Scott Adams is dead! I didn’t know. He died in January of this year. A shitty fucking person with a horrible world view is no longer putting content on the internet. Happy to learn this.
(I liked Dilbert as a kid and owned a couple of his non-Dilbert books. It’s sad how he went full-rightwing-nuttter later in life.)
The non dilbert books spoke to me as an edgy teen who was smarter than most people and dumber than she thought. As an adult though I look back and think about the sheer lack of wisdom and introspection it must take to write such things as a grown adult. He died as he lived, as wise as a 16 year old and angry that everyone else didn’t see the light of his brilliance that he so vividly hallucinated. And I think that is how he fell down the right wing rabbit hole, he lacked the self awareness to see through his biases and was deeply drawn to a certain type of men who are overconfident assholes.
And it’s fair, it’s ok to like cringy novels so long as they aren’t Ayn Rand. /hj But yeah, I totally get how an edgy atheist novel would appeal ro people in the 00s. Adams was really good, especially early on, at making people feel like they were one of the only smart people in a world of idiots. It’s just that when you embrace that feeling too hard you open yourself up to becoming a nutjob crank who believes everything they think, which is what he did.
Scott Adams is dead! I didn’t know. He died in January of this year. A shitty fucking person with a horrible world view is no longer putting content on the internet. Happy to learn this.
(I liked Dilbert as a kid and owned a couple of his non-Dilbert books. It’s sad how he went full-rightwing-nuttter later in life.)
The non dilbert books spoke to me as an edgy teen who was smarter than most people and dumber than she thought. As an adult though I look back and think about the sheer lack of wisdom and introspection it must take to write such things as a grown adult. He died as he lived, as wise as a 16 year old and angry that everyone else didn’t see the light of his brilliance that he so vividly hallucinated. And I think that is how he fell down the right wing rabbit hole, he lacked the self awareness to see through his biases and was deeply drawn to a certain type of men who are overconfident assholes.
But yeah I liked dilbert as a kid too
i liked god’s debris but yeah i think if i read it now 20 years later may be a little cringy
And it’s fair, it’s ok to like cringy novels so long as they aren’t Ayn Rand. /hj But yeah, I totally get how an edgy atheist novel would appeal ro people in the 00s. Adams was really good, especially early on, at making people feel like they were one of the only smart people in a world of idiots. It’s just that when you embrace that feeling too hard you open yourself up to becoming a nutjob crank who believes everything they think, which is what he did.
If you hate the hater, you become one of them. Just look at him as a person who was confused.
What? That doesn’t even make sense. Being shitty makes you shitty, not thinking it’s shitty to be shitty.
You’re essentially sweeping all negative behavior under the rug of “confusion”.
Yes, he was wrong. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t also shitty.
Hating right wing lunacy doesn’t make you one of them.
Nah, he knew what he was doing.