Elon Musk's Threat to the “Current Thing” Monoculture

As Glenn Greenwald wrote on Substack:

“...a series of ostensible crises — Russiagate, the 1/6 riot, the COVID pandemic and now this war— have, in rapid succession, convinced not just liberals but increasingly large numbers of Westerners in many ideological camps not only to tolerate but to crave state/corporate censorship.”

That is why some are so aghast at the prospect of Musk making Twitter a haven for dissent. A big vibrant public square on the internet would pose an existential threat to their precious Current Thing monoculture.

Trending public concerns are a natural part of culture. But a culture becomes tyrannical when it brooks no dissent on those issues and when those trends, instead of emerging organically from the people, are steered and enforced by the government and a government-corrupted elite.

However Musk’s bid plays out, and whether or not he proves true to his professed intentions, his brave stand against the Current Thing inquisitors should be a model to us all.

Story continues at https://fee.org/articles/elon-musks-threat-to-the-current-thing-monoculture