Why is Musk buying Twitter good for the Oscars and film overall? Because his presence alone helps to loosen the grip the blue-checks and Twitter have in policing thought and speech in this country. That is what sets America apart from every other country: that we hold this truth to be self-evident – we have a right to what we think and believe.
This isn’t the FREE SPEECH as granted to every American under the Constitution, this is the concept of a country that values having lots of different people with different ideas having the freedom to explore those ideas. And it’s suffocating the creative spirit and the necessary pursuit of hard truths. Now, we have come all the way to other end of the spectrum, dogma is back. It also explains the counter-culture revolution of the 1960s, when filmmakers, storytellers, journalists and everyone else began to break away from the religious dogma of Christianity regulating content. That explains modern art, among other things. The Left used to be the side that pulled away from culture in the grips of religion.
You know the ideology because either you believe it or you have been forced to believe it.Īll of that runs counter to the whole point of any of it. You know the rules because you live them. It’s like Christian Rock, or “skit night” at the Scientology Center. That means, where art or science or history or music or comedy is concerned, it has to end at the same point every time. It has become, I think, a political movement captured by a fundamentalist religion. Issues-wise, I’m mostly still left-leaning, but like Elon Musk, I feel where the Left has gone is a bridge too far for me. I am not really on the Left or the Right at the moment. The Left are always on the lookout for signs that you might be one of “them.” It is a movement that believes in being good, as opposed to bad, and if you speak to the Right, or see them as human beings - instead of, you know, human garbage - that makes you bad too. I find when I talk to people on the Left I have to be very careful about what I say, even to those I am closest to. This isn’t an easy conversation to have with people. They represent the de facto ruling class, and they are becoming, it would appear more and more disconnected from the everyday reality of most Americans. The public is turning away from the areas that are micromanaged by the Left, which can be described now as an alliance between the Democratic Party, social media, Big Tech overall, most major institutions of power, education, science, and entertainment. Why would there be such a disconnect between Twitter, the media and the public? Well, because that is how the pendulum is swinging right now. The media then covers what Twitter is doing and to them, Musk’s buyout is a bad thing.Īsk the general public, however, and they’re mostly on board. You think wow, this must really be a big deal. By then, it seems really super-important because so many of the high-profile alpha users are rendering judgment. It’s an easy way to drive fear and hysteria. On Twitter, there isn’t much room for nuance or a middle ground because the most inflammatory and high drama tweets tend to land at the top of everyone’s feed. Elon Musk buying Twitter feels like a loss for the Left, and they’re pulling out everything they have to question or block the sale. Everything is political, and everything is a contest to see who will win in a given day. The country is polarized at the moment, but that polarization is made much worse by the relationship between Twitter, media, and government, thanks to both Obama’s and Trump’s use of the platform to build their coalitions. At least that was where things stood back in 2019. They are mostly Democrats, said this study. It’s said that roughly 15% of the users generate 80% of the content. Twitter is dominated, however, by a small but loud cadre of users, most of them with the high status blue-check. Now, it averages roughly 300 million tweets per day, which seems like a lot. It reached that number again in 2020, as so many people were stuck inside due to COVID. At its peak in 2013, 500 million tweets per day flew through its platform. Twitter might be a very small pond that contains too many big fish who compete for space, but its influence can’t be denied. Download: Why Elon Musk Buying Twitter Is Good for Hollywood