Civil War Inevitable: Musk

I am generally not impressed by the many hugely popular media celebrities on YouTube and on social media. Many of them are, IMNSHO, overexposed midwits and in some cases they are positively harmful because their millions of followers don’t have the cognitive capacity to distinguish chalk from cheese.

I could be accused of being elitist and correctly so for observing that the masses are stupid. The wise and the intelligent have never been in the majority.

All opinions are not equally valid or justified. People (present company not exempted) are more often wrong than right. The saving grace is that most of us don’t have the enormous reach that celebrities have, and therefore our ability to mislead is severely limited.

Take for instance Tucker Carlson. I like the guy. But he epitomizes midwittery. He’s mostly ignorant in most matters of importance but then all of us are mostly ignorant also. The trouble is that he is ignorant of his own ignorance. However, many though not all of his very famous guests are real experts in their respective domains. For example, his talk with economist Jeffrey Sachs is very good; so also his talk with the libertarian politician Rep. Thomas Massie (R), just to name two.

Tucker Carlson, it should be noted, is the heaviest hitter in the podcast field, having overtaken the reigning champion Joe Rogan recently. Thanks to Elon Musk’s X, Carlson has become a legend in his own time.

There’s another rising talent on YouTube. Konstantin Kisin. The guy emigrated to the UK from Russia. He was a stand-up comic and has made quite a name for himself for his principled support of liberal (the old world classical variety, not the US leftist type) ideas.

Mainstream media journalists have become “a bevy of camp following whores” (to steal a phrase from the great James Buchanan) of the Deep State. Led by the Deep State, they are going off a cliff and we should all applaud their suicidal mission.

All that was preface to a brief video that I’d like you to watch. Here’s Konstantin Kisin. The guy is really very good.

I wish I had Kisin’s gift of the gab.

Be good and have fun. But if you cannot be good, at least have fun.

[Image credit: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day.]