Dilbert

[Sid Shniad <shniad@xxxxxx>]

I heard the author of Dilbert interviewed on national CBC radio a while
back. The guy's a reactionary individualist whose perspective is a kind
of with it cynicism about anything social (i.e. unions, politics, etc.)

I think that too many people embrace his stuff without reading between the
(fairly prominent) lines.

Sid Shniad

> >
> From: valis <valis@xxxxxxxxxx> >
> > ===> Norman Solomon, reachable at mediabeat@xxxxxxxxxxx, is a writer
> >      dedicated to alerting us about the perverse relationship between
> >      politics and public language, a realm now almost wholly taken up
> >      by the covert combat of spin doctors.  . . .
>
> I like Solomon's work and haven't read his book, but
> from your post it sounds like much ado about nothing.
> I follow Dilbert religiously and never got the impression
> that it was in great part supposed to be about corporate
> downsizing.
>
> Dilbert is funny because it's about the idiocy of
> bureaucratic culture in general and the natural follies
> people who happen to be in a corporate/technical
> environment.  Note that most Dilbert strips could be about
> workers in a public agency, a non-profit, or, for that
> matter, a progressive think tank.
>
> What a colossal waste of time to get diverted by this.
>
> Next we'll have, 'why television cop shows aren't
> revolutionary art.'  Oh wait.  We already did that.
>
> MBS
>
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