Thread by @PnictogenHorses

#imagination!

imagination is life. imagination is central to thought.

it's also vital to the _tokusatsu_ show "Ressha Sentai ToQger", vide infra. "ToQger" is a favorite of ours—the heroes' greatest strength is their imagination, which their enemies hope to snuff out.

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in Western society, only a few persons are allowed to have #imagination. it's true. imagination, in most persons in "the West", is punished.

consider the @elonmusk / @mtaibbi cult: the reason that Elon Musk is so adored is that he's allowed to have a free imagination.

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there's nothing very much *original* about @elonmusk's imagination, which has an antique quality about it. it's not merely a question of advancing years, although Musk (despite his babyish personality) is getting old. Akira Kurosawa was imaginative till the day he died.

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but @elonmusk is no Akira Kurosawa; Elon Musk's dreams are old-fashioned dreams that seem vaguely like relics of 1980s magazines. he's big on cars, which may have been salable as The Future™ back in 1950. he wants to strip-mine #space—another stale capitalist daydream.

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and if @elonmusk's dreams are old and stale, still worse are the daydreams of his *followers*—not just @mtaibbi and @MrAndyNgo and all the other professional hacks and frauds who are hoping to profit from Musk's "genius", but the huge cloud of bush-league scam artists.

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it's not creative or imaginative people who cling to the @elonmusk / @mtaibbi / @GOP bandwagon; it's two-bit business frauds and sales managers, people who think that #cryptocurrency can make infinite money as if by magic. Musk attracts those whom avarice has devoured.

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they're attracted to @elonmusk and @mtaibbi because they are NOT creative people; therefore, to feel like they're in touch with creativity, they attach themselves to celebrities who have built personal brands on the (false) premise that they're men of great imagination.

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most Western persons aren't supposed to have imaginations; in fact, those who haven't got the right social privileges (i.e. all marginalized persons in Western society) are supposed to have their faces rubbed hard in Reality™, all the time, every day, every hour.

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what's Reality™? why, it's whatever @elonmusk and @mtaibbi and @bariweiss *says* is real, of course—they're not merely permitted to have imaginations, they're also permitted to define reality for the plebs, like when Elon Musk pretends there's a "population crisis".

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if you're *not* socially privileged, expressions of imagination are punished.

bullying abusive parents like (pedophile) @MattWalshBlog will sneer and jeer and kick the imaginations out of their children—to "toughen them up", to "build character". there's many excuses.

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in fact it's likely that @elonmusk, who himself was a bullied abused child once, got used to the feeling of awful adults kicking his imagination to pieces—and that's part of the reason Elon Musk is out of control now, unwilling to let go of his illusions about himself.

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that's what abused children tend to do when they grow up; they turn into adults who *overcompensate* for feeling powerless and crushed. why do you think the Pnictogen Wing (especially Chara) are so annoying and persistent? child abuse! it's made us dour and determined.

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@elonmusk (maybe even @mtaibbi) probably has a *lot* of memories of being told, at a tender formative age, that his daydreams were rubbish—so now he's not likely to listen to anyone like me, some crazy nobody from the edge of the country, saying that he has bad ideas.

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but Elon Musk's ideas *are* in fact bad; @elonmusk wouldn't be reduced to looting @Twitter for anything he can flog to @mtaibbi and @bariweiss and the @GOP if Musk had *good ideas*. he's a "vulture capitalist" in other words—good mainly at stripping corporate corpses.

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#imagination has to intersect with objective reality at some point, and that's *difficult* for wannabe tyrants and overlords like @elonmusk, because objective reality tells them things they don't like to hear. and surely a strong person can simply make imagination real!

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there's a crude sort of magical thinking at work, not just in the @elonmusk / @mtaibbi fash fanclub, but generally in the #business and #entrepreneur culture which puts such a massive overemphasis on #confidence and simply...getting what you want by hook or crook.

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if you want it, then you should simply be able to will that desire into reality, "manifesting" it (as @jordanbpeterson and a myriad self-help hucksters might say.) @mtaibbi *wants* the #TwitterFiles to be the new Pentagon Papers, so...he'll just *assert* that they are.

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@elonmusk *wants* to be God-King of #Mars, so...he'll simply *manifest* that—and there's a million fanboys out there willing to contribute to the ritual of manifestation, by churning out computer graphics and simulations of Musk's desired Martian kingdom. _et voilà!_

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the @elonmusk / @mtaibbi crowd are so proud of their collective imagination, they think it's their *superpower*. it's what proves they're "smart"—smarter than all the subhumans and "woke mind virus" people who make fun of Elon Musk, anyway!

it's smoke and mirrors.

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it's ghosts. it's Blender images of gleaming @Tesla cars that will never exist, @boringcompany tunnels that will never be built, gleaming @SpaceX #Mars colonies that (if the gods and the fates have mercy upon us all) will never rise up to afflict our planetary neighbor.

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#imagination isn't the province of mere corporate elitists like @elonmusk. imagination belongs to ALL OF US. all persons on Earth have imaginations. all persons have liberty to explore their imaginations. the stale daydreams of the Elon Musk cult deserve no prize place.

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we do not NEED @elonmusk. we do not NEED @mtaibbi. their visions of the future are destructive and backwards. these people are not prophets of a golden age; they're agents of a Christofascist @GOP conspiracy.

for extremist Christian fanatics have imaginations too!

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people like @HawleyMO and @RepMTG and @RonDeSantisFL have imaginations—bloodsoaked, degenerate imaginings, stinking of death and corruption and depraved sexuality—lurid, red-tinged daydreams of Hell and Death and the dripping swords of God's armies. it's *their* future.

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it's *that* Rapture-Ready @GOP future that @elonmusk and @mtaibbi are fighting to enact...whether they know that's what they're doing, or not.

~Mona Drafter of Pnictogen

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