The Tom Woods Show, episode 1293.

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Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

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checkout. Hi everybody. Tom Woods here. Scott Adams is with us today. He's, of course, the creator of the

Dilbert comic strip. He's the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, and business.

We're going to be talking about his book, Win Bigley, Persuasion in a World where Facts Don't Matter,

just out in paperback. You can find his blog at Dilbert.com and his book I will link to at

tomwoods.com slash 1293. Scott, welcome. Hey, thanks for having me. I thoroughly enjoy reading

Win Bigley. And right at the beginning, you make clear that you are rich, you don't need any more money, and you say that you have what

you might call FU money. So it doesn't matter what people think of you. It doesn't matter if they

attack you or isolate you or try to destroy you. You have a fortress that sustains you. The thing is

most people don't. And I wonder if you can comment

on what's happened to the point where a lot of Americans, I think decent, well-meaning people,

feel like they don't dare speak their minds because whatever they do say will be blown up and

magnified by a hundred times, their motives will be questioned, and maybe their livelihoods

destroyed. Yeah, the whole notion of freedom of speech seems to have morphed because of, you know,

just the changing environment. So I would argue that there are only a few people in this country

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