[ExI] what would any of us have done differently?

[William Flynn Wallace]

Cuckoo's Nest - Jack's character was not mentally ill at all. He was a
psychopath, very clearly.  bill w

On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 1:55 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Consider the trend our society (and the world) has been experiencing
> (perpetrating?) for a long time: toward a kind of universal subjectivity,
> where one may define one’s own reality.
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> Only two decades ago, that was a joke:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn_PSJsl0LQ
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> Recall that Jack Nicholson attempted that defense in One Flew Over the
> Cucoo’s Nest.  Instead of being sent to prison with a bunch of murderous
> bastards, he was sent to an institution, thinly disguised as a hospital,
> where he was with a bunch of crazy murderous bastards.  Plus one really
> mean nurse.
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> With that, consider that comment I made earlier to John Kloz about how we
> refrain from criticism of Musk because of… Aspergers, which makes his
> ruthlessness an involuntary feature of his condition rather than a
> commentary on his character.  How does one prove someone else isn’t one of
> those borderline versions of…what?  Mentally nonmainstream?  Impossible.
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> But I keep going back to the original question: what could we have done
> differently?  Jack Dorsey could be the most sensitive nicest guy on the
> planet, but he was in a powerdive which was easily recognized by the most
> casual of observers.  The stockholders bailed at the first opportunity,
> which Musk provided.  Musk is a business guy: he knew the revenue must
> somehow meet payroll plus expenses, and it isn’t clear how he could make
> revenue go up.  Ja?  So what the hell else could he do besides go down that
> payroll list with a roaring chainsaw?  Anyone?  What could he have done any
> different?
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> spike
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