I don’t need you to worry for me ’cause I’m alright
I don’t want you to tell me it’s time to come home
I don’t care what you say anymore this is my lifeGo ahead with your own life
Leave me alone–B. Joel, in the year I graduated first
It may well be that this lyric is grunting exactly what Sinatra’s ‘My Way’ grunts; that it’s a tepid paean to male ego.
But I would propose that it is secretly saying the opposite, or at the least permitting the listener to acknowledge the existence of the opposite–that I do need you to worry for me but can’t afford to let that feeling loose.
Which would be both more poetic, and more true sometimes.
I bounce between the two poles. Neither is right, nor wrong, always.
There’s a longer version of this post yet to be written.
For now this will do.
Events came across faster than posts yesterday, but that’s okay.
Nobody in their right minds would try to sell you on Elon’s acquistion being any guarantee of more, or even more free speech.
But it does seem highly likely to result in less stupid censorship, and I don’t see any room for honest people to be able to paint that in a bad light. Not even good old Robert Reich.
There’s one more little very positive tidbit slipped in to a Musk tweet, as shown here:
Elon Musk Buys Twitter & Liberals Freak Out
https://rumble.com/v12ffr5-042522-1-elon-musk-buys-twitter-and-liberals-freak-out.html
In the tweet, Musk says that he’s going to open source Twitter’s algorithms.
Maybe you understand the implications of that and maybe not, but it’s a very key Good Thing, and he didn’t have to say it, and the fact that he did is a quietly deliberate signal that he’s actually serious about changing the current evil Shadowban Factory into something at least a little better.
Also. If it does turn out that he’s bullshitting about that, we are absolutely no worse off than we are now–it’s just trading one set of lies and oligarchs for another.
So in the end, yeah, “I want to be excited about this”, and the cautions in Caitlin’s response are absolutely valid–both things are true at the same time.