Read the whole thing. I don't recommend watching the whole thing; it's too long for too little benefit. Scott Adams is a very weird guy. He's obviously intelligent, but he's been lying to himself and to his audience for the sake of the Establishment for many years. He really went all in on the covid vaccinations, for instance, and made bizarre claims about them that were obviously not true.
His biggest problem is that he's a gamma. He is unable to rationalize the notion that he was actually wrong about something, so he's tearing himself up psychologically to try and justify how if he was wrong, at least everyone else was wrong too, because he's always the smartest guy he knows, or at least his identity in his own mind is being the smartest guy he knows.
However, the problem with that kind of identity is: it's a lie. He's sharp, but he's not that sharp, and he's also clearly been wrong on this issue, and he's clearly come to an understanding that cleared up his cognitive dissonance and forced him to face reality. And because he's built an identity for himself that is all about being right, being smarter and more important than everyone else around him, he can't seem to handle his identity crumbling around him.
I'm really surprised to see him openly talking about creating a delusion for himself to believe in because he can't face what is actually real. That's incredibly dysfunctional, and is related in some way to his cargo cult belief in the irrationality of people, including himself. Because he wasn't able to rationally get to the right answer, because he shouted down and belittled the people around him who were able to rationally get to the right answer and who told him so two years or more ago, he's doubling down on his belief that they were just lucky to have been emotionally attached to the ideas that happened to be true.
What a bizarre person he's turned out to be. I do feel kind of sorry for his situation, I guess, but then again, the majority of it is based on his own ridiculous attitudes, behaviors, and dysfunctional emotional identity, which he isn't able to grow up and let go of. Granted, at this point, just admitting that he was wrong probably won't do diddly squat to whatever heart damage the "vaccine" caused him, but it would do wonders for his psychological condition. I've never understood that particular gamma affectation of being unable to admit that you're wrong. Everybody's wrong, often about all kinds of things. It is wise to not be too dogmatic about things, especially if your knowledge about them isn't super great, because then it won't be so traumatic when you're wrong, but even about important things, just being willing to accept it is part of being grown up.
It's been clear that he's not grown up for many years now. Watching him spiral into doubling, tripling, quadrupling down on what are literally cargo cult beliefs, and then completely falling apart when his cargo cult turns out to be nothing more than... well, than a cargo cult, has been fascinating in a dark rubbernecking kind of fashion, but not cheerful. I can't even manage to feel any schadenfreude for him. Even though his problems are (largely) of his own making and only exist in his own mind. But because he can't give up on them, he's created much more serious problems for himself, like his divorce and his health.
Presuming, of course, that his health that he's kind of coy about really is covid "vaccine" related, which seems very likely to be the case.
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