Scott Adams Lambasted For Oddball, Retrograde Views

Here's the reply piece that's been making the rounds devoted to endlessly discussing expressed views to which I have access, having had it placed under my nose three times. Here's the original opinion piece, which at its most humorous but still resolutely baffling/upsetting suggests Western countries apply a reverse Lysistrata and hump the desire to terrorize out of any young men who self-select to serve as foot soldiers in that particular war.

I suspect this kind of thing is mostly a cultural outcome driven by the Internet. I'm not sure its point or where it ends, but I know that I get about two or three e-mails a month pointing at someone expressing what I in almost every case agree is a dumb point about some political or cultural issue, along with an implied nudge that something must be done. Other than going "gross," I'm usually not sure what that is. Certainly if your enjoyment of Scott Adams or his work is in some way dependent on his agreeing with you, or perhaps simply displaying some sort of baseline common sense in cultural critiques like the creepy headscratcher linked-to above, you are likely out on Adams' comics work. I'm not sure that's significant, but it's new. I guess Adams' writing could call into question the quality of the satire Dilbert has given us, although it would seem to be much easier just to read and interact with the text. Given that confusion, I have to wonder if what's really at stake is nothing at all, and that being made fun of on the Internet is what you get for posting stuff on the Internet eminently worth mocking.
 
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