michael_nielsen

The particular phenomenon is "judgement culture": people who spend most of their time judging others, especially highly creative people like Einstein and Musk, not doing creative work themselves. This seems like a bad habit - almost a trap - some people get into.

Criticism can be helpful, insofar as it leads to understanding and creative activity. As an end in itself, it seems empty. And many people engaged in it seem to be doing so out of some desire to momentarily one up the creative people. Which seems very unfortunate.

In your screenshot, Elon was heckling a journalist who was doing their job. It’s a crucial story that should absolutely be covered and ‘don’t write about this!’is a poor response that absolutely deserved the response he got. Oh, and @Amir