"If God was so smart why do you fart?" Yeah, that's totally the kind of thing that Scott Adams would think is so profound that it would destroy religion like that tracks.

@cybercop0083

2 ай бұрын

Well, if he just thought of it, it must be novel.

It would have been SO easy for Scott to just write that the "Christian Coalition" in charge of NATO just expelled Turkey from the alliance for being Muslim. But I guess research is haaaard

The Scott Adams episode got me into this show so I am ready for this.

@Xonlic14

8 ай бұрын

Same

@Heckin238

8 ай бұрын

Also same.

@marocat4749

8 ай бұрын

Same. The dilbert guy is really fascinating.

@jordanharper5795

8 ай бұрын

That's awesome lol

@russelljackson2818

8 ай бұрын

First one I heard too!

"The smartest man in the world [does some bullshit]..." Okay, Scott, _clearly_ a self-insert.

I just picture Adams writing this and being like: "I know! I'll base the main character off myself, then call him the Avatar. And when everybody thinks he's the coolest, smartest person ever, they'll ask me where my inspiration for him came from and I'll say Inspiration? I didn't need inspiration. That man is me."

My impression from these Scott Adams episodes is that Scott is so hung up on his self-conception as a smart guy, that he assumes that if he doesn't know something, no one else does either.

@hiding_my_name

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, this is the problem with Americans. They think if they make a ton of money in one industry, then they are smarter than us pleebs. The problem is that being a cartoonist doesn't make you qualified to be anything else.

@YanPagh

8 ай бұрын

Classical economist ugly nerd conundrum.

@ericarn

8 ай бұрын

@@hiding_my_nameI think it’s a problem with rich people in general, not only Americans…

@hiding_my_name

8 ай бұрын

@@ericarn it's possible. I'm only qualified to talk about Americans.

@ericarn

8 ай бұрын

@@hiding_my_nameFair enough!

Scott not knowing that different sects of Islam exist sounds totally in character for him.

I am sitting down with a nice big dilburrito just to listen to this

@miguelvelez7221

8 ай бұрын

Do you have a good supply of paper towels? That's right... We're beyond flushable wipes here.

Going directly from reading Dubliners to listening to this was painful whiplash and I'm having a great time

Scott's Smartest Man in the World bit reeks of a guy who just talks and talks, thinking he's dispensing wisdom that his counterpart can barely handle, but he's missing that the glazed look in his counterpart's eyes isn't their mind being blown by all this smart, it's that they've checked out completely and realized they don't need to listen anymore.

I think scott adams saw his kids watching avatar: the last airbender and decided to remix it as badly as he could

That torture scene seems really counterintuitive to me, and pretty telling of Adams' misunderstanding of "persuasion." So you've got this torturer who seems to be a violent psychopath (which is reductive, but so is his characterization), and the Avatar does his cold reading thing and Sherlock Holmses his way into convincing the guy that he's a mind reader. At this point seems to me that torturer would just get mad and torture the fuck out of our genius protagonist, or just kill him outright. At the very least the Avatar couldn't possibly know how the torturer would react to his schtick unless he can literally see the future... which admittedly is probably something that Adams thinks Master Persuaders™ can do.

@fredericksmith7942

2 ай бұрын

I mean, it is something that Adams has explicitly stated he can do.

I absolutely would watch The Idol starring Tommy Wiseau

You guys talk a lot of shit but science has shown that the Dilbert head is the perfect shape. The Greeks figured it out with sacred geometry. It appears in nature an inordinate amount of times. You may not like it but perfection has a definite form, and it is Dilbert.

@John-qv5ux

8 ай бұрын

Scott Adams, is that you?

@0okamino

8 ай бұрын

Mere mortals such as we shall never truly understand its perfection.

@miguelvelez7221

8 ай бұрын

God... I hate that this era has been the actual "death of irony".

@yarpyarpyarp3

8 ай бұрын

@@John-qv5uxNo it’s not me, Scott Adams. Just someone who can recognize the genius of a master pattern recognizer

@cybercop0083

2 ай бұрын

That is correct. In architecturual circles, the Dilbert shape is revered for providing shelter against 26 of the 29 traditional weather conditions.

honestly it seems like Scott read the wikipedia page for Snow Crash, then added lots of his boomer racism to it.

