He showed hints of it when the tea party was taking off, but it was fairly level-headed stuff. The descent into madness was gradual, and I feel blessed to read his earlier posts where a germ of the madness started off.
I was never into Dilbert but my parents got me that big collection of them where Scott Adams leaves little comments on them in a sort of marginalia way. It was before a large car trip and I think they thought it would be just funny cartoons like Calvin and Hobbes (which I’d read earlier) to keep me entertained. And so for some reason I can remember certain Dilbert comics in crystal clarity including Scott Adams opinions on the reaction at the time.
Weirdly a similar thing happened to Mattie Lubchansky author of the Antifa Cookbook and Boys Weekend.
I had several of the cartoon books, but the only one I remember specifically is the one where Dogbert asks a recruit for the holy war (Linux vs Windows, I think?), “Can you chant?”
Every time I hear something else about Scott Adams, I get more embarrassed about liking Dilbert when I was a shitty teen.
My godfather got me Scott Adams’ business book when I was 10 for my birthday present
I didn’t even like Dilbert, I was a Calvin & Hobbes kid
I’m still a Calvin and Hobbes kid
Calvin and Hobbes is still so good
Still one of the hardest lines in NOIR fiction.
I remember that one!
Christopher: “He was my godfather. But he knew I liked Calvin & Hobbes. He knew that. Dilbert - who likes that shit? Nobody wants that shit.”
Adriana: “So that’s when you keyed his car?”
Christopher: “No. That was another thing. Are you even listening to me! Pass me the bowl!”
Adriana: “Pass it to yourself.” And she walks angrily to the bedroom.
He throws up his hands.
Isn’t his descent into madness more recent? Like the bulk of his work was before he went insane. Right?
No, he’s like Kanye or musk, always insane but better at hiding it
Yeah, in one of his '90s books he had something about how daily affirmations could lead you to win big in the stock market, or some shit.
Another one had his own personal theory of how the universe worked
He has always been bonkers, but the chud type of bonkers is more recent. This particular post is pretty inline with how he’s always been
He’s probably gotten worse, but looking back, there were warning signs
He showed hints of it when the tea party was taking off, but it was fairly level-headed stuff. The descent into madness was gradual, and I feel blessed to read his earlier posts where a germ of the madness started off.
I mean didn’t he write some insane religious screed in the aughts?
I was never into Dilbert but my parents got me that big collection of them where Scott Adams leaves little comments on them in a sort of marginalia way. It was before a large car trip and I think they thought it would be just funny cartoons like Calvin and Hobbes (which I’d read earlier) to keep me entertained. And so for some reason I can remember certain Dilbert comics in crystal clarity including Scott Adams opinions on the reaction at the time.
Weirdly a similar thing happened to Mattie Lubchansky author of the Antifa Cookbook and Boys Weekend.
I had several of the cartoon books, but the only one I remember specifically is the one where Dogbert asks a recruit for the holy war (Linux vs Windows, I think?), “Can you chant?”
Something about that just really tickled me.
My dad had two Far Side collections in hardcover and I loved those things.