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I love Musk and everything he does.
This is not sarcasm.
My perspectives are anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist and decolonial.
And I truly, deeply, wholly adore Elon Musk.
Musk embodies everything that modern Western civilisation considers as “greatness”. He understands full well where we are as a human species, as a global society, as a civilisation. He embraces his hegemonic role and is perfectly designed and positioned to play it well at a time of planetary systems collapse.
He appeals just as well to the tech bro as he does to the incel. He appeals to the oppressed just as well as he does to the elite.
I am in absolute awe of Musk just as I am in absolute awe of societal collapse as it has already played out across the anthropocene, and will continue to play out, in all its violence and magnificence.
It’s a strange, sadistic kind of love that has been stewing for 600 years in Stockholm Syndrome indoctrination sauce, one of adoration, pride, and excitement.
One that wants the rollercoaster ride to go faster, faster, faster.
I am a founding member of POSSIBLE FUTURES, and while I am aware that the vast majority of people alive today do not appreciate the more radical aspects of my decolonial perspectives in general, I also know that folk…
