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captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

The non dilbert books spoke to me as an edgy teen who was smarter than most people and dumber than she thought. As an adult though I look back and think about the sheer lack of wisdom and introspection it must take to write such things as a grown adult. He died as he lived, as wise as a 16 year old and angry that everyone else didn’t see the light of his brilliance that he so vividly hallucinated. And I think that is how he fell down the right wing rabbit hole, he lacked the self awareness to see through his biases and was deeply drawn to a certain type of men who are overconfident assholes.

But yeah I liked dilbert as a kid too

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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I will take this opportunity to recommend a podcast ep about him from the QAA podcast:

soundcloud.com/…/episode-43-scott-adams

I hope I found the right ep. The ep number is so low that it makes me wonder if the one I wanted was a later ep? Too many total to go through and verify.)

And Behind the Bastards:

Part 1, Part 2

He became pretty unhinged later in life. He put some bizarre content into the world.

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nonfuinoncuro@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
i liked god’s debris but yeah i think if i read it now 20 years later may be a little cringy

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- captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  And it’s fair, it’s ok to like cringy novels so long as they aren’t Ayn Rand. /hj But yeah, I totally get how an edgy atheist novel would appeal ro people in the 00s. Adams was really good, especially early on, at making people feel like they were one of the only smart people in a world of idiots. It’s just that when you embrace that feeling too hard you open yourself up to becoming a nutjob crank who believes everything they think, which is what he did.
  
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