Back to episode — Episode 1048 Scott Adams - Kanye Enters the Race, Dark and Divisive Speeches, Magic Mushrooms
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he's been doing sort of that, I guess a Christian revival or I don't know what you call it, but he's going very heavily into a spiritual direction. In my opinion the country needs that more than they need a new president, right? Because there's sort of a spiritual void or something. You know, I'm not a religious person but I even I can feel that people are drifting. They need some kind of a connec…
← Previous segment →good education, then the perceived racism in a generation will look a lot less because everybody that an employer talks to will be somebody who's well educated. They're not going to say well odds are or anything like that. They're going to say hey, well-educated kids, they're all good. If you can educate everybody equally you wouldn't eliminate any racism but it would be such a better world because you could slice through the racism like it didn't exist.
So if you could slice through it like it doesn't exist, is there racism? Well let me ask you this. Does Kanye experience much racism in his personal life? Things that he is discriminated against because he's black? I don't know. Yeah there may be things that he feels are offensive but I don't think racism bothers Kanye. Why is that? Because racism doesn't exist? No, it's exactly the same everywhere in the world but Kanye is not bothered by it. It just doesn't affect his life in any way, at least on the big stuff, right? I'm sure there are offensive little things and things you imagined and things that are true that are in the noise.
Now we can't all become Kanye. If you could become Kanye or Michael Jordan or Oprah, the last thing you worry about in your own personal life is the racism that people are applying to you. It could be annoying. It's not gonna change your income. You're gonna slice through life like it didn't exist. If everybody had a good education they could do the same thing.
So imagine Kanye saying I'm neither Republican nor a Democrat but if we don't get education right for everybody, for everybody being the secret sauce, we're never gonna have a better world. Here's what I propose. That whoever makes the best offer on education will get my endorsement.
So imagine, imagine that Kanye develops enough of a support base that he's actually polling with like 20 percent of the vote. So this is just a mental experiment. He stays in the race conceptually. The next poll that comes out says he has 20 p
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ercent support. Well now you have to listen to him, right? Because if he decides to endorse somebody it's gonna matter. So now you say, let's say Kanye gets 20 percent of the poll and he says look I don't know who's gonna win but here's my deal for you America. Republicans, give me your best offer for what school would look like for everybody to make sure that you absolutely get a good education n…
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