Episode 2265 Scott Adams： CWSA 10⧸18⧸23
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A company is developing a leaf blower that could make your life a little quieter, and a new study says that having a positive attitude toward aging may actually reduce your risk of getting dementia. Plus, why I don t think I'll ever be able to walk up the stairs at 70.
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Well, you know how sometimes a small story can be big to you?
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You know, the rest of the world will say, well, that's not much of a story.
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And this is a story about a company that's making a quiet leaf blower.
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It's going to have something called a whisper drive.
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So somehow they figured out how to make it way, way quieter.
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That will add half a day of productivity to me.
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Now, I don't know about you, but if you work at home in any kind of a neighborhood that has lawns,
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there could be up to two days per week where you can't work at your own house.
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But the other times the same guy is on my next door neighbor who's just like right there.
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So probably two to three days is too loud to use my office.
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And if this product becomes available, I will be buying this for my gardener within five minutes.
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I'm going to say, I know maybe you wouldn't buy this.
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You know, it's kind of expensive and new and what you got is working fine.
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Well, in my next segment that I call backwards science, backwards science.
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That's where we look at studies and we say, wait a minute.
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Did you know that having a positive attitude toward aging, according to a new study,
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substantially reduces your risk of getting dementia?
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Having a positive attitude about aging, very, very highly correlated with having less dementia.
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It would seem to indicate that if you could just make your attitude better, which they say you can change,
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you could actually reduce your risk of dementia.
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If you ask me, Scott, what is your personal attitude about aging?
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I would say, well, because I've been a lifetime exercise guy, I've cruised into my 66th year of life with a perfect BMI.
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And I look the same with my shirt off as I did when I was 25, but a little more muscular.
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Now, if you ask me, what is my attitude about aging, I'd say pretty good, because I'm healthy, and a lot of all the drama of youth is sort of behind me, which actually feels pretty good.
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So, yeah, I'm pretty optimistic about aging for myself.
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Now, suppose you said to me, Scott, you weigh 400 pounds and you have not been out of your basement for a long time.
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I'm not so sure I'll ever be able to walk up the stairs when I'm 70.
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I don't have such a positive thought about that.
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The people who exercise are physically healthier, which includes your brain.
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Ah, it turns out that exercise is good for every part of your body.
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Don't you think that the people who were in relatively good health when the question was asked would also be the ones who would be optimistic?
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And wouldn't the ones who are already failing in health at, say, age 50, wouldn't they have a negative feeling about aging because everything's gotten worse every day since they've been alive?
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Now, I didn't see that they controlled for any of this, so I'm going to assume it's backward science or potentially backward science.
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Have you ever done a post on social media and you said to yourself, well, this one's just for me.
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And I did that yesterday and got nearly 5 million views.
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So, for context, a really big post on the X platform for me, I have a million followers, but a big post, really big, would be a million views.
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Even if you have a million followers, 5 million views is just crazy.
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Well, it turns out that Elon Musk got into the comments.
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And so that might be the biggest reason, but it might also be the topic.
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You know, climate change, maybe, and inflation, and the world's falling apart.
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It said I quit eating bread products several months ago and had the following outcomes.
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Number one, I drifted down to my ideal BMI without any conscious dieting.
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Number two, I mean, I quit eating bread because I know that always makes my weight just drift down.
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But there was no effort except not eating bread.
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I ate as much as I wanted of everything else, made no other changes in my life,
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Then, but weirder, I said my continuous full body inflammation and aching that I thought was age-related,
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You know, for so far, it's been several days, which is the longest it's ever returned.
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But I haven't had a sense of smell for 20 years because I got some weird inflammation in my sinuses.
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He said, instead of himself, he said, I love carbs and dairy and feel great, but don't have them in large portions.
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But some of you have seen me without my shirt on.
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And some of you have seen Elon Musk without his shirt on.
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I'm just saying, if you're talking about diets,
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you'd probably want to follow the diet of the person who has the body that's,
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you know, at least in the neighborhood of where you want to be.
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And by the way, I think Elon Musk would say exactly the same thing I just said.
