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Part Two: How The Dilbert Guy Lost His Mind | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Robert is joined again by cartoonist Randy Milholland to continue to discuss Scott Adams.
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I was undiagnosed autistic growing up and had trouble relating to my peers. When I was 13, my dad said, "I've noticed you don't have friends, so I want you to read this," and made me read How to Win Friends and Influence People.
That, uh, did not have the desired effect.
Gross book.
That's a pretty funny story...
So you didn't, um, win friends and influence people is what you're saying?
Sorry, I just had to. 😂
not autistic but closeted bisexual man and my mom gave me the same book lmao
@@ryenguy In other words you are gay. Bisexual is what closeted homosexuals call themselves...
So crazy that Scott's lesson from his son's death was "If I can't save them, then it's impossible and no one else can try."
That's what you have just said. Scott never said that. Stop hallucinating.
@@BumboLooks No. I'm legally allowed to hallucinate all I want and there is literally nothing you can do about it besides fund universal healthcare so I can get medicated for it.
smart answer
@@everfluctuating And of course the extremely unintelligent autistic weeb calls idiocy a "smart answer".
@@alltheorynopractice5467 Depending on what your hallucinations lead you to do or believe, you may not be free to hallucinate all you want. If you commit a crime while hallucinating and get caught and if they can prove intent, you will get in legal trouble for it. Example, if you were hallucinating for whatever reason and then walked into a store with a gun and robbed them, you would get in trouble for armed robbery, because your intent in that state was to commit that crime and you did it, end of story in like all prosecutors eyes.
I actually emailed Jim Davis once about Garfield Minus Garfield, how he felt about it and such. Surprisingly, he responded quite quickly and was a very friendly and personable fellow. He just seems like an all around good guy.
How DID he feel about it? Out of curiousity.
@@sams3533Davis enjoys Garfield Minus Garfield. He released an official G-G book together with its creator Dan Walsh.
Now I'm wondering if Jim saw Super EyePatch Wolf's video on Garfield and his thoughts on it.
Maybe Jon can have some confidence, while the Garfield still insults him, but Jon doesn't care. Because Garfield is a cat. And doesn't talk.
Instead, that voice is his own self doubt. His insecurity, always trying to cut him down. Jon realizes that and snaps out of his fugue state. A taxidermied cat sits there. He notices all the rotting packages of lasagna around him and gags. He runs to the bathroom and sees Odie's long decomposed corpse, only fur and bones remain.
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME?! screams Jon.
Only to have a deranged man in a grey cat suit come out and say "Jon, you forgot your medicine...."
Jon wonders who the hell is this person.
"Don't you recognize me Jon, look into my eyes."
Jon notices this man has lash extensions and flutters them.
"N-Nurmel?!"
Jon, it's okay, just take your medicine, and all this will go away.
Jon refuses, he feels a warmness on his head and passes out.
He wakes up in his bed. Back to normal. He dismisses it as a bad dream. As he leaves his bed, we see a dull rust colored spot on the pillow...
Davis is well known for being a very nice guy. I've never heard a story of someone who met or spoken with him that has a bad thing to say.
@@sams3533 Sorry I didn't reply. I've had to turn off notifications on youtube because I kept getting death threats. But yeah, GuineaPigDan nailed it on the head.
I have never in my life done the "confused dog head tilt" as I have done listening to Scott Adam's actions and beliefs.
In regards to Scott's decent coinciding with his illness or surgery. I think it is important to remember that he was decently computer literate and had become a complete shut in unable to talk in person. He probably spent a good portion of those 3 years online, who knows what kind of rabbit holes he went down. And then suddenly he can interact with normal people again but by then was used to talking to a bunch of edgelord 4chaners
@@BumboLooks I disagree. First because the views he is currently expressing have not been mainstream since he was around 5 so it is not just a matter of him not keeping up with the times if he had been expressing these views in the 80s or 90s he would have alienated enough people back then that he would never have gotten rich. And secondly because while there was always been a undercurrent of Reagan era neo liberal conservatism to his statements and work, that changed to bigoted snowflake libertarianism after he came back from his surgery.
Look at how he describes his life between the first couple of Dilbert collection to how he describes it now. He went from telling how his employer and fellow employees were supportive of his cartooning career to the point where they gave him extra time off and covered his work. To now claiming they fired him because of affirmative action and that every failure or adversity in his life had been caused by affirmative action and diversity programs.
@BumboLooks you think he always felt that you can't save people with drug/mental health issues and just wait for them to die/kill them?
@@BumboLooks "In the mid 2000's it was okay for anyone to say the 'N' word. "
Wait, WHAT?! Maybe in your circles; the rest of polite society disagreed long before the mid 2ks.
@@BumboLooks the n word was not considered racist until about 10 years ago, is that what you just shat out?
@@BumboLooks Yeah, no, we didn't. But nice try!
So Scott’s second book is basically “Sir, This Is a Wendy’s: The Novel.”
20:30 - I like that Scott Adams wrote the Dilbert Principle despite never having experienced it, having been obviously the poster child for it 😄
He wrote 'truisms'... lots of people do, they're usually.. true.
"Most freshman psych students would write a better and more insightful book than this." I TA'd intro psych, so this is one of the most damning descriptions of writing quality I can imagine.
Scott’s absurdity is perfectly in line with his politics. The Holocaust is EXHAUSTIVELY documented in hundreds of peer reviewed articles, which you could read, or even just open google books and look at the bibliography of a mainstream history book and note that there are hundreds if not thousands of references.
The argument of folks like this is usually that it's all fabricated. Of course, in that case, why would we assume any of their evidence is not fabricated?
_"The Media™" won't tell me about it!"_ I, too, turn to... corporate news.. to learn things I could just google [Jesus Christ, Scott.... 🤦♂]
Rapper D Mite wrote a song about this very common problem. It's called _"Read a [muthafucking] Book!"_
♫ R. E. A D. A. B. O. - O. K! ♫
Adams is so wealthy, he could literally pay someone to research and tell him about things he wants to know.
Hell, you don't need peer reviewed articles. The fucking Nazis documented it themselves.
I swear, Scott Adams' villain origin story began when he co-founded a healthy snack business that couldn't compete with Kraft Munchables.
What happened? Was Kraft Munchables run by people of colour, conspiring against him?
and made it an official tie-in with his fat cartoon character... I started doubting his genius then..
Oh, I remember the bit with his stepson. I work in substance abuse treatment, and I was furious because it's basically saying the people I work with every day should all be killed. It's disgusting and is also the natural outcome of people saying things like we shouldn't use narcan when people OD.
Just a quick note to say THANK YOU for the work you do. It's so much harder than people realize, and y'all don't get thanked nearly enough.
I see the "If we give free Narcan why not free insulin?" argument and I always jump in on what they consider the wrong side, and "agree" that insulin should also be free.
