Scott Adams: A Cautionary Tale
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kimberlysteeleScott Adams is a D-list celebrity best known for being the creator of the Dilbert comic strip. The heyday of Dilbert spanned the 80s and 90s, which also happened to be the height of the corporate office downsizing culture it satirized. The show's peak was the Dilbert TV show, which lasted two years and won an Emmy before it was cancelled. Since Dilbert's cancellation, Scott Adams has made various attempts at becoming an influencer. His latest schtick is to rant on video about various politicized subjects. His audience is primarily made up of dissatisfied and impressionable young men on Locals.com, Rumble, and Bitchute.
Scott Adams is one of the lucky few Professional Managerial Class (PMC) who escaped corporate engineer purgatory via his own creativity. Like many PMC, status is the sword by which he lives and dies, and he is one of those insufferable boors who cannot stop talking about all he has achieved, never once having the suspicion that a good portion of it may have come from luck. As I have talked about in many an essay, the PMC's push to hang on to unearned wealth, perks, and privileges is the reason why we have quaxx mandates. Its desperate, clutching egregore is behind the mass formation psychosis that drove the quaxx. In every corner of the world except parts of Africa, Haiti, and Amish-controlled Pennsylvania, the upper echelon of society decided it was better to prop up Pharmakeia for a few more decades than to look reality in its bloodshot eye and accept lower standards of living for the foreseeable future. This is nothing new; the world's civilizations have been kicking the Peak Oil can down the road since at least the1970s. Quaxxing is most prevalent wherever there is shame connected to poverty and wherever the urge to be atheist-progressive PMC is strongest, such as Australia, Israel, and Canada. On a smaller scale, I have noticed from my personal life that people who are the most attached to social status (no matter what their actual monetary status) are by far the most likely to quaxx and become arrogant about it. Around here in my northern Illinois suburb, the worst of the quaxx-enforcers were the people running the Holocaust Museum, the DuPage Children's Museum, and the many overblown, multi-million dollar hospital complexes that represent 40% of what remains of the economy these days. It is no coincidence that all of these places are frequented by the Good People who see their own labors as righteous while they seldom interact in any genuine way with the lower classes who vacuum their floors and put food in the store for them to buy.
Remove the veils of propaganda and Covid-19 is and always was a class war. The people who were not afraid to live on the wrong side of the tracks -- the homebirthers, homeschoolers, homesteaders, machine welders, truck drivers, and others who have no interest in working in Dilbert's office for any longer than necessary -- led the charge against the whopping majority who donated their bodies to the quaxx like meat cows to the captive bolt. The people I feel the most sorry for are the ones who were pushed, coerced, and tricked into taking the quaxx and who eventually succumbed despite knowing better. The rest of them are unfortunately complicit, because without their unquestioning and credulous order-following, the pressure to quaxx the unwilling could have never existed in the first place.
Scott Adams published a rant a few weeks ago against the quaxx, allegedly claiming to be quaxx-injured. True to OG 1980s-era toxic masculine form, his obsessive focus in the rant was that he had "lost" and the unvaxxed had "won" because he was suffering symptoms that are extremely common among the Pfizer'd, Johnson'd, and Moderna'd these days.
We Did Not Want To Be Right
Though it would have been just as easy for the majority of commenters to troll Adams with I TOLD YOU SO, most commenters were extraordinarily graceful despite having suffered devastating and horrific loss of family, friends, and property because of the gullibility of the original wave that got the quaxx into a large number of arms, lungs, brains, hearts, testes, and ovaries. Here are a few examples:
As you can see, the overwhelming sentiment is that we did not want to win, we did not want to be right, and we all have loved ones for whom we are extremely worried because they succumbed to a shot that is now publicly exposed as toxic, dangerous, and potentially life-ending. Despite mountains of evidence, there are still people trying to shame the unvaxxed for speaking openly about what is going on. Heaven forbid we mention the demonic hypothesis -- we are not allowed to do that for fear of reviving the mouldering corpse of ghettoization and pogroms. Yet it is the unvaxxed who have been treated the most similarly to Jews in the WWII era, and Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav has made a five part documentary explaining the parallels.
