Scott Adams has recently endorsed Hillary Clinton for the presidency... or has he? Schrodinger's Hitler meets Orwellian dystopia.
Scott Adams, who has long studied and analyzed Trump's sales and hypnosis game, has come out today to endorse Hillary Clinton for the presidency, but this endorsement is completely different from anyone else's endorsement. If Trump is playing 4D Korean Starcraft and chess while everyone else is playing checkers and tic-tac-toe, then Adams is playing 5D XCOM, Go, and Galactic Civilizations. His newest post is both a social experiment and a critique of violent Democrat extremists.
From first glance of someone who is unfamiliar with Adams, it appears that he is a sellout or a coward. After praising Trump's persuasion skills for so long, he comes out to endorse Hillary. For a simple minded person, this can be seen as a huge stab in the back.
Et tu, Scott?
However, the situation is much more complicated than that. Several times in the post, he mentions President Trump. In a previous blog post, Adams has already stated that Trump is already framed to be the president. Many kids assume that Trump is the president because he shows up more than anyone else on TV. Even people in liberal media constantly talk about the Trump presidency. Even though they frame it in a fear mongering way, they are asking people to imagine a Trump presidency. It’s difficult to imagine anyone else as the president.
Also, it’s important to note that for dozens of posts before this one, he has disclaimed that his political views do not align with any candidate’s and that he is simply interested in Trump’s persuasion skills. So, it’s not a true betrayal if he never endorsed Trump explicitly in the first place. I must also make my own disclaimer: I was not interested in the Trump phenomenon until I heard Adams’s podcast with Tim Ferriss. But ever since I heard that podcast in January, I have been following both Trump and Adams very closely. Adams made me learn to appreciate Trump a lot, but my views still overall lines more closely with Adams, who has described his own political views as Libertarian without the crazy and it’s up to you to decide which are the crazy parts.
There also exists the more sinister possibility that Adams is conducting a social experiment to see if he can convert Trump supporters to Clinton supporters using his own power of persuasion. He could be challenging Trump’s title as the King of Persuaders. This is unlikely, but if this is in fact his plan and he succeeds, then he has set himself up nicely for a possible future run as the president. Regardless of what is really the case, I have full confidence that Adams can win the presidency and become one of the greatest presidents if he chooses to enter into politics, which is unlikely.
Now let’s finally get to the elephant in the room: his critique of violent Democrats acting like true fascists while framing Trump as a fascist. Let’s start the analysis at the beginning of the post.
“This past week we saw Clinton pair the idea of President Trump with nuclear disaster, racism, Hitler, the Holocaust, and whatever else makes you tremble in fear.”
Once again, Adams reinforces the idea of President Trump. He implants the suggestion in your mind that a Trump Presidency is inevitable regardless of who you vote for. Rather than stating the probabilistic world view of an accurate forecaster, Adams persuades using a deterministic world view. If you even have a basic understanding of probability or has done any experimental science, then you know that this is a terrible perspective for conducting scientific research and learning about the true nature of the world, but none of that actually matters.
Both Trump and Adams understand that during a creative process, being shallow can be smart. I believe that Adams has a concrete grasp of probability, but he needs to throw the theories out of the window when he practices hypnosis.
Next, we notice the word “fear”. Fear is a very powerful persuasion tool. It was the tool used by Hitler, so there were reasons for the Left to compare Trump to Hitler. Trump does invoke some feelings of xenophobia, but the difference ends there. However, the Left should also see their own hypocrisy and realize that they are promoting even more fear and violence than Trump. Comparing someone to Hitler is a terribly dirty reputation ruining trick. As a non-white naturalized US citizen, I do not fear Trump one bit. I am much more concerned about the obstruction of the freedom of speech by social justice worriers. That’s not a typo; they are worriers, not warriors. Warriors have honor and courage, while worriers spread fear and negativity. Bigoteer, coined by Tim Ferriss, is another great way to refer to them.
