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I've been watching the Dilbert guy @ScottAdamsSays for about 4 years now. I now realize he's had me hypnotized with his fence-sitting socialism. All this time I'm distracted from work and business has suffered. He continually proposes radical socialist and totalitarian solutions.
I think he's held my attention this long only because I've been attempting to settle on whether he's acting in good faith, whether he's being honest, whether he can be trusted, whether his way of thinking is novel or devious.
Back in 1999 when I graduated from electrical engineering school, my girlfriend gave me a present. It was an inflatable Dilbert door "for my cubicle". It was a gag but I was devastated: All that hard work of years and years of dedication and I'm pigeon holed and mocked.
When i was in high school, i always hated Dilbert. It made me feel sick inside. That which i held in highest regard, an engineering degree, was singled out and belittled pubically
Now many years later, this cartoonist comes out and says "I'm not voting for Trump, because if I said I might my life would be endangered". At last, maybe this guy is for real. Maybe his Dilbert comic has some deeper meaning, something I should look closer into... Nope.
Then he talks about these life management books he wrote. He talks about all these people that say his books really helped them. I came very close to buying one. One day I even gave the guy five bucks on patreon for all the videos I watched. He should have paid me!
Today all this comes to an end, for the second time. The first time he pissed me off was when he blocked me for disagreeing with him that all sports should be forced to change to intramurals (in order to include trannys)
Today is different. Today i can see where I've been lead while under his trance. The spell was broken today when he proposed creating a government crypto to be withdrawn at some arbitrary time advantageous to the government.
This from a guy that espouses a background in economics. I saw him rolling the idea around in his head, but never did it occur any negative possible outcomes, only challenges to overcome with the idea. Why? There is only one answer: This guy isn't who he presents himself to be.
I'm not going to get lost in delusional rabbit holes, I'm going to make it as evidentially clear as i can make it, for myself and for those who are fortunate enough to stumble across this thread with the same question.
Scott presents himself as being left of Bernie, only he doesn't know a practical way to get there. Then he talks of market and technological solutions created by the free market at attaining massive improvements in education and medicine and labels it as the goal of socialiam.
Scott defends Trump's $6T spending as "free money" and says is consequence free. He's reiterating Trump's position on this move, but never brainstorms any potential long-term downside. How can one espouse an economics background without thinking even a little deeply about it?
Scott has a cat... Enough said.
Scott married a woman with a child, then divorced her... Enough said.
Scott lives in California... Enough said.
Scott encourages his girlfriend to show her body off on the internet... Enough said.
Scott married a woman with a child, then divorced her... Enough said.
Scott lives in California... Enough said.
Scott encourages his girlfriend to show her body off on the internet... Enough said.
Sure, this may look like one of Scotts "laundry list tells of cognitive dissonance", but it's not. Every one of these should be enough to "persuade" you to discount Scott as a socialist in sheep's clothing. Particularly the one where he says he's more socialist than Bernie.
What he does to assuage you from what you know is wrong, and coax you back into his house of mirrors is to pace us. He paces us, knowing who his audience is (mostly staunch conservatives), pretends to be on our side, puts his arm over our shoulder and pretends to be or friend.
He speaks sweet reassuring rationale, asks us to simultaneously sip from the same mug of laissez-faire anarcho-capitalist social-libertarian cool-aid every morning. To seal his brand into our hearts and friend on him for a calming bent on the hysterical world of mass media.
What I realize today is he doesn't believe these things in actuality. He believes he and he alone can invent a world order, in coordination with Trump, to bring about a brave new society of pure automation and abolish the economy itself.
Scott Adams is no more a free-market economist than Barack Obama was a constitutional scholar. Those of us that daily follow him are being duped. We're gullible chumps. Best to admit it now and put the last four years behind us.
