Most people have not made a career of learning the art of persuasion, and certainly even fewer have studied how to do so using humor in the manner that Scott Adams does. I do not read this as “look at me” so much as his attempt to spread understanding that many do not currently possess.
The ability to debate on the right side has atrophied after so many years of playing frightened rabbit to the left’s acolytes. This article seems to me to be an honest step in the right direction to resurrect the conservative movement’s ability to persuade.
If he had ghost-written this in the voice of Dogbert, it would have been much more of a paean to his own greatness, IMO.
I debated on my post, because I admire him so much. But it’s like he thinks people aren’t going to believe that he’s studied persuasion, so he has to say it over and over again to assert himself. Which would be understandable except that this is coming from the guy who created Dilbert. Scott Adams has blown the world away for decades precisely because he sees so clearly into exactly how people work that he’s made millions roasting them carefully over the fire of his insight, like a perfectly browned marshmallow on a stick over a campfire. So it’s weird he doesn’t recognize that we already believe his skill set.