Scott Adams wackiness

[jwgh]

manfire and I were having a discussion and he mentioned the odd little final chapter of Scott Adams's The Dilbert Future, where he talks about how affirmations can change your life and evolution is wrong.

I was reminded that in Scott Adams's newsletter he once tried to use the power of affirmations to save the Dilbert TV show:

-> The initial attempt -- everyone was supposed to use affirmations to get the Dilbert show a 7 share starting in November of 1999.

-> A December 1999 update:

On the surface, it would appear the method didn't work. But something interesting happened, a coincidence of sorts, just as predicted.

-> The show gets taken off the air in May of 2000.

(I like Scott Adams's books a lot, even if he is a little nutty.)

Comments

I'll have to read that again

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

but I could have sworn I remembered reading it as intentional irony the first time around.

OK, I reread it

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

and I think it's more about his thought process in creating a comic strip world than about serious predictions for the real world. And of course he gets all the science entirely wrong, just as he warns us.