An Open Letter, Taking to Dr. Grace Lordan, PhD to the Woodshed…with a PADDLE!
Dear Dr. Lordan:
I read with pity and then anger your article, Why critics love to hate Elon Musk–and why his fans adore him, for Fortune. Pity because it was such a pathetic attempt to portray some kind of profound psychological insight into the subject at a point where it is reaching critical mass and beyond the pedestrian treatment you gave it, suitable more for a high school psych lecture than an analysis of the conflict the richest man in the world finds himself in vs society at large. I know. I took Pych 1 & 2. Aced them both. And I have a much higher innovation rating than Musk and have actually delivered more breakthroughs that work than that spoiled brat from Pretoria ever will.
Now it’s time I schooled you on the difference between your high brow, intellectual ivory tower subjectivity and the hard-core, gut wrenching reality. And to be honest, when I’m done, there’ll be nothing more left of that ivory tower position of yours than there was the walls of Tyre when Alexander the Great was done with them for, in your ignorant arrogance, you stumbled into the middle of a war between Elon Musk and I, that Elon’s not even seen the half of yet, but he will. It’s coming and Hell is coming with it.
You say, ”Musk’s ability to challenge the status quo and introduce innovative technologies has endeared him to many (our household car is a reliable and sexy Tesla).” “Sexy”? You’ve let your slip show already there, my dear. As for challenging the status quo, I do that all the time, about, on, with and over many things and concepts. Look, I’m challenging you. Trust me, you’re very small fry compared to my targets of the past. ONR. Singularity University. UConn. Stephen Hawking. Disrupter League. Braden Kelly. Procter and Gamble, among others. And now Elon Musk, himself. Lions, tigers and bears – Oh, my…
“To get there, he has had to be a very vocal visionary leader.”
Actually, he just had to be a very vocal liar and conman because many of his ideas are laughingly labeled, ‘vaporware’ by some of his most vocal critics. Shall we take an accounting? Here’s just a small sample. Let’s start with things that got people killed:
In the video below it is revealed that Tesla “autopilot” doesn’t recognize emergency vehicles. The flashing lights alone should trigger a slowdown response at least, as that is what human drivers are usually required to do.
This is a major flaw in technical oversight that shows how Elon is nowhere near the genius level that people like you want to confer to him. More of a high functioning idiot savant – really good at certain things but just a stupid frickin’ moron, at so many others – like the emergency vehicle lights. Possibly an effect from whatever type of autism he’s hinted at having, if that’s even true. And to make my point, here is a video report on how Elon treated a key engineer who didn’t know a factoid on certain rocket costs by memory.
As impressive as that story may sound to mere mortals and morons, as an advanced concept R&D engineer and scientist, I view the story with suspicion because if that is true then WTF happened to the Tesla auto pilot’s rudimentary ability to recognize FREAKIN’ EMERGENCY LIGHTS?! That is UNFORGIVABLE! That is EXACTLY what I mean by highly functioning idiot savant. Oh, this stupid jerk can get all hacked off because some guy doesn’t know on the spot what the cost of the materials are for some component, while Elon himself has NO IDEA HIS CARS ARE DRIVING BLIND! This is a key component of a pathological pattern of behavior that Elon has that proves my position against him. How’s that make you feel about your sexy car now? I could continue, but there’s so much other carnage to cover…
Like Tesla and SpaceX being hazardous workplaces with body counts.
SPACEX – The slaughter continues with injuries, amputations and fatalities. While you enjoy driving your Tesla, just remember that this SpaceX worker has lost his eye, is legally blind and can’t drive, all because of the safety violations of your hero!
TESLA CASUALTIES – GIGAFACTORY
When I saw the following video, I was instantly angered – AT YOU! How dare you have the unmitigated gall and audacity to just shrug off those of us that dislike Elon as if there’s no weighted argument to do so!
TESLA MOTORS
Also, the issue of honesty is raised, with Tesla being found at fault for using that autopilot term in its marketing when in fact it is not an actual autopilot the way people understand that term, where they can activate it and then the car will drive itself without human intervention. I would never ride in a car with such a feature engaged unless it was an emergency. Driving is too complex an activity for machines to handle but because Elon suffers from digitalcentrism, he thinks machines can do everything better than humans but it’s humans that are programming the machines and, as is evident in this case, the humans were morons .
The following video focuses in on Elon’s “vaporware” and why he is merely a techno legerdemainist, fooling dupes like you into thinking he’s some kind of super genius when in fact his innovation rating is nowhere near mine and will never be close.
