s tragic decisions. But I don't think I should be making that decision for some other family. I just think it's a mistake and unambiguously a mistake. If those kids want to make those decisions later in life, that's different.

All right. Forget that one.

You know, I can't get over this fact that the survey showed that people who are very liberal, especially the white women, have way more mental illness than other people. And here's a question I don't really know has been answered. Scott's silly argument. Well, I will hide you so you disappeared. You can tell me what's wrong with my arguments. That's always acceptable. But if you write in all caps "Scott's silly argument," then I got to deal with you. I got to take care of that.

All right. So what do you think? Do you think having a mental disorder makes you more likely to say you're very liberal, or does being very liberal cause a mental illness? Which one causes the other? Or is there any causation? Maybe it's just a correlation that has nothing to do with any causation. What do you think?

Because I feel like it might be both. It might be that having a mental illness causes you to be very liberal, because there's a lot you have to accept that doesn't quite fit the rational model. But it could also be that buying into a certain set of fears and a certain frame of how the world works and whether you're a victim or not could cause you mental illness. Yeah, I think it's bidirectional like a lot of things are.

In fact, if you had a new situation and you said oh there's some cause and there's some effect and you don't know anything about anything, your best guess is that it's bidirectional because a lot of things are.

All right. So here are some taboo topics we can't talk too much about. Whether your phone causes mental illness, because nobody wants to get rid of their phone and the companies that make them make a lot of money and we just don't want to talk about that too much even though we know it's a giant problem.

We don't want to talk about whether fake news causes mental illness, because of course it does. Of course it does. And I would think that watching CNN would cause mental illness. Not a joke. Not a joke. It seems to me obvious that if you watch the CNN and MSNBC you would get mental illness. And I'm not joking about that. That's just dead serious. And it's not partisan. It's just observational.

I look at the things they say. Imagine for example you thought you really lived in a country in which the president had really said that neo-Nazis were very fine people. Now most of you watching this know that that didn't happen. It was a fake edit and that he said exactly the opposite strongly. But maybe three quarters of the country believe that actually happened.

Imagine if you thought that happened. I mean seriously, imagine if you believed that actually happened, that you were living in a country where the president praised white supremacists right on TV. How would that make you feel? Well I feel like I'd have some mental illness. I'd have a little bit of anxiety. I'd get a little bit depressed. I feel like we're doomed.

So yes, CNN causes mental illness. There's no doubt in my mind. I mean obviously you have to wait for a scientific, well-controlled study to know for sure, but do you really need to wait for the study? Sometimes things are a little too obvious. You don't have to wait for the study. But I could be wrong. I always keep that. I always try to keep that recording going, by the way.

This is a trick that I teach you in my book Loserthink that is good to, when you have a strong opinion about something, especially if you're really certain, when you sometimes when you state your opinion with certainty just cap it off with "but I could be wrong." It's just a good hygiene for your brain. You should always remind yourself, especially when you're certain, but I could be wrong. It gives you a little mental out.

Because I don't know this for sure but I think it gives you a little protection against cognitive dissonance. Compare these two things: I'm definitely right versus I'm very confident about this but you know I could be wrong. And then what happens if you find out you are wrong? Well the person who says I'm definitely right will be triggered into cognitive dissonance because they don't want to be wrong. That's what causes cognitive dissonance.

So saying you're positive and sticking with it is a trap, because if it turns out you're wrong or there's counter evidence you won't be able to see it. It'll be like it'll be invisible to you. It's like causing yourself mental illness. You blind yourself by being certain. But if you just add this little bit of technique, you say I'm quite confident this is true but I could be wrong, that's your escape. Because let's say you discover that you are wrong. Now you've said I'm very confident but I could be wrong. Are you triggered into cognitive dissonance? Maybe. But I always think you're a little bit safer because you have two opinions. One is I'm confident and two is that I could be wrong. And then when it turns out you're wrong you say well I told you I could be wrong. See, at least you have an out. You have an out that protects your ego, which in theory should protect you from being triggered into cognitive dissonance. But if you've never given yourself that out, I think you're more likely to get triggered into cognitive dissonance.

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