Why We Worship the Wrong Gods
In a White House banquet, why would you seat Cristiano Ronaldo, a man whose life’s work consists of kicking a ball, among those who have launched rockets, electrified transportation, and rewired global commerce?
Physical brilliance and relentless discipline deserve respect, but placing a professional athlete on the same pedestal as civilization-altering builders is a symptom of a society intoxicated by spectacle. Actually no! spectacle is great! I personally know many internet dogs who dribble a ball better than Cristiano Ronaldo. I think cats are even more brilliant, they don't even do anything, they just are. So I think the president should have invited at least a few dogs and cats on strength of entertainment alone.
Warren Buffett falls into the same thing, where he just shuffles money around and for many years ignored Tesla. I can't comprehend an American power figure basically investing in a Chinese copycat. Because not for a minute would I believe that the Chinese let Tesla make a factory in Beijing just because they like Elon. Of course they let him build a factory so they can steal Tesla's secrets. Everything BYD made was stolen from Tesla. Buffett was in bed with thieves, poured over with sugary drinks.
Now Tim Cook, of course. He turned a great company into a phone company. I used to have four Macs and an iPhone. I'm down to one 11-year-old Mac and trending towards a flip phone, except for the voice-to-text feature, which I use extensively and is the only way I actually write.
We must teach children to revere builders over ball chasers and money shufflers to build a civilization worthy of the stars.
In other words, my old refrain, go Elon, go NASA, go SpaceX! If it wasn't for Elon, I'm not even sure if Bezos would have been so inspired, to be honest. Before Tesla became a thing, EVs were not a thing at all. Now everybody does them and pretends they just invented batteries. I mean, if it wasn't for Elon, we would be back to horse and thought prisons.
So love for science, engineering, and the urge for building must be instilled in education and in children. Otherwise we will lose all the momentum and we will be back to boring bullshit.
Kids are bored at school because they teach them to read hundred-year-old novels. And they go on YouTube and see all this exciting stuff, and it's like, YouTube is much better, man.
See how nicely I ascended into a rant from a perfectly valid statement. This kind of stuff really fires me up, especially early in the morning.