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TorgoX on 2002-04-22T19:00:16

Dear Log,

"Dilbert is the humorous put-upon office worker whose life is apparently a satire on stupid management and idiotic co-workers. In fact, says Solomon in his book The Trouble With Dilbert, it provides a handy safety valve for the frustrations of everyone crushed by the corporate world, a world which Dilbert's creator, Scott Adams, never attacks. Indeed he has publicly supported downsizing, i.e. mass sackings, on many occasions, and earns millions from tie-ins with huge companies such as Xerox and Lockheed."

--"Ain't it grand, sitting with a porn queen"

---

The Trouble with Dilbert

gnat on 2002-04-22T19:19:19

Full text of the book is here.

--Nat

i don't get it

ignatzmous on 2002-04-23T01:36:13

I'm not sure this Solomon guy has ever worked in an office. Or what his ideal would be. Perhaps he'd prefer some Stalinist Revolutionary Art in which the Workers Seize the Means of Production.

Or perhaps we are supposed to throw our sabots into the machinery to wreck it?

Some people just can't see something amusing without falling into paroxysms of hostile analysis, I guess.

Re:i don't get it

TorgoX on 2002-04-23T19:08:22

I guess they hate that he's overtly amusing but at the same time actually kind of a tool.

All cartoonists are required to be simple and earnest or lose cred now!!