Then they scream about wanting people dead, and how they're "Pro-Life" and don't want any of their tax dollars going to save lives if they could go toward bombing brown people's weddings (not their exact words on that last bit, but the first is very accurate).
Thanks for being in the field that you are in.
My sister put in a ton of work to make Naloxone easy to distribute and use. You are also a part of that same organization that works to better the world. When someone says you're not doing something important, what they're actually saying is they lack the empathy to see how important your work is.
There's a bit of a constant running theme here with Scott, that he has in common with a lot of right-wingers: he comes across as a deeply uncurious person who has never made any effort whatsoever to actually understand how anything really works; invents his own infantile uninformed (and magical) explanations of how things work instead; gets aggrieved and blames [insert scapegoat here] whenever reality fails to conform to the fantasy in his head.
Damn, that is a perfect explanation of some of the worst aspects of conservative thought… well done
Right-wingers have invented a way they think the world should work and they will go to any lengths to make it actually work that way
The fact that it took him until his 20s, and doing perspective-altering/broadening drugs, just to understand that it's possible that not everyone experiences the world around them in the same way sums it up even more succinctly, if you ask me. SMH.
uncurious lol no effort ha ha ha understand lmao fantasy in head lmfao ... talks about post modernism and points at conservatism ... pretzel logic worthy of publication
@@andrewmclaughlin2701 I'm sure that gibberish made sense in your head. Yer just proving my point LOL
Sophie being so proud of Robert when he makes a pop culture reference and says Ariana Grande's name correctly makes my day.
My oldest daughter became addicted to meth almost straight out of high school. I was basically powerless to help her. She had a kid and lost guardianship. But 3 years later, she finally got clean. This November, it'll be 5 years. You CAN come back. It hasn't been easy for her, but it's possible.
That's the scary thing about being a parent. You don't own your kids. The state and school-system does. Why was your daughter even hanging around with people that had meth?
How did THAT happen?
@BumboLooks at the time, we were living in a place where it was readily available. I don't want to air all the details, but suffice to say, she was seeking inclusion. She was an outsider for much of high school, and desperately wanted to belong. School was hard for her. She was bullied a lot.
@@HereBeDragonsYT ok.
@@BumboLooks Well first, the idea that parents own their children is psychotic. You don't own your child, you are responsible for and have stewardship on their behalf until they reach age of majority. But other than that, it's the rare parent/family who can be available for their children during all non-school hours.
As for the school system owning them . . . while I don't approve of corporeal punishment . . . the state school system is pretty thoroughly defanged in what it can actually do to kids to enforce compliance other than flunk them and send them home.
Our society makes us choose between providing materially or emotionally for our families and rarely offers most of us the opportunity to do both at the same time. We also breed isolation and alienation right down to the hostility with which we design our communities. I was very fortunate that my mother was aided by a loving grandmother. Not everyone is so lucky.
@@HereBeDragonsYT I've seen people get hooked on meth, and how hard it is to stop. We had one gentleman, a family friend, who we helped for a while. Luckily, today, he's back on his feet, recently married, seems to have his life together. But it was a lot of hard work for him to overcome his addiction, and as he's mentioned, the temptation is always going to be there.
The program that helped him was really something else, it's run by a local Jewish community, though open to all sorts of people, and they really work hard to help people break away from that life and then help to get their life in order afterwords. It's NOT just all or nothing, you have to help them if they start to stumble. It's better to catch them then let them fall off the wagon.
One small thing I will say about Adams losing his step-son is that a lot of the more conservative rehab centres will often tell parents that a) your love will not save them and b) if you have to choose between letting them die in your house and on the street, the latter will be less hard on you and I get the feeling he may have internalized those a bit too hard in a real bad way
That bit about dying on the street vs at home made my blood run cold....
I mean, I only have dogs FFS, never had kids, but I would 127% choose to be there for my dying pet in their hour of need, than to imagine them _suffering and dying alone somewhere out there on this globe._
This isn't conjecture for me; I literally just went through experiencing my 19 year old cat walking off and disappearing to die. I tried to find him for days, just heartsick. All these years I've been worried his demise would be some aggressive cancer, or horrible painful disease or event like a stroke, but nope... my little guy just went out for a strolll and never came home. Hurts my heart so much that I don't even have his wee body to bury.
Do these people actually know what love is, or feel it, that they would PREFER to have their own child die somewhere out there in the world, in the street, filthy like garbage????? I've made myself cry just typing it. What is wrong with these people???
these are the same people who dump unwanted pets for someone else to save 😡
China supplies Mexico and Mexico exports poison into America. This reality has Scott Adams as a single issue voter. People hate him for his single issue voter status.
a) is fucking *_ironic_* because you'd think they'd take the "If you pray hard enough it will go away approach" whereas the more progressive type of treatment center will bang on about providing emotional support
@@suzbone This isn't directly related to the topic at hand, but holy shit same when it comes to the cat thing. A few months ago my cat, who I've had since I was 11(I am now almost 24), wandered off into the night and just never came back. I'm kind of a grim guy, so I had spent years mentally preparing myself for when she would inevitably die, only to realize I had overlooked the very real possibility that I might not be there for her when it happens. Utterly harrowing, I'm so sorry for your loss.
Also, definitely demonic behavior to just leave your children to die on the street because it might make YOU feel better. People horrify me.
What's just disgusting about all of this is that Adams isn't blaming the ACTIONS of black people for things like his TV show getting axed, he's blaming the EXISTENCE of black people. Like even if the Dilbert cartoon WAS canceled because the network wanted to focus on shows with African-American casts for African-American audiences, those decisions would've still been made by network execs, not some angry mob of black people expressly demanding the cancelation of a dull and boring cartoon show based on a dull and boring comic strip made by a white guy. And those network execs would've been almost assuredly all WHITE. And most likely all MEN. So his whole thing is "if it wasn't for black people just, y'know, being all alive and stuff, I'd still have my shitty cartoon show and I'd be the famousest special boy in the world!"
It's the other way around. Black people are blaming the existence of white people on all their problems... They literally hate all white people and expect us to love them for hating us lol.
I think you need to collect your thoughts, check your facts and resources, and attempt to rewrite a coherent message.
@@andrewmclaughlin2701 I assume this boilerplate, cut-and-paste accusation of stupidity that doesn't really ADDRESS anything I said (which makes me think maybe I just got duped into replying to a bot, but whatever), wasn't really made to engage in any kind of discussion, but rather to get whatever tiny endorphin rush you get from such a scathing, galaxy-brain retort. See, I can do it too. That felt good! Wanna buy me dinner, daddy?
I made the _"It's because I'm WHITE, isn't it!?!"_ joke circa 2001, it was fucking ridiculous then, that's why I made the joke. Anyone making that claim seriously, at any point in history, might just be a tad out of touch with.....everything. Ever.
Don’t listen to that other guy, he’s just being a kook. You’re spot on about why Adam’s was being extra-fucked-up when he said that.
oh my god, he wants to be the siblings from Enders Game. the ones who debate each other so good on the internet they influence world affairs.