Bitter Truth Pills
I was right about the harmlessness of the Covid virus. I figured it out two weeks after we were allegedly flattening the curve and I was dismayed that so many preferred obvious fearmongering to what they could see in front of their physical, non-electronic eyes: empty hospitals and dancing doctors. If the quaxxed need to worry about anybody being right, it is Luc Montagnier, the scientist who discovered HIV who warned about the quaxx from the beginning.
To this day, we have quaxxed 20-something year old kids catching flus and mysteriously watching their legs blacken and rot off. In the meantime, smiling doctors and nurses gaslight them to believe it was epic coincidence that their expensive amputations and prosthetics just happen to be the result of a garden variety flu bug and not the experimental inoculation. I did not want to be right about the hideous depravity of these modern day Mengeles. I did not want to be right about a bunch of dead babies, orphaned children, and maimed young people who will soon stay young forever because they are a few years at best from death.
When comedian Amy MacDonald toppled onstage after sarcastically claiming Jesus loved her best, I suppose it felt good for a handful of fundie Christians who spend their time gloating about how holy they are and who saw the quaxx as the Mark. I think the majority of Christians just found it sad. Like me, I think they saw their own arrogance and ignorance reflected in MacDonald's posturing: let he who has not sinned cast the first stone. Have I not been just as arrogant and ignorant as poor Amy in my life? Of course I have -- I can be a real ass when I want to be. Haven't I been duped and misled because of my arrogance? The answer is a whopping and resounding YES, sing it to the rafters. A few minor changes in my earlier life and I would have been one of the potentially arrogant quaxxed, or worse yet, quaxx-injured. I don't see myself as any better than someone who chose the MRNA vaccines. Pastor Marva Peschier of Trinidad and Tobago made a viral video after losing her son to the quaxx and was confronted by creepy officials who wanted her to put the cat back in the bag. Despite being sure the vaccine killed her beloved son, she urged watchers to leave judgement up to God.
Scott Adams: The Unvaxxed Won. Or Did They?
Back to Scott Adams. Not long ago, he began making noises about his "I lost, the unvaxxed won" mea culpa being a prank. You heard me right: a prank. Whether he intended to discredit his vaccine injury story or not, he has now shown himself to be a fraudster and a sociopath. In a hilarious and pathetic bid for more subscribers on Locals, he urged readers to get the real story by buying subscriptions to his account. Though Adams tried to keep his utterances Louis XIV-vague, the hidden statement he made was clear to anyone who has a semi-working knowledge of attention whores/narcissists. Adams is an Aesop's fable. He's the little boy who cried Wolf. We cannot be sure at this point Adams is MRNA vaccine injured at all, so it is inevitable that his karma is to have any real injury or pain that follows dismissed summarily as a joke. Unfortunately, Adam's arrogance undermines the legitimacy of any other people who have been affected by vaccine injury as it causes the average person not to trust them. I urge my readers not to allow Adam's wolf-crying to color your opinion of vaccine-injured who may truly need your help and sympathy.
Adams reminds me of a certain clique of popular boys I knew in high school. They loved their tech and diversions and would do anything to avoid hands-on labor or common courtesy. They were allergic to honesty, modesty, and responsibility. They loved to see how far they could game human sympathy. Every kind of human suffering was a funny joke to them except their own; their main entertainment was to be cruel to anyone who gave them the time of day. Adams is the clique member who never grew up. I am confident that if the clique had any success, every one of these guys either became Dilbert or his evil boss, just as Adams has become the bald version of the black hair-horned evil boss he once parodied.
