Excellent piece. Thank you. At the risk of being overly simplistic how does Musk’s accelerating fall from grace reconcile with the seeming inroads made by the Yarvin crowd with financial backing from the Thiel and his ilk. Is Musk simply a cautionary tale for them…a story of someone who flew too close to the sun and is now watching as his wings melt as he falls back to earth (or somewhere further down) thus dooming efforts to bring dreams of a technocracy to life or is Musk a sort of trial balloon for the Yarvinites to see how the ideology might play out in real time with the intent being to adjust the mechanisms they either seek to implement or have already begun to implement based upon the response to Musk, both globally and at home
Which "we" are you addressing? I don't recall doing any of this. Has our society lost touch with what "morality" means? Can it be? It's not just a word you get in school -- is it? Or has a self-selected portion of the society been so wrapped up in self-satisfaction that it's done all the confusing by itself, including confusing themselves with society as a whole, having sold themselves on it and sold a lot of ink to people expecting intelligence and -- dare I say -- "morality"? Good grief!
Excellent piece. Thank you. At the risk of being overly simplistic how does Musk’s accelerating fall from grace reconcile with the seeming inroads made by the Yarvin crowd with financial backing from the Thiel and his ilk. Is Musk simply a cautionary tale for them…a story of someone who flew too close to the sun and is now watching as his wings melt as he falls back to earth (or somewhere further down) thus dooming efforts to bring dreams of a technocracy to life or is Musk a sort of trial balloon for the Yarvinites to see how the ideology might play out in real time with the intent being to adjust the mechanisms they either seek to implement or have already begun to implement based upon the response to Musk, both globally and at home
You may want to correct dates for the Linette Lopez story from 2013 to 2022/23..
You are correct!
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/business/media/elon-musk-twitter-journalist-suspension.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Which "we" are you addressing? I don't recall doing any of this. Has our society lost touch with what "morality" means? Can it be? It's not just a word you get in school -- is it? Or has a self-selected portion of the society been so wrapped up in self-satisfaction that it's done all the confusing by itself, including confusing themselves with society as a whole, having sold themselves on it and sold a lot of ink to people expecting intelligence and -- dare I say -- "morality"? Good grief!