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We don't have a, so I asked the people who follow me on the locals platform,
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scottadams.locals.com, where they get all the special stuff.
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I asked how many of them would want to do a one month test to just give up bread for one month.
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Because if it's true that it makes a difference, I think you'd see it right away.
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But it could be, for some percentage of the people who try this,
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it could be one of the biggest changes they ever make.
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It could be completely transformative, both your mind and your body.
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So I don't know that quitting bread will make you healthier.
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I have no reason, no scientific basis for that.
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Still do, I have a Speaker of the House, Thomas Massey, who's backing Jim Jordan,
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it's not hard to understand what's going on here in D.C.
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A vote for Jim Jordan is a vote to break Congress's bad habit of passing a bloated
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And apparently, Thomas Massey believes that Jim Jordan would not be one to put all the
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bills in one big bill so that everybody has to say yes without actually liking the parts
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I think anybody who goes into that job will do what everybody ever did before, because
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There has to be a reason that once you get in the job, you just can't do it, which is
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So I don't believe that putting a different person in that job changes what happens.
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I don't think the job will change to meet the person's, you know, techniques.
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And I could definitely be wrong if Thomas Massey is of a different opinion.
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This is the list of people who, if they disagree with me, I immediately say, well, me, I might
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But, you know, let's say if Elon Musk disagreed with me on something about solar power or space
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or almost anything, I would immediately stop and I'd say, I'm going to really think about
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If he disagrees, I'm going to question my own thinking.
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Let me say that as far as I know, I'm going to talk about climate change.
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As far as I know, it's well demonstrated that adding CO2 should be some kind of a greenhouse
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That's separate from knowing that once you add in all the other variables that you could
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predict the outcome or even if you could predict it, you would know what's better for
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Completely different what the predictions are from the things you can prove in the lab.
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That said, I read a crazy, crazy, kooky scientist guy who disagrees that there's any evidence
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Now, before I get canceled or demonetized, I don't think this guy's right, but I just love
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Now, some of it is we totally froze up on the other platform.
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So, I was starting to say there's a scientist guy who's got a different view of CO2.
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And the fascinating thing is, if you had asked me even one year ago, or maybe a few years
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You said, what is the likelihood that science would be completely wrong about something that
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I would have said, hmm, is this something that they've tested?
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And does it conform to, you know, the laws of physics and everything?
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And did people get the result that they expected when they tested it?
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So, to me, it seemed like the idea of, does CO2 cause a greenhouse effect?
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I wasn't sure about the predictions and, you know, if there's any big deal to it.
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And now there's a guy who says, not only has it never been tested, but when you do test
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Now, I still think it's far more likely that there's some kind of greenhouse gas effect.
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I don't know how big and I don't know how the other variables affected it, et cetera.
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But it's fascinating to know that there's somebody who knows a lot about the topic who
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Now, I want to give you the non-scientific example that sold me on this, because you're
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probably wondering why I'm giving it any attention at all, because there's always somebody who
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He used one little example that's not terribly scientific, but it was really persuasive.
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So, think of this more in terms of how persuasive it is.
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I'm not going to try to change your mind about anything, okay?
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He says, if you took a, say, a gas engine and you turn it on, it might heat up to, say,
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And then you turn it off and it will heat, it will go down to whatever the exterior temperature
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But if you put it in CO2, it would cool down exactly the same time, but it was still cooled
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So, you say to yourself, well, wait a minute, if you were to put that hot engine in a room
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with more CO2, isn't the CO2 supposed to be like a little blanket?
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Doesn't the little blanket of CO2 keep the engine warmer or longer?
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The engine cools down exactly the same, to which I say, I don't know if, you know, any
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But when you hear that, is that not super persuasive?
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Which, unfortunately, you can be persuaded outside of reason.
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So, I'm not going to say that this really is any kind of a, you know, new thought that
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But I find it really interesting that there's somebody who knows this much and says it's
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It's from a book from James Moody, or actually a paper he wrote, Three Proofs Carbon Dioxide
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Anyway, look at my tweets and you can find that.