How To Slay a Vampire
Scott Adams is cursed, and I take no credit for the job because I don't do that anymore. Adams is an attention vampire who thinks that he can manipulate the masses via psychological games in order to win the game of life, therefore he has already cursed himself more than any other human this Earth could curse him. (Spoiler alert: we all die, so nobody wins the game of life. We are all losers here!) Attention vampires are common, boring, and banal. In the near future, I ignore Scott Adams and I suggest you do the same. Treating the Scott Adamses of the world as if they do not matter enrages them and deprives them of their energy sources. Leave Scott Adams to his small army of boring yet hysterical incel sycophants -- they are just as bad as their purported leftist foes when it comes to destroying each other in a circular firing squad.
I am glad the Covid debacle happened in 2020 and not 2010 or 2000 in my case, because before I gave up hexing and cursing, I was quite good at it and I imagine I would have been able to personally score a great deal of damage against people who I both disliked and got the quaxx. Back then, I used to ignore the collateral damage to my own life, which was much unhappier and fraught with drama. Hexing and cursing does not work. The only thing that does is ignoring our own desires to worsen the lives of those who have worsened ours and build on the good we already have in place. With that in mind, I am off to go do musical things.
Caution
Date: 2023-02-07 06:47 am (UTC)This year I’m not using a subscription site, formerly a one-off purchase that allowed me to just file the poo and walk away.
Nope.
Now it looks like I’m only gonna be getting all the info on my permanent record.
The nuns warned me about this.
My poor accountant! He’s gonna deal with my backwardness.
Next thing you know, I’ll be taking the train cross country to go to my 50th high school reunion in, of all places, West Virginia!
Life is full, crazy, and wonderful.
Annette
Re: Caution
Date: 2023-02-07 11:42 pm (UTC)Re: Caution
Date: 2023-02-08 03:54 am (UTC)Annette
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Date: 2023-02-07 06:32 pm (UTC)Just to give an example of the sort of thing you are discussing in this post, my friend who is now a virtual assistant told me that in the course of looking for jobs in the world of corporate offices, she encountered one firm in Dallas where she was told a member of their staff was terminated for wearing the same outfit twice within a thirty-day period. If that isn't the mark of a faux-aristocracy riding for a fall, then I don't know what would be!
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Date: 2023-02-07 11:47 pm (UTC)I know I dodged a bullet -- I seriously considered getting my degree to teach in the public schools in my early 30s. Yeesh. The public schools are the ABSOLUTE WORST for PMC hysteria, and the closer to Chicago you get, the worse it gets. It was the Chicago Teachers Union that equated reopening the schools 2 years after the Covid debacle as "racism" and "sexism" in a tweet they later deleted. Teacher unions in the suburbs are similarly batcrap crazy.
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Date: 2023-02-08 12:01 pm (UTC)IKR? It's like "if Stephanie Vanderkellen from the Newhart show ran a company".
Another type likely to be arrogant about being vaxxed aside from vain and vacuous PMC office-fauna are those who are over-invested in the Myth of Everlasting Progress to the point where the failure of Everlasting Progress to fulfill its promises has resulted in a severe neurosis. These people are frequently hard-lefty types with a very intellectual orientation. I'm only pointing this out because it's so odd that these people would end up having an intersection with the vacuous office-fauna who are more preoccupied with what clothes people are wearing on any given day than actually being useful and helpful to society as a whole.
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Date: 2023-02-08 08:03 pm (UTC)Mr. Crow
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Date: 2023-02-09 02:48 pm (UTC)This was also the only job I ever walked off from before training was even finished, because I would not do a job where enforcing how often people got new shoes was part of it in any form.
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Date: 2023-02-07 09:47 pm (UTC)So when you look at him, you're looking at a representation of the way they think and behave. Still feel like staying on Facebook?
I stopped paying attention to him when he came out supporting the injectables but then again I stopped paying attention to Ran Prieur too and much for the same reason. I had no idea he had flipped back and forth like a fish. Not a good look. Guess I keep not paying attention to him then.
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Date: 2023-02-07 09:49 pm (UTC)I actually used to kind of like Dilbert (probably because my dad was an old-school engineer), and I vaguely remember the TV show - I just looked it up, and it ran from 1999 to 2000, which means Adams' career highlight was now over 23 years ago.
