Back to episode — Episode 1353 Scott Adams - LeBron, Pelosi, Mask Studies, Police Stuff, and More Ridiculousness
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y time we think we know something, it just turns out not to be the case. It's pretty consistent. So what do we know about India? Nothing, really, right? Yeah, it's a double variant, but I can't believe it's only in India. Severity seems low. Somebody says, well, I imagine that part of this is that their data was really bad before and maybe it's improving. Or maybe the numbers are just so big that…
← Previous segment →u give George Floyd a pass for his behaviors that led up to it — again, it's the cop who went to jail and the jury has spoken. But giving George Floyd a complete pass as Pelosi did feels like setting the bar too low. You know, something you do only for somebody that you had a negative opinion of, that you didn't think success was somehow an option or something. Like why would you focus on the least role model kind of behavior you could ever think of, which was drug use, maybe some criminal behavior, resisting arrest? I mean that's such a bad strategy.
So if you care about Black America as I do, it really hurts to watch them accept or pursue a strategy that couldn't possibly work for them. This has nothing to do with me. Like I'm not really directly involved with any of this stuff. But I feel bad that they don't have a strategy that could work for them.
Here's a little framing thing that might be fun. You know we keep hearing about everybody's brainwashed, right? We hear that the QAnon people, they're brainwashed. We hear that the school kids who are in critical race theory, the people on the right say they're getting brainwashed. Antifa, what's up with that? Are they brainwashed? How about white supremacists? How does a white supremacist stay a white supremacist? Probably brainwashed.
What would happen — let me just put this out here. This is a thought experiment, okay? What would happen if somebody or some organization put together a deprogramming program but it included all of them? It's the "all of them." That's the key part of the idea. So somebody builds an actual organization with funding, resources. Maybe they got a web page or a book or whatever. And they're built it all to reprogram people who have fallen into any kind of brainwashed cult-like thinking that's unproductive. And it would be completely voluntary, right? Of course nobody would have to be deprogrammed. You'd have to want it. So you know there's that.
But imagine that you went and said, "Yes, my organization deprograms people from brainwashing. We include everything from white supremacists
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to Antifa to the school kids who are learning critical race theory to QAnon." And you don't defend any of your decisions about why anybody's in that group or out. So you don't say, "Well, here's the reason that we're doing this group." You just take it as a given and you just offer the service. And you say, "Look, it's not even up to us to tell you you're brainwashed. If you feel you are, we can h…
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