Careercow Scott Raymond Adams / @ScottAdamsSays / “Real Coffee With Scott Adams” - The Washed Up Cartoonist Behind “Dilbert”, Creator of “The Dilberito”, Professional Bullying Victim, Political Grifter, Terminally Online Narcissistic Boomer, Divorced Twice, Is (Not) Glad His Stepson Overdosed. This is Not a Racial Politics Debate Thread

One of Scott's most boomer takes is that he doesn't listen to music because it's mind control
Really fucking boomer; that's basically a core tenet of Plato's Republic.

He's basically not wrong; he held that music and arts were so important that a "bad artist" would have to be put to death instantly or they'd corrupt the society.

And I don't think it's easy to argue against that, heh. Let me go watch Ralph listen to niggermusic.
 
Really fucking boomer; that's basically a core tenet of Plato's Republic.

He's basically not wrong; he held that music and arts were so important that a "bad artist" would have to be put to death instantly or they'd corrupt the society.

And I don't think it's easy to argue against that, heh. Let me go watch Ralph listen to niggermusic.
Read about laurel canyon and the weird cia connections, he's not wrong.
 
One of Scott's most boomer takes is that he doesn't listen to music because it's mind control
Scott presented that opinion on his Typepad blog (in the posts he took down to appear in a book):
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Why is Music Legal?​

Sometimes I wonder why music is legal. Music can alter your mood and your body chemistry just like any illegal drug. The fact that it goes into your body through your ear shouldn’t make a difference. We take drugs via practically every other hole in our body – mouth, butt, eyeballs, nose – you name it. Ain’t nothing special about an ear.
Music is clearly unsafe. Suppose you’re in a perfectly good mood and a depressing song comes on. That could make you sad and break down your body’s natural defenses. You could get sick and die. Thank you very much Tori Amos.
Many songs are dangerous to hear while operating a motor vehicle. For example, anything by the Doobie Brothers will force me to exceed the speed limit. You probably have your own songs that make you speed. If you believe in free will you might argue that people always have the choice of NOT speeding. But by that reasoning it should be legal to allow drunks to drive because they have the choice of not doing it.
Let me put it another way. If gum made people more likely to speed, you know there would be a law against chewing and driving. If it goes into your body through your mouth, it’s a drug. If it goes in through your ears, it’s entertainment. That seems random to me.
One way you know you have a drinking problem is if it affects your work. I don’t know about you, but if I have a song stuck in my head, it lowers my I.Q. by about 40 points. I can sometimes do two things at the same time if those two things are easy, such as humming and walking. But if I’m trying to write a blog post or read a licensing contract, a song in my head will turn me into a chimp. Case in point – I have a song in my head right now and this post sucks.
Don’t forget – music is a gateway drug to harder stuff. Music attracts dancing. Dancing attracts alcohol. Alcohol leads to unwanted pregnancies. Unwanted pregnancies lead to abortion. If you believe life begins at conception, you have to believe that music kills babies.
And then there’s the corrosive effect of hip-hop music. I enjoy a lot of it, but after hearing three tracks I have an urge to slap a ho. That can’t be healthy, especially for the ho.
Just to be clear, I don’t think music should be illegal. I just think it’s somewhat random that it isn’t.
When he talks about the Doobie Brothers making him exceed the speed limit I hope he means songs like China Grove, not What a Fool Believes.
I don't think it's a typical boomer opinion, it's more characteristic of boomers' parents who didn't want Elvis on television. Pop music was more important to boomers than any generation before or since.
For Scott, though, it's part of his hypnotism beliefs and his "free will doesn't exist" belief. Comparing this version to what he said on Twitter shows how he developed from expressing controversial opinions he was embarrassed about in the form of jokes to just outright showing his tardation. He also upgraded it to being against catharsis in general, with his comment about avoiding "drama entertainment" (perhaps because he creates real drama in his own life without difficulty).
 
And then there’s the corrosive effect of hip-hop music. I enjoy a lot of it, but after hearing three tracks I have an urge to slap a ho. That can’t be healthy, especially for the ho.
WTF Scott? Biggie makes him want to hit women, so that's Biggie's fault. And he isn't saying this as an impressionable child, he's saying this in his 60's, like he'll imitate a bad role model
it's part of his hypnotism beliefs and his "free will doesn't exist" belief
That always seems inconsistent to me. Everyone who dislikes Trump or Keith Reniere is brainwashed and our opinions are assigned to us, but also you can't rape with hypnosis because it can't make you doing anything you don't really want to do? Wouldn't that imply a freewill stronger than hypnosis? Because that would mean there's some ineffable true desire that no one can change. It's impossible for Keith Reniere to make women think they want to be branded, but if you think that's disgusting cult behaviour, you've just been assigned that opinion.

