Posted on 03/06/2023 5:46:02 AM PST by Rummyfan
Once whetted, the appetite of the woke beast is insatiable. But one senses it is nearly sated in its hate feast against Scott Adams.
How do you imagine the woke beast? It is rough, surely, and slouches towards some unprofitable venue, so not Bethlehem.
I think of it as something ravenous but episodic in its appetites, a sort of Polyphemus for hire. It gorges in a destructive frenzy and then retreats to some dank corner to belch and sleep and slobber. The world, appalled by the spectacle of its rampage, instantly begins making excuses for its viciousness—were not its victims somehow to blame? Then forgetfulness spreads its enervating fog and the Zeitgeist enjoins us to put it all behind us because, after all, what difference at this point does it make™?
I thought about the habits of the woke beast this week when the popular cartoonist and social commentator Scott Adams found himself caught in its masticating maw. When it comes to practitioners of his craft and sullen art, few can be more innocuous than Scott Adams. He is best known as the creator of Dilbert, a comic casualty of modern office bureaucracy. Adams also runs a subscription video podcast in which he drinks coffee and comments on current events. It was a 30- or 40-second bit of the latter that awakened the woke beast and set him on his latest rampage.
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SAdams exercised logic: if that, then this; if this, then that over there; now what?
A straightforward scientific inquiry, weighing of facts.
Logic infuriates the commie trash (i.e., anyone espousing any version of collectivism: socialist, DemoSocialist, communism, progressive, etc) since it readily exposes the lies they tell to increase their personal profit and power.
And, that is all these policies are ever about; personal power and profit.
Insatiable beast. Very appropriate description.
There are very few blacks around that don’t hate whitey. As we are all not perfect, if we sinned, those handful of humans would offer forgiveness without ‘indulgences’ required.
Never again can that minority say they cannot be Racist because they have no power. They hate you and mean this as the ‘Big Get Even’.
rough year for adams.
divorce (not that anyone didn’t see that coming, and unhappy hints had been there in public).
what he apparently suspects are vax injuries, non-trivial. he said if didn’t improve by late this year, he might end his life? that might play into what we are seeing as far as mindset.
trying to come to grips that people came to better analysis of risk/reward on vax than he did. he is extremely bitter about this. he has ranted about Garrison’s Illbert cartoon profanely multiple times in the last few months and talked about suing. very odd, it must have nailed him to a T. (when the cartoon came out a year ago, he was much more sedate in reaction, though he did **fact check a parody***, something he has mocked major media outlets for.
now he demolishes his main product’s business model. intentionally? he would have us think so, and it might be true. it certainly can free him to put anything he wants in dilbert now. (notable that dilbert was already being censored or dropped over some recent topics, including Dave and pronouns.)
I feel like we are watching someone self-destruct in real-time, somewhat intentionally. he is quite smart despite everything, so there may be a way he makes this work business-wise.
“They hate you and mean this as the ‘Big Get Even’.”
It’s going to be a terrible wake up call for them when they finally realize this isn’t South Africa, and here the whites both outnumber blacks and own most of the firearms.
We all say and do things everyone doesn't agree with - we are not robots.
His printed humor wasn't offensive - it was funny as all get out.
Lawrence Taylor did bad things off the football field - but I could still enjoy his talent on the field, doesn't mean I approve of drug use or sexual assaults.
Scott dared touch the third rail. One doesn’t speak of the elephant in America’s living room.
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Scott has serious FU money. His statement was very well received by his core audience, many of whom see this as somewhat redeeming him over his Covid “vax” idiocy.
He may well just power on more relevant than before.
I do hope he is able to overcome his vax injuries.
One can speak of it but expect to be shocked or electrocuted or in the case of the elephant crushed.
I'll duck into the nearest store, cross the street, or worse case, I'll dramatically pat my pockets like I forgot something and will turn around and hightail it in the other direction.
Call it racist if you want, I call it self survival.
I got to the age of 60 by staying out of trouble, not walking into it.
All I can say about the genius(?) is he wanted Kamala Harris to be the Democrat nominee. Thought she would be a good President.
He also had some strange ideas of idyllic communal society.
He admired Trumps style of dealing with things but not his policies.
He's a loon. He even looks loony.
he is wealthy, but I believe there are emotional issues manifesting themselves in some of his recent statements/actions.
the rants about garrison really struck me. this is a guy who parodies things often taken from real life for a living, has been wildly successful about it, and cannot let go that someone apparently nailed HIM in a parody?
anecdotally, he is quite thin skinned about criticism in general. his sulk tour the weeks before the comic purge was along those lines.
i have liked dilbert since inception. will see if the artist actually does something constructive with all this.
That’s rich.
Adams took a lame Rasmussen poll designed to stir division and turned it up to 11 just to get attention.
Now he’s the helpless victim.
Scott Adams is 65 years old and has a net worth of around $70 million. Maybe he’s just ready to retire and wanted to go out on his own terms?
HE took the shot??? Hhhmmm...not too bright or informed IMHO
Nothing like a blasphemous article to start the day.
Likewise on liking Dilbert since the beginning. I had IBM as a major client in the early to mid 90s, and later worked for GE. Enough said.
I was an early subscriber to an email publication Scott put out called Dogbert’s New Ruling Class Newsletter. It was just a bunch of funny stuff, and the title was built around the idea that subscribers would be part of Dogbert’s ruling class, and in-duh-viduals who weren’t would be our domestic servants when Dogbert took over the world. All in silly fun.
I think it started in the mid to late 90s. You can probably find archives of it out there, I’m sure they’re around.
illbert was genius.
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