Scott Adams

Why do I have an honor to my local community?

And so when you break that up into suburbia in the 1950s,

What happened was a lot of women felt isolated.

They were locked up.

It's like, how do I interact?

Well, I can go down the street and after that, you just couldn't form the right structures.

So the soap opera was designed to become that local community where they would check in and it became quite addictive.

And so it would create a form of emptiness in a lot of women.

that would be fulfilled by the instant foods and the instant detergents soaps that would allow them to get their day moved along quicker after they took three hours out of their day to watch the various daytime dramas and so what happened is psychiatrists and psychologists and psychoanalysts analyzed this emptiness that people felt in that form of the american dream and they

gave them back a commercialized version of it by feeding them the things that they needed to fulfill their life.

Even questioning their existence.

Oh, look at that doctor has the best life and look at all the women that want him.

Maybe I need to be one of those women.

And it questioned whether or not their husband as a plumber was just some lunk that they fell into and that somebody else has a more beautiful life.

So that's part of the conditioning that we all have gone through.

And it's very hard for a lot of people listening because we've all formed, I'm guilty.

We are all guilty of forming our life around that narrative.

And it's very hard to get out of it.

I mean, we have, look at me, I got a lot of junk behind me.

We collect junk.