"unbelievably corny and bad at being horny" Great description, and not just because it rhymes.

Did Scott Adams take the "military leader hires a right-hand person to kill them in case he gets too power hungry" idea from Hawkeye in Fullmetal Alchemist?

@MultiTrollface999

8 ай бұрын

Scott doesn't actually READ anything, much less manga

@origami_dream

8 ай бұрын

As a big fan of MASH, before the "in Fullmetal Alchemist" bit i was a bit hopeful i somehow missed a dramatic episode with Radar shakily holding a gun pointed at Hawkeye as he, drunk as a skunk, starts reading nuclear codes.

Pretty sure the 'battle platforms' are a reference to 1984 and the 'Floating Fortresses' that were designed specifically to be giant super battleships that ate up obscene amounts of resources in the forever war between the three powers. Of course, Orwell actually understood what they were supposed to be symbols for which, I don't thing Adams does. Edit : In fact, I'm pretty sure this entire book is just bookleg 'rationalist' 1984 fanfiction.

Oh boy, Scott by himself was a trip. How much deeper does this go?

That bit about every drunk Irishman loving a Patrick? Can confirm.

How has Steven Seagal not made this movie yet?

@nebulousvoid

8 ай бұрын

Cuz he's sueing Adams for plagiarizing a dozen he already made?

39:39 "Im da Joker Babey" Edit: lmao, Scott is actually so dumb he's Duunning Kruegered himself on the topic of religion. He thinks he knows everything because he knows nothing, it's wonderful.

It is so funny to posit that the phrase "If God is so smart, why do you fart?" ends *magical thinking* of all things. Scott. Scott Patrick McAdams. Do you not see your contradiction here? Also: farting is satisfying. The *correct* magical incantation is "If god is legit, why do you shit?"

@TMmodify

8 ай бұрын

It's so *precise* in how moronic it is that it almost seems deliberate, like it came from fucking Wheatley in Portal 2

Only at about 20 mins but do we find out who Palestinian Christians side with? Or is stupid Scott completely unaware that these people even exist?

I'm getting strong "Empress Theresa" vibes from this whole thing. Does this constitute enough similarities to make 'boomer power fantasy' a genre of its own?

the old man getting physically messed up by being too smart is scott's way of explaining his crushingly bald head

I'm really hoping Special Boy Scott leaps into the comments to defend his self-insert character, which is the most breathakingly awful I've ever seen. It's barely tolerable when middle schoolers do this in creative writing class, but this is a grown-ass man with more money than all of us, still choosing this narrative. Wow.

YES YES YES

This dude could have spent the rest of his life cashing in on Dilbert but choose to just double down when could do literally anything else

After dozens or hundreds of hours of listening to your work, I have concluded that you may be the sorriest of bastards. Thanks to my brother for the recommendation.

Wait Dilbert guy wrote his own turner diaries?

@nebulousvoid

8 ай бұрын

Yes, it obviously wasn't dumb or racist enough.

Did... Did Scott Adams make a sadder version of Avatar: the last airbender?????

Al Z? Sounds like a CoD faction made up so Infinity Ward can avoid using the real name.

there is an actual restaurant in the bay area called stacy's that scott at least used to own

WHAT THE HELL?! I learned the difference between the Suni and the Shiites in THIRD FUCKIN GRADE in my Social Studies class. We did a whole unit on world religions and the teacher used that, Catholic, Lutheran, and a few others to demonstrate how there are religions and then sects there of

...I like the part where he ripped off Snow crash. Lol

I think similes should get together for a class action suit against Adams, because he abused them like an abusive abuser who abuses innocent abuse victims when writing this book. 😉 Also, I think Scott skipped the "show, don't tell" lesson in his creative writing class.

I tried to write a book in 7th grade, and I’m pretty sure it was less childish than this thing written by someone who has over three decades of of professional experience with writing >_>

The Avatar is very clearly an authorial avatar. If intentional, this is the cleverest thing in the whole book.

@rockCity777

5 ай бұрын

I remind you, the tentative name for the first iteration of Dilbert's dog, was "Dildog". And that was his own idea, unlike the name "Dilbert".

