Oooh, thatd be great
Look, there's plenty to critique of Musk, from tweets, to behavior, and employee working conditions. I agree with all that. My beef is the fact that I'm so fatigued by the incessant cacophony of social and news media about it. The shift in the wind they blow is obvious, as are the reasons why. The fervor of hate is over hyped given any real world context. Maybe Musk has transitioned into "rich people land" and completely lost touch, but he has also single handedly pushed electric power across the entire energy industry and has a compelling space program. I'm not saying this so you'll agree with me, or even change your mind. I want you to have your own opinion. Just make sure it is yours and not a regurgitation of the influence social and news media is peddling. I hear left wing sources cry about how the right radicalizes their viewers. But they're blind to how they are doing the same. It's why the NPC meme exists.
The goal of news and social media may be to make money and nothing more, but it's coming at the cost of losing a grounded view on how to solve problems with people that think differently. It's like we're losing the quality of socialization skills. See the last episode of last season of "The Problem With John Stewart" where they attempted a round table about issues affecting black people in the US. The whole thing crashed and burned. John flipped his lid. Very disappointing considering how composed and eloquent he has been in the past. He could have brought some levity by helping his guests move past the language problems about those topics. The blocker is social justice brings its own domain specific language and the uninitiated struggle with the depth of meaning in its words and phrases. To an outside observer, they sound offensive. Having read the sources I have, they appear to have been designed that way to get people's attention. Hopefully once the conversation is started the topic moves on, but too often the practitioners keep referring back to the monikers and covert insults. A good educator meets their students where they are, not the level at which the educator operates. John could have excised the lingo and focused on defining the problems; eliminating the moral platitudes and specifying the real world failures and consequences. There were a few minutes when it seemed like he tried. But the guests just got caught up in the word play again. It was the social justice guests who couldn't let it go. They wanted the other guy to say what they were saying in the exact way they were saying it. In good conversations, if people can agree a problem exists, agree on the nature of the problem, then they can figure out a fair and equitable solution. That's progress, and it's a mature way of handling difficult problems with varied opinions. That would've been more productive than listening to people pop off about their supposed moral superiority. I don't know what's going on with Mr Stewart but his behavior is a reflection of the radicalization of the left. They seem to be training citizens to be activist soldiers for political and NGO organizations. If that weren't true, then why would left leaning citizens tweet and respond in surveys that anyone not taking the profitable corporate Pfizer and Moderna vaccines should lose their jobs, some even suggesting they should die, or that they will be happy if those people die? How is it possible the political party of hippies and free thinkers has snuggled up to corporate and political interests so quickly? Do they realize they're even doing it? The hosts on the podcasts I listen to are getting more angry too, both right and left.
So when it comes to Musk, think what you want. But man, I gotta say, I'm really sick of the childishness and hate filled rhetoric that is throw around in the news and online about him. Explicitly, it is not the critiques, but the pile on that is distasteful. And phrases like:
> Oooh, thatd be great
...are just not productive in any context.