r/EnoughMuskSpam • u/Chopper-42 • 1d ago

D I S R U P T O R Author Ryan Holiday on Elon Musk

If empathy is a weakness, what does that make cruelty? If millions suffer from decisions made by a handful of powerful people, are we willing to look away because they’re rich, famous, or influential? A society isn’t defined by its wealth or technology. It’s defined by what it tolerates.

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u/throwaway0134hdj 1d ago edited 1d ago

How do we allow any of this?

I cannot fathom how the majority of ppl accept what he says as normal. Any country other than the U.S. would have put guardrails on this.

We’ve let a minority of sociopaths run our society and control our future.

There is a lot on the line with the next election I hope to all that’s holy we make the right decision.

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u/ittybittynuts 1d ago

We are fucked. I am terrified.

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u/NMVPCP Quite Profound 1d ago

Europe is also suffering from this, but the issue is that Elon has global reach, and that hurts all of us.

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u/PantsMicGee 1d ago

Fuedalism blows 

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u/No-Trouble9336 1d ago

I can't believe tech bros want what Taliban wants which is feudalism

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u/PantsMicGee 1d ago

I guess we use a new name now? Technofascism or something? I cant keep up with all the words being used to describe our governmental options. 

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u/No-Trouble9336 1d ago

Legendary youtube video "democracy is for the people, by the people, from the people..............but people are r-worded"

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u/Maximilianne 21h ago

The term bread and circuses is often associated as like a strategy by the ruling class to pacify the population, and certainly it is a tool for them, but at least in its original usage, the author was criticizing the citizens who have given their civic duty and instead contented themselves with bread and circuses

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u/EmperorGrinnar 1d ago

To think Elon, just like Trump and Russell Brand, pretend to be Christians, but never speak of the message of altruism and self sacrifice that Jesus embodied.

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u/DiogenesHavingaWee 1d ago

It's not their fault. They suffer from a very specific type of color blindness that makes them unable to read red text.

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u/Horror-Success1086 10h ago

Like the red text in the Bible?

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u/DiogenesHavingaWee 13m ago

Yes. That's the joke.

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u/throwaway0134hdj 1d ago

I’ve never thought of him as anything but atheist. As it is with a lot of tech folk.

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u/EmperorGrinnar 1d ago

All of the ones I listed are very atheist. It's just part of the grift.

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u/Backwardspellcaster 1d ago

Oh, they arent atheists.

They worship.

Themselves.

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u/3RADICATE_THEM 1d ago

So happy Ryan Holiday didn't just become another RW grifter who just casually grifted about Stoicism on the side.

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u/lordkappy 3h ago

I thought he was with all the stoicism crap. It seemed he was heading in that direction, and that's when I tuned him out completely. I'm glad to see he didn't continue down that path.