This is insightful, and to go further, two things are happening that make this unprecedented and possible:
We all are becoming disfigured by current tech algorithmic content, either ourselves or secondarily by the information environment it creates through those around us. It affects some more than others, and narcissistic, un-self-reflective people who detest any disagreement like Musk the most. Those people’s worldview especially has become grotesque and malformed.
We have lost almost all safeguards against wealth and influence accumulation. This is obviously oligarchy, but in practice it means Musk is able to act like a separate nation. He can ply his own interests regardless of US laws, defend against any legal attacks, and wield the law as a weapon the casual, impulsive, nonchalant way the rest of us may decide to buy a coffee.
These allow Musk to view criticism of his wealth, his bigoted beliefs, that he views his trans daughter as dead, and his death sentence to million of children who relied on USAID, as examples of he himself being victimized, in a self-reinforcing cycle of his ego abusing others and feeling abused because of it.
So I suppose a wealth tax, a reversal of Citizens United (to start), a reapplication of media control laws , and a general strike to force the changes, are the only solutions short of violence. Any other ideas?
Expand the Supreme Court and enforce term limits for the courts and for Congress, abolish the Electoral College, enforce age limits for the presidency.
Don’t forget remove the cap on the House limiting it to the size from 1929. It’s created a de facto second Senate, defeating the purpose of the House existing in the first place, and allowing gerrymandering to be effective. It’s not nearly as useful when there are 1500 representatives like there should be.
This is insightful, and to go further, two things are happening that make this unprecedented and possible:
We all are becoming disfigured by current tech algorithmic content, either ourselves or secondarily by the information environment it creates through those around us. It affects some more than others, and narcissistic, un-self-reflective people who detest any disagreement like Musk the most. Those people’s worldview especially has become grotesque and malformed.
We have lost almost all safeguards against wealth and influence accumulation. This is obviously oligarchy, but in practice it means Musk is able to act like a separate nation. He can ply his own interests regardless of US laws, defend against any legal attacks, and wield the law as a weapon the casual, impulsive, nonchalant way the rest of us may decide to buy a coffee.
These allow Musk to view criticism of his wealth, his bigoted beliefs, that he views his trans daughter as dead, and his death sentence to million of children who relied on USAID, as examples of he himself being victimized, in a self-reinforcing cycle of his ego abusing others and feeling abused because of it.
So I suppose a wealth tax, a reversal of Citizens United (to start), a reapplication of media control laws , and a general strike to force the changes, are the only solutions short of violence. Any other ideas?
Expand the Supreme Court and enforce term limits for the courts and for Congress, abolish the Electoral College, enforce age limits for the presidency.
Don’t forget remove the cap on the House limiting it to the size from 1929. It’s created a de facto second Senate, defeating the purpose of the House existing in the first place, and allowing gerrymandering to be effective. It’s not nearly as useful when there are 1500 representatives like there should be.