I don’t GAF about Dilbert-author Scott Adams, but I’m really interested in how America struggles with responsibility and, in particular, with guilt. Half of the news you read each day is about the byzantine empires we’ve built atop the simple inability to say I’m sorry. And rarely if ever acknowledged is the role of the US legal system in driving this: its reliance on precedent and the scholastic pursuit of logical extremes makes saying sorry downright dangerous. At the other extreme is the fine art of the performative apology, like for metoo stuff, which has no doubt spawned a subspeciality of apology consultants. So this is where Mr. Dilbert comes in — saying he’s sorry for using the Gilroy murders to pimp his app that acts like a broker for witnesses.
