Episode 1026 Scott Adams: I Solve Systemic Racism, But Only in the Independent Nation of my House

Date: 2020-06-13 | Duration: 1:08:44

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• Antifaland’s borders, armed border guards, fully monitored society

• Bill Maher says “defund the police” hands election to Trump

• Dave Chappelle’s emotional special on George Floyd

• Sam Harris’s masterpiece of critical thinking on George Floyd

• Whiteboard1: “System” Problem

• Whiteboard2: Alternative

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good morning everybody how good it is to see you is it nice to be appreciated in the morning well I’m appreciating all of you true story so let’s get to it we’ve got a lot of problems to solve today systemic racism we’ve got breakaway nations in the United States we’ve got economic problems we’ve got stress but I’m here to fix all of that and it won’t be difficult once we prepare ourselves and all we need is copper mug or a glass a tanker gels our sign a canteen jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better including coronavirus including racial relations the economy even trade deals it’s called the simultaneous sip and it

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it’s called the simultaneous sip and it happens now go mmm so I just tweeted a video inside and t-fal and i guess we’re calling the autonomous zone that they call chas other people are calling anti flan and i saw a video where they were having a pickup game of dodgeball and let me ask you how do you think a pickup game of dodgeball turns out in a land in which people don’t like to have rules just about the way you thought so that’s funny I just noticed that the the main street in my town is gonna close Main Street where all the restaurants are most of them anyway they’re gonna close Main Street on weekends so that the table seating can

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weekends so that the table seating can extend into the streets not a bad idea is it who came up with that idea yes I did suggest that to the restaurant owners through the one restaurant owner that I know the best so I did suggest that to him and he did say he was going to talk to the town about it I don’t know if that’s why I happened but I like to think that one of the one of the best things that came out of these crises yeah you know it’s it’s way too early to be looking for anything good news during you know during the middle of a triple crisis but it is true that we’ve we’ve noticed this a number of times that people became very flexible to a good suggestion right didn’t you see this everywhere suddenly the entire world became flexible to listen to a good idea and if you had a good idea a week later

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and if you had a good idea a week later the law would change you saw with telehealth and doctors being able to practice across borders somebody comes up with an idea hey let’s change that because it would help a lot with this kovetz situation a week later there’s an executive order and the law of the land is different you’ve never seen this before you’ve never seen an ordinary citizen say hey I got an idea why don’t we do X and then a week later X is actually implemented I mean it’s kind of fun in its own way there’s something fun about that I don’t think that’ll last but certainly certainly an identifying characteristic of this time there’s quite different how many of you saw my appearance on dr. Carlson’s show last night raise your hands I can’t see you oh that’s right I’m the only one well I don’t think I don’t think my

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well I don’t think I don’t think my answers on Tucker’s show when exactly in the direction he was expected I was talking about Chazz that was the topic I was asked to talk about and I was unusually probably surprisingly supportive of the the Chazz people and I’m gonna I’m gonna continue to say that now not ignoring all the cost of it I’m not ignoring that you know I’m taking full appreciation that there are victims involved the people who live there and have businesses there it’s a gigantic inconvenience and slash abusive you know situation so none of that is minimized but we’re adults we can talk about the whole picture and part of the whole picture is it’s a really interesting experiment honest to god I don’t think I could be more interested in what’s happening in the NT full hand than just

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happening in the NT full hand than just about anything that’s happened in the news in a long time you know you know president Trump has gotten a little quiet lately have you noticed that I mean by his standards he’s getting a little bit quiet - maybe - or to a fault give him that he could he could be doing some useful stuff but an taifa and anti foul and or Chaz if you prefer is really interesting good and bad it’s really interesting so here that you’re the things that interest me about it number one is to see how quickly they will say evolve toward the system that they were trying to escape so the things that we’ve already seen them immediately realized they needed and you know I’m not the first to point this out but walls they needed a border the very first thing they did was create a border that’s that should be important in other

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that’s that should be important in other words our our national consciousness should be moved a little bit without any argument being involved simply because we observed that the people who one assumes are the most against boarders the moment they were in charge the first thing they did was create a border wall first thing it wasn’t even the second it was just first thing god I have a border wall so even though this is not directly connected to you know any border immigration question I don’t know how this couldn’t affect you right because the question of do our border is necessary I feel like that’s been answered now the other thing that they have T Philander had to do well I don’t know if they had to do it where I just emerged that the few people who have guns turned out to be the security force now imagine if an T if I had no guns it

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now imagine if an T if I had no guns it turns out they’ve got some guns but what if they had no guns well then you and I could conquer and Tifa land with just a couple of guns if nobody else had a gun all you need is a couple of high-powered you know weapons just go into an Tifa land and say I’m your new king so I think one of the things they’re realizing is if you don’t have a credible and functional security force that anybody can conquer you and indeed it looks like a rapper named Raz has conquered an T Philander I don’t know if they know it yet now of course I’m I’m exaggerating for comic purposes it could be their razzes just trying to help our because we know that he has at least access to the guns and we know that he’s sort of self-appointed security there he could be just helping I mean it could be nothing but productive don’t know but you have to wonder if the people there

