Terry Elliot passes this along, and I will, too, as this is Thanksgiving Week in the United States, and there’s often much to be thankful for that we simply take for granted.
The Dilbert Blog: Good News Day
As regular readers of my blog know, I lost my voice about 18 months
ago. Permanently. It’s something exotic called Spasmodic Dysphonia.
~Scott Adams
So begins the incredible story of how Dilbert creator
Scott Adams used poetry to cure his disease. OK, I am exagerrating a
bit here, but the story does resonate with some old and new ideas.
First, it supports the old idea that experts should never be on top,
but only on tap. In other words it celebrates the belief that personal
responsibility should be at the core of any credo of any substance.
Second, it supports the newish idea of the wisdom of crowds and
folksonomies. Instead of internalizing our own victimhood, Adams
breaks out to tell a new story. There is a danger to this. As Steve
Biko said, “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the
mind of the oppressed.”