I invented the ICD rating system so that businesses and corporations could have an impartial way of judging the claims of self-styled innovation, creativity and disruption experts and it is no respecter of persons – just performance. “In how many fields have you applied what you know and how many breakthroughs have you had in those fields?”. Clean and simple. Most people are in the single digits for both. Some have double digits for one or the other. The truly exceptional have double digits for both. The genius level experts have 3 digits for at least one or the other, along with a double, like me. I’m at 59 and 111 and have proved it. While poor little Elon was voted the most overrated CEO in America last year, in 2014 I took PwC’s computer test, CEO Time Machine, that judged what era you’re like a CEO from and my results put me as being from 2040. I’m not tolerating the unchallenged worship of this pathetic poser anymore, who’s only advantage is having billions which is what enabled him to get the unearned reputation as a super genius in technological innovation.
Granted, I’m 10 years older than Elon and went to a better elementary school for an advanced education for early age creative thinking, but one of his fatal flaws is he doesn’t know how to do things that matter. Promote EVs. So what? It’s too late to end the next 50 years of negative effects from the emissions that were already released – according to NASA. Send people to Mars? Don’t count on it. He’s woefully behind his own schedule for getting it done because he decided that buying Twitter was more important than saving humanity and wasted time and billions of dollars on doing it.
You’d think for all he’s involved in, concerning space travel, that he would know what’s what, but it looks like THAT’S A BIG MISTAKE –
2 video examples of plans that existed and do exist for the potential of nuclear powered spacecraft that apparently Elon is completely ignorant of.
Brief Story of STDTS Warp Propulsion
As for Elon’s comments about propulsion without rockets not happening in his lifetime, it’s already here. When pulsed in space, my STDTS should accelerate a spacecraft toward the speed of light and maybe beyond. I would’ve talked with him about it in 2014 at the International Space Development Conference in L.A. but his gate keeper secretary said he’d be too busy for even a 60 second meet, even though we were both going to be speaking at the same event. So, he’s missed out because unlike then, I hate his guts now and would never let him have the technology under any circumstances and he’ll sure as Hell will never develop it on his own. Remember? He’s not even smart enough to have autopilot recognize flashing emergency lights, before putting those cars on the road.
I could keep going but I’ll quit with the mention of Neuralink which Elon thinks is some breakthrough because he has no background in mind-machine interfacing like I do and so doesn’t realize the danger such an implant will put the wearer in from deliberate, outside EMF interference as well as the problems arising from its improper development.
You claim that the ‘Psychological research on leadership‘, suggests that visionary leaders who articulate a compelling future inspire unquestioning followership. Musk masters this.”
So what? Right? Well, so did Adolph Hitler, someone Musk shares a number of other things with, like a penchant for racism, hate speech, abusing workers, and of course, loving rockets. Hmm. None of those things are reasons in general for anyone to like him except the rockets maybe. Kind of a Werner von Braun thing there maybe, you think? He was a Nazi too that was useful to us…with rockets. Right? I think that’s who Elon is trying to channel…
There has been a rivalry between the two of us for several years, beginning with my writing open letters to Musk which went unanswered but were online for anyone to see which meant Musk was probably seeing them, and then it went to my declaring a race “for humanity” where my time travel to the past project was racing Musk’s space effort which started falling behind, as mine steadily moved ahead. When Musk bought Twitter his attitude began to change and I began to beat him in key areas of influence. Case in point: he tweeted that a picture of his Cybertruck in camouflage pattern paint, looked “practically invisible”. I countered with a video of me making children go invisible in real life for their family and friends at the first ever USA Science and Engineering Festiva, with a device I invented.
But things turned negative when my Twitter account got blocked under false pretenses from X, claiming I’d threatened “someone” (never identified), which wasn’t true. What was true was that I had responded to a tweet by a former senator remarking how the leader of the Wagner Professional Military Corporation was headed to Moscow to confront Putin and I said, “I hope they kill each other.” That’s not a threat but Elon is such a Valdimir Putin kiss ass that he felt he had to punish me for speaking out but he had to do it by lying about the reason so as to protect his lie of supporting free speech. The truth be told HE ONLY SUPPORTS SPEECH HE ALLOWS. The rest is a damn lie. It’s a screen so the hate speech he prefers can get out.
And I why did I care so much about the fate of either of those worthless bastards? Because the one started the invasion for no damn good reason and the other volunteered to come finish it by committing genocide against the Ukranian people, and I won’t apologize for feeling that I’ll be damned if I’m going to sit by say nothing while Wagner bastards murder Ukranian women and children, and do it to appease some rich prick from Pretoria who should go take his own advice to his former advertisers, and do it FORTHWITH.