I was surprised that Dilbert was still going, and re-discovered it online about a year ago, when Adams had presumably seen which way the wind was turning with his downwardly-mobile, yet aspirational auduence of angry young men and the strips were accordingly on an anti-woke, anti-pharma crusade at the time. I read them for a little while, until they got pretty samey/dull.
Following reading your essay though, I went on his twitter, and right at the top is this:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1STaVTo0wHzGVnhQj_02q63GkzdTu2TavM-qTfQpI_60/mobilebasic
It's essentially him trying to claw back some lost face by claiming he was never pro-vax (despite this easily-findable strip being to the contrary: https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-02-05 and an associated, but less easily-findable tweet which said something along the lines of "to the unvaccinated, there's a deadly disease all around you, to the vaccinated, it's Tuesday") but was instead "pro-freedom" (which he was willing to become a lab rat to obtain at governmental discretion? That's... not freedom) and he then references an unflattering Ben Garrison cartoon, which due to the Streisand effect, I had to go and find: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fe9FnBzX0AA9N0Z?format=jpg&name=large
So yeah, a weasel turncoat grifter in other words.
If I had to guess, Adams was paid off by someone or other fairly on in the charade in return for pushing the vax agenda in his comics. Pharma has deep pockets, and they seem to have shoved some money in the direction of anyone with any influence, no matter how minor. Now the failures have become too big to hide, the paid-off rats are trying to run for cover. But as you've stated, 'we', the Unclean Ones, are not coming to get them - we didn't want to be proved right, just left alone to make our own choices unimpeded. The fear the vax pushers feel from the hot breath down their necks is a combination of guilt and dread at the consequences in this life and the next.
A side note: did you know Scott Adams created his own dubious foodstuff? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilberito
Make sure you read down to the "Reception" section!
Mr. Crow
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Date: 2023-02-08 12:48 am (UTC)But like a lot of those ideas, the um, devil, is in the details. My guess is it was a little too healthy. People really don't want to eat healthy food, witness the Baconator, which is still going strong after how many years they've been selling it?
If you think Scott Adams is a slimeball, you should watch Super Size Me 2 and pay attention to all those smarmy people working to find the words to short circuit people into eating unhealthy food. It's not fried - it's crispy.
Although he is cut from that cloth, now that I think about it. He's just not as bad as some others out there. I keep thinking about his character Phil, Prince of Insufficient Light - that's Adams in a nutshell :P
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Date: 2023-02-08 12:56 am (UTC)The cook time was set for 30 minutes instead of 3 minutes in both cases.) The second mistake was allowing Scott Adams to have any say in the creation of the product.
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Date: 2023-02-08 07:24 pm (UTC)I couldn't figure out what is schtick was. Now, after reading all of this, I must say that I'm just going to walk away from him.
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Date: 2023-02-09 03:33 pm (UTC)Having watched the story from the beginning in full context, it was fairly obvious that he was playing a troll on people. That said, it's important to point out that at no point did he ever claim to have been vaxx injured. His ego is trying desperately to prove to the world that "look even though the evidence is in and you guys were right, that doesn't mean you were smarter than me, you just got lucky."
It's even more fascinating looking at this in light of the fact that he spent months convinced he had "long covid" and was claiming he was going to self-delete over it if it persisted for another year, only to discover that all his symptoms were from statins and just getting off those poisons not only resolved all his "long covid" symptoms but ended up forcing him to make the life style changes to lower his blood pressure naturally.
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Date: 2023-02-09 07:08 pm (UTC)Ugh, who does that? Mining belly button lint and posting photos of it on Instagram would be a far more constructive pastime. Essentially he gets off on baiting and tricking people. Eewww.
Speakeasies
Date: 2023-02-12 06:07 pm (UTC)I saw this and immediately thought of you!
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-speakeasy-world-of-covid-lockdowns/
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Date: 2023-02-27 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-27 10:45 am (UTC)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/dilbert-cancelled-comics-scott-adams-b2289775.html
In what world did he think this would be a good idea?
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Date: 2023-02-27 04:45 pm (UTC)