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We’re in an age that lionizes thinking different, that cherishes frank real comments that border on insanity, that embraces going viral. One person’s deep end i
by Apocryphon 5y ago
We’re in an age that lionizes thinking different, that cherishes frank real comments that border on insanity, that embraces going viral. One person’s deep end is another’s genius. Musk is simply reinventing himself for American culture’s worship of celebrity and maverick contrarianism.
In doing so he’s not only following the footsteps of polarizing figures like the previous president or Kanye West. There’s no shortage of such figures in tech, from pmarca to pg. Becoming a pontificating blowhard is practically a rite of advancement these days. The only difference is the degree of detached-from-reality contrarianism and level of politeness in tone.
- cinntaile 5y agoAll you need is an outsized ego that's easily bruised and you too can be a Twitter legend.
- mmastrac 5y agoThe important next step is to tweet meaningless nonsense. So short that it can't be wrong, but so vague your followers will create their own illusion of your brilliance.
- Apocryphon 5y agoNot meaningless, merely ambiguous. Twitter’s pithy format expedites this bigly. Entire site is one big series of Rorshach tests.
- scruple 5y agoIf you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.
- deckard1 5y agoThe film Network (1976) predicted all of this. The difference is that instead of a TV network exploiting the crazy for profit, the lunatics are now fully in control. It's truly something that Elon went from calling a rescue diver a "pedo", spreading dangerous covid misinformation, and generally doing everything a normal person would get banned from twitter for to becoming a board member. But I'm not surprised.
- truculent 5y agoI'm not sure Kanye West or Donald Trump would be considered poster-boys of good mental health...