I first read the Dilbert Future in the late 90's and have followed him since ever since the back section of the book talks about affirmations and even back then talked about reality not quite being what it seems.
I think someone who produces a "rise and fall" documentary of him well will produce hours of extremely interesting content.
It's hard to summarise him from that time period but I'll do my best.
Scott Adams is one of the best ways to "open the door" to alternative ways of thinking, but his failure is the next stop of "doing something" with that new knowledge falls a little flat. Any criticism of him I think stems from misusing something that he's created.
It'd be like finding Excalibur and pulling it from a stone, only to use it as a door stop.
I really really think that history will judge him favourably as time goes on as his waffling fence sitting period will fade into history and his initial takes on reality being moldable as humans fundamentally view reality irrationally, the 2 movies on one screen becomes his legacy.
It's probably too early to talk about lessons from his life but I think ultimately his life shows that reality matters. Sure you can bend reality but ultimately it still gets a say.
I'll use his love life as an example, he had a "normal" marriage to "Shelley" initially and divorced a few decades ago, then he delved into the reality bending phase and met and married Christina a smoking hot neuroscientist instagram model. But a Woman like that is one day, inevitably, going to roll over one morning and see through the spell and realise that Scott is just an old, dweeby, effeminate bald nerd and from that moment the marriage was doomed.
Yes you can make yourself a charming man of mystery and make anyone fall in love with you, but at the end of the day, 10's do not marry 3's.
I'm sad he's going, and especially in such a painful way. He's certainly someone that you could benefit from studying quite a bit after he's gone. That's probably the best eulogy you could say about anyone. He definitely made a mark on the world despite not having Children of his own.
Ok I watched the part where he talks about it.
I first read the Dilbert Future in the late 90's and have followed him since ever since the back section of the book talks about affirmations and even back then talked about reality not quite being what it seems.
I think someone who produces a "rise and fall" documentary of him well will produce hours of extremely interesting content.
It's hard to summarise him from that time period but I'll do my best.
Scott Adams is one of the best ways to "open the door" to alternative ways of thinking, but his failure is the next stop of "doing something" with that new knowledge falls a little flat. Any criticism of him I think stems from misusing something that he's created. It'd be like finding Excalibur and pulling it from a stone, only to use it as a door stop.
I really really think that history will judge him favourably as time goes on as his waffling fence sitting period will fade into history and his initial takes on reality being moldable as humans fundamentally view reality irrationally, the 2 movies on one screen becomes his legacy.
It's probably too early to talk about lessons from his life but I think ultimately his life shows that reality matters. Sure you can bend reality but ultimately it still gets a say. I'll use his love life as an example, he had a "normal" marriage to "Shelley" initially and divorced a few decades ago, then he delved into the reality bending phase and met and married Christina a smoking hot neuroscientist instagram model. But a Woman like that is one day, inevitably, going to roll over one morning and see through the spell and realise that Scott is just an old, dweeby, effeminate bald nerd and from that moment the marriage was doomed.
Yes you can make yourself a charming man of mystery and make anyone fall in love with you, but at the end of the day, 10's do not marry 3's.
I'm sad he's going, and especially in such a painful way. He's certainly someone that you could benefit from studying quite a bit after he's gone. That's probably the best eulogy you could say about anyone. He definitely made a mark on the world despite not having Children of his own.