Then as Musk’s behavior became increasingly controversial, I saw Musk as an enemy of humanity on an ever- increasing scale, and issued a challenge to debate on the future of humanity ( http://challenge2elonmusk.weebly.com/about ) in the wake of his mother saying he should debate Mark Zuckerberg, since Elon chickened out his of cage fight with the Facebook founder.
Elon knows of my challenge and has let the time run out so now it’s come to my having a debate with him in absentia, which will be his brutal mistake and yet he hides behind alternative Twitter handles and follows me online. He’s slowly learning that he’s met the ultimate threat to his treasured image and reputation and is hoping it’s not as bad as it appears. He’s wrong. I’m worse. As Todd Rundgren once said, in a telling advert for his album, Something/Anything, “Go ahead. Ignore me.”
Not a chance. Not even possible, honey. I’m launching my campaign to destroy Elon’s charade.
Elon’s become the secular Anti-Messiah, a grand deceiver, doing physical harm to people while saying he loves humanity and hates it when people claim to be good while doing evil. It’s what he himself has become in sacrificing workers on his altar of progress to Mars, knowing deep inside, it’s a false god. He’ll never make it but he will continue to tell that lie as long as he can, as the world continues on its spiral to oblivion and the terminal chaos that he knows will come and is assisting as much as he can without being detected. Besides, he even has the costume now –
And you, Grace, with your BS spin and downplaying the facts, you can say, “and I helped!” like that little girl in the Shake and Bake commercial. Maybe Elon will give you a new, “sexy” car for your effort, though ultimately useless as it may be.
You wrote, “As we reflect on our own attitudes toward Musk, it is essential to consider the psychological factors at play. Recognizing the interplay of cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias can help us approach the topic with a more nuanced perspective.”
WRONG, little girl. It’s important to know EXACTLY what Elon Musk does to consider the responses as to how people feel about him – not some nuanced perspective of a generalization of his image which is EXACTLY what you did, and I’m not having it, at all. That’s some BS that all your pseudo-psychobabble can’t sell to anyone but fools and clueless dupes and I’m neither. I’m the one that knows exactly why I now HATE Elon Musk and not just think he’s some dumb rich dweeb that went from being that cool, electric car guy to the egotistical, pseudo-Nazi he is now, that wants to run the world.
Oh, no, sweetie. This is the hate that launches great wars across vast oceans and high seas, to land on distant shores, determined in mind, blood, and spirit to execute a conquest based on some principle that must be preserved and avenged by laying to waste all the defenders and their works of projection of their power and influence. I’ll let Led Zeppelin demonstrate the lack of exaggeration in such inferred emotions.
And I will drive evil Elon to his knees, as he begs the halls of Heaven that if there be some god he failed to worship, that might hear his plea in this moment of need, and take pity on his lying, despicable, and fraudulent essence. But I’ll laugh, knowing it will indeed take an act of some deity to stay my hand from completing the destruction of his image of the futuristic innovator who will save humanity’s tomorrow, which is not any more likely than the totality of his victims being made whole and alive in time to attend his next birthday party. I had a little party for him myself – April 23rd.
If it wasn’t bad enough that Elon has sacrificed the lives and limbs of people who worked for him, oh no! He’s has to insinuate himself on the international scene in support of the world’s biggest dictator at the moment and the cause of many of our domestic problems. And in backing Vladimir Putin, he’s not only supporting a mass murderer but has been given to tell the Ukranian people not to fight back, that it’s useless. But that’s not true. Where have I heard THAT before? Oh, that’s right…
That’s exactly what Elon and his Putin MAGA stooges in Congress have been saying and they can all go to Hell for it. And remember – I was locked out of my account for a week because I dared say that I hoped Putin, and that Wagner war pig, would kill each other but was told the total and completely unsubstantiated lie that it was for “threatening someone”.
“As we reflect on our own attitudes toward Musk, it is essential to consider the psychological factors at play. Recognizing the interplay of cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias can help us approach the topic with a more nuanced perspective.”
How’s YOUR nuanced perspective now, Barbie…?
For the record,
I AM,
Marshall Barnes, R&D Eng – Anti-Elon Activist
P.S. I’d like to see how you’d fair schlepping that DEI thinking to Elon, actually. Maybe you could convince him since you bought one of his “sexy” cars. It’d be more than amusing…
PARANOVATION: The Falsification Of Innovation 