I remember when I realized people didn't give a shit how you got there once you won. This was always the puritanical cruelty at the heart of capitalist, consumerist America and the product or source of its fatalism. Notice the bandwagon effect building behind Trump and suddenly and simultaneously how racial justice is being abandoned.
There's no reason for this, besides that bandwagon effect, but John Roberts must be thrilled beyond belief because it has been his specific project within the larger re-racification of America while claiming to do the exact opposite. That you can't fix racism with race consciousness (i. e. racism) has always been his core and defining belief.
Which is as obviously wrong as it is abstractly right.
The problem being a narrow, analytical focus removed from the circumstances and reality of the case. Try feeding your family on math. Directly. Something offends him, Roberts apparently, so you wish it away. The reality of course is that race consciousness is obviously the only way you can fix structural, systemic racial injustice.
So Roberts reasoned himself into inconsistency and a conundrum because he's a purist and arrogant egotist. A perfectionist. Musk has a like outlook and drive, being a more profound kind of racist and supremacist, asserting himself as a race of one. That's to say, he's an inconceivable egotist and grifter. Like Donald Trump. The points converge.
I don't sense racial animus in Trump or Musk. Their egotism and wealth renders it unnecessary. A person's worth is determined by their usefulness to them. People have no intrinsic worth, so no rights. Their 'rights' therefore change within the circumstances. Their rights re determined by circumstances. Or by whim, in other words.
Because circumstances are determined by heroic characters like Trump and Musk whose existence and will is the only reality. They are gods, God, or a godhead, which of these it doesn't matter, since all power originates with and emanates from them. This is fundamentally infantile. The infantile god of perfect self-centeredness and need.
There infinity meets up with annihilation. Creativity with destruction. Nothingness with infinite being and extent. All distinctions end there. Time and space are nothing. Will is everything. And what is will? To say rights or justice don't exist there misses the point. Existence doesn't exist there. There's no such framework of meaning.
To say meaning doesn't exist has meaning. You get the point. Self refutation. Death. Trump and Musk embody a death wish. Musk is enamored of space. William Shatner was right in his observation, when he blasted off, that space is death. Nothingness. Musk is the emperor of Emerald City, over the rainbow -- unreality. Musk is death.
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