jadedmusings | In cheerier news... (Reply)

Scott Adams is at it again. Fortunately, this time he's not sharing his illuminating theories on how women are children, but he is using a sockpuppet to declare himself a genius.

It started with a thread on link-sharing community MetaFilter about Adams' Wall Street Journal op-ed on how awesome and successful he is even though he didn't get straight-As in school. Some people said mean things about the article, suggesting Scott Adams wrote like someone who has "actually convinced himself… that he's the smartest guy in the room."

That's when "PlannedChaos" weighed in, furiously defending Adams:

As far as Adams' ego goes, maybe you don't understand what a writer does for a living. No one writes unless he believes that what he writes will be interesting to someone. Everyone on this page is talking about him, researching him, and obsessing about him. His job is to be interesting, not loved. As someone mentioned, he has a certified genius I.Q., and that's hard to hide.

Suddenly I'm hearing "Wile E. Coyote, Super genius" in my head.

And I just want to add this in for kicks:

This wasn't Adams' first time pretending to be his own fan. For months, he's been commenting on threads about himself posted to link-sharing site Reddit under the same handle. Sample comment:

If an idiot and a genius disagree, the idiot generally thinks the genius is wrong. He also has lots of idiot reasons to back his idiot belief. That's how the idiot mind is wired.

It's fair to say you disagree with Adams. But you can't rule out the hypothesis that you're too dumb to understand what he's saying.

And he's a certified genius. Just sayin'.

If you'll recall the "You just don't understand my genius!" is the same argument he used when commenting on a feminist blog which dared to take him to task for being a misogynistic douchebag. At least there he used his own name and not a sockpuppet.

Yes, sir, Wile E. Coyote. Suuuuper genius.