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What were the two most predictable things that would happen this week in the news?
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If you were going to be a predictor of future events, let's see, you knew that Israel was
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The most predictable story in the news would be, number one, allegedly Israel bombed a hospital
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But since nobody is in school, what would it be?
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Where's a place that people can't evacuate and yet you would feel really bad for them if
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I predict that there will be a story in the news sometime this week that accuses Israel
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What is the second most predictable thing this week?
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Remember, the context is that Israel is moving into Gaza militarily.
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What's the most predictable thing that's not a hospital gets bombed?
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The two things you can guarantee is UFO stories, because it diverts you, and that there would
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be a story, probably not true, about Israel bombing a hospital.
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Now, only some of the people who have been following me for a while are going to believe
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And I'm mad at myself for not making the prediction.
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Prior to this story about the alleged hospital bombing, I had my phone out, and I started to
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send a tweet that said, wait for the fake story about the hospital or school being bombed.
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Like, maybe there'll be a story about a hospital being bombed.
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There was a 100 fucking percent chance there was going to be an allegation about a hospital
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The only reason it's not a school is because school's presumably not in session during a
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Otherwise, it would have been a school and also a hospital.
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So, what do we know about this story about the hospital in Gaza that was blown up?
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Well, let's go to the whiteboard, and I'll teach you how to know what's true when wars
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During the first hours, you've got something called a fog of war going on.
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During the fog of war, you should assume that the news is not reliable because it's just
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too soon, and everybody's making claims, and they're not quite sure what they're seeing.
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So, don't trust anything that happens during the fog of war.
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But eventually, the fog of war transitions to the phase we're in now.
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It's called the propaganda phase, in which all of the news will be fake, but this time
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During the fog of war, it's more like we just don't know what's going on.
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But then that morphs or evolves into, well, some people know what's going on, but they're
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sure as hell not going to tell you, because they want to tell you some version of what's
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But, if you wait long enough, this phase passes, where the news is intentionally fake, and then
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it turns into whoever wins the war gets to write the history books, which, of course, is
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So, there are three phases, and if you're looking forward to find out the truth, don't
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stop in the first phase, because that's always bullshit, the fog of war.
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Don't look at the second phase, because you would never know what's true.
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It's the propaganda phase, and definitely don't look when it's over and the history
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books are written, because those are not even intended to be real.
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And that's the sad thing that nobody wants to say out loud.
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The sad thing is, it doesn't make any difference.
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It doesn't make any difference whose shell hit it.
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And the fact is, it doesn't even matter if it was intentional.
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At least the Israelis are not going to intentionally hit a hospital.
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I think you all agree that they're not intentionally going to hit a hospital.
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And if hospitals get blown up, that's not too surprising, except the most surprising thing
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There are all these buildings around that have not been yet bombed.
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And that one little area of the hospital gets blown up.
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But then there's also the story that the hospital did not get blown up.
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That the, whatever it was, landed in the parking lot, blew up a bunch of cars in the parking
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lot, did a little bit of damage to the exterior of the building, but basically it did not have
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But I'll tell you, it's not going to change anything.
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And all of our opinions about what Israel should or should not do, they don't change anything.
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You know, I'm sure Israel would prefer that more people agreed with them, but they're very
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If you think they're in the wanting phase, we're like, ah, we want to attack.
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We kind of want to, but we're going to need public opinion on our side.
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Public opinion has no role in this conflict because Israel is simply going to do what
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they've decided to do, and it's the right decision.
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They have to eliminate this risk because they can't have it hanging over their heads again.
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So, as much as I'd love to give you all my predictions, or not my predictions, but my, let's say, my moral belief about this situation, who is more immoral and who's the bad one and who's the good one, none of it matters.
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And we should be dealing with what do you do now?
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But I have one more prediction about the hospital story.
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That if it turns out that the narrative turns into it was some kind of errant missile from Hamas, I think that will start to morph into, sure, it was Hamas's missile or rocket.
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And now, how can it be Israel's fault that a Hamas missile allegedly hits a hospital?
