Posted on 06/18/2018 4:02:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“Dilbert” creator Scott Adams told his large following on social media this week that President Trump’s critics are running out of psychological “trap doors” to explain his effectiveness.
One of the first social commentators to predict Mr. Trump’s campaign success says his historic meeting in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is likely to produce large amounts of cognitive dissonance.
“It may be my imagination, but I thought in the last few days online on Twitter that the level of vitriol and insult for Trump supporters and anybody who says anything about him is higher than I’ve seen in awhile,” Mr. Adamssaid Tuesday morning. “Instead of trailing off because good things are happening — you’d expect people to say, ‘oh, OK, I’m not going to criticize the president this month because good thing are happening’ — it went the other way, didn’t it? It — just in the last few days — it looks like it spiked.”
The author of “Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter” said previous demonstrations of cognitive dissonance included blaming Mr. Trump’s 2016 election win on Russian hackers or a larger-than-expected number of racists....
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What they do instead is conjure up some seemingly horrific Trump-inspired evil (the outrage du jour) and make sure NOTHING except that makes the news.
They’re reduced to fake news attacks, e.g., chil’un on the border.
Scott Adams is a very smart man who understands the dysfunction of those who seek power and will do anything to anyone to keep hold of it. His comic strips were not really meant to be funny. They were meant to be informative. They were so spot on that my company forbid them being cut out and posted.
Where I used to work, Dilbert was a documentary.
Thanks for posting this. It’s good stuff on its own, and it reminded me Scott made rare written blog post about a week ago that I had meant to post here, and just did:
Why Democrats Hear a Secret Racist Dog Whistle and Republicans Don’t
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3664243/posts
It’s an excellent analysis of how the Left and Right see Trump and currrent political issues.
Dilbert is a documentary of a wide swath of corporate America.
God bless the resistance! I had my doubts about Trump, a New York billionaire who was used to the art of the deal, but the resistance and the RINO backstabbing has been so fierce that Trump realized early on that he had no choice but to become a Tea Partier for his own survival.
Heck, we used to use Dilbert comics after just about every HR event where I worked. He truly documented the insanity of corporate life.
Where I used to work, Dilbert was a documentary.
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One thing that surprised me was that Adams was in management at Pac Bell.
Back in the day we would send Adams tips and suggestions for Dilbert.
A lot of the stuff in it, most of it probably, was drawn from life.
“His comic strips were not really meant to be funny.”
I think they were—just not merely funny. The humor is definitely rooted in meaningful social commentary.
We had them papering our cubicles. With names changed.
We used to joke that our big bosses got their ideas from the Dilbert calendar, since they were at least three years behind the curve on stupid management trends.
It has been daily reading for so many years.
Wally is the best, the anti-PHB.
I think he wrote me back appreciating one or two I sent many years back.
Wally is my hero!
Discussions of The Office and Dilbert were banned where I worked. Says something about the toxicity of accurate parody. Modern work culture has in many cases so pushed the envelope of the social contract that an honest discussion is forbidden.
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