@@BumboLooks subtle and relevant to op my good man
@@ohnoagremlin Haha...
@@ohnoagremlin Don't forget to like your own comment three times...
@@BumboLooksprojection is a bitch, ain't it? 😂😂😂😂😂
lol
I love the fact the Scott called his self insert the Avatar, because he looks like Aang if he grew up to be a Crypto Bro that never left the house.
I think because the character is an engineer, people assumed Adams was an engineer too. Turns out he was just a not very good bank employee.
He was the pointy haired boss all along.
Scott Adams' arrogance is absolutely STAGGERING. And completely unearned. Like, I've never seen an arrogance-to-intellect ratio this wide in my life.
He turned himself into a millionaire with talent and you post weird videos on youtube...
@@BumboLooks That only matters if you think money is the measure of a person's worth.
@@ToastyMcGrath Why do you think people are compensated monetarily for workplace accidents or loss of life?
Are you against that?
Would you rather be stuck on an Island with?
Scott Adams or a homeless heroin addict?
You really had to go with the homeless heroin addict to prop up Scott Adams? You must not have a very high opinion of him. Also the homeless heroin addict knows how to survive without a house so he's better for surviving on the island.
Scott Adams is certainly high up there on the arrogance-to-intellect ratio. I would say Trump is greater, even No. 1. Trump is the illiterate who dodged the draft then says he knows more about the military than any General. He's also the guy who claimed that when he was a teenager he was scouted by major league baseball teams and could have gone pro if he wanted. (He was a below average player on a third rate team that never saw a scout.) And there is a reason he has the nickname "Pele."
The Marc Antony Gambit reminds me of how Christians preach their own humility saying that “We're all sinners who deserve God's wrath,” only to act like they're the holiest, most moral people since they worship the right book.
Yep, you see that behavior in most religious-type thinking whether it be communism, Christianity, socialism, rainbow culture, Islam, Judaism, Veganism etc.
Scott's "hacking reality" mindset reminds me very much of my conservative religious upbringing where we were constantly told this same thing - that we could exert supernatural control over reality and basically had a cheat code to life.
We did not.
@@BaronVonQuiply Scott is an atheist you fruitcake lol.
So, over one billion Christians on the planet and they all behave in exactly the same way? Yet, you're one of those people who is opposed to "profiling," right?
@@petebondurant58 of course not. I'm speaking about American Christians, specifically evangelicals and Trad Catholics. They're the ones I know.
I don't know what the job market is like in America, but Scott's insistence that he missed out on jobs for being white and that the company specifically told him that... really is just impossible to believe. Like, you'd be very lucky to get *any* feedback on why you didn't get a job, and I highly doubt anyone's going to say that.
All I know is, Why I Didn't Get This Job is up there with Why I Got Fired and Why The Bank HATES Me in the ranks of things people tend to lie about.
No one would tell you this in America because the lawsuit would be incredible. It’s maybe one of the few areas of labor or employment that the legal system can actually protect.
Certainly not two jobs in a row, and certainly not from a “sit down” with upper management like Adams claims in his stories.
@@johnmickey5017 tbh even if there wasn't potential for a lawsuit, I just wouldn't imagine that two consecutive employers would decide "Hey, y'know what I love? Controversy."
It isn't impossible to believe at all. For decades now Diversity hire quotas have been a mainstay in the largest American Employers. They literally tell you on the phone sometimes. University Entrance statistics also paint a similar picture.
This is even commonplace in Australia. I was personally told over the phone multiple times that certain jobs weren't available to me because I'm not Aboriginal. Here it's called affirmative action. So racism you are allowed to practice without being called a racist.
Sounds like you have been blind and deaf your whole life.
@@BumboLooks - Lol, nah.
My reasoning does not fall apart, and without wanting to nitpick: to say that affirmative action "isn't considered hate speech or racism" is factually inaccurate. There are plenty of people who consider it to be that, and a lot of them have media platforms, so...
Your assertion seems to be that, because someone trying to sue their employer over affirmative action might not succeed... that means that a company would totally tell unsuccessful job applicants "Nah, you would've got it if you weren't white, lol uWu"
My reasoning is that, regardless of affirmative action's legality, it's just 100% not in a company's interest to tell a prospective employee - let alone a CURRENT employee - that they didn't get a job because of their race. Firstly, and least significantly, it's not remotely useful as feedback. But more importantly... doing so would absolutely contribute to a hostile work environment.
Imagine if you got a promotion, and then you found out that someone official at the company had told the people you're going to work with that you only got that job because of your race. You can guess how much of a shitshow that would be.
Contrast this to what a company would *gain* by telling an applicant that they didn't get a job because of their race. Like... if you can think of even one benefit to the company, please, let me know.
You don't really need me to tell you all of this, of course. You know that what Scott Adams claims happened (twice, at two different companies) is just a persecution fantasy. And if you've listened to the podcast, you can probably understand where it's come from. He was a big fish in a small pond, had too many successes early on and never learned to deal with failure outside his own control. This is why he's still making up stories about a promotion he missed out on 30+ years earlier. That's not a normal thing to do for anyone, let alone someone who's a literal multi-millionaire.
@@BumboLooks ok Scott
"An atheistic rant that manages to be racist on an almost unique level" sounds like a Christopher Hitchens book review
Ah yes, leftists don't know the difference between race and religion lol.
Consistently calling people racist when they insult Islam.
Strange they don't call anyone racist for insulting Christianity lol.
"Fart so hard your intestines form a tail..." is the funniest thing I've heard from Scott Adams.
Really? so you're a child that confuses weird, dramatic and random with funny?
No wonder you don't like Dilbert... Way over your head.
@@BumboLooks Why are you posting?
@@jimcat68 Why is your pfp an Easter Island statue?
oh my god, i didn’t expect my hometown to be namedropped in this episode. i grew up in highland park and went to preschool with the shooter. the community is still recovering and fortunately the people’s response has been a pretty resolute call for common sense gun reform and helping each other heal
Common sense gun reform is to have every capable member of society participate in a local militia. An armed society is a polite society.
We're certainly an armed society. Would you say we're a polite society?
@@andrewmclaughlin2701That's dumb and bad, and you should feel bad. The fact that we're the only country that has mass shootings as often as we do, and also just happens to also be the country with the highest guns per capita, is not a coincidence
I've been a computer programmer since the 80's, when I was a little kid. Dilbert was popular with my student coworkers when I was doing computer work for my university through the 90's, working in cubicles. D&D, Dilbert, and anime: Wasn't into any of it. In 2023 computer programmers are no longer social outcasts. We're considered to be quite normal, and everybody thinks they can become one over a weekend. In the 90's Dilbert comics were something that computer programmers retreated to to feel like real people. I found them humorless and depressing, and I'm glad to get this off my chest now, some 30 years later.
humorless lol
I like that how this was a two-part, 3+ hour series on Scott Adams and didn't touch half of his insanity like:
-Self hypnosis, and how he hypnotized himself into "greatness"
-Long articles about how he's going to give you the best orgasm of your life(then lying about how thank you's were "pouring in").
