By Tom Luongo - September 11, 2023

I find it utterly baffling how smart people can be so single-minded as to not see the bigger picture. Last week X/Twitter Owner Elon Musk took the Neocon/Davos war machine head on. On two critical issues Musk put himself in the line of fire.

Those issues are the use of Starlink by the Ukrainian military to gtarget civilian populations in Russia in support of their war and Musk’s intention to sue the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for damages over their campaign to control the narrative on Twitter.

Musk forced ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt into a series of uncomfortable interviews in the controlled corporate media that made him look as hyperbolic and irrelevant as people like Joy Ann Reid, Keith Olbermencsch and Bill Kristolnacht.

And yet still I have to see the good guys talk about the coming technological ‘pocky-clypse,’ because Musk himself has, generously, controversial (and slightly nutty) views on technology’s cost/benefit profile for humanity at large.

I say this knowing full well that Musk’s research into brain-chips etc. are things I fundamentally believe have far more downside than up.

This black-pilled and supposedly populist wing of alternative media and their insistence that Musk is nothing more than a fake benefactor for humanity has now jumped the shark, in my opinion.

While I have no desire to submit to the “evil” of ‘biometrics’ on X (nee Twitter) and turning it into the very Fourth Industrial Revolution Minority Report style platform that we’re all rightly afraid of, I also have little problem with real people choosing how they prove their identity in public and within the context of something Musk owns.

To only focus on the downside of this while not seeing the other side of the equation is myopic in the extreme, especially coming from people who have no issue using Face ID on their iPhones.

Skepticism in all things political is a net good today. I’ve written about how important it is to flip the old adage, “Trust, but verify,” on its head. Don’t give anyone in a position of power the benefit of the doubt about what their real agenda is.

Musk is no different.

“Distrust, but verify,” is still the rule of the day. I can take his fight with the ADL and his restricting Starlink’s use by Ukraine on face value, but I also acknowledge that he may have ulterior motives with both of the technologies he controls.

Do I trust Musk? No.

Do I think he’s in a titanic battle of oligarchs to keep the lines of communications between us open while immense pressure is exerted at the governmental level in the run-up to the all-important 2024 US Presidential election?

Yes.

So, I can look at Musk’s situation from multiple angles, praising him for the good he’s doing now but also still be distrustful of his potential to rise to Bond Villain status.

That said, he’s done an awful lot of good in recent months since walking into Twitter, kitchen sink in hand.

As I said back in May . . .

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