They're asking for people to work "80+ hours per week with no pay" and asking for CVs to be sent to a social media account. Yeah, right. The people who do this are going to get paid by someone else...
Yes. I agree that the 10th Amendment approach sort of cuts to the chase. How gratifying would that be! Then they could go back and follow up on some of the absurd and/or nastier strings of corruption and graft that are revealed by a thorough a 10th Amendment wipe.
Most of this stuff is over my pay grade (delving into Space X etc) but my working theory is that anyone who is a billionaire, except possibly the real estate ones, are up to their eyeballs in government contracting probably in ways that avoid official (such as Congressional) oversight which is why they end up so individually wealthy. But I don't live in that world so am only guessing.
That said, the current paradigm, at least in the US if not the larger West, is clearly unsustainable. Musk says he has a vision of expanding humanity to Mars and other planets. I am not convinced he truly believes this or is just parading it as his ideological logo/logos. But the Aenean ethos behind it I think he does embrace. He is enthused describing how everyone will have an Optimus robot soon and how there will be more robots than humans at some point. He is frustrated by government red tape which is both excessive and based in nineteenth century paradigms. I believe he genuinely wants to help push the world into a twenty first century Brave New future and to do this he has bought Twitter and is now driving DOGE which, if successful, will end up cutting back much of the sludge and excess so that he can better move forward with this paradigm-shifting thrust.
In other words, although there are darker skeins in the mix as you well point out, there are also genuine agendas as well (leaving aside the issue as to whether or not pushing to go to Mars isn't lunacy - pun intended!).
Speaking of paradigms, you might enjoy The Manifesto for a European Rennaissance by Alain de Benoist, a 26 page pamphlet essentially laying out the author's vision for how France and Europe might adopt Dugin's Fourth Political Theory. Dugin's Dad was in Russian Intelligence, so ..., but this interview with his daughter from a few years ago before she was sadly blown up is interesting too: https://alexanderdugin.substack.com/p/we-live-in-the-era-of-the-end-an
This is a very different vision from Elon's, I suspect, far more rooted in traditions with an emphasis on rediscovering the sacred within various ethno-geographical cultural strains, but I have a feeling Elon is fine with cultural diversity as long as he gets to build rockets and robots.
Yes. I agree that the 10th Amendment approach sort of cuts to the chase. How gratifying would that be! Then they could go back and follow up on some of the absurd and/or nastier strings of corruption and graft that are revealed by a thorough a 10th Amendment wipe.
Most of this stuff is over my pay grade (delving into Space X etc) but my working theory is that anyone who is a billionaire, except possibly the real estate ones, are up to their eyeballs in government contracting probably in ways that avoid official (such as Congressional) oversight which is why they end up so individually wealthy. But I don't live in that world so am only guessing.
That said, the current paradigm, at least in the US if not the larger West, is clearly unsustainable. Musk says he has a vision of expanding humanity to Mars and other planets. I am not convinced he truly believes this or is just parading it as his ideological logo/logos. But the Aenean ethos behind it I think he does embrace. He is enthused describing how everyone will have an Optimus robot soon and how there will be more robots than humans at some point. He is frustrated by government red tape which is both excessive and based in nineteenth century paradigms. I believe he genuinely wants to help push the world into a twenty first century Brave New future and to do this he has bought Twitter and is now driving DOGE which, if successful, will end up cutting back much of the sludge and excess so that he can better move forward with this paradigm-shifting thrust.
In other words, although there are darker skeins in the mix as you well point out, there are also genuine agendas as well (leaving aside the issue as to whether or not pushing to go to Mars isn't lunacy - pun intended!).
Speaking of paradigms, you might enjoy The Manifesto for a European Rennaissance by Alain de Benoist, a 26 page pamphlet essentially laying out the author's vision for how France and Europe might adopt Dugin's Fourth Political Theory. Dugin's Dad was in Russian Intelligence, so ..., but this interview with his daughter from a few years ago before she was sadly blown up is interesting too: https://alexanderdugin.substack.com/p/we-live-in-the-era-of-the-end-an
This is a very different vision from Elon's, I suspect, far more rooted in traditions with an emphasis on rediscovering the sacred within various ethno-geographical cultural strains, but I have a feeling Elon is fine with cultural diversity as long as he gets to build rockets and robots.