Comment by CGMthrowaway
2 days ago
> How or why Scott Adams went completely of the rails is perhaps something we'll sadly never understand
He explains it himself, if you are open to primary source material.
2 days ago
> How or why Scott Adams went completely of the rails is perhaps something we'll sadly never understand
He explains it himself, if you are open to primary source material.
A crazy person's account of how they went crazy should not generally be considered reliable.
Isn't his accounting of things the reason you judge him as crazy in the first place? I would assume you aren't just taking your personal opinions, uncritically, from others'.
It's one way. Another is to simply observe his words and actions.
I started paying attention to him when he got sick. He seemed very reasonable about most things, and extremely insightful about many things. I certainly don’t think he deserved the posthumous label “crazy person.”
I read his one of his books in the 90s, in which he talked about how he believed in magic (specifically a rather hardline interpretation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction_(New_Thought... via 'quantum' magic). He's been fairly out there for a while.
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I started paying attention to him in the 90s and he was already crazy then. The only difference is that he was the fun kind of crazy, talking nonsense about quantum mechanics and such, rather than the disturbing racist crazy he became later on.