Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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golden age coming, this is one of the biggest parts. The fact that psychedelics, mushrooms in particular I think, are becoming — they're moving solidly into the mainstream. No doubt about it. And that happens, of course, because there's a certain age of people, and when they get in power, suddenly their people have done psychedelics and suddenly it doesn't seem too bad to them now that they're in…

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greatest things that's happened to civilization. It could be that big. And that's not an exaggeration, by the way.

Anybody who's experienced psychedelics, I think 80 percent of you would agree with that statement, that it's going to transform civilization. It won't just be a thing that's happening.

Cernovich says in the comments — Mike Cernovich says that calling it plant medicine is a better frame. Maybe. Yeah, it might go down better with the public.

There's a story about Naomi Osaka, one of the best female tennis players in the world, just pulled out of the French Open. She was getting a lot of heat because she was refusing to do media interviews, which of course is an essential part of the job of being a top athlete. You don't really get to not do the interview because that's part

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of the show, right? And people are paying you a lot of money to put on a show. You can't just skip an important part of it. But she decided to pull out of the French Open entirely, and she said she didn't want to do these interviews to protect her mental health. What the hell does that mean? I mean, it's probably important. I'm not going to minimize it, because when somebody says they need to do…

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