the end of Dilbert

[mellowtigger]

The retreat from Scott Adams has begun.

"Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, went on a racist rant this week on his Coffee with Scott Adams online video show, and we will no longer carry his comic strip in The Plain Dealer.
This is not a difficult decision."
- https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/02/we-are-dropping-the-dilbert-comic-strip-because-of-creator-scott-adams-racist-rant-letter-from-the-editor.html

The Daily Beast has links to more details. I'm okay with these consequences. Quick reminder: Scott Adams blocked me on Twitter almost a year ago, thanks to this tweet (archive copy).

It seems a lot of people are coming to the same conclusion. J.K. Rowling, Scott Adams. I wonder which famous creative person will be next to prove that they're not a great example of a human being?

Comments

[scrottie]

An idea I grew up around was that you don't boost people up too far. That just sets them up to fall down. "High on your own supply" seems to be a modern version of that same idea. The Farquaad complex doesn't just happen a lot, it's really really hard to avoid. (Ok, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/high_on_one's_own_supply is backing me up here, but Urban Dictionary isn't, fwiw.)

[mellowtigger]

I've heard that phrase before. It's a much more polite version of "drinking the kool-aid" that conveys a similar message about the dangers of echo chambers on our thinking. The retreat from Dilbert has gone mainstream. Somebody made a sarcastic Dilbert comic to commemorate this event. :)

P.S. Wow. This episode of Robot Chicken aired just a few weeks (2022 Mar 07) before the Uvalde massacre (2022 May 24). That police-Dogbert line is really prophetic. The point of the whole episode was to make fun of Scott Adam's racism.