Elon Musk’s opinion column
in German weekend news sheet Welt am Sontag, triggered a huge outpouring of anger and outrage from the
establishment and mainstream media figure because in the text he gave his endorsement for the upcoming German election to the Alternative
for Germany (AfD) party, routinely labelled 'far right' by far more authoritarian parties in Europe.
All sorts of unhinged accuasations flooded print and broadcast news while internet comment threads on leftist websites saw contributors go into meltdown. Claims that Musk is participating in “election interference” and harming Germany democracy were common. But seriously, can Elon Musk, for all his billions actually affect the election result, and if the AfD scores a surprisingly good result, how will Germany’s power elite react?
It is unlikely that
Musk’s endorsement will move the needle all that much. Musk is already
demonized across the EU for his takeover of X and shift towards
supporting right-leaning candidates. In Germany, there is a constant
stream of anti-Musk content produced on a daily basis. Musk writing an
op-ed in Welt is hardly going to convince the majority of Germans, who
likely already have an unfavorable opinion of Musk. On the other hand, the ongoing efforts of the establishment to have AfD banned from the election as 'a threat to democracy' could drive many voters to the upstart party and if AfD poll so wel they cannot be excuded from government as they previously have been, Musk's intervention might make him a handy scapegoat when the establishment try to get the result overturned as they most certainly will.
The AfD is already polling at 19 percent or so, and a poll in November set the party’s voter potential at 25 percent, which means there is a definite ceiling to the party’s support. Could Musk raise that ceiling?
Elon is a mega disrupter. As a result, he’s a target for the 'woke; left, the pensees unique, those who will not tolerate disrupters, dissenters or diversity of opinion. Space X alone has seized control of the aerospace market, wrecking the business models of all other commercial space efforts mercilessly. Starlink is conquering the SATCOM market at a global scale.
Funds from Starlink in turn fund the Starship program, Earth’s biggest and largest spacecraft to date, which alone will drastically reduce the cost of material per pound to space than any other platform. Tesla is his vision for a future that isn’t dependent on fossil fuels. And he is fighting to maintain that vision.
His endorsement of the AfD isn’t an endorsement of hate, as the established press and political class in Germany would have you believe. It is an endorsement for disruption; a change from the current norm that has proven itself to be obsolete and in need of change. He sees war as a civilization killer. He sees waste, fraud, and abuse as cancers to democratic institutions. And if an opportunity arises to address such problems, he takes it.
All of the businesses he’s involved in have visionary purposes behind them. The Boring Company. Neurolink. Optimus. His work with AI. Tesla Wall, and so on. This isn’t to say he’s not without faults. But one thing is for sure. This world is flying towards WW III faster than it ever has. And that needs to be disrupted more than anything else. And if Elon can help to achieve that in whatever contribution he can, good for him.
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Legacy media is no longer THE media but it is still maintream, there are still millions of people who rely on for the information upon which they will base their opinions, on print and broadcast news. It’s likely most of them will not be following alternative journalists/podcasters/influencers online if, indeed, they’re aware of them. From my limited experience, their are few people who go beyond Google, YouTube and Facebook which, as we know, are heavily censored, closely aligned with the deep state agencies that create the naratives to which news reporting conforms, and highly suspect!
Those of us who get most of our information from the Internet will have our favourites, some of whom have massive followings, be they funded by corporations or small donors. It is up to us to use our discernment and our intuition. If we watch enough widely-differing purveyors of the news, we should be able to get the gist of what’s happening across the globe, form an opinion and be prepared to adjust it as more information comes in. In other words, we have to use both sides of our brains as we look for differing views on current affairs.
Mass media is corporate media, in that vast capital and authority among the monied clique that controls large business operations is required for broadcasting any message. To reiterate McLuhan’s misunderstood meme, which he saw as being over-misused, the above described msm is it’s own message. It is the voice of wealth-authority and as such we know “history is written by the winners” to their own benefit. So I agree with Kit, we should be wary of every content delivery flowing out of this form. Whether tributary-out influencers, fbBots, or one’s influenced neighbor rumor, awareness, calm, assessment and patience must be a constant new form of audience intelligence. But the medium is an equally important sign of the character of the delivery.
I don’t give a damn how these online personalities present themselves. To care about such trivia is as daft as being influenced by bright lights and flashy sets. There can be as much sense spoken in someone’s kitchen as a smart studio.
We all have our personal favourites many of whom will specialise in different subject matter, are journalists and/or writers, have made videos and nearly all are likely to have to have interesting guests. Yes, they have teams. the tasks would be impossible without them, but it’s easy to spot those who are manipulated behind the scenes.
One of the deciding factors when I tune into someone new is their persona – would I trust them if I met them? This is a good yardstick when choosing who to follow. And if they are now the ‘new’ mainstream, so what! That simply means they’re more prevalent.
Mass media is corporate media, in that vast capital and authority among the monied clique that controls large business operations is required for broadcasting any message. To reiterate McLuhan’s misunderstood meme, which he saw as being over-misused, the above described msm is it’s own message. It is the voice of wealth-authority and as such we know “history is written by the winners” to their own benefit.
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