@stuartsmith4369

5 ай бұрын

@@rockCity777 I cant really criticise that though, once you put it in the proper context. The naming scheme, while stupid, allows an unfamiliar reader to discern the relationships between characters easily.

@rockCity777

5 ай бұрын

@@stuartsmith4369 But you see, 5/6th of it it is "Dildo".

@thomaswillard6267

2 ай бұрын

​@@rockCity777They dildidn't see that coming

As an someone who grew up in Oklahoma and has lived in Japan, can confirm the Oklahoma/Texas paradox is basically everywhere 🤭

Whaaaaaaaat's trying to displace The Camp of the Saints from all time worst novel lists?

The lack of Last Airbender references in this episode disappoints me.

1:02:23 This is just Snow Crash, without the satire, and even more libertarian...

@Bustermachine

8 ай бұрын

The battle platforms and forever war appear to be a dash of 1984 IMO.

I play an RPG character who would absolutely try to cold read his way out of an interrogation, and I'll have to remember that idea... because my character is a total con man, not a genius. That's not a trait to be *admired.*

14:26 And here is Scott’s’ Mary Sue self insert character.

Oh no.

@miguelvelez7221

8 ай бұрын

You know who will never say "Oh no"? ... ... ... PRODUCTS!!!

@Shadowman4710

25 күн бұрын

@@miguelvelez7221 Or services...

Lol. When you Google "Scott Adams Dilbert pool" one of the top images that comes up is a screenshot of a shitpost that Robert wrote replying to a dumb tweet by Adams.

I read this book ages back. I really liked Dilbert, so I was prepared to give Adams the benefit of the doubt: I presumed that he was deliberately doing an over-the-top parody of Christianity and Islam and NATO and Islamism. Clearly he wasn't, knowing now what I didn't know then. To be fair to Adams, though, he acknowledged in the book that the question, "If God is so smart, why do you fart?" is dumb. It's only the brain-hackery of the Prime Influencer that makes the question successful in the book.

17:55 I know a better version of this story, and its a free comic called The Rock Cocks Its for adults only, and its a great time. Sexy, interesting, beautiful to look at, diverse bodies and sexualities, an actual plot stringing all the steamy stuff together, and just a lot of sex positivity in general. Good stuff.

Wow... is Scott secretly from like the 1820s? Matt was right that this is like. Old-timey racism lmfao

My dad's side of my family is German/Irish Catholic. I do not have a Patrick in my life. I think a better name guess would have been James/Jim/Jimmy

New World Order? Yeah, Hogan, Nash and Hall were tripping. 🤣

@NimhLabs

8 ай бұрын

... I read that as a variation of "Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young"... o.o' but like... worse...

@miguelvelez7221

8 ай бұрын

Wolf Pack 4 Life.

Haus of Decline is a podcast?! Not just a funny twitter account?

Scott Adams the Great American Patriot.

I feel like he stole the particle beam battle platforms from gundam or something.

44:00 - This must be a reference to the greatest roman of the 20th century, M&M, in particular the depiction of Jesus by the words of Satan.

46:28 that’s literally the butters plot in the South Park Covid special

These right-wing guys who are high on the military but have never actually served write the most cartoonish versions of military protocols and organizations. Both Adams and Shapiro have written versions of the military life that even I - a person who has never served in the military - can hear and say, "That is not how that works".

@TheCaptainSlappy

8 ай бұрын

I was in the Army, not the Navy, and I am increasingly finding myself asking KZread to Captain's Mast "content creators" with 20 flogs & stripes. Shapiro & Adams are what happens when you don't beat your kids enough.

@TheDarthbinky

8 ай бұрын

I was in the Army briefly (4 years enlisted in the late 90s/early 00s), and this whole idea that chickenhawks like Shapiro and Adams have that officers are musclebound murder machines just drives me crazy. Generals aren't generals because they're good at killin'. They're generals because they're good at organizing and planning (and sometimes a healthy dose of politics and/or nepotism). Even majors and colonels are rarely even in the vicinity of fighting; generals less so. it's not like a video game where if you get a certain number of kills you get promoted. Stop! Just stop!