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Do you know, did you see the videos of the Hamas guys digging up the pipeline that allegedly Israel built them a pipeline for water and they dug it up?
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And they used the tubes, the pipes, they repurposed them to make rockets, the water pipes.
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Why did they have to give them such a poor water supply that was so hard to turn into rockets?
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Couldn't they have given them, you know, maybe done a little bit more work to put those water lines in there in a way that were easier to dig up and turn into rockets that were more accurate?
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I mean, if you work at it, you can make it Israel's fault somehow.
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Don't get excited about people who can see things in skiffs.
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And new evidence from the same guys have been telling us there's evidence.
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I feel very confident in telling you there are no aliens who have visited Earth.
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But no, I don't think there's really any chance of that.
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We're now in the propaganda phase or entering it.
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And have you all seen horrific pictures of bodies that are ripped apart?
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The big story that people like to talk about is that the neighboring countries are saying hell no to taking Palestinian refugees.
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Not Hamas, but innocent Palestinian refugees who are not part of any military action.
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And the Egyptians, are they racist against the Palestinians?
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I think that they know that this group has a mindset that they can't let in their country.
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That you don't want people who have a certain mindset to come in in big numbers because they might, you know, spread that mindset.
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So, how much sympathy does America need to show?
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Do you think Americans need to open up a little bit and make sure that we, you know, check really carefully, but let in some number of Palestinians, even temporarily, and of just, you know, human concern?
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And if you say to me, but Scott, not letting people in would be this tremendous, tremendous problem to people who are largely innocent, to which I say, that's sort of how national defense works.
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The way national defense works is you protect your own country, and many times that's really, really terrible for other people who have nothing to do with fighting or war or killing.
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Well, because they'd all like to live here, and if you stop them, you're sort of a turd, because they're going to have to go back to some war-torn country, and that's not good.
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An adult decision is you say, what do you got to do?
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But what we've got to do is make sure the mindset of this country does not get further corroded, because it's already on a deadly path.
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I don't know if you've seen Mike Cernovich's tweeting that's getting, let's say, increasingly dire, and he posted this yesterday, Mike Cernovich.
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Remember when I said the left wanted to do a Rwanda genocide on white Americans?
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And yes, they quote American and Israeli Jews as white.
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And you goobers called me hysterical or whatever, because you lack my vision and understanding of human nature.
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So his suggestion is that we're creating a situation in which at some point, certainly, white Americans will be murdered in a Rwandan-type way.
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I agree with it, meaning that on our current trajectory, that would be a guaranteed outcome, the end of America and the full slaughter of the white citizens.
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However, nothing really goes in a straight line.
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If you took a straight line from anything we're doing, it would be the end of the world.
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What if we keep growing food and using fertilizers exactly the way we've been doing it for years?
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What happens if we go in the same path of depopulating, which is where we're going now?
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Depopulating your own people, end of the world.
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We're building robots and AI that will do a bunch of labor.
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Well, we'll probably come up with some incentives if we need to to have more kids, kind of like Hungary does, which works.
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But this whole situation that's heading toward a Rwandan slaughter, I think you should look at Mike Cernovich as way more useful than you might see on the surface.
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When he scares you about a Rwandan massacre, which is absolutely where we're heading, it's to make you change.
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But at the, you know, more ideally, we would surface the awareness that we're heading toward doom, as we do with all the other topics, from climate change to you name it.
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To show you that we're not going to necessarily end up with a Rwanda-like outcome.
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I'm going to talk some Trump stuff, and I'll tell you how I'm going to save the world.
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Do you remember how everybody said Trump was dividing the country?
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But I was trying to think of any example of Trump ever insulting any segment of the population, including Democrats.
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Because he went after individuals hard, but they usually had it coming.
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They entered the war, and he gave them, he wounded them, and then they went running back to, oh, we're gold star parents.
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But if you step into the ring, you're going to get punched.
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So I'm speaking now, coming to you as an accused, deplorable, colonizing, mega-extremist.
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And how did we ever fall for the narrative that Trump was the divisive one?
