Why is Elon the only person doing this?

Why don’t other leaders in government, industry, media, and academia engage with the great unwashed? They could. They could do it right now by opening an app, clicking “go live,” adding a title, and watching thousands of people suddenly appear. You can talk with multitudes. This could be Biden, Gates, Schumer, Fauci, the presidents of any university, the editors at the major newspapers, or anyone else on the planet.

Down With Aloof Posturing by Politicians and Elites

By Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Epoch Times, February 21, 2024;

Last evening, users scrolling their feed from X saw a notification of a so-called Space, which is a live chat involving potentially a vast number of people, where Elon Musk was holding forth. I went there and listened for half an hour or so. Nothing newsworthy came from it really but it was fascinating at a meta level.

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Here was the richest individual in the West commenting in real time, without notes or talking points, about various matters, from sci-fi to censorship to technology and timelines for flight or anything else that came up. He was chummy with some other speakers and engaging with strangers. This went on for hours.
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There were probably only 10,000 or so listeners and participants. To my knowledge, this was not scheduled ahead of time. It just happened. Again, it was kind of like having Elon over for drinks except that 10,000 people were in the living room.

Apparently he does this often.

Now, this is very interesting. One presumes that he is a very busy man, who during the day probably has his each half-hour planned in advance. He has more to worry about than practically anyone. He has many companies and interests and over 25K employees, and is responsible for hundreds of billions in valuation.

And yet he makes time to sit and gab around with random regular people from all over the planet using this very cool technology. Nor does he use the occasion to pronounce like some guru. Participants are deferential to him, of course, but he comes across as just another regular person—very smart but also normal—except with a special calling. As a public figure, he senses a real responsibility to engage the public, and encounter the public as a regular person.

He speaks not with a script or a teleprompter but just in conversational English, including of course profanity that we know all these people use anyway. If he doesn’t know something, he says so. If he cannot talk about something, he says that too. But on every other matter, from books he has read to predictions of the future, he is an open book.

Now just ask yourself: why don’t other leaders in government, industry, media, and academia do this? They could. They could do it right now by opening an app, clicking “go live,” adding a title, and watching thousands of people suddenly appear. You can talk with multitudes. This could be Biden, Gates, Schwab, Fauci, the presidents of any university, the editors at the major newspapers, or anyone else on the planet.

Why is Elon the only person doing this? Where is everyone else? We live in a time of democratized technology. Where are the other vaunted leaders of our time in this space?

Don’t tell me it’s because they are busy. Elon is rather busy. It’s not because it is beneath them. Elon could say the same. It cannot be because they don’t know how. The X app makes it extremely easy from any smartphone. You don’t need a studio or any special equipment. Why are they not there?

My theory: their aloofness masks their fear. They don’t want to be grilled. They cannot stand to mix it up with regular people. They consider the rest of us their lessers and not worthy of their time. They think we are stupid and not particularly relevant to their plans for our lives. So they have set themselves apart in every way. This includes housing, methods of travel, social circles, belief systems and otherwise.
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They are the powerful, the insiders, the people who have made it. We are the others and mostly represent a threat. At the very least, we are icky. We are just readers, users, writers, and normal workers. They want nothing to do with us.

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PubliusWarmac

2 months ago

Elon Musk is a great man. He does not fear open conversation, he embraces it. Conversely, the global socialists fear anything that might disrupt their worn out ideas.

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Zeus

2 months ago

The ONLY path to Heaven (a higher life) is through TRUTH AND REVELATION.

But what do I know?

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Zeus

2 months ago

Reply to  Zeus

FREEDOM is a higher life. FREEDOM was our first love and first gift. Freedom is everything.

Information can be deception or revelation. Communication can be like light, revealing lies and truth. Our enemy uses lies to keep us as their slaves. Elon Musk is using communication as a light of truth to set us free again…. free as birds so to speak.

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Staff Sgt

2 months ago

Reply to  Zeus

Obviously more than you might lead on. Your comment above is pretty awesome. I would also like to add, through repenting and taking Jesus as your personal savior, there is more to it but with these (TRUTH, REVELATION, repenting heartfully and taking Jesus as your personal savior) any would be on the right path 110%!

Zeus, I know you care about this Country and I share some of your anger towards what these corrupted ding dongs are doing!!!! Be careful out there and be ready to protect and defend!

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Zeus

2 months ago

Reply to  Staff Sgt

My comment says a lot more than it appears to say.

I am so sick of this life that I invited the lions to a farewell party. I have more arrows in my back than anywhere else.

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ROY TREPANIER

2 months ago

Reply to  Zeus

Nope. The only path to heaven is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. He Himself said…”I am the way, the turh and the life; the ONLY way to the Father but through me”. He also said ..”the fool says in his heart ‘there is no God’, so be careful how you respond.:)
Rev. Roy……<

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Staff Sgt

2 months ago

I am still leary of him but I think it is awesome what he did!!!!! Outstanding!

The other don’t care enough to do it because they are probably to corrupt and trying to come up with other ways to destroy our Country and Trump!

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garry pollack

2 months ago

W/Schwab et al—the answer is easy—how can U talk w/the great unwashed…when ure only intention is to simply get rid of 90+% of us!

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ed

2 months ago

Why don’t other leaders in government, industry, media, and academia engage with the great unwashed?

They don’t want to get too close to us, lest they get breathed on or someone tries to maybe shake a hand or get an autograph. Engage with the great unwashed ?? They would rather we die by their hands.

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