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oes what the mayor does reflect on other people in the city? Not really, right? Have you ever bonded, have you ever thought of yourself as being part of the brand of your mayor? No, not once. But when you think of president, that's an accessory to you. You American citizens — a lot of people from other countries watching this, but if you're American, your president is part of your brand, whether y…

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o where other people can't go. And this is what Joe Rogan says. He goes, quote, "Here's the really important point. I'm an effing" — he used the real word — "I'm an effing idiot." Rogan added and went on to say, "I don't know what's required to be president, and that maybe we're better off with Trump. Maybe we were better off with someone else. I don't know."

So Rogan, of course, famously has had experience with hallucinogenics. And you know, I've always told you that that allows you to see the world through different filters. If you have experience with altered consciousness, you know that you can experience a world that works perfectly. You can eat and procreate and go to work, but it all just looks different. If you've never experienced that, you think that your point of view might be magic. It's like, ah, how did I get the right point of view when there are seven billion people in the world who got it wrong? I'm magic. My brain can see things that other people can't. I'm the only one with a clear view of the world. Okay, that's a kind of a low level of consciousness. The highest level of consciousness is expressed in this statement. You ready? Here's a sentence from one of the highest consciousness people, the people who can really see the field clearly. Joe Rogan: "I'm a fucking idiot. I don't know what's required to be president, and that maybe we were better off with Trump. Maybe we were better off with someone else. I don't know." That statement that he doesn't know who would be the best president or the complexity of the policies, etc., is the highest level of awareness. The level below that is, oh, I know. Oh yeah, I know this was a good one, and I can tell you what the future looks like. You could be right, you could be wrong. But the higher level of awareness is we're just not that smart. We really don't know what's going to happen.

So I'm happy that Joe Rogan added some context to that without changing his opinion, because he didn't say therefore I'm not going to vote for Bernie. He stayed with that, but then he gave us the context that in his own opinion he's a fucking idiot who doesn't know who would be the best president. Nobody ever said anything more honest than that. That is the most honest thing you've heard in public about politics, period. That's the most clear, highest consciousness understanding you've ever seen in public. That's it. Can't beat that.

All right, I was laughing at Pope Francis, and I don't want to get religious, and this is not an anti-Catholic thing by any means. I'm pro-religion. For those of you who don't know, I'm not a believer myself, but I think religion is mostly 90 percent positive in people's lives. It helps them here on earth, and that's great. So if it's a filter that works for you, it's a way to see the world that produces benefits. Obviously it does. I'm in favor of religion if you don't take it to the extreme. But I observe religion as an observer, and I can't help but wondering how these conversations went.

So Pope Francis says that he's now supporting the ordination of married men as priests in the Amazon. So I guess that was a question. So there weren't enough people who wanted to be priests unless you let them also be married, which would mean that they would have to be having relations with a woman, which is apparently not allowed if you're going to be a Catholic priest. And I wondered, like, how does that conversation go? It's like, well, you get to be a leader, a respected leader in our religion. There's just one thing. Really sounds great. What's the one thing? Well, there's one thing you can't do. What? You can't have sex. All right, well, I can put up without having sex for a while. Well, I did say a while. Like forever. For the rest of your life. What? Yeah, I mean, you can be a priest, but you can't have sex for the rest of your life. And then you can imagine the person saying, wow, that's tough, but you know, at least I can, if I can't have sex with another person, at least I can take c

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are of myself, right? Well, no. So you can't do it with another person, but also you can't do it with yourself. Would you like the job? That's pretty severe. Can't have an intimate relationship with a woman, and I can't even take care of it myself. I guess I'm gonna have to do it for the money. What's it pay? Five, ten million a year? Well, you're also gonna be closer to poor than rich. I don't kn…

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