[FRIAM] not impressed

[Steve Smith]

I saw but didn't follow the link from a thumbnail referencing Musk's 
father giving (White) So. African ideals credit for his son's success, 
etc.   I'm not as harsh on Musk as you are, but I get your gist on this 
and don't disagree in general.

It is a sensitive enough topic perhaps but I would like it if anyone 
with more So.African experience (e.g. Pieter?) could weigh in on the 
perspective of what *I* identify as 
manic-hypercapitalistic/patriarchal/colonization syndrome shared by the 
US and several other breakaway Euro-colonies (South Africa, Australia in 
particular).   I use those perjorative terms with some fondness as that 
is what I was born and raised amongst.  That was my petri-dish.  In some 
ways, my version (working cowboys, timbermen, truckers and roughneck oil 
riggers) is possibly more high-test than some here.   Moving on to a 
scientific/technical study/profession in *it's* heyday possibly only 
aggravated the worst of that, many tech entrepreneurs (or guns-for-hire) 
are pretty much the same thing but take their showers at the start of 
the day instead of the end.   I have been rewarded well for being a 
(surely weak and flawed by the standards of this group) right-brained, 
ambitious, linear logical-positivist.

I am currently meandering through Northern France into Belgium, 
experiencing things like +/-1c Roman Ruins next to 10c cathedrals and 
castles and villages that were the site of WWI and WWII occupation first 
by the Germans and then by their "liberators". The countryside, and 
people and commerce in these remote villages feels like it could be set 
in any century since the enlightenment (if you ignore the very 
occasional automobile or the giant windmills on the horizon).   The 
number of jet contrails is amazingly low compared to *any* part of the 
US.   Things seem so much more decentralized and human-scale slow, 
etc.   That doesn't include the manic day we careened into Paris, parked 
*under* the Louvre, did a "been there-done-that tour" then drove out 
during rush hour (bad planning) including a (n accidental) 
circumambulation of the Arc du Triomphe on the way out.  The level of 
manic in Paris rivaled the best I've felt in Rome, San Francisco or even 
NYC (especially in the Arc du Roundy-round as the Wisconsonites wouild 
call it?).

I haven't seen a single American with a MAGA hat as I did in 2018 on my 
way to Stockholm (several overpolite, overbearing men). Greta was in the 
news and I even hand-carried an effigy from a Lakota friend to deliver 
to her family (friends of our hosts there) and had a vision of making up 
MAGA hats which replace GREAT with GRETA (by simply inverting the AT, ( 
Glen could conjure the Unicode for that methinks) and deftly swap those 
in for people I meet with their MAGA on.


https://www.indy100.com/media-library/image.jpg

    /Fridays are for 'F you boomer!'//
    /

At the /Musee du Matisse/ the Anglais speaking docent was quick to 
recognize our 'murrican accents (and dress, grooming and silhouette?) 
and was proud to tell us that they had "Just had two Texans in here last 
week".  That could mean *anything* but I wanted to say "I'm sorry" but 
that would have been too subtle for our language/culture differences, 
and in fact i know *plenty* of good Texans.   But then there is the 
saying in Santa Fe "Texans go home, leave your wallets" which I could 
almost imagine Euros mumbling about 'murricans as we leave each place.


- Ramble

On 6/3/22 2:40 PM, glen wrote:
> Yeah, it seems ironic for Tony Stark to cling to the obsolete. But 
> Tony Stark isn't real. It's not the slightest bit ironic for a 
> conservative like Musk to cling to the past. New Teslas should come 
> pre-branded with a MAGA rectangle on the bumber.
>
> On 6/2/22 18:07, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/01/tech/elon-musk-tesla-ends-work-from-home/index.html 
>> <https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/01/tech/elon-musk-tesla-ends-work-from-home/index.html> 
>>
>
>
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