Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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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 form…

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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 want to live in peace. But they told you that they weren't and they gave you this whole story where you had to kill them but it was all kind of a trick so they can make money and they're really just broken evil people and you shouldn't follow them."

How hard is it to get a kid to believe they've been abused by an adult? It's easy. You just say it once. With adults you have to keep hammering them. You got to repeat and repeat and repeat if you want to persuade them. Not with a kid. A kid you could just tell them once. Done. You know, here's the proof that they were con people. They were just con men the whole time. They were not really your legitimate leaders and they took all your money and they left you in ruin. Just say it once. You would reprogram a kid immediately. Do you know why? Here's what kids believe. You ready for this? Here's what kids believe: the last thing they heard. That's it. Now you know everything about persuading children. They believe the last thing they heard unless there's something sticky about it that's got them stuck to it. So if they don't have some objective other way to know what's true and an adult says your history was wrong so we're revising the history lesson now, this is the correct lesson, what's a kid going to say? They're going to believe the new one instantly, uncritically, because they have not been abused enough that they know that everything is a lie all the time,

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which is what adults know. By the time you're my age you know everything is a lie all the time. Everything is a lie all the time. Kids don't know that. They still think there's a true version and a fake version. So yeah, you could totally deprogram them if you had full control of the schools. Apparently it looks like Israel, I don't know if the US helped, but they did a drone attack and they took…

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