Part of why we’re in this current mess is because too many people thought naively that the average person has room in their lives for ideology or that the average working american gives a shit about culture war when there’s not enough time or money in the day to even take a breath, much less live a life.
They don’t. The well isn’t poisoned, it’s dried out. If we put Tesla out of business tomorrow Elon will still be wealthy enough to buy nations and people’s teslas will still be sitting in their garages slowly depreciating like every other consumer good.
I much, much, MUCH rather see someone put that time and energy that they would use to sell their car into getting involved in their local community organizing or county elections. Those are the systems that allowed people like Musk and Trump to seize power in America and those are also the ones that get ZERO media hype. Not a coincidence. Same distraction is happening in the “culture war” every day and we’re all losing.
Part of why we’re in this current mess is because too many people thought naively that the average person has room in their lives for ideology or that the average working american gives a shit about culture war when there’s not enough time or money in the day to even take a breath, much less live a life.
They don’t. The well isn’t poisoned, it’s dried out. If we put Tesla out of business tomorrow Elon will still be wealthy enough to buy nations and people’s teslas will still be sitting in their garages slowly depreciating like every other consumer good.
I much, much, MUCH rather see someone put that time and energy that they would use to sell their car into getting involved in their local community organizing or county elections. Those are the systems that allowed people like Musk and Trump to seize power in America and those are also the ones that get ZERO media hype. Not a coincidence. Same distraction is happening in the “culture war” every day and we’re all losing.