Tuesday, February 28, 2023

It’s come to this …

… Canceling Scott Adams - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Was Adams’s offbeat cri de coeur well conceived? Hard to say: it’s certainly not my own style. Will it effect significant change? We’ll find out soon enough. But his underlying premise is undeniable: our social media, our round-the-clock news cycle, and our clickbait culture have turned millions of Americans into emotionally driven hysterics or mischief-making, anonymity-cloaked firebrands who are all too eager to deepen the nation’s divisions. And no one embodies the very opposite of all that more than the sober, sensible Scott Adams. His very demeanor testifies to a deep distaste for the high-octane name-calling that defines today’s social and legacy media; his focus is always on understanding how things work — and on figuring out how people of all backgrounds can collaborate to make them work better. His motto might well be “come, let us sit and reason together.” 

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