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There wasn't anything he ever said about a group.
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And if you look at the few times he treated a group special, what were they?
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Well, one was prison reform, which was very, you know, largely biased or helping black people who were in prison for reasons that maybe weren't the best reasons.
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That's one time he targeted a demographic, even though there are other people in the demographic, other people in that group.
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Another time was when he did funding for historically black colleges.
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That was a targeted demographic thing, positive for black Americans.
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But I can't think of any example in which he divided America by any kind of group.
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Now, if you look at policies, they, of course, could be divisive, you know, abortion, for example.
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But it seems entirely a Democrat thing to say that a group of Americans should be targeted as the bad ones.
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I mean, literally, that's Biden's policy, that he's looking after these mega extremists.
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So as you know, Trump is under a gag order that involves the one set of criminal charges.
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So he's not allowed to talk about people involved with January 6th, like Pence.
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You can't insult Pence, because Pence might be a witness in that case.
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It showed Trump with a mini Trump ventriloquist doll.
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So that Trump would use the ventriloquist doll to say the things he can't say.
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And, you know, he's giving his rally speech, but then he wants to say something bad about Mike Pence.
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And then I'm standing next to the, I'm on the stage, too.
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And then I take the microphone and say, Mike Pence, he looks like a Lego.
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I would never say that because I'm under a gag order.
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I mean, in theory, in theory, the judge could interpret it as the same as him saying it.
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If Trump talks to somebody who then writes a story about it and says, well, he said this
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off the record, but I'm an asshole, so I'm going to report it anyway.
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Well, it does make you wonder how much he could play with it and just have fun with it.
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Because if he played with it and had fun with it and stayed out of jail, he could really
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But I don't want him to go to jail trying that.
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So he better get some legal advice before he does that.
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So yesterday, I tweeted what I call the first draft of a book on how to, or maybe it's a
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Because both sides are just adopting their team's narrative.
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Now, sometimes their team might be right, you know, depending on your subjective view of
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So that wouldn't be wrong, or it wouldn't be a problem if they were adopting an opinion
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Sometimes it's just narrative and you've adopted it anyway.
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But I could probably only write one that worked on the left.
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And people say, Scott, how would you deprogram somebody?
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What won't work probably is showing them facts that are conflicted with their point of view.
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You could try, because that seems so obvious, right?
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It's like, let me show you the facts that you haven't seen.
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And now when you've incorporated these facts, how do you feel now?
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And then they say something like, well, why would I listen to a MAGA extremist?
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And also the source I'm showing you is in no means a MAGA extremist.
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And then the person you're trying to convince will say, everything Q said was a lie.
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And then you'll say, we're not even talking about that.
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And then they'll say, but Trump said racists were fine people.
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And then you'll say, no, that didn't happen either.
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So what happened is people just immediately change the topic and they won't let you go back.
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Because people really, really, really don't want to be wrong.
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And they don't want to disappoint their team by changing sides.
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So you can't talk people into a new view with better information or better logic and argument.
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I know it's weird, but those two things are not even worth trying.
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Won't be easy and it won't work for every person.
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Instead of teaching them what's true or false, which they will immediately reject,
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you teach them the skills of spotting fake news on the other side.
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You teach them to spot fake news coming from the right.
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If you teach them to spot it coming from the right and they enjoy the hit of doing it.
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So, for example, they hear something that comes from the right
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and the right says there's an anonymous source.
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Well, if I had trained you, you would say anonymous source on politics?
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Oh, I can tell when those Republicans are trying to fool me.
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That new book that came out that claims an anonymous source said Biden doesn't believe in climate change.
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You now know that that would almost certainly be fake.
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And that I would teach you to follow the money.
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Then you look at a Republican claim and you say, oh, isn't that an interesting coincidence
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that the thing you say is true is also exactly the thing that would be good for your profits
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or your friend's profits or your sponsor's profits or whoever's donating to your campaign's profits.
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So I could teach you all the tools and then show you that it works against Republican propaganda.