-Claiming he would be murdered by a PC mob if he didn't claim he was voting for Hillary, something that totally happened outside of his head.
-Claiming to have a secret understanding allowing him to predict the future, and then REPEATEDLY getting almost everything wrong, then claiming he was right the whole time.
-Claiming he could understand any political subject in an hour under the tutelage of experts, and spent hours arguing with people who tried to correct him and getting the most basic facts wrong.
-Bragging for literal decades about getting a good score(top 6%) on the GMAT. Like, chances are you've scored very high on some standardized test, or even many standardized tests. He's repeatedly bragged about it in talks, books, blog posts. Dude is DESPERATE to find anything that makes him feel special.
-The repeated cringe of his "Master Manipulator" egosyntonic delusion and how, every time he's revealed as buffoon, he tries to act like he's a social genius who is manipulating everyone into THINKING he's an idiot.
-How he repeatedly self inserts "Master Manipulator" characters into all his work even back to Dogbert, and how weirdly fetishistic he is about hypnotism.
-The ridiculous, childlike lies and confabulations, and then how hostile he gets when the lies get called out.
Overall, a deeply weird and frustrating guy. He's deeply fantasy prone, delusional, dishonest, and gullible towards manipulative media/people, but, bizarrely, his delusion is that he's the most rational, the most skeptical, the least delusional, and the most able to manipulate others while being the only wise truth-teller in the world. He gives me last man in a pyramid scheme vibes.
I finished part II yesterday and came back for Part III.
I'm both disappointed and confused, as it really seems there should be more. Edit: I'm playing the weird Chump book one next.
You forgot. Adams is the protagonist of the movie. So if something like the veracity of the Holocaust death toll were important, the script writers would have worked it into the dialogue. Can you imagine a scene of the hero sitting in a library and then looking up and saying, "Well ok, I just read that that's true!"
Did you know that 22 million Jews died in the Holocaust?
LMAO an 80's action montage of some ripped dude riffling through a card catalog in like the Library of Congress or something would be great...
@@revwroth3698 OMG! The Sovereign Citizens were right!
@@revwroth3698unless theres microfiche it wouldn’t work as a scene.
@@thejason755 unfortunately I'm pretty sure I'm the final member of my generation who knows what microfiche is.
I was a big Dilbert fan back in the 90s, it was one of the big pre-Office "office comedy" sources with very general, relatable humor that was more up to date in terms of tech and references than your average sitcom on network TV at the time. And so I was generally a Scott Adams fan, until I bought his "Dilbert Principle" book. I noticed all the weird "The Secret" magical thinking and it got QUITE the eyebrow-raise from me. Then I started hearing about his opinions about women in the early 2010s and that tore it for me, I tossed all my comic collections and the book. It's kind of funny that people are only just now catching up to his awfulness as he gets progressively crazier and more outspoken politically, he's been an alarming nutball for a *long* time.
Said the overly emotional, verbose, autistic child that watches gravity falls...
Pretty much the same. The affirmation stuff made me wonder but then lost track of him. Then he went all maga
@@donrobertson4940 Clearly he became a secret gay lover for Kanye West.
And he spies on behalf of Putin.
He walks around with a micro-camera in his maga hat to spy on african Americans.
He is encouraging native americans to drink more alcohol too.
My only exposition to him was a few comics albums of his in my dad's library, so catching up when he came up full-on conspiratorial / trumpist and discovering all this crap retroactively was wild
@@Kalulosu You obviously haven't caught up with anything. You've got no idea of what's going on. Give specific examples of what you think Scott Adams said and we can work from there.
The biggest lesson I have is that, based on childhood experiences with reading and current interests as an adult, Robert is the male clone of myself and must be apprehended at all costs.
"But did you deliver the package, or did the package deliver YOU?"
"Okay fucking Gandalf."
I loved that part where gandalf does the quarter trick and tells frodo to pull his finger.
The convo between the delivery boy and the avatar is something Tom Servo would've lost his mind at (as he did in Mitchell)
This comment made my day 😂
This needs to be a MST3K movie
I could not even follow it. Like, at all.
My favorite part about the whole sock puppet thing is that even before he made them on Reddit and Metafilter he was caught making them on *his own website* to try and defend himself from all the negative comments he was getting on his blog. He bragged about people who read and agreed with his blog being "the truly intelligent ones" but they were probably just the sock puppets and he was just praising himself.
People like to point out his illness and his son's death as being things that triggered him into being this way, but I don't buy it. He's always been like this, just not as publicly. He was this way at Pac Bell. He was this way when he first started Dilbert. He was this way when he wrote The Religion War and God's Debris. All of that was before any of those "triggering events." All they did was make him decide to be more like that in public. He was always this way in private. He's a self centered narcissist who believes he's literally the smartest person on Earth.
But... I would agree that he's still not as bad as John K.
sounds he was a precurious insufferable kid , tht sadly never matured from that mindset and go worse :(
@@marocat4749 You're literally the triggered person who is incapable of tolerating a diversity of opinions... So a child.
Everyone on reddit has alternate or sockpuppet accounts.
The bans are so frequent that it's the only way to exist on the site for any meaningful length of time as an active user. Some take it further with multiple automated comment bots or pay significant amounts of money for extra privileges.
Has he ever called himself the smartest person on Earth? nope...
Does telling people to get educated and stop drug use make you self centered? nope...
That's just common sense self-improving advice...
You are right that he has always held these views. You are the first person in this entire comment section to realize that.
@@marocat4749you mean precocious?
On the Calvin and Hobbes branded Mace, I wouldn’t trust Bill Watterson to make Mace but I’m sure that Calvin would absolutely love to have Calvin-branded Mace
In terms of Scott's philosophy I recall in one of his books he discusses quantum phenomena in terms of photons reflecting from a medium. He took the point that the thicker the medium the more photons were reflected and asked 'How does the light know it's thicker?'. I mean it's explainable using classical physics, but he just took a random bit of knowledge and combined it with his existing worldview without attempting to find out if the question he himself posed had been answered.
Damn you can feel the rage coming off of Robert
I'm new to all of this. But have binged a ton of episodes at work. I believe this is the first bastard that he's known and grew up with for his whole life and just really feels disappointed at him. Then to also talk shit about Muslims who literally fought alongside Robert and have taken bullets for him.
@@merciless972 Lol, Muslims will fight for people they hate just to get back at people they hate even more.
Muslims also fought for Hitler in WW2...
Roberts is not the sharpest tool in the shed and either are you.
@@merciless972 When did he talk shit about Muslims?
@@yarnosh 1:08:18 roughly? I'm only half-listening though sounds like he's saying they're all culpable for specific skirmishes around specific regions...
