Yes, he was an idiot, but that doesn't contradict that he was smart. In his own words, from The Dilbert Principle book:

"People are idiots.

Including me. Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with low SAT scores. The only differences among us is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot. That's the central premise of this scholarly work. I proudly include myself in the idiot category. Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time."

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cauch a minute ago | parent | next [-]

Not sure this reality obvious analysis really helps. I've seen a lot of people thinking they are really smart for saying that everyone including them are idiots. Adams made a lot of declarations or actions that shows that he really thought of himself as "able to see what the idiot sheeple were not able to see", and this quote is not out of character at all: "you idiots don't even realise that everyone is an idiot including me".

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AtlasBarfed 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

White collar men are all fascists in waiting, after all.

	▲	Der_Einzige an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Who were the primary class of people drawn to the SS and the SA? At least in the SA's case it was working class to lower middle class people. Also, so many reds (as in communists) became fascists it was a meme in Nazi Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beefsteak_Nazi I don't think white collar tech workers are uniquely predisposed to fascism. Blue collar tradesmen are more likely to be disposed to it and capable of getting their hands dirty.