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value in knowing exactly what you're going to get and I kind of like that actually but it doesn't work in this situation, right? Change is the only thing that would get him elected. Only change. And I don't think that's on his menu. So there you go. But did he lose fairly? I don't know. I'm going to say yes because in my opinion cheating is part of our election system and if the Democrats out-che…
← Previous segment →s not all about one person. So I don't I didn't get married because I thought they would last forever. I never said that. Do you know why I didn't think I would be married forever? Could be the reason why. Do you think I didn't ever believe I would be married forever? Because of the age difference? Because what I could provide was money and comfort but also the physical part. You know the physical intimacy as I aged it was a hundred percent likely I could not provide the physical intimacy and that by the time that happened whoever I was with would be rich by then just by the relationship. So one the thing that I knew had to happen is that the things I was providing would be taken for granted because they would eventually be transferred in enough quantity that they could divorce me and be rich at the same time. So my benefit of keeping them alive went to zero because they could do it themselves and they were already rich. And any benefit I could bring from my awesome physical intimacy would eventually shrink to zero. Am I right? What else am I providing? My great personality. There are plenty of guys with good personalities. Was that I'm so fun to be with that somebody just has to be with me in the room? Nope. Turns out there are plenty of people who are fun to be with in a room. I didn't have anything. So I said to myself on day one I'm bringing this amazing physical intimacy that I provide, a financial bubble that anybody would want, a lifestyle of somebody who's a celebrity. Don't you think that some people sort of would like a little bit that their partner is a celebrity especially if it's a male? Yeah I mean they're all these little benefits things I could provide that other people couldn't provide. But it was a hundred percent guaranteed from day one that what I could provide would shrink to zero. So therefore since I believe in a transactional world at least where it involves men and women I knew that marriage was a rental and not a buy to own. Now if you thought marriage was a buy to own but you were in a similar situation to me well you missed the signs. You missed the signals. The signals were all there. You weren't going to get younger but she was definitely going to get richer, right? It was all there. You should have been able to predict it easily.
All right Judy says love is not transactional. Well as soon as your guy stops giving you stuff check in with me. See how that worked out. Are you going to continue renting? Yeah I think renting is all that makes sense from my age. I'm at the age where every woman wants to marry me if she can stand me for five minutes. Do you know why? Why does every woman want to marry me if they can even stand me for five minutes? Right? Because I'm near death and I'm rich. I'm near death and I'm rich. That's like a really good deal transactionally. That's something that most people would say you know this might suck for 10 to 15 years but if I can gut it out for 10 to 15 I'm rich. I'm rich. Yeah. So I'm very very popular. So to the whoever it is who said I'm an incel it's definitely not involuntary. I could get laid three times a day. It wouldn't take any effort whatsoever. None.
All right. Get another dog. Why would you leave it to your shitty new wife? Who else is going to get it? You might like your wife. Someone as old as you. Yeah that's a possibility too. But two of those times will be with David.
Did anyone in particular help you change your mind to how you view women in relationships? That's a good question. Now I can't think. I don't believe there's any guru or anything. And by the way I don't have, this is nothing new. My views on this are at least 25 years old. But I definitely had different views when I was young as I explained early on. Early on I thought if I did what women said they wanted of men that that would make them happy. Have any of you ever fell for that? If any of you men fell for that the women will tell you exactly what they want and then you say ah I just
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have to give them that and then they'll be happy. You fall for that trick? Yeah it took me decades to realize you know like my pattern recognition wasn't kicking in. All the pattern was so clear. It takes you a while to realize that the operating system of women is to be perpetually unhappy because men think if I just solve this problem today I'll be good tomorrow. They don't know. They never catc…
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