👏👏👏 Bravo, bravo, bravo, Daniel! Magnificent! I’m glad someone finally said this! I’m so sick of the hero worship of Elon Musk! But let’s start by talking about Jerry Springer. Jerry Springer was the idealistic, soft spoken son of Holocaust survivors who sought a better world for all. But he sold his soul for ratings and wealth. Richard Dominick may have turned Jerry to the dark side but it was Jerry who chose to join the dark side and stay there. Just like just because someone corrupted famed literary character Dorian Gray, doesn’t mean Dorian shouldn’t be held accountable for being corrupted. Jerry Springer and his ilk like Oprah Winfrey, Geraldo Rivera, Jenny Jones, and others created what was called “Trash TV” which would in time morph into toxic reality TV that lower our cultural tastes and paved the way for garbage like Survivor, Big Brother, The Khardasians, My Sweet 16, Fear Factor, Parental Controls, Naked and Afraid, and the lowbrow culture we live in today. The Jerry Springer Show as far as I’m concerned exploited poor white, black and brown people, profited off people’s misery, suffering, pain, family strife, and personal dirty secrets, treated LGBT people as circus freaks, used the KKK and Neo-Nazis for shock value and profits (which his parents would’ve been devastated by and would’ve disowned him), played on the worst impulses of human beings, and corrupted the soul of the American nation. That’s all it accomplished, it wasn’t some grand social experiment in free speech as he claimed. Elon Musk is no different playing on the political divisions that exist in our society to promote himself and his company and obtain power and influence. As a result he is coarsening the political discourse in this country even more than it already was, giving totally uninformed opinions on topics he knows nothing about and backing anyone no matter how exterme or morally reprehensible like the Reform Party in the UK because it’s “edgy” and “counter culture” and that’s what the people want right? To troll the establishment? So I’m just being a nice guy and giving it to them. While I’m all for trolling the establishment, this is a case of that going too far by helping far-right extermists who hate immigrants, foreigners and Muslims. Or palling around with a piece of human garbage like Tommy Robinson formerly of the EDL. He’ll do anything to ultimately get what he wants. To the American people: Elon Musk is NOT you’re friend or a hero! Nor does he really care about free speech like he says he does!
And the end you wrote: “For when all is said and done, it is not Springer or Musk who are corrupt, but us. We are Rome and Rome fell to the barbarians. It's time to learn from history”
What was it Leonard Cohen wrote in 1992 in his song “The Future”?
“Give me back my broken night
My mirrored room, my secret life
It's lonely here
There's no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
Over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby
That's an order!
Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
And stuff it up the hole
In your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St. Paul
I've seen the future, brother
It is murder
Things are going to slide (slide) in all directions
Won't be nothing (won't be)
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold
And it's overturned
The order of the soul
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
You don't know me from the wind
You never will, you never did
I'm the little Jew
Who wrote the Bible
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
But love's the only engine
Of survival
Your servant here, he has been told
To say it clear, to say it cold
It's over, it ain't going any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
You feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future: It is murder
Things are going to slide (slide) in all directions
Won't be nothing (won't be)
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold
And it's overturned the order of the soul
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
There'll be the breaking of the ancient Western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms, there'll be fires on the road
And the white man dancing
You'll see your woman hanging upside down
Her features covered by her fallen gown
And all the lousy little poets coming round
Trying to sound like Charlie Manson
Yeah the white man dancing
Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St. Paul
Give me Christ
Or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don't like children anyhow
I've seen the future, baby: It is murder
Things are going to slide (slide) in all directions
Won't be nothing (won't be), nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold
And it's overturned
The order of the soul
When they said (they said) repent (repent)
Repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent)
Repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent)
Repent (repent)
Things are going to slide (slide) in all directions
Won't be nothing (won't be), nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold
And it's overturned
The order of the soul
When they said (they said) repent (repent)
Repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
