I consider myself a bit of a Dilbert scholar, (Wally may be the most brilliant character ever drawn in the funny pages), I think you reach a bit here. Elbonia is a recurring theme for Scott Adams, and though it can be imagined to represent a lot of things, a critique of religion has never seemed to me to be one of them. Its most frequent appearance is as a faraway place for outsourcing and/or for engineers to be sent, and if I were to hypothesize on that basis and what I know of the California engineering mentality, I would sooner come up with Arkansas than Arabia. But who is to say. Scott Adams' personal politics do have a somewhat strong conservative bent...
I consider myself a bit of a Dilbert scholar, (Wally may be the most brilliant character ever drawn in the funny pages), I think you reach a bit here. Elbonia is a recurring theme for Scott Adams, and though it can be imagined to represent a lot of things, a critique of religion has never seemed to me to be one of them. Its most frequent appearance is as a faraway place for outsourcing and/or for engineers to be sent, and if I were to hypothesize on that basis and what I know of the California engineering mentality, I would sooner come up with Arkansas than Arabia. But who is to say. Scott Adams' personal politics do have a somewhat strong conservative bent...
ReplyDeletehttp://search.dilbert.com/search?w=elbonia&x=25&y=5
ReplyDeleteAnd here's one that should refute any these particular religious undertones: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-04-21/
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, there is this blog post, about his book The Religion War, which I hadn't previously known about.
ReplyDeleteProbably you are correct, but if there is an IED on his way to the grocery store or to his favorite watering hole we may have a possible motive.
Regards — Cliff