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you have to wonder if the people there are completely let’s say comfortable with somebody assuming the mantle of armed security force in their their new nation that’s got to make them think about things in a different way here’s another thing because everybody in the antifa land has a phone and as soon as there’s any kind of action in public they turn on their phone ante file and is the first place - I would say fully implement a hundred percent of public surveillance think about it everybody there has a phone and they’re all trained that as soon as there’s anything going on they pull out their phones so even though it’s not you know security cameras affixed to light poles you know - whatever it’s not security cameras but they’ve created for themselves a situation in which there’s

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themselves a situation in which there’s 100% complete coverage because they’re outdoors and they there’s so much outdoors activity and they all have phones with them that they are a completely monitored Society now I think that might have been closer to the opposite of what they had in mind but that’s how it turned out so watching this is interesting now what I said on Tucker’s show and I’ll say again is that I think these small experiments we need to do more of these but do them you know in a more organized legal plan way that doesn’t take over anybody who’s existing property there must be plenty of property in the United States that would be a good place to try a little community see what happens with no police maybe they use some other mechanism and maybe they use technology and what I said on Tucker’s show is that we we have a country that largely was design pre-internet and then we just tried to tack the internet onto it as

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tried to tack the internet onto it as best we could to an existing system but I think one of the things that the protesters have exactly right is that we really haven’t tried the other options you know you and I can certainly say Scott if you try the no police option and it’s all going to go bad and it’s not going to work to which I say you could be right you could be a hundred percent right but I don’t know that because I don’t know what the options are I don’t know you know could you have a hybrid situation could you have half as many regular police so at least you reduce the number of harm to people in the in the public but you know you you compensate with other kinds of services let’s test it but let’s test it in a clean well-funded organized way see what happens good work I just don’t think it’ll work everywhere here’s my big question about AMT file and will black lives matter and

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AMT file and will black lives matter and Antigua coexist in peace in the long run in the short run and Tifa and black lives matter had a common enemy you know the system what happens when they don’t have a common enemy anymore well in theory what should happen is anytime you don’t have a common enemy you end up fighting with each other it’s pretty much guaranteed now we saw already that there was a sign who knows how much is real because you know photographs coming in of empty land could be staged could be doctored it could be out of context so you know be careful about any pictures or video you see in general but there was a sign there that looked like they had to segregate their communal garden so so they had to segregate it into a black garden and a white garden now if a few days into your nation you’ve decided that you need borders armed cops you ended up with a hundred percent of surveillance in public and segregation

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surveillance in public and segregation maybe things aren’t having not having in the right direction but on the other hand we’re learning a lot here I think they’re learning a lot it’s just really useful in a way that I don’t think we fully realize this is really useful but very expensive and I would argue that the the value that we’re gonna get out of it might exceed the cost in the long run just because of how it will change how we think about things and of course that’s no that’s no comfort to the people losing their property and inconvenience at the moment I’m hearing more and more people who are afraid the whole world is falling apart do you feel that way do you feel afraid that were on the on the brink of total societal collapse that the the Republic could be you know bending and ready to break that that’s civil society is about

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break that that’s civil society is about to fall apart and we can’t talk to each other and everything’s everything’s a mess how many of you think that somebody that somebody says they think I’m stoned unfortunately no this is what I actually sound like I wish I were but sorry to disappoint you I’m not so here’s my take on that the there there’s one central fact of life they should keep in your head and never let it leave so should be the filter that you put on just about anything you’re seeing in the world and it goes like this in the old days the news was sort of reporting the news in the modern world in 2020 the news is really just a way to spike the chemicals in your brain it’s not news in the way that news is supposed to be news like useful information that you can take

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useful information that you can take advantage of to make a better world or any of that the news is not that so if you still think the news is something like a way to transmit information you’re you’re gonna be very lost and confused life won’t make any sense because the news doesn’t do that anymore it’s not their business model there’s no intention to do that it’s not even an intention the news is there to make money they’ve got a business model they need eyeballs and attention and the way to do that is to jack up your your emotional state the audience that is to the point where they can’t look away now here’s what I’ve noticed if I were to walk outside my home today how many problems would I encounter none none if I if I were to encounter a an african-american gentleman somewhere and my travels for my work day today would

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my travels for my work day today would he and I have any issues nope none not not a single issue if I go into public is there going to be some problems or some riots where I live nope nope in fact if you took the map of the country and then you try to you know with a magic marker on your map you tried to you know mark all the places where there’s bad stuff happening let’s say looting let’s say empty fillet and put them all together it would look like this big map they had just some pin pricks on it that’s it of the entire geographic United States there are a few pin pricks that are making a lot of news the vast majority of the country is sort of not engaged there they’re just trying to go to work and take care of their family live their life so the first thing that I would if you’re if you find

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thing that I would if you’re if you find yourself stressed out because you think the Republic’s on the brink of failing I would say this you should reduce in your mind just intellectually dial back however much you’re worried by 80% okay so that that would be about the right dial back to get from your attenuated state that’s artificial because you’ve been watching these little pin pricks you know you’re watching the George Floyd situation I mean the actual video off literally the moment the last moments of his life these are super super powerful emotional things so everybody in the country who is watching the news is just cranked up beyond belief but the people who are not watching the news they’re not having a bad time at all so I would say this that the perceived problem is 80% larger than the actual