@@ashkebora7262 Well they are lol. There's no way you're going to talk you're way out of that one lol. Hell, different Muslim factions are even fighting each other in the UK. Doesn't matter where they are.
Whenever someone like Scott Adams claims "diversity programs" ruined their career what they're really saying is "As soon as the pool expanded to include more people, I was no longer considered special or uniquely gifted compared to the competition."
They don't open the pool though, it's taking the existing pool then prioritizing certain people within it.
@@thinkharder9332 citation?
@@sholem_bond Executive Order 10925 did not increase the population.
Formerly a big Scott Adams fan. You guys didn’t cover some of the nuttier parts in his books. On more than one occasion, he writes that he has the ability to make a woman orgasm purely by using his voice, sure Scott... Regarding affirmations, he claimed that he was able to get a perfect score on the GMAT without any studying, only affirmations. As someone who took the gmat many times and ultimately did get into a top business school, I can attest that this exam is extremely difficult and I couldn’t do well on it with only affirmations much less get a perfect score. For awhile during the trump era, he regularly introduced himself as a trained hypnotist which again shows how much of an narcissist he really is.
Sounds like you might be hallucinating sir.
@@BumboLooks Mr. Adams, please stop sock puppeting.
@@Andyanddiana467 Mr. Obama, please stop sock puppeting.
@@BumboLooks If Obama was running my RUclips account, I'd certainly sound more lawyerly, lol. You're stanning for a nut job and defending the use of the N word in other threads, meanwhile. Please, for your sake, stop embarrassing yourself.
@@Andyanddiana467 Obama never worked as a professional Lawyer and never ran his own business so that's why he never sounded like a lawyer as president lol. Obama is definitely a good public speaker but you are the first person ever to describe him as "lawyerly".
Remembering the history and present day use of the N word simply means that I'm a truthful honest person without dementia. The opposite of you.
This is a youtube comment section. Not a public presidential speech. Do you actually get embarrassed online? Are you that autistic?
When are you going to convince the black community to stop calling each other the N word?
I don't know that I've heard of such a good representation of Old Man Yells at Clouds. XD
What? Joe Biden? He has actually lost his way many times and had more gaffs than any previous president.
I love that there’s like 3 or 4 Scott Adams sockpuppets in the comment section of ALL the Scott Adams BtB eps and ONLY those eps. 😂
I read God's Debris. Calling it a novel is...generous. It's pretty much just a mysterious older dude explaining The Dilbert Future to a younger guy.
I want to point out, compairing Scott to Jim Davis, that most people don't even know what Jim Davis looks like. Jim is smart enough that he has never done anything to jeopardize the success and profitablity of Garfield. For all we know Jim is just as bad, but he keeps it to himself
That moment when you noticed that was Tom Kenny voicing Bob Bastard
32:30 The labarynthine rules could be part of the design of the con. If the ritual fails to deliver, the person performing the ritual must blame themselves because they didn't do something exactly right.
Yep, that's a very common feature of cons, scams, and cash-grab cults: Claiming the end-user just didn't do the ritual correctly, and that's why it didn't work.
The key aspect to religion - "Perhaps you didn't pray/believe hard enough"
I remember starting to read God's Debris when I was in my teens. It honestly makes Atlas Shrugged look like great literature.
Maybe you should read it again because as you just said, you were a teen with an underdeveloped brain.
_oof_
Atlas Shrugged is great in a pinch when you run out of toilet paper.
@@Orverge That's anti-Semitic because Ayn Rand aka Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum was Jewish.
@@BumboLooks That's ridiculous because there isn't a second moon.
For quite a few years I was convinced that Scott Adams was deeply committed to doing this one weird bit. Unfortunately he's just really like that.
I always associated his brain situation/surgery with his behavioral change, and I think you hit the nail on the head. He had a traumatic situation, and what he fell into caused all of his dark thoughts and worst tendencies to metastasize, and it's only snowballed since then.
He was exactly the same before the surgery...
Society has merely progressed further left and left Scott behind.
@@BumboLooks Being racist against black people is something we left behind ... in Adams' life?
Uh ... he's not that old, and if that's part of the problem, glad to leave him behind.
@@jcspoon573 Um...Adams isn't racist against black people honey...
Please explain how Adams is racist against black people?
@@BumboLooks "If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people [This is not what the poll asked]... that’s a hate group. And I don’t want anything to do with them, and based on how things are going, the best advice I could give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people. Just get the f- away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. ’Cause there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed.”
"So I think it makes no sense whatsoever, as a white citizen of America, to try to help Black citizens anymore. It doesn’t make sense. There’s no longer a rational impulse. And so I’m going to back off from being helpful to Black America [citation needed on Adams helping "Black America"], because it doesn’t seem like it pays off. Like I’ve been doing it all my life and the only outcome is I get called a racist.”
Read more:
www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/02/28/dilbert-scott-adams-racist-elon-musk-fragile-white-men/11360216002/
@@jcspoon573 That is exactly what the poll asked. He is factually reporting the results of a study.
Nobodies ever mass rioted over the death of one white person shot by police even though in many years more whites have been shot by police than blacks.
Whites are routinely blamed for everyone else's problems and blacks dish out the race card whenever they can.
Affirmative action and diversity quotas are never enough to satisfy the black community either.
Noticing and reporting on reality like Adams isn't racist at all. You might as well call "remembering things" racist.
And yeah, why would any sane person continue helping people who hate them?
That's just stupid.
Perhaps the least surprising thing to learn about Scott Adams is that he doesn't ever want to actually learn anything from anyone else, or he doesn't realize that Google is free and easy to use. The most surprising thing is how utterly obsessed he is with broadcasting his own refusal to learn anything from anyone else.
Lol. That's a new contradictory leftist projection.
Either it's "He believes anything he reads on the internet and was radicalized"
Or it's "He never wants to learn anything from anyone else and doesn't use google".
Do you even think about anything you say?
You can find self-castration cults, flat Earthers, radical Islamists, communists, nazis, vegans, pedophile advocacy, BLM etc on google.
Even wikipedia gets things wrong and changes definitions for purely political reasons.
Much of the worlds information isn't even on the internet.
Scott's little RUclips show is nothing but learning from his audience ... lmfao
I have a suspicion that fear of discovering they're wrong helps keep them far away from any source of knowledge that might poke in and risk popping the fantasy bubble.
It's like avoiding the doctor over that lump in your neck because as long as you DON'T know it's cancer... "it might not be". I do agree that they're very incurious, and that's something that my brain finds absolutely absurd as it's a knowledge sponge that needs to be constantly fed, but I think that even if only subconsciously, they have some awareness of being wrong and thus a great fear of confronting their fantasies by stumbling across a fact. eg, Most of my conversations with extremists online boil down to an endless circle of me telling them that they don't actually know more than thousands of years of combined human efforts and maybe that should look up that word they keep misusing. They always respond with derisive fake laughter and declarations that they have no use for a dictionary/encyclopedia as they _"Already know that that word means"_ . Inconceivable!
