Saturday, November 23, 2019
Why bulletproof?
Bulletproof is the big selling point for Elon's CYBRTRK.
Everyone (including me) has been mocking the fakeness of the bulletproof, but there's a deeper question.
WHY is bulletproof a selling point?
Elon's cultists are tech-monsters. Libertarians. Young males. A lot of them are Oriental or Hindu. All of them are well-educated, strong in math, short on life experience. They live precariously in high-rent areas surrounded by slums. They feel physically threatened, and perhaps they also sense that their wealth is on shaky ground, cantilevered by debt and subsidies and share-value Ponziness.
Bulletproof makes sense in that situation, because buying a gun is
for a tech-monster. Owning a bulletproof vehicle that looks just like the SWAT team's trucks is their substitute for owning a gun. You get to feel like a cop, leaving you free to ignore the gross inequality that you're helping to create, and leaving you free to HATE actual cops who actually put their lives on the line to defend your Libertarian ass.
Moving to a less precarious job in a safer city with less inequality is thinkable, but such a move would put a cap on their imaginary exponential curve of income. 
for a tech-monster. Owning a bulletproof vehicle that looks just like the SWAT team's trucks is their substitute for owning a gun. You get to feel like a cop, leaving you free to ignore the gross inequality that you're helping to create, and leaving you free to HATE actual cops who actually put their lives on the line to defend your Libertarian ass.
Moving to a less precarious job in a safer city with less inequality is thinkable, but such a move would put a cap on their imaginary exponential curve of income. Labels: #bluelivesmatter, Shared Lie, Sucker Filter
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