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problem is 80% larger than the actual problem the actual problem is small compared to what the United States can handle if you’d like to feel good about something let me suggest this if you live in the United States if you’re American you’re living in the country that is simultaneously handling race protests / riot / looting whatever you want but a racial crisis we’re handling a health crisis the biggest we’ve seen and we’re handling that or maybe AIDS was bigger depending on how you count things and then an economic crisis we’re handling three gigantic crises at the same time and do you know how we’re doing pretty well pretty well actually we’re actually doing really well that’s the whole story the United States is handling three unprecedented crises any one of which would be a pretty big issue I mean

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would be a pretty big issue I mean obviously a really big issue any one of them individually we’re handling three three at the same time and we’re handling it we’re totally handling it and and take for example I’m hearing more craziness about President Trump listen what was it Biden said that if Trump lost the election the military would have to take him out of the White House and Sam Harris is as similar concerns that the president will tend toward a dictatorship if he gets reelected now doesn’t that sound even a little bit like the world you live in because the world I live in president Trump would actually be the last person in the world who would try to stay in the White House if he lost an election like in my mind is inconceivable it would be like saying the Scot here’s

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it would be like saying the Scot here’s what I’m worried about I don’t worried that rabbits will grow fangs and wings and start flying after us and attacking us with their fangs to which I say mm maybe that’s not what you should be worried about because I suppose anything’s possible but I don’t think a rabbit’s gonna grow fangs and wings all of a sudden for no reason and start attacking people so anyway I wouldn’t worry about things that are that unlikely so certainly the president leaving the White House if he loses the election well but I don’t even know how to take it seriously honestly like I wanted I wanted to give you reasons why you wouldn’t leave but it is so frickin stupid no it’s not stupid I’ll always draw that it is so delusional to imagine that the president who doesn’t even want

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that the president who doesn’t even want to use the military oversees the and but let me ask you this has this president killed fewer people than any other president I’m wondering if you compared presidents over time I would guess I’m not sure about this I could be wrong about this but I’ll bet if you looked at president Trump’s body count if you count other countries right you know and anybody that a president has someone directly killed by their orders I would think Trump would be alone among the lowest wouldn’t he all right so if you’re worried about the world falling apart I think that that is an artifact of television and the news and that you should worry a lot less about it like 80% less Bill Maher continues to be extra interesting lately because and I say this I complimented him often even

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I say this I complimented him often even when I disagree with his opinions which is fair I think and I complimented Bill Maher because he is one of the few public people who is capable of both sides now that doesn’t mean he sees them the way I see them that’s a little bit different but Bill Maher literally is capable of looking at arguments on both sides now why is that impressive well it shouldn’t be like why am i impressed at that that should be the most routine or very thing that anybody can do but in fact it’s so rare that I would like to compliment Bill Maher in public for being one of the most useful thinkers because even if you disagree with them it’s really useful to watch somebody in public have an actual independent mind like the more of that you see the more likely it’s going to rub off on you a little bit so again it’s not about what he says it’s the fact that he’s even able just even able

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fact that he’s even able just even able to look at both sides in his his view of both sides so here’s an example so Mars just is we’re saying that it’s a bad strategy to call it defund the police now in his in his view liberals want to just you know divert some portion of funds maybe it’s additional funds maybe it’s some a little bit taken from the police but in Mars version it’s not eliminated in place it’s just building a better system that has some additional elements but I don’t think that’s everybody’s opinion as a New York Times ran a an opinion piece that said no we really do mean get rid of the police but even that I don’t know if that means get rid of the police it might mean we changed their names we would get rid of all the existing ones we train new ones but they’re sort of police like but we don’t call them police so I don’t think that Maher is wrong in the big picture the big picture meaning there will be

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the big picture meaning there will be something like police no matter what so I think he’s right about that but he criticizes defund the police because it just it just hands basically hands Trump the victory bill Barr is smart enough to know that the Democratics the Democrats strategy of you know everybody getting on board Nancy Pelosi everybody else to defund the police is basically just handing the election to trump now who knows you know there’s there’s still way too many days between now and Election Day to say that anything means anything there will be too many changes between now but I think he’s on to something I don’t think there are too many people who are against law and order in general so let’s talk about the two most interesting pieces of content yesterday and I tweeted that you should you should consume them in this order Dave

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consume them in this order Dave Chappelle did a surprise I guess it was a special on Netflix that they put on YouTube so instead I think you can see it on YouTube you don’t need Netflix so as Dave Chappelle so he did it looked like maybe it was a local event outdoors during coronavirus so it’s fairly fairly new and it happened since the George Floyd incident so it’s a comedy act in which Dave Chappelle does know comedy so that’s the first thing you need to know about it it’s a Dave Chappelle’s stand-up comedy in which he doesn’t do any comedy nor is he trying to do any comedy he he’s just really he’s really angry and worked up about the George Floyd incident and so most of his act was a very very watchable very interesting explanation of how he feels and how black Americans feel about the

