2025-01-07
Elon Musk, a fabulously rich entrepreneur, who supposedly made his money creating new and very popular services such as PayPal, innovations such as Tesla self-driving autonomous vehicles, and who is also a defence contractor (well, a man must make his living where he can), boasts a close relationship with "the Donald" (and did I mention "X"?), is now seemingly entertaining himself by adopting a new role: the scourge of malfunctioning governments!
A tweet or two from Musk and the snowflakes in said malfunctioning governments clutch their pearls, grab for their smelling salts, and between hyper-ventilations write all kinds of opinion pieces declaring that he must be controlled, preferably silenced, lest he inflame their easily-deceived moronic voters into believing that changes may be desirable at the next elections! And (Shock! Horror!) he isn't even a politician, so what on earth does he think he's doing?!
He's setting an excellent example to the rest of us - he's doing his own thinking, coming to his own conclusions, and actually giving voice to them. He's non-compliant with the status quo. He's exerting his freedom to call for change.
What on earth will he think of next?
But isn't he doing merely what every democrat should be doing? Why else would we have elections?
Love him or hate him (and since they are mostly human and therefore imperfect, we might say that about any politician or media personality in the world), he is using his position to set us an example, to point out that democracy is messy, that nobody has a monopoly on right-think, and that to get a good election result we need popular opinion to coalesce around and vote for those politicians that have the right thinking about the pressing problems of the time.
Neither any one politician nor any one voter is going to have all the right answers, or even ask all the right questions, so we will need a varied team who are not afraid to set personal ambition aside and work together for the greater good according to their areas of expertise.
Look upon Musk as the grit in the oyster that prompts the creation of that increasingly rare pearl: a functioning democracy working for the benefit of the people. In these fractious controlling times, he's one of the few who are big enough to do it and get away with it.
