A Deep Dive On The Culture Of The Comic 'Dilbert'

Dilbert supposedly depicts work - a kind of Hotel California of work, where you can maybe go home from the office to complain about the office, but you're coming right back in. But in the last few years ... things changed. "The ability to detect irony is increasingly necessary for being alive in America. If you have not by now recognized on your own that the world has been careening through a too-salty first draft of The Onion, there is no helping you. Irony is especially important with Dilbert because the antagonist of Dilbert, at least for the first few decades, was the Pointy-Haired Boss. And there is no other person in the entire public consciousness who is more like the Pointy-Haired Boss than Donald Trump."

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