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and how black Americans feel about the whole situation now yeah I’m seeing in the comments the the other thing you need to know about it is that he was very inebriated now he was either a drunk or he was on some kind of drugs so he can barely stand up I would say that he didn’t do himself any favors you know in terms of whatever you think of Dave Chappelle I don’t know that doing an act that drunk you know it’s very common for comedians onstage to be buzzed or even pretty drunk but I’ve never seen anybody tried to do a stage act that drunk actually I’m using that shape or drunk or high or whatever it was but he also doesn’t hide that part of his personality and so you know just just take that into account it’s not like he’s being a hypocrite or something he you know even in his act he talks about his love of marijuana etc so I

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about his love of marijuana etc so I don’t think he’s being a hypocrite and obviously comedians are their own separate category of professionals yeah and he said some nasty things about Candace Owens and Sarah but here’s what I want here’s the reason I recommend it on an entertainment level don’t look very laughs because he’s not trying to give you an a he’s trying to make you think he definitely makes you think so I would say that the emotional trip that he takes you on is really worth going on because you want to take the trip with him as your tour guide because you’re gonna feel how he feels now here’s what’s interesting about it because the next content I’m gonna recommend is Sam Harris who I believe has probably been cancelled already I’ll have to check it out but he dropped the podcast last night and if he doesn’t get canceled for this thing nobody’s ever i-i’ll be amazed because what Sam Harris did was

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amazed because what Sam Harris did was he went he went to every third rail and basically I feel like he felt it was you know I don’t want to read his mind but I could sense in his podcast which was extraordinary by the way this is the Sam Harris’s podcast I think it’s one for the ages really I mean one of the top podcasts you might ever hear like of all podcasts from anybody in all time it’s actually that good because it’s a sort of a masterpiece of critical thinking against a backdrop of none of that and when you see when you see him layout the critical thinking right after you’ve watched Chappelle’s lack of credit critical thinking the contrast is just amazing Chappelle is a very smart guy but of course could you be objective and just purely rational if you know if

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and just purely rational if you know if you had identified and this is where chef Nelson is in Zach if you had identified with George Floyd like oh my god that’s me or oh my god that could be my son or something if you identified on that level how could you possibly be rational about it or really is that even something you would ask of somebody you know if if you saw a family member being killed can I ask you to be rational about it no it’s not it’s not a fair question it’s just not a fair request I’m not gonna ask you to be rational in a situation where a rational person should not be rational not at all but seeing Dave Chappelle’s version of the world in which black people are being hunted down by white people and killed is is really useful you know if you’re if you’re not black is really useful to get his good explanation of it because what Chappelle does better than most people in the world is he is an amazing communicator

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world is he is an amazing communicator so he communicates it with a depth of emotion and you know getting back to the thing about how drunk he was I think maybe he just needed to be I think maybe he needed to be because I think the the place he went I just don’t know if you could go there if he weren’t if you weren’t on on something and I think he needed he felt he needed to go there so but here’s the fascinating thing about the Sam Harris so that so what Sarah Harris did was went through the statistics if you go through the statistics that does not support all of the claims of black lives matter I think that’s an understatement but to hear him go through it and it’s just I mean it’s devastatingly well done but he goes to some really dangerous places and the most dangerous place he goes I have also flirted with which is the idea that it wasn’t the cop with the knee on the

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it wasn’t the cop with the knee on the neck that killed him it probably wasn’t and if you listen to sam Harris’s explanation he gives a very very very compelling argument that in all likelihood what killed him was the cop on his back because we know that’s deadly the cop on his back would be compressing his chest he was having trouble breathing there he gave another example of on somebody on video the police killed exactly the same way and fentanyl was involved so there’s actually another video of a white guy being killed exactly the same way by police and they also didn’t know that the guy was dying because there’s somebody was I had a knee on the suspects back and this was the other case and the suspect was saying I can’t breathe I can’t breathe and the cops were just joking because they didn’t think they were doing anything that could be in any way be considered you

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could be in any way be considered you know deadly or dangerous and then the guy died right in front of them so when a year Sam Harris you know called out add add the context and show you there are other cases in my opinion I don’t think the guy with his knee on the neck necessarily was the cause of death and and we don’t know because there’s some ambiguity there but even calling out the ambiguity has probably cause for cancellation so anyway so the sam harris view of the world completely opposite of the dave chappelle view of the world and if you listen to them one after another you’re really gonna be fascinated I think because they both do such a good job of painting a picture of their different worlds it’s like it’s like visiting two different planets in two hours but here was what interested me the most because although Sam’s explanation of their race relations situations I would

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their race relations situations I would say matched my own almost identically and he had the things that I didn’t know about which were compatible with what I was thinking as well but of course he we differ we differ starkly on the question of President Trump so of course Sam throws in some things that I would consider TDs he would consider I think plainly obvious but those are two different worlds about Trump now here’s the part that really really interest me Sam Harris doesn’t seem to be aware that he’s part of the race problem or at least he didn’t mention it so I can’t assume he’s not aware of it but it goes like this other smart people have said that the race will the the protests and the the racial animus is much worse under Trump would you all agree that that’s true the racial division at least at the moment seems like it probably would

