Monday, November 26, 2018
The real tragedy
A poignant reflection from Machine Planet, one of the Tesla skeptics:
It’s really funny to me that the media still doesn’t recognize that the lasting story will be about how they made it so easy for Musk, about how they jumped to publish his cheap sci-fi blather without so much as a single critical word. Just stenographers for a con man.
Well, this will be the lasting story in the minds of observant humans, but it will NOT be in the media. The media never apologize for lying. They only apologize when their lies weren't murderous enough.
The real classical tragedy is that Elon could have been a solid but undramatic success story if he had known where to stop. He had a good deal going with his original high-status low-production supercars. He was building a few hundred status markers for his fellow billionaire fuckheads. Status markers don't need to function in winter or drive hundreds of miles. Status markers only need to parade in the streets in perfect weather. His roadstars served those purposes admirably.
Roadstars! Beautiful typo. Leave it.
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