👏👏👏 Bravo, bravo, bravo, Daniel! Magnificent! I’m glad someone finally said this! I’m so sick of the hero worship of Elon Musk! But let’s start by talking about Jerry Springer. Jerry Springer was the idealistic, soft spoken son of Holocaust survivors who sought a better world for all. But he sold his soul for ratings and wealth. Richard Dominick may have turned Jerry to the dark side but it was Jerry who chose to join the dark side and stay there. Just like just because someone corrupted famed literary character Dorian Gray, doesn’t mean Dorian shouldn’t be held accountable for being corrupted. Jerry Springer and his ilk like Oprah Winfrey, Geraldo Rivera, Jenny Jones, and others created what was called “Trash TV” which would in time morph into toxic reality TV that lower our cultural tastes and paved the way for garbage like Survivor, Big Brother, The Khardasians, My Sweet 16, Fear Factor, Parental Controls, Naked and Afraid, and the lowbrow culture we live in today. The Jerry Springer Show as far as I’m concerned exploited poor white, black and brown people, profited off people’s misery, suffering, pain, family strife, and personal dirty secrets, treated LGBT people as circus freaks, used the KKK and Neo-Nazis for shock value and profits (which his parents would’ve been devastated by and would’ve disowned him), played on the worst impulses of human beings, and corrupted the soul of the American nation. That’s all it accomplished, it wasn’t some grand social experiment in free speech as he claimed. Elon Musk is no different playing on the political divisions that exist in our society to promote himself and his company and obtain power and influence. As a result he is coarsening the political discourse in this country even more than it already was, giving totally uninformed opinions on topics he knows nothing about and backing anyone no matter how exterme or morally reprehensible like the Reform Party in the UK because it’s “edgy” and “counter culture” and that’s what the people want right? To troll the establishment? So I’m just being a nice guy and giving it to them. While I’m all for trolling the establishment, this is a case of that going too far by helping far-right extermists who hate immigrants, foreigners and Muslims. Or palling around with a piece of human garbage like Tommy Robinson formerly of the EDL. He’ll do anything to ultimately get what he wants. To the American people: Elon Musk is NOT you’re friend or a hero! Nor does he really care about free speech like he says he does!
Great summary Noah, but just to add that even if Musk were informed, his billions shouldn’t give him the right to dictate the news agenda.
Well said!
And the end you wrote: “For when all is said and done, it is not Springer or Musk who are corrupt, but us. We are Rome and Rome fell to the barbarians. It's time to learn from history”
What was it Leonard Cohen wrote in 1992 in his song “The Future”?
“Give me back my broken night
My mirrored room, my secret life
It's lonely here
There's no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
Over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby
That's an order!
Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
And stuff it up the hole
In your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St. Paul
I've seen the future, brother
It is murder
Things are going to slide (slide) in all directions
Won't be nothing (won't be)
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold
And it's overturned
The order of the soul
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
You don't know me from the wind
You never will, you never did
I'm the little Jew
Who wrote the Bible
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
But love's the only engine
Of survival
Your servant here, he has been told
To say it clear, to say it cold
It's over, it ain't going any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
You feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future: It is murder
Things are going to slide (slide) in all directions
Won't be nothing (won't be)
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold
And it's overturned the order of the soul
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
There'll be the breaking of the ancient Western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms, there'll be fires on the road
And the white man dancing
You'll see your woman hanging upside down
Her features covered by her fallen gown
And all the lousy little poets coming round
Trying to sound like Charlie Manson
Yeah the white man dancing
Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St. Paul
Give me Christ
Or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don't like children anyhow
I've seen the future, baby: It is murder
Things are going to slide (slide) in all directions
Won't be nothing (won't be), nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold
And it's overturned
The order of the soul
When they said (they said) repent (repent)
Repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent)
Repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent)
Repent (repent)
Things are going to slide (slide) in all directions
Won't be nothing (won't be), nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold
And it's overturned
The order of the soul
When they said (they said) repent (repent)
Repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent)
Repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent)
Repent (repent)”
https://youtu.be/VFWg9SVfThc?feature=shared