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moment seems like it probably would never have been this bad if Trump had not been president would you agree would you agree that maybe if Obama had been president people would have just felt differently and saying no no no so I don’t know what your now is too so I’m not sure I’m interpreting that correctly now if you were to look at the statistics oh let me clarify I think I know what you’re saying no to if you will look at statistics I don’t believe that there’s any worse at racial relations so I think that’s why you’re saying in the comments statistically I don’t think race relations are worse so I’d agree with you that Trump did not make that worse but if you were to look at the news and you will look at the pundits do you think the news and the pundits are talking about race in a far more provocative way because it’s part of getting a Trump in my opinion all the all the people with Trump derangement syndrome who have been calling him a

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syndrome who have been calling him a racist for years have created this situation so meaning the spark obviously they didn’t create the legacy of slavery they didn’t create systemic racism if we can identify it they didn’t create racism so that you know that that parts already there but in terms of the energy that’s being put into it at the moment that’s a combination of two two factors in addition to the baseline racism that is you know a problem and the two other factors are there was a video that probably is misleading but nobody will ever believe it that’s that’s the first thing videos are all lies by the way let me say this as clearly as possible from now on you should say to yourself that all videos are a lie and the reason you should do that is because all videos are alive all sometimes by exclusion sometimes gives the angle sometimes because you can’t hear what’s happening

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because you can’t hear what’s happening but you can see it but I would say that all video is a lie and that applies to the next video you see as well whatever that is I’m not even talking about the the George Floyd video in particular it’s a universal statement that in small ways in big ways all videos lie period you could say that about photos as well so there is no awareness by the media that they have created this situation by continuously calling half of the country racist if you’re calling the president racist and you’re saying anybody who supports it must be also either they are a racist or they’re supporting the racist you’ve created a situation where you guarantee race riots how do you not get a race riot if the most powerful forms of persuasion which are social media plus the news if the two most powerful weapon eyes pieces of persuasion are telling you every day

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persuasion are telling you every day something that’s mostly not true it’s fake news how much did the fake news about the fine people in Charlottesville how much did that obviously fake news because the president said the opposite of what was reported how much of that fake news is behind these problems will that will the media ever report on their own culpability in creating a hallucination the half of the country bought into and shut down the whole nation over it the fact that we don’t look at CNN as the primary cause of these problems is shocking it’s just shocking CNN MSNBC New York Times the the anti-trump press is one of the three parts that caused this problem you know one part is the racism itself you know I’m not minimizing that of course the

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I’m not minimizing that of course the other part is the video which is a lie we don’t know how and obviously something terrible happened and and it looked like a crime to me to write so everybody who saw it was horrified didn’t look like a crime but you don’t know what was happening because you don’t know what was in their minds you don’t know exactly what killed him was that the guy in the back you don’t know what they were thinking the video is a lie the video is a lie we just don’t know in what way it could actually be worse you know one of the ways it could be lying is what if it’s worse you know right what because what if what if they had just been saying some you know and word things five minutes before the video rolled if you didn’t see something happening before the video came on and it was even it would make the situation even worse well that’s a lie too because the situation would be much worse as bad as it was it could even be worse so the

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as it was it could even be worse so the video always lies you just don’t know how all right there there are four days left in my one week challenge to have somebody explain to me what system at Grace is amiss before I disregard it as illusion right now I have a rule that has been developed over my lifetime and it goes like this if you can’t describe something to somebody else you don’t know what it is in other words you don’t understand it yourself now when you ask people to describe a systemic racism you will get a million different explanations which first of all tells you that only one of them could be right yeah it’s not really a million but you get a lot of different explanations and if one of them is right it means that all the other people who thought they knew what systematic racism is they’re all wrong and it doesn’t

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is they’re all wrong and it doesn’t matter which one is right because there are lots of different explanations if any one of them is right everybody who thinks they knows what they know what it is is wrong so you don’t have something you can deal with because I don’t know which one of them is right and it’s usually a word salad when you ask somebody let me give you an example all right what I just wanted to give you an exact example that I hope I wrote down damn it forgot to write that down anyway look at my questions about this my tweets on asking people for examples and you’ll see that it’s sort of word salad II and crazy so people will use analogies because they don’t have anything that real ttle that they can point out they’ll use historical examples they’ll imagine that the things are legal today that are not legal like redlining so I don’t know what the problem is but nobody can give me an

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problem is but nobody can give me an example okay if somebody can’t explain it to you they don’t know what it is every single time all right I asked a following question and I’ve been asked if I’m trolling or serious or or I’m just trying to cause trouble interestingly I wasn’t trying to cause trouble you know I think I get blamed for being too much of a troll even what I’m not so here’s the question they ask do we have any statistics on ivy-league-educated black people who have been killed by police and compare that to ivy-league-educated people from other ethnicities and the reason I asked it that way is because that would control for a lot more variables in other words race would be the the thing that really stood out as the one thing that’s different did you imagine that an Ivy League graduate would be smarter yeah on

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graduate would be smarter yeah on average if you went to an Ivy League school you’re probably smarter than somebody who didn’t so if you are a smart black person to get stopped in your white person or a smart asian-american whatever you are you’re just a smart person and you’re probably polite if you went to an Ivy League school are you more polite than the average person probably probably yeah that’s been my experience they just have good manners because it’s just part of the culture part of the learning experience and if they’re very least even if you didn’t have good manners before you went to your Ivy League college well you spend four years around people who have a really good manners and you probably pick up something right so if it’s true that police would let’s say injure or kill an Ivy league-educated black man in America at some significantly larger rate than any other Ivy League educated person who gets stopped let’s say you can control for

