Back to episode — Episode 1117 Scott Adams - Persuasion Against Antifa, Cohen's Book, Gravity Batteries, Fake News
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em and say here's the deal. We are literally going to trust you with our lives. We are going to trust you with the fate of the republic, Bob, or whatever their names are. Bob, we're looking at you. Do not sign that piece of paper, Bob or whoever, unless you're willing to put your life on it that this is a good decision. Nobody's magic. We can't, you can't be right all the time. But we're watching,…
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So the big magic trick that Black Lives Matter and to some extent Antifa are doing is to make it seem as if the way you act in life doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Let me give you some advice. If you're ever in a discussion with anybody over any topic, doesn't have to be any of this stuff, just in general, and the other party says here's the deal, all of the changes have to be on your side and our side we will simply be the benefit of your changes. If they say that, walk away. There is no such thing as a negotiation where one side gives and the other side takes. You maybe would like that to be the case but that becomes a case of negotiating with yourself. How about I give you this? Thanks. Now give us some more. Okay well I thought it was done but okay I'll give you a little more. Thank you. Now how about some more? Wait a minute. Where's this end? Where's the end of us giving you stuff? If you don't tell us what you want it's, we would be idiots to give you anything. So that should be logic number one, which is if you're not asking for something specific we will offer you zero because to do otherwise is just stupid. It's just stupid because you can't negotiate with yourself. You have to have somebody on the other side who says if we got this it would be enough. Maybe we could meet in the middle.
So I would say that the Republicans could have a good case if they said if you get school choice, right that's not enough. They've got to teach some kind of a life strategy about how to stay out of trouble. Here's how I would teach a life strategy in the second grade or first grade. You want to keep it simple, right? And whatever somebody learns when they're really, really young that becomes extra sticky in terms of brainwashing. So you want to brainwash kids. Every kid. I'm not talking about Black kids. I'm talking about every kid. You want to brainwash them early about life strategies. And because they're kids you got to keep it simple. And I would keep it this simple. Here's my idea. We call it the 100 life. So instead of saying I'm going to teach you a life strategy, you're already losing a first grader. They'
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re like the strategy? Don't even know what that word means. So instead you make it a checklist and you say here's how to have 100 life. 100 life just means a full life that's got all the good stuff in it. If you commit a crime subtract four points. If you get bad grades in school subtract seven points. If you become addicted to a substance subtract 25 points. Whatever the numbers are. I'm just put…
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