Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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ned up, so we'll take this path. So maybe he thought of this the whole time and that was the track. Or maybe not. I don't know. And then my last line of notes seems to be something that was left on the printer that has no application to anything we're talking about whatsoever. And so ladies and gentlemen, even though I was late today, super late, I think I delivered the best livestream you've eve…

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So because most of you are men and most of you lean right, how many of you for yourself — you're only going to talk about yourself — do you have mental health issues? Some yeses, nos. A lot of yeses. Yup, yup, yup. Nos, nos. Yes. A lot more yeses than I expected. But I'm not sure we can know what percentage that is because people would be more likely to say yes if it is yes. A lot of yeses. A lot of guesses. Yeah.

And so here's my take. Even the people who say they don't, they actually do. It's just they have not chosen to define it as a problem yet. They just think it's something else. And yeah. So the question is what percentage of men who are watching right now believe that they themselves have a mental health issue that's substantial.

Now of course I generalize everything from myself as the rest of us do. And I feel like I'm probably more mentally strong than just about anybody. And I don't know if it's because I'm awesome or just because I'm older or had that on more times than other people so I got hardened by it. I don't know. But it just happens to be my situation. I feel I have more mental health than most people. And yet I feel like I'm always on the edge. Let me think about that. I mean in a way I guess I'm the exception that could prove a point. In order to be the exception and to feel that you have basic solid mental health in 2022, you still feel like you're on the edge. I still feel like I'm standing on a ledge and the ledge is nice and solid like my mental health. I'm on a good ledge. But I feel like insanity is just like one step.

Do you have anybody feel that? That even if you feel like you're in good shape right now, you're just one step away from falling off the ledge into total mental torment and complete dissolving of yourself. So he says move out of California. Yeah, maybe. Maybe.

Now here's my take on it. I think that society has changed with smartphones and social media and stuff so it's just unpleasant to be alive. That's what I think. I think it is simply unpleasant to be alive if you haven't noticed. What's happened in the dating situation, there's a dating holocaust going on that is awful. You don't see it if you're out of the dating game. You don't see it. It goes like this. Everybody who's above a certain level of attractiveness, you know it's pretty high. Let's say we're going to be cold and callous and say if you're an 8 or better out of 10.

The people who are an 8 or better, first of all what percentage of the populat

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ion is an 8 or better? Not much. Not much. 10, 15 tops. Yeah, 10 percent, something like that. The top 10 percent are absolute. Now you might not notice that if you don't know anybody single. But male or female, absolute, complete, total above a certain level of attractiveness. Now because I'm not above that level, I only get to hear about it from both men and women. From both men and women. And t…

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