• ConsciousCode@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t say stupid, just narcissistic control freak who can’t stop touching it. That way it doesn’t dismiss him outright. It’s a matter of essentializing language - “someone is stupid” isn’t so dangerous vs “someone does something stupid” lets you recognize the emperor has no clothes but can still be dangerous. Reality is more complex than “xyz is stupid/evil”, and falling into those patterns of thought does a disservice to yourself.

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      1 year ago

      I think stupidity is more complex and contextual, one can both be smart and dumb AF at the same time, the duality of dumb.

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      1 year ago

      I have a suspicion that all of the layers of “Elon management” at Tesla and SpaceX have given him the idea that he’s a brilliant innovator; he gives them all his outlandish ideas and they get filtered into (normally) reasonable plans, and they guide him down the path they want him to go down while he thinks the good idea is his. And those companies are both doing well, so clearly his style works, at least in his mind.

      But then he bought twitter, which didn’t have anyone devoted to protecting the company from him, and it’s all going to shit.