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stopped let’s say you can control for other factors too like income and time today and whatever would that tell you something now was pointed out to me that that would be a bad comparison because your Ivy League educated people no matter what their ethnicity are probably going to be stopped by police in the in an upper-class town fair enough it still works because even if only rich people were being stopped by well-qualified police in an upscale town if you didn’t have any difference between how the black motorist were treated by the police and anybody else I think that would tell you something now the trouble with all of these all of these statistics is that any one measure of any of this stuff doesn’t tell you enough it just doesn’t tell you enough and somebody says insufficient data set I don’t know I doubt it because there must

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don’t know I doubt it because there must be thousands thousands and thousands of people that you could poll for that data set alright so let’s talk about let’s talk about having a cure this systemic racism will go to the white board so as I’m thinking through this like what’s the system so if there’s systemic racism it means there’s a problem with the system it’s not a not by definition it’s not a problem with the people it’s something about the system’s so your first system that everybody is involved with in life is your family if your family system is bad how well are you gonna do in school well on average not so well if this system is broken your school is broken and then you don’t get the good job you don’t get to the good College basically everything that you can measure in these systems is all pre

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can measure in these systems is all pre broken so if you imagine that these systems are racist you might be looking in their own place because if you get this part right there’s a lot less problem in all the rest of it but how do you fix this part you know I think conservatives conservatives are a little bit harsh I think on this question because if you’re lucky enough to have an intact family and you know your family unit is pretty strong you know nothing’s perfect but your family unit is strong you don’t have any divorce and it’s to parents and all that well congratulations aren’t you lucky but you know that’s not the rest of the world you know a kid doesn’t get to choose if they have two loving parents in the real world it doesn’t always work out here’s the problem with the family I finally came up to a way that I can just use math to explain the problem the problem with family as a system is the

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problem with family as a system is the same problem as trying to invest in an individual stock what’s the problem in investing in one stock no diversification right so if that one stock turns out to be bad you’ve lost all the money you ever had because in this example you put all of your money you would ever made into one stock if it goes bad you’ve lost everything that’s why it’s a bad idea instead you buy a basket of stocks that represent the whole market some of them can be bad some of them can be good but on average they’ll be more good than bad so that’s just using math to learn how to invest the family units the same problem you got two parents what are the odds that both of them are good meaning that one of them’s not an abuser one of them is not a pedophile one of them’s not doesn’t have a drug problem one of them isn’t you know cheating what are the odds you get two good ones well there are lots of people

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good ones well there are lots of people who got lucky maybe you know maybe a third in the country I don’t know what the number is but maybe a third of people got lucky and they got a strong family unit I don’t think it’s more than a third I’ll bet two-thirds have at least one bad parent or none there are no good parents right so what could you do to compensate for the fact that you don’t have diversification in your family so if you get a bad one you’re in bad shape now imagine if you will then you also have the ripple effect from the legacy of slavery the original sin is it likely that even even these many years after it and Dave Chappelle makes a good point it was his Dave Chappelle is a great grandfather was actually a slave he was Julia slave so as Chappelle says that’s today if you if you knew somebody or you

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today if you if you knew somebody or you know you can you can name somebody in your own family who was actually a slave that’s today you know that that’s this point that that that ripple effect it’s not like some tiny ripple from a million years ago it’s pretty present you know and if you look at history in general it’s it’s kind of close and so one could imagine that that would have effects on the family which would then have a ripple effect all the way through now what do you do about that nobody knows nobody knows literally nobody has a good idea what to do about this because there’s no way to really fix the family is there how do you fix families the problem is the problem is math there’s a simple diversification problem you just can’t diversify with just two people the math doesn’t work the odds that one of them will be bad is just so high and and that has nothing to do with that listening it’s just math

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do with that listening it’s just math there aren’t that many good people in the world that you could expect most people to have good - good parents and so I suggest the following as something to be tested here’s my here’s my hypothesis and it goes like this there are some people in some situations that need something more like a tribe now we’re not getting ethnic here tribe applies to anti-fog or the white people and Tifa stand it feels like they have built a tribal kind of society which is why I’m so interested in it if you look at the videos coming in of anti fast and there are two things that occur to me one it’s not economically viable in other words it can’t last because it doesn’t have the systems in place to make it last so that’s obvious but number two they seem to be having a good time right they

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seem to be having a good time right they seem to be having a good time secondly I don’t think there’s been that much violence compared to how much you would expect with them please right and I wonder if there are not at least for some period of life a situation where you would be better off in a village and here’s why if you have two parents what are the odds that one of them would be a good mentor you only have to bow let’s make it harder you only have one parent very common right well how many households have one parent it’s big it’s like 40% giant number you only have one parent what are the odds that that one parent has good advice for life they might they might I would say that my mother had good life advice so I got lucky my father suggested that I go work for the post office because they have good benefits so I had two parents one of

