https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-case-for-shunning
"So there’s this comic strip called
Dilbert that a lot of people used to
think was funny—certainly enough to sustain an enormously successful career in
the funny pages for its creator, whose name is Scott Adams, a man who I
discovered will block you on Twitter if you tell him that you expected better
from the creator of
Garfield.
I read
Dilbert occasionally back in the day—that is, in the 1990s. I thought
it was pretty funny, I think. It’s hard to remember. The central message of
Dilbert is that everybody is stupid except you, if I’m remembering correctly.
It’s a popular message, which I presume helped make it a popular strip. There
were books and plushies and even a TV show for a while. It broke through.
Anyway, time passed as time does and before you knew it, it wasn’t the 1990s
anymore. Eventually social media happened to us all, and everybody got online
and broadcast their thoughts for all to hear, and we all got to find out that
Dilbert creator Scott Adams is a massive bigot and a reactionary crank, which
is something anybody who has been paying attention has known for at least a
decade now."
Via Brad Koehn and Christoph S.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
