g description, but evolution is largely debunked at this point in my opinion, along scientific and rational means, not along religious arguments. No religious argument needed. It's just the Elon Musk argument that we can already build AI creatures and tell them they think they're real, and they would go through their life thinking they're real. So as long as that's something we can do now, it's probable that if the universe is 14 billion years or maybe 27 billion years, that there could have been infinite civilizations that also could build simulations. What are the odds that you're one of the original species and not one of the millions of simulations that each species that reaches our level will create?

So the odds are maybe a trillion to one or a billion to one that you're an original species, and it's like a billion to one that you're a simulation. Actually zero to one or some form of that. So I would argue. So the one I picked 25 years ago in my book "The Dilbert Future," published in 1997, 25 years ago, I said to myself — I swear to God this is true — I said I'm going to eat shit for 25 years, but at the end of that 25 years, it's going to be sweet. And so I wrote a book in which I specifically said evolution will be debunked in your lifetime, not in religious terms. And I said that not in religious terms but in scientific terms, because we don't understand the nature of reality itself. I said that specifically 25 years ago.

Do you know what happened? I got canceled. It was the first time I got canceled. Does anybody remember that? Is anybody old enough to remember the blowback? Because I had a comic strip that was mostly — well, not mostly, but technical people and STEM people and sciencey people really love Dilbert. When I predicted that evolution would be debunked, I lost almost all of them. I was completely canceled by science in 1997.

Does anybody remember that? Now, that was before canceling was the thing it is now, so it didn't have that much effect on my publishers or my syndication. But the number of people who were willing to buy my books and read my stuff plummeted. I was canceled. Probably I lost 25 percent of my market like overnight. That was the first time I was canceled.

So 25 years I waited to be right. Could you do that? Could you eat shit intentionally for 25 years under the bet that you'd be right in 25 years? I literally did that. Here we are. Yes, I'm not right, you say. I don't know that I'm right. I only know that it's probably a billion to one that I'm right. So I can't guarantee it's not the one, but there's a billion to one chance. Some would say at least maybe a trillion to one.

So I saw a tweet from the Whole Mars Catalog regarding simulation stuff today, and the tweet says this world is too crazy to not be a simulation. And Elon Musk replied to that with "tell me about it." Is that the best tweet? This world is too crazy to not be a simulation. And then the richest man in the world, who's building rocket ships to space among other things, among other things, says "tell me about it."

How could you be Elon Musk and believe that this is a real reality? How could you? Have you ever thought what would it be like to be him? Every time he sits on the toilet and tweets, he changes the planet Earth while he's on the toilet tweeting. That's real. Now, not every tweet, because some of the tweets are just jokes. But if he tweets something serious, the entire world looks at it, reads it, and thinks about it, changes how they think. There's a story about it. How in the world could he feel like he's living in reality?

Now, the reason that I'm sensitive to that is that that's my life as well. My life is so unusual and has been forever that if I'm part of reality, I can't understand how that's possible. Or at least, you know, the reality we used to think. If it's not a simulation and I'm not creating my reality as I go, how do you explain anything I've experienced? My reality is so far out of anything normal, as is Musk's. And you know, similar but very different scale.

Yeah, I'm going to tell you a story without much detail. There's somebody in my life who I've been teaching the simulation concept and the idea that you can manifest your reality. And this has been an ongoing conversation. And the person I talked to, I believe has incorporated this. And I was having a conversation just the other day in which the person was feeding back to me some successes that were so wildly unlikely. I mean, it involved a big coincidence. And the person was telling me like it was a coincidence. And I had to say, hold on, hold on. Do you see what's happening here? Do you have any idea what's happening right now? I taught you how to manifest your reality, and now you're telling me that you've got exactly the weird unusual thing that you wanted, and you're telling me that's a coincidence.

You should have looked. You should have seen the look on the person's face. This is a human being that I pushed to a higher level of awareness. Somebody who just figured out that everything in this person's life suddenly at exactly the time they learned the skill of manifesting, everything turned right in the weirdly coincidental ways that could not have been under anybody's control. It looks like reality just wrapped itself around this person. Very impressed, you know. And I got to see the evidence myself. So just the weirdest situation.

Now, this is my everyday. I wake up into a situation that there's something that happens that's so unusual, this in my favor. And it's something I wanted and wanted to manifest. And I think, how in the world is this real?

Anyway, so let me do it to you again right now. You're going to watch it in real time so you can make your own decision. Am I changing reality or just getting lucky? Because you're going to find that my reframe about imitation is the only path to success, that Black America needs to figure out what to do given that they're locked out of the only pat