Thread by @PatBlanchfield

going through old tweets about/by musk is a fucking trip (clout chasing Ramzan Kadyrov, personally moving to Mars, brain uploading, etc) but the one that really took my breath away was when he promised to bring clean water to flint in 2018. truly just a massive piece of shit

imagine the most coked out person whos ever pigeonholed you at a party but they've spent years messaging you their most grandiosely ludicrous plans and whiniest fits but also they're also somehow incredibly boring and forgettable

so after Disney options my screenplay, which how could they not right anyway then I use THAT as capital for a restaurant that does JUST surf and turf but get this you choose both the lobster AND the wagyu live from a tank they share and then I network with
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remember when in 2019 elon musk published a paper in which he claimed to have developed both a "neurosurgical robot" and a device that could "stream full broadband electrophysiology data” from the human brain via USB-C biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

the future prince of mars, a man who developed the revolutionary idea of putting cars in tunnels (because public transit is used by proles and serial killers), a titan who has accomplished so much and now has the time to post 100% cringe-free content and elevate us all #inspiring

I think the below is more the case every day. he's cornered selling faith in the idea of the future as such, and offers as a consolation prize to sad people the chance to at least participate in the halo of his self-assurance and sneering scorn for others

https://twitter.com/PatBlanchfield/status/1392122312099512321

more than a stupid person's idea of a smart guy. he's the perfect goofy embodiment of entire civilization running on vapors and inertia and who's managed to make himself the center of a nexus of investments, financial and affective, in a giant gamble that its all too big to fail

of course he'd be the richest man in our world, and also at the same time its most imaginatively impoverished, much in the same way trump was briefly its most powerful but also so constrained and impotent. empty guys riding something they can't control - because no one can

this poem from Stephen Crane's "Black Riders and Other Lines" (1895) has haunted me for twenty five years now and not a day has gone by in the past two weeks where I haven't found myself thinking of it. perhaps you'll see how it obtains now more than ever also

I own just one suit and its the one I got married in so maybe I'm missing something or committing an error of standpoint criticism but what the fuck is going on with these two

anyway I can't wait for someone to tell me that this is how a suit should look and also ask what I have done with my life what when Elon Musk has invented a way to upload human consciousness to the cloud by licking wall sockets 👍