I haven’t check in with Dibert in a while, but in today’s strip it appears that he has developed quite an internet addiction. Dibert dude, don’t bogart that iPhone.
comic by Scott Adams
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LOL! this one was great! :)
I twittered this earlier today, too…this totally cracked me up!! I only wish this was in color so I could make it into a stylin’ desktop background! (I have no design skills to do it for myself!)
ok, not everyone’s gonna analyze this shit like a cultural theorist with a mission or vengeance like Norman Solomon, but just so ya know…
Back in 97, he laid out pretty clearly why Dilbert’s creator Scott Adams was ” corporate america’s funniest Double Agent” … appealing to 9-5 cubicle slaves and helping transform them into smiling cubicle Zombies. I doubt Adams politics got any better, and he’s still laughing all the way to the bank… along with his corporate co-sponsors like Xerox and every ass-licking corporate newspaper/ biz section that runs him…
excerpt from “Trouble With Dilbert”
“To speak bluntly about power inequities — and to work with others to challenge them — could be truly threatening to corporate poohbahs. In contrast, sarcasm is fine. Dilbert does not suggest that we do much other than roll our eyes, find a suitably acid quip, and continue to smolder while avoiding deeper questions about corporate power in our society.
Huge fortunes keep being made on the fairly safe bet that we will remain anesthetized. Dilbert adjusts — and fortifies — the terms of the numbing, to take into account the undeniable alienation that besets so many workplaces.
Dilbert’s mockery of office workers, couched in pretenses of universality, insists that stupidity and selfishness are central to who we are — and must be. So, readers are encouraged to believe, there’s little need to explore how we ought to be relating to each other in more ideal circumstances that can never really exist.”
Odd, isn’t it, that this post infringing Scott’s copyright on a Dilbert strip comes immediately after a post with a plea to people not to lift others’ photographs and other work? Scott deserves the same respect.
Not odd at all, in fact I always link to the source material and try to give proper attribution, as I did here with Scott Adam’s Dibert comic.