Fresh from pouring his money and energies into helping Donald Trump win reelection, Elon Musk has trained his sights on Europe, setting off alarm bells among politicians across the continent.
The Tesla and SpaceX chief executive has endorsed the far-right Alternative for Germany, demanded the release of jailed U.K. anti-Islam extremist Tommy Robinson and called British Prime Minister Keir Starmer an evil tyrant who should be in prison.
You can still trade with other people.
The meaning of what I’m saying is to focus on problems you can affect, not ones that only affect you as much as you let them.
Slacktivists won’t like this, though.
Yeah, and unfortunately most people fall in that category. Just need to look at how many people say “we need another Luigi”, and “someone should Luigi Elon/Zuckerberg/whoever”, it’s always someone else who should do something while they remain online making memes. Sometimes it’s the government who “should do something about global warming, while I keep choosing to follow a meat based diet that is more expensive and much worse for the climate than a plant based one, because I shouldn’t have to do anything!”
Someone else should always do something about the thing, because heaven forbid those people actually do something and give up some comforts.
It sounds like you mean we should focus on impacting and supporting our local communities. That is definitely something more of us should be doing.
It’s the use of the word “tribalism” that’s putting people off. That word has connotations that (I don’t believe?) you intended. To a lot of us, it’s a pejorative term that refers to the mindset of a small group that’s fiercely hostile to other groups (while only being protective to their own.) A group with a “tribalist” mindset is likely a bubble of xenophobia.
Yes, exactly.
Which tribe will run the pharmaceutical manufacturing plant and who assures they won’t put poison in it to wipe out a rival tribe?