Back to episode — Episode 2271 Scott Adams - CWSA 10/24/23
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how dumb we were to have believed something so ridiculous by today's standard. That's what measuring the temperature of the Earth is going to look like in 40 years. In 40 years we're going to look back and say oh my God the entire civilization was built around the belief you could measure the temperature of the Earth or even the direction of the temperature, either one. And we will laugh at it as…
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How do we persuade liberal white women to stop pushing guilt as the operating system of life? Well I don't know what to do about the fact that most of the bad ideas are coming from one segment of the population. What do you do about that? There does seem to be a market segment that is the problem and it does seem to be single white women. So I've never known anybody that could tell a single white woman anything. So I don't know how you would persuade that group. Vulnerable narcissists. Yeah mocking them. I think they're already mocked. It doesn't seem to make a difference. You're an exception. Good.
Oh I don't know if I've conquered DEI. I think there's just as much DEI and ESG as there ever was. They just might stop saying the names as much but boy you say colonizer around me and you're my mortal enemy. Colonize what? Oh I am a colonizer but it's like the n-word. You can call yourself a colonizer but if somebody else calls you one it means they're marking you for death. Alena, your son's learning about colonizers. Anatolia just tweeted. Word thinking. Did he retweet mine or he was using it on his own? Your son was forced to read Trevor Noah's biography in high school. Oh my God.
Word thinking is not word salad. Those are different concepts. Word salad is a whole bunch of words in a paragraph or a sentence that sort of the grammar is right but it doesn't make any sense. That's word salad. Word thinking is where you try to win an argument by making your definition of the word the one the other one has to accept. So for example Nikki Haley tweeted that anti-Zionists are just anti-Semitic. Now a community note immediately factored and said no those are just different words. They mean different things. You know one is about the territory of Israel and the other is about the people and there's a big difference between the dirt on the ground and the people standing on it.
So but it is also true that some number of the anti-Zionists are also anti-Semitic. So she's directionally right but she is incorrect. Directionally there's a big Venn diagram correlation of course but not all that way. So it's word thinking to try to win your argument by saying the new definition that I just made up is that anti-Zionist by definition means anti-Semitic. So but you can't win an argument just by changing the definition of stuff.
Scott you say you're not right or left for yours. How do you articulate your position? I still don't understand. Why do you need to, why do you need a label for me? You can't understand me without the label. Why can't I just be open-minded? It's like it. Yeah I always reject people who tell me I have to identify with the left or the right. I don't have to do that. I absolutely do not have to do that. That's something in your mind that has nothing to do with me.
I identify left of Bernie as a joke. It's the same way I endorsed Hillary Clinton for president for my personal safety. How do you reframe the feeling of loneliness when you can't find people
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who think like you? Well you know that's part of the reason I do these live streams because in my personal life I have almost zero contact with anybody who's even interested in what's happening in politics. Close to zero. So if I did not do this sort of professionally I wouldn't have any
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