People who work together can’t really do democracy. The only true democracy is the one where a small number of people order everyone around without the input of most people. Because that’s what democracy means.
America's Smartest Man Finds Something Interesting
Submitted 8 months ago by UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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auzy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s funny how I’ve tried to bring some of that most blokey guys I have come across on mountaineering and such, and the vast majority weasal out of it
And the biggest badasses I know always drive the most basic cars lol
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If you’re an actual car guy, you’re probably driving some absolute piece of shit that you’ve been continuously breathing life into for the last ten years.
The folks with the real high end luxury stuff just end up leaving their vehicles in the shop for half the year.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 8 months ago
As the owner of a Jeep Wrangler, I feel both called out and proud…
Greg@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Holy shit, I assumed this was fake but it’s not x.com/elonmusk/status/1830390502836854925 (link accessible as of 2024-09-02)
Squeezer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Imagine thinking that you’re tougher than context.
TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Good point.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I hope someone simply linked a wiki definition of the word oligarchy, because that would literally be what this is. One in-group that practices democracy amongst themselves but excludes the rest from political power.
Clbull@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m autistic and I’ve never heard the term ‘aneurotypical’ before…
theoretiker@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Neurotypical exists. Neurodivergent is the more “leftist” or scientific term for what they mean.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 8 months ago
Guess “divergent” is to edgy for today’s people.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Neurotypical is a more broad term, and covers things like ADHD, bipolar, DID, etc.
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 8 months ago
They mean neuroatypical, which is the same as neurodivergent. Just decided to spell it weirdly for some reason.
wick@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I assume this is referring to William Reich the psychoanalyst. His books look interesting in the way all kooky psychoanalysis crankery does, but I don’t think he ever wrote about high T alpha males before dying in 1957.
He did write about about how fascists gain power by sexually repressing the population though. I’m sure Elon would hate his views on that.
hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fascists gaining power by sexually repressing the population doesn’t sound kooky at all. It’s sounds like reality.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Why would this be in reference to Wilhelm Reich?
wick@lemm.ee 8 months ago
“Reich effect” on google is wall to wall Nazi shit. “Reich effect psychology” leads to oldmates Wikipedia page.
Imp3riaLL@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Do you want ‘the handmaid’s tale’? Cause that is how… You do? Oh
Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Inb4 people start taking a Lemmy shitpost seriously and argue with it.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
I mean its an interesting subject so why not? The whole “what would the tribe think” thing is definitely real. But where they went wrong is thinking that this is a bad thing. Its literally the onlly reason humanity has survived so long. Without cooperation there is no tribe.
The issue of “bruteforceability” stems from the fact that too many people are terminally online. In fact Musk is the prime example of someone that has fallen victim to this.
crawancon@lemm.ee 8 months ago
interesting observation
Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Why not? Because this is a shitpost community.
basketugly@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Good for you to admit that it is true.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 8 months ago
Another use for the Killer T cells, other than fighting cancer?
Taleya@aussie.zone 8 months ago
So what i’m taking from his word salad is that combat abilities may possibly be a hidden asd perk.
I mean, we do tend to be biters…
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
I assume this coming from an autistic person is objective truth then, something that definitely exists and we can definitely know. I’m sure they have plenty of science to back it up in that case. They wouldn’t just hear a bunch of thinly disguised bullshit built on the back of junk science and take it at face value without checking if any of it is at all real, not this person with their special objective truth brain.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 months ago
So The Handmaid’s Tale then?
Neon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is obviously highly suspicious, but
The amount of people parroting just whatever is currently in without critically questioning it (or even being open to question it) (looking at you, fascists (maga) and tankies (pro-putin /pro-hamas)) is too high
I don’t know what makes a person lose interest in politics and just parrot whatever the others parrot, but I’m highly suspicious that T is it. I think that part is just a lie in Elon’s interest to spread.
BTW I just assumed that T is testosterone
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
tankies (pro-putin /pro-hamas)
Man, one of these is absolutely not like the other.
Neon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s exactly what I mean!
Hamas has literaly made it their goal to textbook-definition genocide all Israelis.
Anyone critically thinking about this for even just 10 seconds would realize that Hamas is just as bad if not worse than Nettanyahu
But no, parroting the current political trend of “poor suppressed Hamas was forced to kill all those civillians”
Tell me, why do you support Hamas and not the UN special rapporteur for Palestine?
www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-palestine
Or any other organization not advocating for terrorism or at least not advocating for genocide?