@@andrewmclaughlin2701Only so much as “listening to your own ideas, copied from your white nationalist buddies, parroted back at you” is “learning.”
I laughed so hard when you said "...and someone should throw pee on them."
It's called Jarate!
If you take Scott at his word - writing God's Debris (not even the book itself, the act of actually creating it) is one of the most egotistical, detached things I've ever heard of.
His stated goal was to write a "theory of everything, an explanation for the entire universe" and intentionally put in logical inconsitencies and fallacies. But! He was going to use his super persuasion powers, his NLP, his hypnosis, to convince the reader that this incorrect worldview was correct. And the task he sets to the reader is: use your own brain and pick apart his logic and see through all of his mind control and figure out why what he's saying is BS.
But he doesn't actually have super persuasion powers, so ultimately he just wrote a bad book about an "intentionally" incorrect philosophy.
You just wrote an excellent summary of Das Kapital by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Comrade Question.
@@BumboLooks yeah I love the part when Marx uses hypnosis to convince the reader that gravity exists because God killed himself
@@Comrade.Question Well in Das Capital Religion is killed so that it can be replaced with communism, the new universe of man...
The poor masses are duped with massive triumphant parades and character worship of communist party leaders...
A fight for freedom that results in never ending purges and famines...
Many communist intellectuals knew that communism was nothing more than a state dictatorship monopoly on capital.
The people who actually believed in communism were the masses of fools under their control.
The thing about God's Debris that sticks out to me is a bit near the start of the book where the old guy goes on a spiel about how there's different levels of conversation, where people who talk just for the sake of talking & socializing are at level 1 while people who talk in order to convey information are at level 2, etc...
...And then, he concludes "and that's why the ladies at the office give you weird looks when you mansplain things at them, you're talking on a level they can't comprehend"
@@ecyor0 Haha, that's classic.
If the Special Boy doesn't immediately become the biggest success in his field, there must be Nefarious Forces arrayed against him, of course.
This story was equally fascinating and also disappointing. A brilliant guy with some pretty negative delusions that seemingly derailed his life. Too bad it could not have gone differently.
well said lol. dude is tragically flawed
The whole problem is that he's not brilliant but decided at an early age that he was. That's why he can't let go when anyone suggests that he's anything less than that in any minor way. That's why he has to come up with conspiracies to explain when he doesn't succeed or isn't loved: it must be some external force. Musk, Trump, and many others all suffer from the same damage.
@@OscarFowler Agreed, he sounds like a pretty average guy who lucked into a good job but took it to mean he was the smartest bestest person.
How was he brilliant?
You sound exactly like a Christian Parent talking about their atheist son lol.
Oh no. Poor poor you. Somebody isn't following your religion.
I mean, his incel ways were leaking through very early. He was never writing women in any way connected to reality, even back in the 90s.
Well, you clearly don't know what "incel" means so I highly doubt you know what an average woman is like...
I read the Dilbert Principle early as well; I think that, even today, the one thing in it that reads true is that you only need to be a BIT smarter than the next smartest person to be considered a "genius" in corporate settings.
I can empathize trying to mispronounce something only to counter fuck it up and get it right
"There's no point in arguing with children or women."
(goes on the internet to argue with women)
They were actually male to female transsexuals...
Oh, I'd forgotten the news app thing. That was a particularly ghoulish moment.
And yeah... the Dilbert's head house is tragically not a joke.
From the Calvin and Hobbes strips I've seen, I think a Calvin & Hobbes-brand mace (as in the medieval weapon) would be very appropriately branded...
40:14 shout-out to Home Movies! What an amazing show. Boosted the careers of some people whose work I'm very grateful for.
Franz Kafka!!!
@@whackedoutpoobrain He'll smite you with metaphor fists... writing all he can... he's just a man -- a warrior of words taking a stand!
I would have loved you two to talk about the final episode of the cartoon, it was what first made me go "wait...what is going on with scott adams?" and when I looked it up whoo boy, there went some more 90s nostalgia right out the window.
The series finale has Dilbert getting impregnated by a space probe that went off course and crashed through aliens, the turkey baster of semen being used to aritifically inseminate a cow, and other nonsense. Somehow the genetic material coated missle flying straight up his butt knocks him up. And of course, as a result he starts acting like a woman!
And you know what *they're* like, right fellas? Now he's driving badly because he's too busy putting on makeup, getting super emotional and irrational, and whatever other "funny" traits Scott Adams stole from a Hallmark greeting card or 1950's sitcom. And that's the majority of the jokes. It's not about the office, or the characters, or work, or engineering, or Dilbert really. It's just a weird scree about how it's really funny Dilbert is doing all these dumb things that define women.
I thought you were goofing because of Adams‘ mamaXalien paranoia in part 1. But it really went down like that😮😮😮
I read Scott's books when I was like 12. Even then I was like, "This guy's a little odd."
Lost his voice and felt disconnected and ignored?
I wonder if any deaf people sit around and read the subtitles for this, because that is not a unique experience and there is a remedy:
SIGN LANGUAGE!
He's so special he can't even do something millions of people have had to cope with.
Do you always talk to yourself like this?
The fact that he lept into comments around The Feministe with the Hannibal Burress "why are you booing you know I'm right!" Defense is wild
The alt right prey on the isolated. Its quite possible that while he was living as a shut in unable to talk, he just radicalized.
According to you 70% of the world's population is "alt-right".
Scott Adams has always been a moderate conservative.
He's stayed the same since the early 80's but American society has shifted further left and left him behind.
lol ... radicalized
@@andrewmclaughlin2701How else would you describe active racism and fascism?
1:41:00 Enya also walked away! made her album - smash SMASH hit - bought a literal castle and pulled up the drawbridge behind her
The fundamental issue that results in the Peter Principle is that management skills are their own thing, and someone who is good at management is not necessarily good at the job being performed by the people they are managing (or vice versa). The idea that someone who gets elevated enough to a certain position should be competent at a completely different skill set is absolutely mind-boggling. It'd be like if every worker with more than three years of experience as an engineer was suddenly forced to tap dance while working- sure, there are probably engineers who are great tap dancers, but why is that suddenly a part of their job description?
That doesn't make any sense because a mechanical engineer progressing to the top will always need his former practical knowledge in order to make good company decisions.
Here are two examples of different strategies.
Elon Musk is incapable of judging the scientific viability of different projects which is why he has to suffer through so many failures. He relies on his ability to attract investors with enticing promises.
Bill Gates was a prodigious low-level coder, hardware engineer and mathematician. He made some of the earliest commercial traffic counting electronics prior to founding Microsoft where he personally wrote and edited code for all the versions of DOS and the first versions of Windows.