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benefits so I had two parents one of them my mother gave me extraordinary life life advice you know in a variety of ways my father gave me the worst life advice I’ve ever heard in my whole life which is go get a job for the post office which is where you worked because the healthcare benefits are great what if I’d had no parents who were good at giving life advice what if they were none right that’s got to be very very common but now imagine that you’re part of a tribe and you can define tribe any way you want but let’s just say it’s a loose structure of people who have some mutual support there well the odds that at least one person in the tribe has some good advice is pretty good it’s pretty good so the arguing that I’m gonna make is just math that there might be some people in some situations not you not you if a family works for you do the

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you if a family works for you do the family that was it that seems like a pretty good deal but I just don’t think it works for everybody and I think we have to recognize there’s not one size fits all now a trend that I think support this idea the tribal experiment idea is that apparently young people are growing up slower have you heard that now I don’t know exactly what that means but there’s some sense that even biologically the young people are not they’re not maturing in the same way as in the past you know in the old days if you were 16 you could run a business literally like you know a friend of mine was running a bowling alley he was in charge he was the boss his father and invested in it he just ran the bowling alley so he was running a business completely at age 16 how’d it work out great he went on to become a rich entrepreneur he’s retired and travels around the Gulf snail now was that experience you know but how

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now was that experience you know but how often does that happen today do you know any 16 year olds who are running adult businesses I mean I think people are just postponing the adult part as long as possible and I think if you’ve got people who have aged and of high school they’re not in college but they’re not yet mature enough to have their own family what do you do with them what do you do with people who are not so young their parents are taking care of them but they haven’t matured to the place where they can just start their own family or go into business and be a good citizen there’s a whole bunch of people who need a little extra maturing and maybe college is not not their calling what do you do with them well it could be this it could be an T fast and it could be a tribe and if you get the first bar right in other words if you don’t break the kids in the first few years of their life if you get the first few years right that’s a pretty good basis for the other systems to work out so here’s my overall point when we talk

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so here’s my overall point when we talk about systemic racism we’re talking about everything from college two jobs to banking and loans to what ever basically everything right the legal system but is it not true that every one of those systems is really just an outcome of the the very first system being broken the first system being the family I think that’s the conservative view but what’s not the conservative view is that the way to fix it is just have a better family that’s not a thing conservatives let me let me speak to the Conservatives who are listening here if your advice for black people is have better families because that’s what worked for you that’s terrible advice I mean it would be great if you could do it right if that were something people could just want to do oh now you told me why didn’t you tell me all I had to do is have a strong family alright problem

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is have a strong family alright problem solved it’s just not actionable advice it’s just useless to have that opinion because it doesn’t help anybody unless you’re going to say all right here’s how to fix it and nobody has suggested anything like that you’re gonna have to try something else so I say let’s experiment a little bit maybe all this especially the male energy which is the most dangerous maybe you put it in a tribe so here’s the other thing you saw wait if you see the pictures from ante fest and you see that they want to be in groups you know they they had a dodgeball pickup game that didn’t go well because they don’t they don’t have rules but the fact that they had they just wanted to be together in a tribal kind of situation it might be that that’s exactly what they need but maybe you do that for a few years and then you’re mature enough and then you say huh I bet somebody in my tribe now we’re

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huh I bet somebody in my tribe now we’re gonna go start a family but now we’re ready we’ve matured enough we’ve got some good mentoring you know we’re in a good situation and now we’ll we’ll go to the next system because we’re ready alright Howard Stern’s in trouble for blackface that’s the whole story Howard Stern’s in trouble for blackface there’s nobody safe why in the world anybody had ever put on blackface why was there ever a time in my lifetime that that was okay like even even if you were a shock jock like at what point was that ever okay I don’t remember any time when that was okay yet a lot of people did it alright let’s see if I covered all my incredibly fascinating points it seems that the protests if they’re still going on are still not being covered by the news is that true are you still noticing that the news is not covering the protests if there’s one

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not covering the protests if there’s one thing you need to understand it’s that the news is assigning our opinions if you if you could understand that one thing you would know what needs to be changed in the system what needs to be changed in the system is you either you either need more competition for the news so you’re not being fed sort of you know a mainstream narrative which is what’s happening now or just a better way to understand what’s going on in your world now let me make a general statement that what I thought of it it’s sort of a crushing thought but I think we can get past it it goes like this for my entire lifetime and probably several lifetimes before mine would you agree with the following statements that humanity has been doing its best to move from an emotional irrational civilization you know early early humanity to a fact-based rational

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humanity to a fact-based rational data-driven civilization you’d accept that as a truth right that were that we have really been trying hard to move toward using facts and data to make our decisions so I think you would agree with that but there was one problem we didn’t see coming that is that all of our data would be a lie so we’ve we’ve built an entire civilization to depend on having facts and data that we would then put our analytics on to make decisions but what we didn’t see is that a hundred percent of our data is fake now it doesn’t have to be didn’t have to be but the people who give us the data at least the stuff we make decisions on in politics it’s all lies it’s all out of context the videos are all lies as I said before there’s always something before or after the video something that’s not shown in the video so we’ve created a civilization that

