Aeoli agrees with Vox regarding Scott Adams’ inscrutability. I find him less mysterious.
It seems to me that Adams is on the side of secular atheism.
Ultimately, the Avatar fails to stop the onset of the war. However, at the conclusion of the book, the Prime Influencer, who turns out to be an opinionated café owner that the Avatar had met previously by chance, launches a simple, yet catchy, phrase (If God is so smart, why do you fart?) that spreads throughout the world like a virus thanks to an advanced computer worm, named Giver-of-Data (GoD), launched by the GIC programmer shortly before his death, which unlocked everyone’s phones, linked them up to automatic translation systems, and disabled call billing. According to the story, “Once you heard it, you could never forget it.” It was this phrase that finally captured the collective imaginations of ordinary people, causing them to reevaluate their assumptions about the nature of God. This ultimately led to the elimination of fundamentalist religious practices throughout the world, which, in turn, resulted in the end of the Religion War.
He wants Muslim immigration to undermine Christian fundamentalism in the USA in favor of polyreligious Cathedral convergence. (When properly understood, all religions are really just Progressivism.)
I investigated this because I couldn’t figure out how Adams could simultaneously not be a liar and not mean what he seemed to be arguing. The resolution is that he does in fact mean it.
It thus does not appear this is an example of either multilayered tonality or deliberate psyops hypnotic deception. He literally means, “To avert apocalypse, let some suicide bombers in. Because God is stupid.”
He is not saying, “God is stupid,” anywhere but implicitly at the very end of his book, but that’s what he means. Like Socrates, he hides a socially unacceptable point beneath cleverness and frame.
Since he opposes a Christian USA, not really an ally. If he made a meme that accidentally is hypnotically effective for the anti-immigration side, it’s only because he screwed up. But he is relatively less insane than most of the Cathedral. I bet he wants to be Trump for secular humanism.
Perhaps some grounds for describing Adams as inscrutable can be found in his other book, “God’s Debris”. Adams does not believe the ideas therein, but also charges God with stupidity – the Big Bang was accidental Deio-detonation, and God is currently no smarter than the mankind his particles embody.
Likewise, the ultimate of the book’s 5 levels of consciousness seems to fit well with his beliefs: “Level 5: Avatar level, understanding that the mind is a delusion-generating machine, and that science is another belief system, albeit a useful one.”
Thus while Adams does play with many ideas, he nonetheless appears to possess a most prosaic core.
Thus, when I do as Aeoli suggests and skim Adams’ blog, I see a mask of dispassion that has begun to badly slip. (Hitler~Trump language, anyone?) And I predict further slippage.
Disclaimer: I do not follow Adams. Thin slice analysis. Treat as Bush administration WMD report.