Document: WM-060                                                 P. Webb
Category: Life                                                2024.11.13

                          Elon Musk mind virus

Abstract

   Voluntary retardation

Body

   Trying to find a suitable tagline for this post is challenging. At
   first I thought "emotional disability" would work. Or maybe,
   "empathetic disability" but the "disability" I’m talking about is
   voluntary, which would make it a choice.

   Voluntary retardation fits.

   Exhibit A[1] from dwr.eth, creator of the Farcaster[2] protocol[3]
   and CEO of the company that builds Warpcast[4], the major client of
   said protocol:


   I’m anti-institutions. I think they are incompetent. Washington DC
   is at the top of the stack.
   
   Plenty of coverage of Trump.
   
   I find mainstream liberals an easy target because they rationalize
   their political beliefs to an absurd level.
   
   Whereas average conservative is honest: I’m voting for the
   non-liberal candidate. I don’t care about the rationale or logic.
   
   If average liberal: I’m voting because it’s my team and I don’t
   care about anything else, I would have more respect. Pure tribal
   affiliation. Politics is to help those you like and hurt those you
   don’t. Very Lindy.



   Wait, what?


   I’m voting for the non-liberal candidate. I don’t care about the
   rationale or logic.



   Wild. There is no point in life that you make decisions in a vacuum
   but for some reason, politics is viable.

   I find mainstream conservatives an easy target because they
   rationalize their political beliefs to an absurd level.

   Now, Dan is a smart guy. Quite intelligent, actually. His inability
   or refusal to clarify his own comments is interesting. He’d rather
   troll[5] and gaslight. He raised $150 million at a $1 billion
   valuation just six months ago. SIGH.

   These are the kinds of people who hope to become the next Twitter.
   It’s quite clear Dan’s space is not the place for me, so I
   exported[6] my data and dipped.

   It’s funny that just a few days ago I was questioning my continued
   usage of Farcaster and now my account’s deleted (but my profile is
   still up, maybe a cache thing, idk). I still have many friends and
   acquantices over there and I won’t judge them for staying; everyone’s
   tipping point is different.

   What I will say though is that the future (and especially the next
   four years) is going to test your patience and resolve. Personally, I
   will no longer be tolerant of intolerant views. Nor will I stay in
   places that aren’t for me, if I can help it. The web is so much
   bigger than any one person and is WAY bigger than any Elon stan.
   There are already reports of Trumpers realizing what they voted for
   and feeling immense regret. Let’s see if it pays off for ’em[7].

   🕸