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so we’ve created a civilization that can’t work let me say that again we have consciously created a system our civilization that depends on good data to make decisions while also creating a system that guarantees the data will never be good not even sometimes not even by accident it will never be good because people are making up their versions of their political data well I think I’ll leave out this data because that doesn’t support my side I think I’ll leave out the other data because that doesn’t support my side oh all the data turned out to be wrong let’s run a correction that nobody will see so we’ve we’ve actually created a system which if you were to look at it objectively you know I like to use the example of the advanced species of alien land on the planet and they’re the only ones who are unbiased so they look at that they look at our system and they’re trying to study us as just scientists who are dispassionate about our existence they

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dispassionate about our existence they just want to understand it they looked at and say all right what’s the system that got there okay good they really like facts excellent they they want to use reason and science okay good good and now let’s look at their facts oh they also invented a system to lie to you on all the facts all of them now your first thought is like Oh Scott you’re talking about political facts you know I get that everybody discounts that because you know both sides are lying about their political facts oh no I’m not talking about political facts because it turns out that all facts are political you know it didn’t have to be that way how about gun control facts about climate change facts about race relations facts how about economic facts how about trade relation facts international facts who got who got gassed and who didn’t facts

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got who got gassed and who didn’t facts none of it’s true none of it absolutely none of it is dependable in fact the using of models to predict is sort of a confession that is made up it really is you know that’s a longer argument but the models are to fool you into thinking that they’re that the data is useful because if you looked at the data you’d have questions you’d say I’m not sure that data is correct for this reason they’re that reason but if you look at the models it makes you think past the sale right the model makes you focus on the model it doesn’t make you focus on the data that went into the model so that’s part of the magic trick look at my model where’d you get the data look at my model look can I take a look at your data look at my model my model is beautiful look at that curve but where’s your data have you seen my model so that’s the

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have you seen my model so that’s the world we’ve created one one in which we consciously build systems that can’t work together you know one requires facts and the other make sure you don’t know though that’s the system so I think we can improve on that and I think we’ll be fine by the way and and I do agree with the the uber optimist the top optimists for the economy I think the economy is really going to surprise you how well it does and here’s the other thing that the news is lying to you about at the moment have you seen all the reporting about the new cases of coronavirus there’s a lot of them right now some of it might be because there’s more testing but there does seem to be you know I do buy into the likelihood that there’s also just lots more infection because people are getting out more but do you know what they are D emphasizing their de-emphasizing deaths

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their de-emphasizing deaths do you know either de-emphasizing deaths because deaths are going down or at least staying flat we’re not having more people dying we’re just having lots more infections if it stays that way and I think it might because you could be you have lots of infections so long as your extra protecting the the vulnerable people as long as you’ve learned to use ventilators correctly maybe the therapeutics are already working some people say the hydroxychloroquine already works and that might be behind some of the drop in deaths I’d say that’s unconfirmed so look at the deaths if you see that all of the reporting is about the number of infections that’s fake news because what you care about the most is death if people get it and get better now of course there is the worry that there are long-term repercussions I’m not minimizing that but so far that

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I’m not minimizing that but so far that doesn’t seem to be a giant problem it seems to be on the smaller side unless you haven’t if it’s you guess at them of course it’s a big problem yeah I don’t know if the number of new tests explains the number of infections completely I just spoke you lating that doesn’t but you’re right that’s an open question hospital admissions are only relevant if they’re impacted meaning that if their capacity is tested and it seems to be if the death rate is going down or staying the same then even if the hospitals are impacted it’s not the kind of impact that we saw in the beginning if people are dying and being put in on ventilators that is a big impact but if people are simply being treated and outpatient you know maybe they they’re there in the hospital for a little bit but they don’t

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hospital for a little bit but they don’t go all the way the ICU that’s not nearly as bad as packing your ICUs and then two people die anyway that’s your worst situation how many people died from the flu this year well you know there’s a big question about whether the regular flu kills more than a few thousand people because the number is not counted it’s actually estimated and I believe I would say the evidence strongly suggests that the people who estimate the number of people who die from the regular flu are probably lying probably know it and they’re doing it to get you to take the flu shot so my guess is that like like all the other data in the world that it’s just fake the number of regular deaths and the reason that well you can know it’s you let me say it stronger the number of regular flu deaths is fake news it’s just fake here’s how you know

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news it’s just fake here’s how you know and you can test this right the the number of people that they say died from the flu which really means pneumonia because the flu causes the pneumonia that’s how it usually happens is around and they have 50,000 a year range something else that’s in that same range of deaths per year is number of people who died from fentanyl now do you know anybody who died from the fentanyl overdose almost certainly I’ll bet you do I certainly do my stepson died from it and you know and I know other people but I’ll bet you’ve never heard of anybody who died from a flu that gave them pneumonia that they died I’ve never heard of it I’ve been around for a long time never heard of it once that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist I mean there’s just a smaller number so you know if I had heard of people dying of regular flu that caused no mo that caused them to die then I’d say oh

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that caused them to die then I’d say oh that probably is 50,000 of those a year because that’s about how how often I hear of somebody dying from an overdose if you’re hearing about them at about the same rate even approximately you could say to yourself okay they’re probably in the same general range but if you’ve heard of nobody nobody it’s just it was always fake news all right that’s all for now and I’ll talk to you tomorrow