Elon Musk and Yours Truly have a few things in common...
We both had childhood steeped in Sci-Fi, which has profoundly shaped our World View in very similar ways. Makes us both Look to The Future in very radical ways.
We both believe that Accelerating Climate Change has gone too far to be stopped, tho he's dialed back his statements on the subject because he had to get in bed with Fossil Fuel Money to fully get on the Trump Train.
We both have a 'messianic' drive to establish an New Social Order to replace the present collapsing socioeconomic order. Ofc, said 'new orders' are very different at their core, even with some 'procedural overlap'. [see Sci-Fi]
The obvious Big Dif is money. His old man tossed him a few million and said, "Go git 'em." Mine were rather less supportive...yeah, yeah, poor me...
All this gives me an insight into what he's doing. BTW, it's not a unique insight, others see as well. So...
Musk is acting out a classic Sci-Fi trope, the Eccentric Billionaire Genius who fights against the Philistines to Save The World. That's why he's wrecking everything. It's to clear away those he sees as impeding him [the FAA, HHS etc] in his Crusade...and that big ass tax break will help with that, too. Pretty sure he'll fail eventually as he's not really a 'genius'.
Trump doesn't really give a fuck, largely because he's too dim to understand wtf is actually going. He's avoiding prison and is makin' bank. All good...
Even if Musk is somehow stopped, [a military junta, a MAGA upraising] the damage has already been done. The Republic has been badly wounded and will never fully heal.
Personally, the best I now hope for is that our Disability cheques keep showing up...and there ya have.
"All politics is local." ~Tip O'Neal
We both had childhood steeped in Sci-Fi, which has profoundly shaped our World View in very similar ways. Makes us both Look to The Future in very radical ways.
We both believe that Accelerating Climate Change has gone too far to be stopped, tho he's dialed back his statements on the subject because he had to get in bed with Fossil Fuel Money to fully get on the Trump Train.
We both have a 'messianic' drive to establish an New Social Order to replace the present collapsing socioeconomic order. Ofc, said 'new orders' are very different at their core, even with some 'procedural overlap'. [see Sci-Fi]
The obvious Big Dif is money. His old man tossed him a few million and said, "Go git 'em." Mine were rather less supportive...yeah, yeah, poor me...
All this gives me an insight into what he's doing. BTW, it's not a unique insight, others see as well. So...
Musk is acting out a classic Sci-Fi trope, the Eccentric Billionaire Genius who fights against the Philistines to Save The World. That's why he's wrecking everything. It's to clear away those he sees as impeding him [the FAA, HHS etc] in his Crusade...and that big ass tax break will help with that, too. Pretty sure he'll fail eventually as he's not really a 'genius'.
Trump doesn't really give a fuck, largely because he's too dim to understand wtf is actually going. He's avoiding prison and is makin' bank. All good...
Even if Musk is somehow stopped, [a military junta, a MAGA upraising] the damage has already been done. The Republic has been badly wounded and will never fully heal.
Personally, the best I now hope for is that our Disability cheques keep showing up...and there ya have.
"All politics is local." ~Tip O'Neal