I’m in love with Elon Musk
and I don’t care who knows about our True Romance.
and I don’t care who knows about our True Romance.
I first fell in love with Elon Musk many years ago and quite frankly when I first heard we had a human being on planet earth with the name Elon Musk. The world needs someone called Mr Musk! It’s childishly pleasing and reminiscent of long ago childhood TV characters with names such as Mr Benn or Mr Moon and that, dear readers, will be about as high as this article will venture into the online shenanigans of Mr Musk (so pleasing) and his battle for control of the social media platform Twitter. His battle for Twitter supremacy is also rather pleasing as well as mildly amusing, and we’ll get to that in due course.
I further fell in love with that South African/Canadian hybrid when he first ventured onto the Joe Rogan Experience podcast 4 years ago and got a little stoned and more than a little drunk. Regardless, he was lucid enough to befuddle my brain on the complexities and ideologies behind his madcap ideas and I’d posit further that perhaps this podcast showed my love in his most human light. Mr Musk then blew our burgeoning, if one sided, love affair into the stratosphere by confirming his love for the Tony Scott directed and Quentin Tarantino penned True Romance, gave his enormous Twitter following (82 Million and counting) a very public backing of the protesting Canadian truckers and stated publicly that he is a “free speech absolutist”.
You’ve just got to love the guy, right?
And then this week he buys a percentage share of Twitter, refuses a seat on the board and effectively ups the ante with a golden hand shake ultimatum and at the time of writing, the lefty liberal world is exploding in righteous fury!
This “new” left are a strange bunch aren’t they?
Don’t you dare give us the concrete public guarantee of absolute free speech!
Who do you think you are you bloody Fascist!
If it wasn’t so serious I’d laugh heartily at this upside down world where Fox News hosts in America mock their CNN/MSNBC competitors as they scramble around with their open hate and distaste for Elon Musk and his
*shock*
*horror*
desire for free speech.
I wasn’t alive in the 1960’s but the glossy picture painted is of a world reeling from the abhorrent and continual political assassinations, killings, overthrowing of democratically elected leaders and an utterly dreadful sense of fashion. The decade ended with free people lacing flowers into each others hair and talking about free speech as much as free love, and the sparks of freedom were taking hold around the world. The political “left” drove this desire for free speech, bodily autonomy and freedom of thought and movement and allied with a diverse media and the artists and philosophical thinkers of the time they collectively seemed to win the day.
So where has it all gone wrong?
The left (my left) today gloat and cheer when a sitting President of the USA is banned on Twitter and every other social media platform. There is a constant clamour for the cancel culture that not even Orwell envisaged in 1984 with his dystopian concepts of an “unperson” or the infamous “memory hole”. Again, if it wasn’t so serious it would be hilarious, but take a peek at the Labour/Liberal/Progressive leaders around the world (Starmer in the UK, Macron in France, Ardern in New Zealand or the numerous wraiths waiting in line behind Joe Biden in the USA) and none of these political leaders have a left or liberal leaning bone in their bodies. Not one. The usual tropes of being “drunk on power” or the one that grates your humble political correspondent the most, “incompetent”, are trotted out and whilst we chatter bitterly in the town square of Twitter, no-one dares see what their lying eyes are telling them: Political Left and Right is another vaudevillian sideshow and the colour of the rosette matters not one iota. We have the One Party state of Orwell, with the machinery in place to re-write history that very day as well as delving into the past to re-write that too. To unperson people. A reduction in the language which is doubleplus ungood. Telescreens. Cameras on every corner. A faraway war.
A forever war.
And two minutes of hate delivered to you that you must, under every conceivable circumstance, believe to be the absolute truth, the “settled” truth, and woe betide anyone with a significant enough public profile question such truths. We now have hundreds of thousands of virtually anonymous Winston Smith’s working under the guise of “fact checking” which is so deliciously wicked and so very Orwellian. Questions such as “Who checks the fact checkers?” are largely ignored, and for the very great fear for where such questions will lead. A stamp of approval is received from The Party. This piece of truth is true, and there will be no dissent. The political left, the old political left would be aghast at this. Today’s political left scream for more censorship, more de-platforming, more cancellation and tougher sanctions and restrictions for longer and harder lockdowns.
