Scott Adams

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Oh, yeah.

I want to toss out an explanation for the division in the country.

All right?

And it's one you haven't heard before.

I tested it out on my Man Cave livestream last night.

Got a good response, so I'm going to try it again.

And it goes like this.

If you talk to somebody in person, how likely are you in 2023 to want to get into a political conversation?

I'm going to answer the question for you while I watch your answers.

Probably close to zero.

Because you know that in 2023, if you get into a political conversation with somebody whose views you don't already know.

Now, if it's somebody who is really close to you, and you already know their views, and you're just saying something you know they're going to agree with, that's fine.

But you would not enter, let's say, a cocktail party without knowing the people.

and launch into a political conversation because your odds of, you know, they're being on your side or, you know, 25% or something.

So people will stay away from it in person.

All right, now let me turn that into a mechanical process.

So I described it on a social conceptual level.