Yesterday he gave a poll where only 6% of 55,000 agreed with him. He blasted everyone elae falling for a bleach drinking hoax.
Scott changed his mind in the vaccines safety but continued to believe he was smarter than the unvaccinated because he was wrong for intellectual reasons and the others were right for stupidly.
This man never questions his own reasoning, just a smarmy attack on everyone else.
Does he actually have fans?
His reasoning is weird. From what I could gather, he believes that the best we can do is to view reality through a framework that can more or less predict the future. His framework he calls the "persuasion" framework, and he talks a lot about who is being more or less persuasive and how this will impact events and policy.
The problem is that occasionally, such frameworks break down - if reality slaps you in the face, you can either abandon your framework or cling to it. When everything was fine he'd use his framework and it could be right or wrong but it was more or less sane. But as the clownworld framework started becoming more and more accurate, he started to falter a bit, and with covid it completely collapsed - in no world did he believe that the government could make such a huge misstep as to employ weapons grade societal manipulation to poison their tax and voter base.
The issue isn't that he's not rational, the issue is that he's following a model that's wrong. People who were more cautious with their health won over those who went with the herd. Him lashing out, however is in his own words "Not very persuasive", and so naturally his audience is falling out.
Its sad to see, but I hope he thinks on it all for a while and cools off. He doesn't want to admit he's wrong, and as a result is insulting his fans - a pretty bad move. Anyway, I've babbled for long enough, cheers.
Great summary, I concur. Honestly I thought that, despite all the blather about persuasion, he still understood there are actual immutable facts and truth behind things, and that perceptive people seek these independently. Perhaps there is assistance from experts, but preceptive, inquisitive people will select their experts by more than just promotion or rhetoric, validating truth on their own. He skipped those steps.
He regrets it now, but he's still in denial that his system could be wrong. Very disappointing.
Well said!