It’s because that’s what everyone else does, not because you think that’s what’s right to do
At least I hope you didn’t make a conscious decision to support a terror organization wanting to genocide an entire Nation
Objection@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
>Isreali flag
>“Maybe the fascist propaganda has a point!”
Checks out.
Neon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Exactly what I mean
You see my flag and automatically discard my opinion, because that’s the trendy thing to do
Listening to what I have to say and thinking critically? No m
BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That’s like asking the tallest dwarf to reach the top shelf
someguy3@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If every [Fox] screen says it?
It’s projection again.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 8 months ago
So to get the right to vote you have to win a trial by combat?
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
With how much he whines about this shit I guarantee he takes tes and feels insecure about it
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
This must be the truth engine that enticed him to invest in Dogecoin.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Lost me at the “high T alpha”.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Dude is immune to irony 🤦♂️
grue@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The funny part is that the conservatives are the ones who are, by nature, authoritarian followers.
TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I mean, there’s a joke in here about the brain being the biggest muscle
crusa187@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Why is nobody finding the “Autist Autocracy” interesting as well?!
finkrat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We’re too busy cringing at that
Bruhh@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Truly ironic
nickel_for_your_thoughts@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So does this mean the “meathead” stereotype is dead or…
mechoman444@lemmy.world 8 months ago
He saw the word “alpha” and ran with it!
LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Why some of the smartest people can be so very stupid | Psyche Ideas
Basically many people who have the raw processing power or “IQ” to understand and analyse things can still lack certain “mental infrastructure” or education to understand things. This is especially atrocious for narrow minded people who actively rejected new information that doesn’t fit into their mental comfort zone. Musk is definitely one of them.
This is the reason why we can’t have nice things.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve yet to see any evidence that Musk is particularly smart. What I’ve mostly seen is his ability to throw big parties and charm investors with bullshit business speak, while riding a wave of lucky bets and state subsidies to billionaire-hood.
LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 8 months ago
No he’s not. But he’s also far from dumb.
Musk is far from genius level but above average intelligence. He does have knowledge about rockets on a non-engineering level which you can see e.g. in this video talking about his starfactory.
But he and others like him focus their thinking narrow mindedly on the pursuit of profit. Every decision is based on gaining wealth. THAT is by far the bigger problem.
Besides the focus of all education towards profit seeking, technical nerds also seem to “want to” see other fields like sociology or politics or history in a simple and easy to explain way. So they seek principles or the most simplistic social theories that don’t explain anything real. Musk certainly falls into that.
Except now where he seems to go completely off the rails. Possibly a symptom of narcissism ever since he became unpopular, he’s doubling down to find new validation for his fragile ego. So yeah in that sense he is not the best example.
My point was not just about Musk but about the idea of “finding the smartest people to rule”. Because to anybody who is above intelligence that sounds smart except - stupidity can be more dangerous in intelligent people.
firadin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Musk is a rich trust fund baby whose fortune started off the back of Apartheid. It’s not a shocker that he’s a mask-off racist. He’s done nothing to prove himself a genius, just a skilled grifter and financier.
jj4211@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’d say it’s more people who are repeatedly told they are smart can be very stupid.
Many of then might even be “smart”, but the important part is having unwarranted confidence.
Complicating things is that society rewards confidence way more than it rewards competence. If I’m honest about a lack of competence in a certain area but someone else lies during the interview, good chance they are going to get the job over me.
The reality is that everyone can be very very stupid, and so long as each and every one of us is willing to accept and recognize our weakness we aren’t as likely to be assholes.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It’s also important to recognize that smart people can and do fool themselves into believing whatever’s most comfortable to themselves, unless they actively develop the emotional fortitude to face reality.
LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yeah true. But like @jj4211@lemmy.world write it’s also that confident behavior is rewarded. And narrow minded focus on profit is more efficient than being focused on other things. And they need to compete with others on this “game” who pursue the calculus of power. So humility is a really hard sell to them. And media is not looking at politics or politicians in that way at all.
I sometimes feel this lack of emotional fortitude when thinking about reading a book, because books often break up your worldview and require you to adjust. There is a kind of intellectual pain of disillusionment.
senkora@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Great article, thank you for sharing.