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Well, it would be really hard to turn off your skill because you can turn off a lot of things,
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So you fill them with a skill that they got good dopamine hits from using,
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and then you let them just deal with the stuff coming from their own team.
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And they're going to start to notice, going to start to notice.
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But there are a few other things I would do to prep somebody.
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So I would start with the following conversational approach if I were doing it in person.
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But if I'm doing it in writing, I would give some background,
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but not overwhelming history of the world background,
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For example, if it were in person, I would say,
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are you aware that this Project Mockingbird ever existed?
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and you give them time to research it to make sure they can confirm it.
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Now, the Project Mockingbird, as far as I know, is not in doubt by any historian.
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The CIA was influencing or manipulating the media
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to tell a version of propaganda that the CIA wanted you to know.
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That is also something all historians would agree on.
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So there's no left-right in any of this so far.
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But there was a point, and I'll need a fact check on this,
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that Obama reauthorized that very type of behaviors,
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but we don't know exactly what they are or are not doing.
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So it's not like it's history where it's been researched.
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do you think that any country that could legally program their own population
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to make them safer or even just to support whoever's in power,
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And so the first thing you do is you take them back in history long enough
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that they don't have an argument about Republicans and Democrats.
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It's just something that historians on both sides say is true.
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So you first set up the situation that they probably have already lived,
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They may have already lived through a time when the news wasn't real
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and it wasn't even trying to be because it was influenced by the government.
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So once they believe that that's an ordinary thing that could exist
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you know, if you were just alive at the time, you didn't really know,
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then you've loosened them up to discover on their own
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that I don't know when the news, if it ever was real,
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And I would teach them the techniques for finding out what's real and what's not.
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And once they had the basic understanding that it's possible
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Now, I'll tell you something that I heard from my smart friend.
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The idea that if there was some mass conspiracy,
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like the media in general was all like biased in the same way for the same reason,
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To which I say, we couldn't be screaming it any louder.
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However, it's the most obvious thing in the world.
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I can tell you that none of the news about me is real.
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If you know anybody who's ever been in the news for anything,
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and I don't even know who you're going to talk to yet.
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And that's true of all political, scientific, and celebrity stories.
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Dr. Drew says the same thing I see in the comments.
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with the statement that the news about them wasn't true.
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to see if it's any kind of a document or a book.
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Here's an example of one that's not in the book,
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and that it's really just a political thing, right?
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If your objective is to change somebody else's mind.
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Now, if you didn't immediately respond to that word,
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from everybody who's ever worked at a big company.
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let's never hire Harvard or Berkeley graduates,
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you say, there's one more thing I need from you.
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but there is a risk of hiring a Harvard person,
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And I don't think I can be fully comfortable with you
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The reason you don't want to have a critical thinking class
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is that everyone believes they can already do it.
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But you know what does work as a suggestion for somebody else?
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There's a specific certification you might want to get
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Like, you can actually feel in your body that that works.
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The word certification completely reframes the situation
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and turns a thing where you couldn't imagine it was practical
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into something that would be really, really practical.
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I think it'd be better to leave out the parties entirely
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and just say, one party claims that X happened.
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And then you have to determine whether it's likely
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Yeah, the internet already is taking to that idea.
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So you could say, I would like to add one certification
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I want to know that you can tell the difference
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Are you some, like, Republican bad guy or something?
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This has nothing to do with your political party.
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This applies equally to Republicans who believe in Q
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Now, let's get back to Mike Cernovich's prediction
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slash warning, because a prediction is a warning
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So this would be one example where you could see
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that it would take a clever reframe certification
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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is your show for today.
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I'd like to make sure there's at least one thing
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And I got to tell you, that's pretty satisfying
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Maybe the people who experiment with quitting bread,
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of the people who experiment with quitting bread
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hey, maybe you should take a month without bread,
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Out of Hill and Almost Everything and Still Win Big,
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The recommendation that you try a month without bread
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The system is, if there's something you can test easily
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You just test, test, test, test, test your whole life.
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But I could have filled anything in there, right?
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Sorry about the little technical difficulty there.