![]() ![]() But I hear he treats his employees badlyįirst, we already discussed this: he can be a dick, so don’t be surprised when he is. Are there any celebrity interviewers left? Oprah, I guess, but her heart doesn’t seem to really be in it, and she now seems to be merely an enabling conduit for the Megan-and-Harry feelings politics that blights our era. Will they backstab? Even the interviewers were famous for interviewing, and it all feels like a million years ago. I pick 1996 because it seems to me to have been the acme of the celebrity profile – remember them? In Vanity Fair, say. A “like” given to someone else is a like that could have instead gone to oneself, which I suppose indicates that there’s something fundamentally different about selfhood than, say, 25 years ago. Yet people kvetch, and it makes me wonder if there is something fundamentally flawed about our era that it is almost impossible to get people to say something nice about pretty much anyone else. Shopped online lately? Ever wanted to visit the International Space Station? Want a new car? With cars alone, Musk pretty much single-handedly shamed and forced the global auto industry to accelerate the electric car rollout by seven to 10 years. Every day he tries to reinvent the wheel and it’s working. Musk didn’t just generate a few fundamental patents and move to Santa Barbara to golf for the rest of his life. He always reinvests in his own ideas and his ideas are good. He probably got used to going to the candy store and buying 10 of everything a long time ago. ![]() He’s also, at the time of writing, the second richest person on Earth. But he’s just out to make moneyĪ) So, what if he is? But, b) He isn’t. He isn’t someone who needs to fish for press. Musk doesn’t need to manipulate the media because what he does is fantastically interesting. Why on earth would he bother wasting three brain cells trying to manipulate the media? As well, his often-lame tweets frequently backfire, as he’s the first to attest with his all too true tweet: Tweeting on Ambien isn’t wise. One of those Kardashian people can make a line of armpit hair remover go viral, but Musk can generate or destroy billions of dollars of wealth in three or four words. After the deplatforming of Donald Trump, Musk is undebateably the planet’s alpha tweeter. But he seems like he’s trying to manipulate the media When being interviewed he’s opaque, overly techy and difficult to connect with – Richard Branson is a million times better with publicity, but there’s something about Musk that makes Branson seem a thousand years old. His Cybertruck launch was a disaster, and the “Tesla in space” thing was cringey. And let’s also be certain about something else: we all hate a goody two-shoes, so come on, what kind of perfect behaviour is it you expect from a person, any person, let alone Elon Musk? But he seems like he’s only out for publicityĮlon Musk is actually terrible at publicity. And what’s in it for you to dis someone you don’t know, anyway? Being negative is a stupid person’s way of trying to appear smart without actually being smart. So since when does being a dick somehow invalidate you as a person? It doesn’t. She probably has to be a dick 10 times a week. So can I, and, if we’re being truly honest, so can, say, the Queen. So then, let’s be totally honest here, because in your heart, you know, and I know, dear reader, that you can be a real dick, too.
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