{"id":33262,"date":"2015-10-20T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33262"},"modified":"2015-10-20T00:06:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T04:06:41","slug":"dilberts-scott-adams-on-politics-philosophy-hypnosis-and-failing-towards-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/10\/20\/dilberts-scott-adams-on-politics-philosophy-hypnosis-and-failing-towards-success\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Dilbert<\/em>&#8216;s Scott Adams on Politics, Philosophy, Hypnosis, and &#8220;Failing Towards Success&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FwWJ6rMOtQw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 6 Oct 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can defend an entirely different view of the world using the same data that&#8217;s used to defend the standard model. So whenever I can do that, I&#8217;m so there,&#8221; says Scott Adams. &#8220;Because as soon as you realize that the model you&#8217;ve been looking at maybe isn&#8217;t so firm as you thought&#8230; Then you&#8217;re free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adams is a man of many talents: Best-selling author behind books such as <em>God&#8217;s Debris<\/em> and <em>How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big<\/em>, serial entrepreneur and creator of the time-management system Calendar Tree, and, of course, the man behind <em>Dilbert<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reason TV<\/em>&#8216;s Zach Weissmueller sat down with Adams in his home office to discuss Adams&#8217; obsession with Donald Trump (&#8220;I see in Trump a level of persuasion technique that is probably invisible to the public&#8221; &#8211; 1:18), his resistance to political labels (&#8220;As soon as I join a group, suddenly all those things that I thought were crazy, I start convincing myself&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; 2:19), his political philosophy (&#8220;My preferred political process would be something like business&#8221; &#8211; 3:08), what <em>Dilbert<\/em> can teach us about capitalism (&#8220;One of those ideas that&#8217;s terribly flawed, but we haven&#8217;t figured out anything better yet&#8221; &#8211; 5:22), and the theme that runs through all of his work (&#8220;In all cases, I&#8217;m interested in the same thing: Is there a different way to look at the familiar?&#8221; &#8211; 10:05).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Bonus<\/strong>: Here&#8217;s Scott Adams&#8217; view that The Donald is a Master Wizard:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/55NxKENplG4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 6 Oct 2015 &#8220;You can defend an entirely different view of the world using the same data that&#8217;s used to defend the standard model. 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