Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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you know one time change in energy prices? Kind of lucky. May we got lucky. All right. Yeah people are staying home more blah blah. So Wall Street Journal says that kids are preferring YouTube to all other forms of entertainment. I'm going to echo that although I'm no kid. Have all of you noticed that if you turn on YouTube you'll find something very interesting to watch every single time? Have y…

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ns is to make sure that when as soon as you're done the other countries they were trying to stop getting together are not just getting together but more getting together than they ever were contemplating before. So that there's a real, it really didn't work. You got to make sure that Iran thinks oh crap that didn't work right so it's they're not tempted to do it again.

So I think maybe Saudi involvement would be the right answer. But I don't see any kind of answer where the Palestinians are governing themselves. I just don't see it.

Now as someone pointed out to me this morning you have all these brainwashed young people in the West Bank and Gaza. How in the world do you fix that? An entire youth group completely brainwashed to just want to kill Israelis and Jews and whatever. Can you fix it? I'm going to give you a weird optimistic answer to that question.

Number one here's number one persuasion rule you need to know. It is way easier to brainwash a young person. Old people can be brainwashed but it takes more work because they're more settled in their opinions. You really have to unsettle their opinion before you can change it. Young people are starting with no real opinion and certainly not strongly held so you can brainwash them easily. You can make them believe in Santa Claus. Anything, right? So that's what happened.

So now you've got this all this weaponized you know million or so young people who are weaponized. So how in the world do you solve that? Well I don't know if it's solvable but you could imagine a scenario in which let's say Saudi or somebody else had control of all of the education system. So somebody had real tight control of the curriculum and what the teachers were telling the kids. Then you just reprogram them. Now you'd have to get the 20 somethings because they're already out of school but you can get them.

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ws. Remember I told you it's simple to brainwash young people. It's really simple to un-brainwash them because you know what? Do you know it's easy to convince a young person? There's nothing easier to convince a 20 something or a teenager than the following statement. You ready for this? When I tell you how easy it is you're going to laugh. It's the easiest un-brainwashing you'll ever do. You rea…

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