ahead and just propose that we have an alliance with Russia as allies instead of being enemies.
00:01:41.140The reasoning being, what's the good reason for being an enemy?
00:01:54.500There's just not one good reason, except we keep poking each other for no reason.
00:01:58.720Except that I guess the other is poking us first.
00:02:00.820So what I say about that situation is, eventually we know we're going to be allies, because we have to when we become more of a space-faring world, which is probably 20 years maximum.
00:02:16.160In space, we're going to need to ally with Russia, because otherwise China runs the whole world.
00:02:22.580And so given that it's inevitable, and that life is short, why not do it now?
00:04:32.640I've never seen anybody say, yeah, you know, you're right.
00:04:34.720It doesn't work that way, but you can take something that might have lasted you another hour and maybe, you know, compress it to 15 minutes.
00:04:45.500If you just stay on that message and say, you know, we could argue about it all day, but the fact is we're just going to both get over it.
00:04:51.740And by tomorrow, we'll probably be back to normal.
00:05:02.940Five years ago, if you saw that the country was disagreeing and arguing about stuff and couldn't decide who was right and who was wrong, about whatever, doesn't matter what the topic is,
00:05:13.340How often would somebody say that the problem was that part of the public or all of it had been hypnotized or was part of a mass formation psychosis?
00:05:52.720Now, I'm not the only person who said it.
00:05:54.380You know, Mike Cernovich and other people who are trained in this sort of field, you know, persuasion, probably have talked about this sort of thing before.
00:06:04.980But what's different is it's not just the weirdos talking about it.
00:06:14.420Think about the fact that five years ago we would have said if we disagreed, we would have believed that the reason we disagreed was that somebody's stupid.
00:06:30.320I'm talking about when we disagree with other people, we assume the other people are stupid.
00:06:35.720Because the alternative is that, well, we don't want to think about the alternative.
00:06:41.440So in the old days you'd think, okay, the other person's dumb, or they don't have enough data, or they're lying just, you know, for self-interest, just to be a Democrat or a Republican, right?
00:06:52.340So your mental model was somebody who was lying, wrong, or just selfishly, you know, doing a team thing.
00:07:01.080Today when people disagree, what do we say?
00:07:04.300We say people are brainwashed, hypnotized, or in a mass formation psychosis.