Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
Scott Adams Philosophy Archive
Search ideas

Context —

yes. It might be like a 95% thing, not 100% thing, but mostly yes. If they put enough resources to it, they can probably get close to it. Can they demilitarize? Yes, as long as Israel maintains full military control of the area. If they let somebody else do it, maybe not. But yes, it's doable. Very hard but doable. But can they deprogram the Palestinians? Oh, here's the question. Well this is my d…

← Previous segment →

ldren? And the answer is really easy. Simple. Children are like a light switch. You can turn them on and you can turn them off just as fast. So yes, if you put the right kind of effort into it, you can change a kid into any belief you want. And I'm not talking about six-year-old kids. I'm talking about 19-year-olds, 20-year-olds, 25. It starts falling off really quickly after their brains are formed. You know, up to 25 they're still a little flexible. After that the flexibility goes away pretty quickly.

Now if you can keep weapons away from the older militants, make them unable to do what they might want to do, and you can retrain the younger people and the teens, there is a way forward. But can you do those things? Could you get enough control over the schools to teach them that they've been had?

So David King says this guy is insane. So if you're doubting my statement that even the Palestinian children can be completely reversed, let me tell you how easy it is. You'd have to find the right lever. And the right lever that works with all young people is "the old people had been lying to you before." That'll work every time because young people are already primed to believe that the older generation is lying to them. We don't need to be convinced. It's the easiest thing in the world. I can reprogram every Palestinian kid in like 30 minutes if I could cause them to listen to me. I could do it now. I'd probably have to be dressed up like a Muslim cleric or something. It would have to be coming from somebody credible. But all I have to do is say, "Here's the bank accounts of the leaders of Hamas. Here's their bank accounts. This one guy's got a billion dollars. Here's the yacht of this other one." Now what if I m

Context —

ade it all up? Would they know? No, they wouldn't know. I could literally just make that up. Here's the actual bank account, and it just made it up on my printer. You just show it to the kids. "Hey kids, this is the actual bank account right here. Look, they took all your money. You guys are starving and they started this war and they did it for nothing because Israel is your friend and they just…

Next segment → →