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It's sad really. I used to idolize him so much. I read through all of WaitButWhy's [0] blog post series on Musk back in '15/'16 and loved every bit of it. He l
by abhiminator 4y ago
It's sad really. I used to idolize him so much. I read through all of WaitButWhy's [0] blog post series on Musk back in '15/'16 and loved every bit of it. He literally became my demigod during my undergrad days.
And from all that... to this?
From a much admired and respected 'inventor' to a cringeworthy Twitter 'edgelord.' Just been a crazy ride.
[0] https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/03/elon-musk-post-series.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/03/elon-musk-post-series.html
- ModernMech 4y agoYou've gotta ask yourself: has there really be a fall from grace? Because there are those of us who saw him as a cringeworthy Twitter 'edgelord' in 2015, and we don't notice much of a difference at all today. It's probably just that he's being more consistently overt about it, and his PR machine can't compensate.
- rchaud 4y agoWhat did you think of his public behaviour over the past few years? It's one thing to be enthralled by a praise-heavy series of blog posts, but it's not like you couldn't get first-hand impressions from the man's own very public persona.
- abhiminator 4y agoI was a lot more vulnerable to manipulation via propaganda and good PR back when I was a college student, I suppose. Aside from the naïvety of late teens/early 20s.