Elon Musk isn't the virus. He's just pretty good at it.

The bad idea is older and simpler. We're bad at cooperation. We default to extraction because it pays out fast — within a single lifetime, within a single attention span.

He didn't invent that. He just scored highest on the test.

We built a competition optimized for 60 year payouts and acted surprised when it selected against our children.

He's not the aberration. He's the gold medalist of a game we never should have been playing.

you know... it sucks

but violence is the answer.

If the other side is prepared for violence, or you know, enacting it for fucking decades, there is nothing else they will accept as an argument.

we can build incredibly elegant systems that are mathematically perfect, egalitarian, just gorgeous. But they fall apart because someone who wants more will inevitably attack to get what they think they deserve.