He does a bunch of brain hacks to trick himself into living a healthy productive life, like salting fresh cut purple cabbage to bring out the flavour, and writing "done lists" instead of to do lists because it's more motivating. But if his conscious mind decides to salt the purple cabbage and write the done list, doesn't that mean his conscious mind DOES control him? Who hypnotized him or what evolutionary urged forced him to salt the purple cabbage? Why doesn't he just do the things he clearly wants to do instead of hypnotizing himself? Instead of thumbing your nose and yanking your ear 4 times to psychologically fool yourself into going jogging, why don't you just go out and jog, because that's clearly what you already want to do if you're acting out all this bullshit to make it happen.
 
the hypnosis shit and lack of free will stuff is so like, not even Matrix-level quality freshman philosophy shit

there is some thing to the "do something tonight so I do something tomorrow" because you know in the morning you won't want to do it. a common example is not buying bulk food even though it's cheaper, because you know if it's there you'll eat it all up

but expanding this to your whole life? it's like niggercattle trying to perfect being niggercattle.
 
I want to see Scott get in some serious legal trouble, because he's expressed before that he believes as a Hypnotist Master Persuader Wizard he could easily beat any charge by mind controlling the court. Just imagine what that would really be like!

Scott: I'm gonna have to ban the jury, because they keep hallucinating that I said some stupid shit I never said.
Judge: Stenographer, read back Mr. Adams's comment from fifteen minutes ago
Stenographer: I did it because it's what anyone would do, do you think you wouldn't?
Judge: So you did say on the record you did it
Scott: That's mind reading! Your cognitive dissonance is making you believe 4chan hoaxes!
Judge: The record shows, and so will the audio recording, that your exact words were "I did it"
Scott: Fuck you, you fucking piece of shit asshole cunt! You shouldn't live in a world with polite people! You can tell me what you think, but you don't get to tell me what I think, throw your fucking imaginary problems on me and blame them for me. I bet your family hates your fucking guts your honor!

Then we can see how Scott really does on Prisoner Island
 
You probably have your own songs that make you speed. If you believe in free will you might argue that people always have the choice of NOT speeding. But by that reasoning it should be legal to allow drunks to drive because they have the choice of not doing it.
Holy shit, I can't handle the persuasion levels.
Don’t forget – music is a gateway drug to harder stuff. Music attracts dancing. Dancing attracts alcohol. Alcohol leads to unwanted pregnancies. Unwanted pregnancies lead to abortion. If you believe life begins at conception, you have to believe that music kills babies.
:story: you have to bros
 
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I want to see Scott get in some serious legal trouble, because he's expressed before that he believes as a Hypnotist Master Persuader Wizard he could easily beat any charge by mind controlling the court. Just imagine what that would really be like!
What is it with autistic lolcows resorting to hypnosis, magic, or deluding themselves into thinking they can bend reality to their will? Scott isn't as bad as Chris "tranny Jesus of a thousand titles." But are their lives THAT miserable they have to cling to childhood beliefs of being able to control the universe with mumbo jumbo, voodo, and voodoo, be it scientific or "magical." In nature?
 
Whenever there is a chimpout video there are reaction shots of this guy. Can someone point me to the video that got him canceled?
 
I want to see Scott get in some serious legal trouble, because he's expressed before that he believes as a Hypnotist Master Persuader Wizard he could easily beat any charge by mind controlling the court. Just imagine what that would really be like!

Scott: I'm gonna have to ban the jury, because they keep hallucinating that I said some stupid shit I never said.
Judge: Stenographer, read back Mr. Adams's comment from fifteen minutes ago
Stenographer: I did it because it's what anyone would do, do you think you wouldn't?
Judge: So you did say on the record you did it
Scott: That's mind reading! Your cognitive dissonance is making you believe 4chan hoaxes!
Judge: The record shows, and so will the audio recording, that your exact words were "I did it"
Scott: Fuck you, you fucking piece of shit asshole cunt! You shouldn't live in a world with polite people! You can tell me what you think, but you don't get to tell me what I think, throw your fucking imaginary problems on me and blame them for me. I bet your family hates your fucking guts your honor!

Then we can see how Scott really does on Prisoner Island
Scott is a sovereign citizen without even being smart enough to understand the concept. If it does happen, count on him screaming about gold braid on the US flag.
 
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