>>510432678He's doing the classic rhetorical gimmick of
>if we do X it'll destroy the world!Making it into a fake binary choice where the stakes on one side are unimaginably high...He knows what he's doing. It's obvious because this is exactly the kind of argument he rails against, this is how the climate change debate is structured for instance. But he's always aware that his followers are lemmings where you can tell them 1000x what the trick is and they'll still fall for it every time.
He has to inflate the stakes to absurd levels because the actual reality is already so absurd and transparently corrupt. So he needs a big scary monster, some doomer fate that outshines the present hypocrisy. He knows the game well, and if you actually ever studied the things and methods he taught, you'd know what he's doing too.
I actually don't recommend against his books and stuff, there's a lot of practical knowledge in there about persuasion and mass perception. Not a lot of it is actually original, but he mostly reduces the wonky academic stuff to more normie friendly terms. Most people couldn't make it through Cialdini's books for instance.
But throughout it all, always bear in mind that Scott is a man with absolutely no moral center. He's a coward in spirit that only feels in control if he's manipulating people, he can never actually engage with people on totally honest terms, unarmed. And the proof of this is in his utterly disastrous, at this point nonexistent personal life. No man, who actually had powers of charisma, would end up with everyone who ever knew him abandoning him in life.
At one time I was a fan of his, until I smelled through his façade and saw how far he was willing to suck up to Trump even in his obvious persuasive failures. But the thing that really clued me in was the fact that he hates music and finds it manipulative. No one with an actual soul could ever hold such a crazy stance...unless they were a coward who feared loss of control.
