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· @meno ·
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It was unavoidable, I guess
I have to say, one of my biggest dissapointments as a grown up is to have witnessed Scott Adams descend into the darkness. 

![IMDB](https://www.editorandpublisher.com/uploads/original/20230225-105550-Scott-Adams-Dilber.jpeg)

Once somebody who was not only respected for his talent as an artist, but also as a political thinker. He's now become a narcissist who refuses to accept he's wrong at every corner. 

Of course I don't really know when he started down this path, it could have been long before Trump came along, but personally, that's when I noticed his metamorphosis. 

All of the sudden the world he's spouting that relationships are garbage, that ANTIFA members should be killed (wrote about this once), and all sorts of aggressive nonsense that made little to no sense to me. 

# His Trump Messiah

It's a known fact he's always been a political junkie and his Coffee with Scott Adams was an interesting stream to listen to in the mornings back in 2016 for me. However, as if it was some sort of fermentation process, I noticed him not only liking Trump (which is obviously more than fine), but become some sort of worship leader for the guy.

It got to a point I stopped listening altogether. Trump could do no wrong, his mistakes were not mistakes, and we all had it all wrong. He was perfect, a genius, a 4d Chess player, and these are things he would regularly say. 

I will admit I'm not a Trump fan, but then again I don't like a single politician these days. 

The point is that these political games should not be about cults of personality, about who's a better celebrity. It's about policy that makes sense, changes that bring happiness to the people, fairness, freedom. I don't care of you are a good demagogue, or if you have great catch phrases, those are stupid in my book. But, to Scott, Trump became the most fascinating thing in his life (his words, not mine).

# Crying Foul these days

In the last years he's said that if Biden won, we would be dead in a year, he had the whole COVID thing completely wrong, and instead of accepting it, he mocked those who warned him and played victim over and over when he got called out.

His recent remarks on race issues has tipped the glass over, and he's found himself out of a job it seems.

One would think that his advice, telling white people, to stay the hell away from blacks, as they are a hate group, would be something astoundingly stupid that he should know would backfire, but, and here's the kicker:

He claims that nobody has disagreed with him about his advice, and yet they are cancelling him anyways.

# What?

It's like he learnt it from Trump himself, If you fuck up, double down, pretend you are right and twist logic in any way possible. (Trump is the Sensei of this move) to serve your position.

Person 1: Scott, putting all blacks in a box and calling them a hate group is not just racist, it hurts race relations and feeds the white nationalists narrative.

Scott: Yet I see no disagreement with what I said here.

### This is basically his twitter interactions right now

# CANCEL CULTURE!!!!

As you might imagine, he's gotten dropped from newspapers, publishers and even his new book is possibly not going to happen anymore. He blames Cancel culture, of course. But that's the most shallow and stupid analysis there is.

What happened here is simple, and something he advocates for: Capitalism.

If you damage your image, if you damage the product that you are, then I, as a publisher, don't see value in you anymore. 

Pure capitalism there... 

How is this so hard to see for "the genius"

Where will this end?

It's like watching a building come crashing down floor by floor one day at a time.

MenO

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@coloneljethro ·
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>if you damage the product that you are

A fellow by the name of Marx would like to have a word with you.  On a more serious note, this has been one of the more entertaining trainwrecks I've gotten to watch recently.  Never really was overly impressed with Dilbert to begin with, so it's been nice to indulge in a little schadenfreude .

'Cancel culture is capitalism,' I may have to have fun with that myself.

My money's on it doesn't end exactly, we just get distracted by someone else saying something more obnoxious here soon.
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@meno ·
he will end up working for the Daily Wire... I almost feel like betting on it. 
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@preparedwombat ·
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Other than very young children, *most* people understand that actions have consequences. 
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@meno ·
im starting to think he might be experiencing dementia at this point 
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@steevc ·
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I've not read Dilbert regularly in a long time, but it could be entertaining. I never followed Scott's personal opinions. He's obviously seen as toxic now. It might get interesting if he found out about Hive. Isn't it supposed to be a haven for those who get cancelled? Not that he would be likely to make as much as he did before. I'm sure he won't starve, but he may have employees who could lose their jobs.
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@meno ·
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he's probably going to end up playing the grift... its worked for others, so why not. 
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@steevc ·
I hear he's going with subscriptions on his own site, but that will reach a much smaller audience. 
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@valued-customer ·
I haven't watched it as it happened, but have seen the more spectacular bits as they surfaced, his intial gloating about Trump being a master communicator, his claiming 'contrarians' were only right about the jabs by accident, and now this.

However, I am aware of dementia, and have seen others lose their judgment similarly.  The strange thing is that at first they're still the same people, they just start spouting nonsense, forgetting things, and ending up places they didn't intend to be.  Eventually, though, they end up raging, at least those I've seen.

It's sad, and the more brilliant folks were, the more sad it is when they lose their ability to reason.

Thanks!
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@meno ·
I suspect you are 100% correct... it's the only thing that makes sense to me. 
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@valued-customer ·
I was apprised of another possibility just hours ago.  I was reminded that the whole discussion about contrarians being accidentally right stemmed from him being injured by the jabs, with some progressive malady.  Perhaps he suspects, or has been given, a terminal diagnosis.  They said 'Maybe he calculated what his final months' syndication would bring in, and it wasn't enough.'

Some folks, in such circumstances, relinquish public life and face what they must in the company of those they love.  Adams appears to relish controversy, to need to establish that even when he's wrong, he's righter than those that were right accidentally.  A bit narcissistic.

He's assured that he won't just fade into the darkness unremarked, hasn't he?  He appeared quite willing to court the controversy that has engulfed him.  Becoming more notorious could have been his goal.  Vilification got his idol Trump a lot of press.  As you pointed out, Adams was taking careful notes all along that campaign.

If he is dying, he's going out with a bang.
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