good park

Why do people want to live in the sad little world where STEM is the only thing worth doing, anyway?  Is your ideal society a battleship with no windows because seeing outside is a needless luxury?  Is your personal mascot a worker ant?  Do you read 1984 and sigh wistfully, then throw the book away in rage because reading fiction is not Productive and writers are not Productive People?

or are you big ‘ol hypocrites who actually enjoy the fruits of art and design and liberal arts every day, but you just don’t want to admit it because then you won’t feel special for knowing how to slap together three lines of javascript

The end result of turbo individualization & social alienation from a neoliberal society is:

‘Epic Rick&Morty style genius thinks our form of public transportation should be everyone getting their own personal Tesla bubble so you don’t have to share any kind of space with anyone ever again.

Also comes with free Zoloft compartment to help with the daily feeling of complete isolation & loss of sense of tangible community’

Elon Musk is one of the billionaires with better PR (”real life Tony Stark”) and so an obnoxious cult has gathered under him that really believes anything & everything a obscenely rich and extremely disconnected white man says is TRUE unquestionable genius that any not billionaires can’t understand. They literally take it as a personal insult if you criticize him in any manner.

It’d be sad if it wasn’t annoying and pathetic. You can find various professionals - people with all sorts of education, awards, papers or decades of work in actual public transport criticizing the Boring Co as poorly-thought out, counterproductive or unfeasible but because they aren’t ‘visionary’ (see: rich & famous with good PR) they aren’t worth listening to.

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