On the other hand, you pick an engineer who isn't that great (but you feel could be a good manager) and promote him over a guy that's been doing a better job at their current position and... how are the people going to feel about that? Or, you bring someone from the outside who has a degree in management and knows 0 stuff about what the engineers are doing (because he studied business and not engineering) and he doesn't understand why implementing a conceptually trivial thing takes so much time (or isn't possible), how significant is a certain risk or bug (because, when finding something that doesn't conform to a given spec, you can focus on it immediately, or you can leave it for the end and focus on more essential things, or drop the feature completely, but someone who doesn't understand the subject matter and just tracks a project according to his spreadsheets, charts and the methodology books he's read will have a hard time guessing right). So, in the end, turning to one of your more senior engineers and asking "Hey... How are your tap dancing skills?!" looks like as reasonable a choice as any other.
@@ocudagledam I don't know about other engineers, but I'm well aware that I shouldn't be promoted to a management position and have NEVER felt any sort of disappointment at being passed over by such a promotion. I don't think you give people enough credit for recognizing the difference between engineering skills and management skills. Especially if this person is going to manage me. I do not want to lose a good peer and gain a bad manager. I want my manager to be good at their job. I leave my ego out of it.
@@ocudagledam The solution here is to train the person in management in the field they're managing, whether that come from working in the trenches for a while or otherwise. They don't have to be as educated or experienced in the field as the people doing the work, but they need to be familiar enough to make informed decisions while also knowing when to defer to the people they're managing.
If a person in the field shows managerial aptitude, you can train and promote that person accordingly.
Of course this isn't a one size fits all and you're going to be able to find exceptions, but by and large this is the ideal solution.
No, promoting someone who is good at their job to a managerial position solely because they're good at their job does not look like as reasonable a choice as any other.
I've been an engineering assistant for a very long time now, and I've seen a lot of engineers get promoted. Some of these have been good, bad or questionable. Then, there's the lateral promotion where you give someone a fancy title and a job where they won't be too detrimental, generally because they're connected but horrible with people. Yes, you want an engineer with managerial experience to manage engineers because they need to understand what they're managing and how their game really works.
However, they do not have to be the best engineers: They have to be really good people persons and smart enough that their direct reports don't resent them. Lots of people with ego and ambition will be unhappy about getting passed over for promotions and might leave the company, but everyone appreciates a good boss. Someone who motivates them and manages them , their workflow, and their egos if need be, all while managing corporate or client politics and going to bat for their team when need be. That's a tough skillset and you don't often know who really has it in them until they're in that position.
Also, people like to mentor and promote people that remind them of their younger selves so bad promotions can have more knock-on effects than just a bad manager ruining morale and productivity. It seems like the people who most want to move up and get the most upset about being passed over, really aren't the people for the job.
There are alternatives for communicating. My guess is he wasn’t interested in anything but using his own voice in the familiar way. But for anyone else, there are alternatives. There is one you hold to your throat to give you a voice. There are also very sophisticated ones you can use to talk. Especially for anyone who keeps their motor control.
We should absolutely tax people like him to pay for this technology and make it better for everyone who needs it.
That Avatar/Delivery-boy talk sounds like someone trying to talk like they’re in Wonderland.
When I first encountered Scott Adams writing about affirmations, it seemed to me like he was saying "this was a really good technique for keeping my eyes on the prize. Also, I got lucky and I feel like that might be related to the affirmations and I'm still working through my feelings about that and how it interacts with my identity as an atheist." It seemed to me like someone that was willing to ignore all of his woo could have probably gotten a pretty good technique for keeping focused on a medium-term life goal. In retrospect, it's clear that he did believe he'd stumbled upon a supernatural secret reality hack and was just being coy about it out of embarrassment. Alas.
EDIT: Also, Adams' anti-reporter Thing is definitely rooted in the 80s-90s archetype (was it real? was it made up? IDK) of the Gross Invasive paparazzo stalking celebrities for nude photos and/or sex tapes.
EDIT 2: I've never read God's Debris, but the *idea* of the book, from what I've heard, is a pretty interesing one: "god" sunders itself into particles in order to create the universe and all of subsequent history is just the slow march of matter re-approximating god by assembling itself into ever-more-intelligent configurations. The problem is that it's a great idea for a pamphlet that Makes You Think or a new religion or something--I think even a good writer wouldn't be able to get a good novel out of it.
It is a somewhat intriguing concept, _but_ I assume the "more intelligent configurations" part just turns out to be another one of Scott's self-insert characters. Which destroys any and all interest I would have in seeing that concept expanded upon.
This one was great. I had friends with the Dilbert books from around age 11 on, and we'd always sort of assumed a perspective more left or critical of capitalism and conformity in them. I didn't really notice this wasn't the case until it became known around 2008 that Scott was a ranty internet weirdo with questionable opinions. I have a friend who had a thing for getting into arguments with him on Metafilter, haha.
And I can relate to the interest Robert has here, because I always felt really stupid and sort of duped for enjoying the Dilbert TV show and assuming Scott was less of a weird, angry moron than he actually is. I mean, that's a kind of disillusionment we all have with a lot of background stuff from our childhoods, you know? And comparing the example to Bill Watterson makes this really clear, how jarring this realization can be for nerdy cartoon kids like me or Robert.
I gotta say, though, this really humanized Scott Adams for me. Rather than just relishing my mockery of the guy, he just seems so small and sad to me now. It makes his bigotry and racism wayyyy more uncomfortable, because it's easy to see how a lot of us or people we love could be similar to him. He used to just make me laugh in confusion and anger, but hearing it all together just made him very, very sad to me.
I don't know that I feel sorry for him, but I could, I guess. I just want to try to be a better person rather than hate on him, but I still do.
Or maybe you're a brainwashed fool who's a member of cult that is shunning somebody because of wrongthink?
Your Attitude is identical to the way Mormons shun members who don't attend church enough.
It's interesting how everyone suddenly condemns Scott Adams for being evil without giving a single specific example.
*Very* well-put. I agree, and feel the same. I suppose I do feel a *little* sorry for him.
@mattgilbert7347 I mean, yeah, I do feel sorry for his bereavement and trauma from illness, that's really sad. I genuinely don't wish that on him or really anyone
@@j.peterson7293 No you don't lol...
Your crocodile tears are obvious especially after the earlier tripe you wrote.
@@BumboLooks So, then what's your point in arguing with me? Defending an unhinged racist?
Oh, Christ. I saw your other comments. Leave me alone and seek help.
I remember when the dilvert site went down, poked a look at the blog and... pulling back the curtain was just... a wow moment. I could go check to see where the comic is now, but... hearing what it is, I aint gonna touch it.
One place I worked at there were several Dilbert books in the boss's office. One day we got a new fax machine I got the bright idea of putting the purple marker fax sign above the document shredder. Everybody loved it, except apparently the boss who remains silent because he didn't get it. Several years later our office was being inspected by corporate and he wanted that sign torn down and he still didn't get it. He also didn't get why people were laughing about him wanting the sign torn down even though they did tear it down. Apparently he did Google it at some point because the next time that sign got put up it was torn down within a matter of minutes by him.
