The Unbearable Lightness of Techies’ Views of Elon Musk’s Rising Political Power
The new de-facto shadow president that will be selected in 2024 is either old elite Mark Zuckerberg or new elite Elon Musk
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“The history of mankind is the graveyard of aristocracy….In fact….it is always an oligarchy that governs”…A Monopoly Capitalist society will always be an oligarchy of the few at the expense of the many and any pretense of elections will always be between factions of oligarchs not any bottoms up movement” despite media portrayals otherwise (paraphrased). – sociologist Vilfredo Pareto
“The windmill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill, society with the industrial capitalist” (and by extension to today, automation brings societal depopulation of mass injections by physicians or by needless warfare from drones).
–Karl Marx, The Poverty of Philosophy, 1847).
In the novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera the main characters embrace the heaviness of life and love and die happy while those who live superficially suffer the “unbearable lightness of being”. Today it means that some people can skip college and go directly into computer programming or a related high paying and high-status, white-collar job.
It is the phrase that came to mind when listening to an interview of a progressive high-tech professional named “Meta Prime” by online podcaster Pete Quinones who is self-described as a working-class Catholic blogger. Quinones posed the question: “how should we feel about Elon Musk’s rising political power challenging Silicon Valley established high tech elites (Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft)?
Both Quinones and Meta Prime share their implied religious like faith in technological progress for artificial intelligence (AI) needed to put a total surveillance system into place. Artificial Intelligence is
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