@hiding_my_name

8 ай бұрын

​@@TheCaptainSlappyI can't get behind beating more kids. But I sure can get behind beating adult versions of Shapiro and Adams

@Bustermachine

8 ай бұрын

@@TheCaptainSlappy I was never in any branch of the military, I never wanted to be, and I've never felt any shame over that. The thing about people like Scott Adams is that they're wrapped in a mystique about the military when it's really just a big beaurocratic entity that does some good things and some bad things and some stupid things, because it's run by good people and bad people and stupid people, like all big beaurocratic entities.

So Scott Adams's Avatar is just The Giver?

And Everything changed when the Irish attacked!

1:09:51 I honestly feel like "consciousness" is a bit of a reach here...

"If God's so smart, why do you fart?" only works in English.

The writing of this book is so bad that it is painful to listen to and it's the only Behind the Bastards episode that I've listened to that i cannot even make myself finish yet.

Is this an adaptation of a Neil Breen movie? I'm serious, people who are The Best at things without giving us an explanation why, secret lineages of sages who no one can understand, haphazard understandings of... well, everything, really, this is what you'd get if Neil Breen watched too much Alex Jones!

@alexanon8345

8 ай бұрын

Literally my thought as well, incredible

Is this book just Camp of the Saints again?

Is scott using Kurt Vonnegut/Kilgore Trout in his terrible book?

The third largest army in NATO is largely secular or even atheistic.

Scott Adams thinks cold reading is magic that only really smart people can do huh?

So he watched Avatar the last Airbender and rewrote the avatar into his story that sounds like it was written by a 12 yr old 😂

irish virush 🍀🤣

God being transcendental and beyond human minds and human understanding is a cornerstone belief of all monotheistic religions around today so Scott refuted a strawman version of God that most people don't believe in.

As an asexual who tried really hard as a teen to “be horny”… I think I may know something about The Weekend that The Weekend doesn’t know about The Weekend…

i'm ~ 15:00 in but am convinced the smrtest guy in the world is d!lbert

@alexanderflavin3160

8 ай бұрын

It’s the trash collector from 90s dilbert strips

@lunarspunk

8 ай бұрын

hear me out: the trinity is dilbort, dagbert, and the trash collector. it's been over twenty years since i checked the lore but this might all add up catbert is probably socialism, idk

I am inordinately annoyed by one thing here: *Waving* a plate of food around. I just have an image of the lady flinging food around the room while saying the presentation sucks.

Damn, this has some serious Tom Kratman and John Ringo energy to it. Honestly more to the Kratman side.

Having not been a part of the Internet atheist community I've missed this. I always tell people that I'm a personal agnostic. I chose not to believe because a councious God would be Bad! In my eyes. Because sometimes people hurt God can't be all good.

Ah scott adams 😂 wait the dilbert guy :O Oh yeah originally the idol was a project to really do perspective to deconstruct all that sensitively. Soiundd interesting :( the internet attheiststhat didnt became anti sjw or dawkins like, there are actually stillatheist activist that are inclusive and progressive and dealmore with cults, christian nationaloism an for e culty environment communitie goig after the actualbad people. and anti theism is cringe.

@Bustermachine

8 ай бұрын

What happened with atheist activists is what happens with most movements. The vast majority of people don't self consistently apply their own ideology, because that's really hard to do. And a lot of online atheists were basically only there because it sold them a system of belief to feel superior to someone else, i.e. religious people. Which is why you see so many smug atheists who can't explain the scientific method or apply it, but will expound about the triumphs of science all day. In short, no matter your ideology and beliefs, apply critical thinking and humility.

Adams showing NATO overriding and ignoring civilian governments is probably the only thing that isn't farfetched about the novel

@justinmillette9110

8 ай бұрын

You don't know what NATO is, do you?

Deadass I was locked up with Eric Menendez and we were friends. I 100% believe he was telling the truth.

Not a fan of SA (pun intended), do listen because he has been recently accused of the usual so it got my attention for a the time being, some of what he says is inconsistent so it enrages me but I compartmentalize (bless you academia) What Scott Adams has been saying bothers the ideologically driven more than the religious. Got it.

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