Re: OT: Dogbert's New Ruling Class Newsletter, April, 2005

Kryten wrote:

"Scott Stephens" <scottxs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

Kryten wrote:

Art is an expression of world-view, conceptual frame-work, sense-of-life. Art sends a message.

Most well adjusted individuals just take it as a simple amusing cartoon to make them smile or laugh. Really - people buy his work to make them happy. 

Ok,

It does highlight and mock stupidity.

More than stupidity, it mocks individualism and creativity.

Here, I'm thinking more of th DNRC newsletter. And he has written a book too. Containing some nihilist, atheist and socialist themes.

Dilbert is a nice intelligent guy who is honest, hardworking, creative, and technically savvy. He's the one most of the audience identify with. 

Even principled, valued idealist.

The cartoon doesn't mock him, in fact he stands by his own standards of good behaviour despite being surrounded by less decent people.

It mocks incompetent bosses who pay more attention to playing the boss than to understanding the product they sell. It mocks staff who avoid work (Wally).

In the TV series, Dilbert consistently ends up the looser, a victim of his morality. This is a very common post-modern nihilist theme.

What was it that made planets "unstable"?

The movie never said. It's just a movie plot device, to provide a reason for a bunch of guys to be stuck in a tiny spaceship in the middle of nowhere for ages.

Not the first sci-fi to feature nihilistic militant aliens. 


It only featured one alien that they had picked up as a pet.
It was so low budget it was no more than a beach ball.

Maybe it was nihilistic and militant, but it seemed more like a dumb dog.

In Dark Star, it is humanity that is the nihilistic militant race trying to sterilize alien worlds before the evolve to a point where they can sterilize the Earth.

You're paranoid.

If I am, it still doesn't prove their all not out to get me!


Right. Maybe you are the centre of an entire universe is totally focused on pissing you off.

Very little of what I rant about is original. I deliberately try hard to not quote my favorite patriots, philosophers and artists.

maybe you're just born without a sense of humour
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Maybe you just can't take a humorous post for what it is, a joke.

More likely than not, Adams isn't part of some conspiracy to degrade and destroy civilization. He is an artist expressing his experience. What I am observing is his experience is rooted in cultural sickness and stupidity, which I find too tragic and pathetic to enjoy.

Egomaniacal fascists contrast altruistic nihilists like Adams. Ayn Rands egoism is a bit more tame and civilized, but it was inspired by Nietzsche, so he should get the credit.


Ayn Rands' writing is so head-up-its-ass that it was ridiculed on South Park.
Officer Barbrady learned to read, read "Atlas Shrugged", and declared it such a piece of *** he vowed never to read another book again.

Or are you going to tell us that this cartoon is full of evil messages to turn us into child-buggering commie bastards?

Now that is a truly rational argument; a depraved cartoon ridicules a book considered by many (forgive my resort to authority and social-proof) as being one of the most influential and profound of the century, so it must be true.

That is the typical scoffer mentality Scott Adams and South Park use to influence public opinion. Not only them, Bill Maher, Whoopy Goldberg, George Carlin, Al Franken, et. All scoffers that promote communist bull*** by ridicule rather than rational argument.

Really dude, you need to lighten up.

I need to learn how to derisively insult and ridicule mockers and scoffers, rather than wasting logic and rational argument on them.

Scott

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