I don't know if it is just the way you tell the story, but I am completely baffled by this, what is the joke?
Is the joke just that you put a sign saying "fax" over the shredder?
...Because if so you put in this weird extra context about "purple marker" and googling for an answer that feels like a reference to something deeper than a simple "might as well put faxes straight into the shredder" joke.
Imagine writing a book about a global war between religions and naming your cool atheist character after a Hindu religious concept.
I hope Scott Adams finds your podcast episodes covering him. It's going to make his head explode, maybe even literally. I bet he's going to devote so much of his time, energy, and attention into just attacking you guys, as proven by his past behavior *_WHICH IS GOING TO BE SO ENTERTAINING AND HILARIOUS._* 😆 More power to you guys, this is great work.
If you read through the comments, he likely already is
On the book 'How to win friends and Influence people' I have another name for the book. It's 'Don't be an a**hole'. It's a great book. When one of my boys was entering his teen years and was becoming a constant troll, I used the book as a way to dampen his trolling. If he crossed a line, we would sit down for 30 minutes and read more of the book together. I view it as a success that we did not finish the book.
I'm not sure how to fully articulate this but Scotty boy reminds me a startling amount of Onision. Particularly when they were children.
I remember reading Dilbert in the 90s. It was good at skewering office follies which we could all, management and line alike, recognize and laugh at our shared experience of the nonsense that was cubicle-dwelling.
Thing is .. even in the 90s as a twenty something, it struck me that the author had no respect for anyone but himself. There's a sneering contempt at all the other characters which is never far from the surface. It was pretty clear, even then, he thought of himself as the smartest person in the room and everyone else was a dunce. It was ... off-putting.
So the main character is a self-insert? That's what you're saying?
@@BumboLooks I would describe Dogbert, Ratbert, and Dilbert -- all the "berts" -- as being reflections of different aspect of Scotts personality while the PHB, Alice, Wally, all reflect coworkers he came into contact with.
@@brianpendell6085 I mean none of the berts are perfect characters. They aren't Mary Sues. Dilbert basically admits to not having any artistic sense when it comes to high art. But I 100% agree that there is a "I'm more logical than you so I'm better" slightly autistic insensitive vibe to it.
To be fair many Engineers and programmers have that personality trait even though they are nice good people.
That makes the comic more real for me.
I remember trying to read God's Debris in high school. I think I knew about it because I would read Dilbert online and one day Scott was like "I wrote a thing, here it for free." Made absolutely zero sense to me and having known nothing else about the guy apart from his comics, I wasn't sure what to think. Thank you for finally providing me context for this.
Some of the funniest Garfield parody were the one where the strip was faithfully redrawn, except Garfield himself, including dialogue is erased
The conversation between 'The Old Man' and the delivery boy sounds like all the trolling I've seen on some web forums mostly populated by college-aged kids and one of 'em happens to be in pre-law and they make an absolute nuisance of themselves getting into arguments and twisting up everything with their newfound rhetorical skills building unassailable fortresses of simple logic around subjects of obvious bullshit until you realize the only winning move is not to play.
YES THERE IS AN ACTUAL BOOK LITERALLY JUST FULL OF NAMES OH MY GOD SCOTT
Man, as someone who quite liked the Dilbert TV series, those incidental music stings still haunt me.
I read God's Debris in middle school. Absolutely bizarre read, even without familiarity with his other work.
Lol...as you were saying that you can Google "how the Holocaust death toll was calculated" I was literally in the middle of typing that into a Google search.
And yes, the page you mentioned was the top search result.
Well as you should know...
1) "There is no single wartime document that contains the estimates of Jewish deaths."
2) "The death toll was calculated by subtracting the 1970 European Jewish population from the 1942 European Jewish population without taking into account any of the mass migrations to Allied countries prior to and after the Holocaust"
"you don't argue with women, in the same way you don't argue with children or the disabled"
...proceeds to argue with everyone online over his blog posts. 😂
I bought one of those micro-TVs from Radio Shack just so I could watch the animated Dilbert show. It had some pretty good hits, like the one where people "downsized" by shrinking themselves
"when an idiot and a genius disagree, the idiot usually thinks the genius is wrong"
yeah... that's kind of how disagreeing works...
The whole thing with the voice problem makes me see a parallel with RFK Jr.
Thank god Jim Davis is still a good person.
I mean, I've never been a fan of Garfield, and I'm not to crazy about even more consumerism. But I respect that Davis seems to be very up front and honest about his comic and his goals. I'm personally much more of Watterson guy. Oh god . . . please tell me Watterson wasn't secretly awful! XD
Maybe the speech loss, the lashing out, and the dyscontrol of his previously hidden thoughts all trace to the same neurological disorder.
"Anyone that doesn't support Stalin is mentally ill."
Man I can’t believe I just watched both episodes about Scott fucking Adams of all people, but this was incredibly informative, funny, and a great deep dive.
Scott probably got old the old "you are sadly not what we are looking for in the moment" when being fired during a financial crisis and immediately went "ah yes they must mean because I am white"
I for one approve of your endorsement of Home Movies 👍 (then again might be biased because I have an icon from co-creator Brendon Small’s other show but I digress)
Homeboy fought in Rojava too?! Too awesome, Robert. Gonna look for that book.
Suddenly his comment in the christopher colombus ep where he said he wished he could go back in time with a mask and give the taino people a Kalashnikov to shoot the invaders because “it’s ridiculously easy to kill europeans with it.” Makes a lot more sense.
Oh my God that novel sounds like atheist Left Behind
dude I love Randy's laugh it's so wholesome
It’s a nice counterpoint to Robert’s Joker laugh
I read the Dilbert Principle as an eleven year old. Crazy times
About the same lol I most has been a bit older, like 14 years old. I think my parent trashed the book.
I also read it when I was 11.
What’s nuts is that Dilbert guy himself talks early on about not complaining about stuff if you’re rich - that complaining belongs to people who aren’t making bank, and people with money should just cash their checks and be happy that all they owe their lower-paid whiny fellow humans is tolerance of their complaining. Not a good attitude, but healthier than the one he has now!
What's wrong with his attitude now?
@@BumboLooks there's a couple of episodes of this podcast you could check out that might answer your question.
@@dragonslayerx14x Or you could just tell me what you think. I actually know what it is. It isn't that complicated lol.
Before watching this episode I predicted the reaction.
Very strange since Scott has always been this way. Since the 80's. Literally no "attitude" change.
@@BumboLooks The attitude may not have changed but his views in his comic were very anti upper management and wealthy and pro worker. It's odd that his later views seem to be the opposite of that.
@@uberculex They aren't though...
This comment section is nuts lol.
Really glad I wasn't the only ten year old bored enough to read the dilbert principle lmao, think I read it in an Austin library.
I live with spasmodic dysphonia. Yeah, it sucks, and communication and just general chit chat is a massive hurdle, but lashing out at others is kinda pathetic