It’s an ugly truth folks as well as being fucking insane and, as sad as it for me to report this to you, only going to get much, much worse. You trust these ghouls and goblins on our telescreens advocating the curbing of free speech and acting as though that very concept, free speech, is harmful in some way?
OK, now ask them to define what a “woman” is. They’ll twist and turn themselves so hard, fast and often they’ll bore a hole into the very core of the earth. But here’s the good news!
Or the unfortunate Bond villain ending of the world that no-one wants to see:
At the very least (the very least) and leaving aside my silly infatuation for a man who loves the film True Romance, Elon Musk’s proposed takeover of Twitter has yet again shone a light on the crazies amongst us and because of his worldwide profile it’s a rather large and bright light. The result is the moths scurrying for the flame with that light turned on and all demanding the current curbs on free speech are not only needed but tougher erosions on our human rights to express ourselves is needed. The people so scared of Musk’s proposed takeover scream that he’s going to introduce free speech, and we simply can’t have that now, can we? A Billionaire can’t be allowed to own outright such a platform? We’ll just skip over Jeff Bezos’ ownership of the Washington Post newspaper shall we? Or the owners of Blackrock and other financial venture capitalists who own a huge piece of the pie in every large scale media operation. That’s another ugly truth that no-one dares recognise or challenge. Musk’s takeover of Twitter is nothing new.
There is nothing new under a sun that Billionaire Bill Gates wishes to dim.
Musk’s Twitter escapades have shown us, the plebs, exactly who these people are. The cosy liberals of the “new” left rather like the power they believe they have in their control and rejoice at the current censorship and curbs on free speech because they believe they’re on the winning team. One world. One view. One opinion. They are the very epitome of the Fascist class that conspiracy writers have been warning for decades. Try the argument of countering abhorrent speech with better speech, or education, open debate, seeing people with which you disagree in plain sight or the simple human pleasure of not reading or hearing which you neither wish to see or hear, and watch the froth begin to form! It’s bigger than this too as a free speech absolutist myself I have a deep belief in my and your inalienable rights as a free human being. But these are/have been eroded to the point whereby stating we all have the birth rights of free speech, free expression, freedom of movement and bodily autonomy and you’ll likely be stared at like a dog who’s been shown a card trick © Bill Hicks. This is far, far deeper than fake lefty liberals hilariously screaming that free speech absolutism is dangerous.
But here’s the rub: Whilst I desperately want to believe in the man who supports and encourages free speech, supports the right of protests and loves a wonderful film that has Val Kilmer playing the ghost of Elvis Presley, I can’t help but have the nagging doubts that Elon Musk is the James Bond villain we have long been warned about. Electric cars that are far beyond even the most average of budgets and with next to zero infrastructure to support them. Rockets into space with Mars the ultimate destination. His “Star Link” satellites that continually bathe the earth in an ever gathering electrical soup. A “Neuralink” company that is far closer than you might imagine to implanting microchips into the human brain.
Elon is the man we’ve been warned about, the facilitator of a microchipped Metaverse and the nightmare fusing with The Matrix and transhumanism. As Mr Musk is a free speech absolutist he’ll warmly appreciate these observations and when he reads this article I’d like to think he’ll be interested on my more lengthier dissections of our unrequited love within the articles linked below.
The course of true love never did run smooth. I just can’t help loving a guy who states, on the record, that free speech is an absolute.
And I’m rather enjoying the spotlight he’s pertinently shining on the crazies so scared of the shadow they’ll never cast, nor the reflection they’ll never see in any mirror and who are so unable to define what a woman is despite the thousands of years of evolutionary thinking that have come before them.
Viva the social media revolution. Let me know how it goes.
Send word.
Twitter Watch: Vol.9
Is Elon Musk going to save the world as well as Twitter?medium.com
Twitter Watch: Vol.4
The narcissistic edition and my blossoming love affair for Elon Muskmedium.com