What happened to real movers and shakers?
As I woke up this morning, happy to have a day off, I found myself horrified by a since-deleted post I wrote while drunk and frustrated about Twitter/Musk. I have always liked Twitter and feel that it has gone downhill since they removed the character limit. The thing I liked about old Twitter is that it was very organic and one did not need to waste a lot of time finding one’s interests or expressing one’s thoughts.
It’s frustrating that I see Musk’s latest tweet at the top of my feed every time I log in (which is rarely lately). It’s frustrating that I barely see the people I follow; maybe they’re shadow banned like me. It’s frustrating to not see my own tweets in the hashtag lists in which I put them. Most of all, it’s frustrating that I cannot tweet at all most of the time.
Musk has ruined Twitter. He’s treated like some kind of demigod because he received untold billions of dollars to fund an overrated golf cart company. Teslas are horrible cars in my opinion. They could have been cool if they had been made to run on hydrogen fuel cells which require no batteries. Honda makes a hydrogen fuel car, but it’s fairly useless without infrastructure to support it. It’s interesting that Honda also led the way with EVs with the Insight which failed for the same reason — lack of infrastructure.
It’s a pity.
But today is Martin Luther King Day, and it has me thinking about that great man, a true leader who changed the world in a good way by leading African-Americans to their God-given civil rights. He paid with his own life for this. That is integrity. That is courage. That is true leadership.
Where are such men and women today? Protests all seem contrived, and they are for the most part by various well funded interest groups. I can’t even remember the last charismatic leader who led an organic movement.
I wish I could lead a movement where people started their own websites instead of using social media platforms owned by billionaire oligarchs, but I’m shadow banned on those platforms and dislike them anyway — it would be pretty hypocritical of me to use them to promote my movement.
I wish I could start a hydrogen car company and build out the infrastructure for that superior technology, but Wall Street isn’t going to throw tens of billions of dollars at me to do that. There’s no money in hydrogen, but there is in cobalt and lithium and toxic EV batteries in general.
I wish someone would start an “Earth First” movement that aims to make things better on this planet before selling pipe dreams about going to Mars. Humans are never going to Mars, at least not in the way Musk envisions.
I really hope my boss didn’t see the drunken, angry post I made last night, and I sincerely apologize to anyone who did. It was not a good post considering the peaceful spirit of the person we celebrate today.