Written by Otaku Apologist
It didn’t take longer than a few days for reality to set in for poor Elon Musk.
People say they want free speech, but do they really? Mister Musk is finding out the hard way, freedom is out of fashion. Subjectivity rules, people don’t want the truth, but for regular affirmation of their conception of what is true. And they wanna meme, ridicule, and fuck with you. You give people any freedom, they test it to the absolute limits, like Kathy Griffin.
Where do the limits go, huh? Who gets to decide what’s allowed and not allowed to be spoken in public? On whose aurhority do you assert your views? Who and who’s army?
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I’ve been following mister Musk’s path to this point ever since he started speaking about it in vague tweets that alluded to some kind of awakening.
Several major advertisers have suspended their ads on the platform since Musk took over. He has claimed that activists are pressuring advertisers to drop Twitter, which is difficult to verify.
Smart man as Elon surely is, he’s in for a rude awakening if he assumed problems would just fade. Just buying Twitter does not automatically lead to some kind of awakening in a highly propagandized population. If the opposite was true, the mere existence of Gulag Archipelago should suffice.
The Gulag Archipelago was a book written by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, it was his memoirs of life in the Soviet Unionโs prison camp system. The publication of the book has been attributed as one of the reasons the Soviet Union dissolved.
Trying to change any human system is an impossibly tall task. HBO’s The Wire is a perfect encapsulation of just how impossible it is. Let’s talk about that show, I’ll give you a good media recommendation here.
The Wire (2002-2008) depicts the Baltimore drug scene around the early 2000s. It’s one of the dullest series you could ever watch, and also the most important. In every season of the show, there is an effort by the police, the drug drealers, politicians and journalists, to improve the sorry situation of Baltimore. All those efforts fail.
Reality has gravity. Every single person that tries to improve things, to create organization into chaos, is either killed or loses their job. This is the story of humanity since the dawn of time.
Once you grasp the sheer crushing truthfulness of the situation that is depicted in The Wire, and its real-world parallels, you cannot but weep. This is the world. Any improvements are gradual, or nonexistent. While there are rare leaps forward, those leaps are often full of pitfalls and dead bodies. Regardless, we are barely in control of the direction of it. Even those who have all the gold and power in the world, are mere droplets in an ocean.
Watching the episodes of The Wire roll on, the vain attempts of the police to catch criminals and reduce the proliferation of drugs on Baltimore’s streets, and the desperate attempts of the drug-dealers to change careers or organize the market, you’ll see it. The horror of a world so in love with its madness, it would rather die for its darling, than snap out of it.
When you are in love with an idea, there’s nothing stopping you. Reality has no gravity. How things currently are doesn’t weigh you down, it inspires you.
When the 45th US president came to power, it was like a lost season of The Wire. The themes were exactly the same. He had his run in the system, then the system spat him out.
Power cliques have formed with the ability to deplatform books, people, journalistic publications, companies, world leaders, nation states. So powerful is the collaboration between corporations and governments and activists, they work in tandem selecting winners and losers. To think that anyone would be responsible with that much power is absolute hubris.