Patrick Henry has famously said, “Give me liberty or give me death!” Today, it has become transracial genderfluid Patrishaniqua Henry with unnatural hair colors proclaiming, “Give me safe spaces or fainting rooms!” This is the opposite of Nassim Taleb’s theory of antifragility. We should seek to become more antifragile, but the current political establishment is promoting fragility to control the masses. I’m sure I would be called LGBT-phobic and racist for false interpretations of my statements. I believe that all kinds of diversity can promote new perspectives that increases creativity in the universe. Creativity is based on entropy and randomness. If you have an antifragile system, diversity is great and productive. However, in our current fragile system, diversity leads to many problems. Therefore, we should minimize losses now in the system while building a new antifragile system that benefits everyone. Decentralization of monetary policy via cryptocurrencies is the first step in solving the global systematic fragility crisis. Politically correctness and censorship is one of the biggest dangers to the survival of the human species. We must avoid the dystopian fates of Harrison Bergeron, Fahrenheit 451, and 1984. My parents did not leave one authoritarian regime only to be controlled by another.
Next, Adams tells the story about his death threats. Hillary Clinton supporters threatened his life and violated the non-aggression principle. In order to protect his own life, he most renounce Trump. This is pure coercion, much like the Jews renouncing their religion to hide from the Nazis during World War II. Clinton also has strong ties to the defense industry, so it is not outside of the possibility that she will incite a race war and profit from it. Adams shrewdly tells that Trump is portrayed as Hitler while showing that Clinton and her supporters are in fact the ones truly behaving like Nazis.
Normal nice people do not make you fear for your life, while fascist terrorists do. In San Jose and elsewhere, Liberal Fascist Terrorists attacked Trump supporters using guerrilla warfare tactics while the biased mass media portrayed them as peaceful protesters. How much longer can this go on? High achieving, law abiding legal immigrants like my parents do not deserve to be lumped together with these terrorists. Immigration is a voluntary choice to join a society you prefer, so when you join that new society, you try to add value to it to make the world a better place. Immigration should not allow criminals to rape and pillage one country after another. Once again, this is the concept of antifragility; immigration is a double edged sword, whose effectiveness depends on how you implement it. If you promote fragility, you will only cut yourself.
Liberals claim to support minorities and diversity, but the fact is that they support neither. They practice cultural appropriation to gain political power for themselves. If you are a minority who doesn’t fall in line with their propaganda, you are ostracized. This is the problem with democracy and all other forms of 51% attacks. Democracy doesn’t allow true tolerance of diverse opinions; it simply coerces the minorities into joining the majority. If you truly don’t judge people by appearances, then diversity of thought should be valued far higher than superficial diversity. By valuing superficial diversity while condemning diversity of thought, Liberals are totalitarian wolves who wear sheep’s clothing. I do not feel safe around people who blatantly lie about Trump and twist the facts in their own favor. All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
Finally, like in many other posts, Adams finishes with a reinforcement of his prediction: “My prediction remains that Trump will win in a landslide based on his superior persuasion skills. But don’t blame me for anything President Trump does in office because I endorse Clinton.”
Once again, he promotes a deterministic world view and reinforces the idea that Trump will inevitably be the president. Obviously, if he was trying to be a superforecaster, he would not write this way and he would lower Trump’s chances of success significantly, but that is not his objective. (I’ve bet about 0.25 BTC that Trump will end up with a narrow to moderate victory.) While the post is superficially endorsing Hillary, it implicitly endorses Trump. This parallels the Liberal hypocrisy of superficially promoting tolerance and diversity while implicitly inciting violence and shutting down diverse opinions.
A few days ago, I thought that http://blog.dilbert.com/post/145309172876/the-risks-of-a-trump-presidency was the best blog post from Adams yet, but today, he completely blew that post out of the water with this new surprise endorsement of Hillary Clinton.
Scott Adams is a genius. #MAGA … erm I meant #imwithher
Okay, apparently I do not have a numbered list of 42 reasons, but 42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, which is good enough for me.