2023-04-29 14:21:18
This Friday, Elon Musk appeared for a long exchange in theBill Maher show, Real Time With Bill Maher. Musk, who redeemed Twitter the previous year discussed with his host the social problems which, according to him, plague modern civilization. His nemesis is defined as the “woke” movement which he now wishes to eradicate.
Elon Musk vs “The Awakened Mind Virus”
Elon Musk, who bought Twitter in 2022, discussed several topics with Bill Maher for a very long time. They approached together the takeover of Twitter, its financial state following this one, but also various social questions and the problems that Elon Musk is experiencing at the moment. The billionaire never misses the opportunity to be talked regarding, especially with his jokes that will make you laugh or not. For some time, he wants to be a real spearhead once morest an evil that is eating away at our society: “wokism”. A catch-all word invented in the 2010s, originally designating the awakening of certain people to modern societal issues, such as the excesses of capitalism, the defense of ecology or the defense of minorities. Today, it is rather used by the majority of the right and part of the left in favor of an “offensive secularism” to designate and/or denigrate progressive ideas., increasingly popular. Here’s what Elon Musk thinks:
I think we have to be very careful regarding anything anti-meritocratic and anything that suppresses free speech. These are two of the aspects that the woke virus currently involves. They are, in my opinion, very dangerous. You can no longer question certain things, and even questioning is frowned upon. The best synonym would be the Cancel Culture. People repeatedly try to “cancel” you [ndlr : faire disparaître du paysage médiatique]. I don’t consider myself a deep conservative, I think I’m a moderate. I spent a lot of my time building sustainable energy, electric vehicles and batteries, solar and other things to save the environment. That’s not what the far right would do.
Thus, according to Elon Musk, wokism and cancel culture are two scourges that must be fought. Elon Musk is currently on a media tour, because the latter seem to be disinterested in his activities. Six days following a double party at Fox News, a very conservative pro-Trump channel, the channel announced that it would withdraw from Twitter until further notice for difference of opinion with Elon Musk, and Rupert Murdoch to declare they will no longer support the billionaire conservative.
Elon Musk: the problem of learning at school
Even if he declares to face wokism in all its forms, However, Elon Musk has not done much in this direction for the moment. For Twitter, he limited himself to laying off many people, including the offices responsible for respecting human rights and racial and societal issues on the platform, in order to transform Twitter into “a true haven of freedom. of expression”. In the interview with Bill Maher, he goes back to the origin of woke indoctrination according to him:
The wokism virus affects young people quickly, indoctrination is happening in schools and universities. The experience we had in school and college is not the same today, and the change happened, like, 10 or 20 years ago. Parents are no longer aware of what is being taught to their children or what is, on the contrary, no longer being taught. Let me give an example, with a friend of mine. Her daughters go to high school in San Fransisco Bay. He asked them “Who are the first presidents of the United States? Washington is a good answer. What do you know regarding him?” They replied that he was a slave owner. “What else ?” Nothing. Okay, maybe they need to know, slavery was horrible, but we should know more regarding Washington than that.
From, Elon Musk also has ChatGPT artificial intelligence in his sights, also considered too woke. He claims to be working on a new AI capable of answering absolutely all questions, without value judgment. ChatGPT tells the user when their questions are regarding biased topics, and can sometimes refuse to answer if the question might be of a dangerous nature for oneself or for others (suicide, mutilation…).
By Lucas Mollard
Lucas, journalist by training and profession and great lover of strategy games, RTS and other card games. Gamer at heart with a capricious 20 dice. Joy of living and ham, that’s the secret of happiness.
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