Today in town I saw a Tesla drive by with one of these on the back:
I suppose there’s always a tendency for people to resent their betters, but here’s a man who:
a) builds the world’s best electric cars;
b) is leading the way at the frontiers of manned space exploration;
c) is developing technologies that will enable the crippled and paralyzed to walk;
d) is building a global satellite network to offer internet access to every place on Earth;
e) almost singlehandedly restored freedom of speech to America’s social and political discourse, at a personal cost of billions;
f) is cleaning the Augean Stables of federal-government waste, corruption, and fraud, and by doing so will likely save the groaning American taxpayer trillions of dollars.
Is Elon Musk vain? Sure. Is he kind of “spergy”, and often comes across as downright weird? You bet. So what?
Could any of these sullen little people achieve even a tiny fraction of what Elon Musk has managed to do in one short lifetime, and keeps doing every day? It is to laugh.
No, in large part I think they hate him just because he makes them feel small. And by driving around in a Tesla with one of these ridiculous stickers on the back, they amply confirm the diagnosis.
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I am pro clean water, air and land; but there seems to be something more going on with “pro zero emission.” These people tend to be materialists, but they seem to be disgusted by their own materiality. I imagine them wishing they could walk along the beach without leaving footprints. I know that at least some of them fantasize about being so “spiritualized” that they could be uploaded as pure information, leaving their bodies behind.
If “antifascism” is more than a verbal hex sign, I suppose it means opposition to in-group preference and in-groups generally. I smell the same gnostic body hatred in this because, no matter where you may get your ideas, your body you get from your folks.
I wonder if this also explains their love of electricity and horror of gasoline. Gasoline has weight and volume, just like their cursed bodies. Electricity on the other hand seems almost spiritual.
Elon’s success is depriving many who work in government of their ill gotten entitlement and righteous certainty. Speaking of Tesla, I went to CVS yesterday and parked next to a black one and then on to WalMart where I parked next to a white model. Somewhere in this town is a cherry red model and also one of those huge pickups that looks like an armored truck. I had no idea there were such well heeled residents in our humble burg.
JM,
Very good points about the gnostic orientation of “these people”. (Lawrence Auster, PBUH, used to write about this often as well.)
It’s especially pertinent at a time when everything all around us is being aggressively dematerialized – money, social interaction, music, the workplace, even sex.
Robert – Tesla Cybertrucks are, in fact, bulletproof. (Not the windows, though, except by special order.)