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How would you characterize Muskian futures in ideological terms? (Mars colonization, aggressive climate action, lots of sci-fi visions)? It's neither the basic SV neowhig libertarian future, nor the basic NYT-op-ed progressive future. Nor is it Thiel-Trump reactionary.
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It sort of breaks the determinate/indeterminate optimism divide. The anchor pieces are determinate, but the broader sensibility is indeterminate. It is "approach problems from first principles with an element of wacky imagination"
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INTJ who builds? reminds me of George Lucas who identified and put together first vfx company to engineer and achieve shots on “wacky” star wars. Also identified using Joseph Campbell to engineer mythic resonance -seems cliche now but at time was prob like first principling Story
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Yeah that seems about right. It’s definitely a top-down vision, but not totalizing like high modernism. He’s not a tech version of Le Corbusier or Robert Moses. Muskism recognizes that other dynamics unfold around it and is happy to play/compete with them as necessary.