Why Grimes’ Love of SF And Elon’s Hate of It Are Caused By The Exact Same Thing
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Elon Musk has made a name for himself in a number of ways, he’s a tech entrepreneur, a geriatric shitposter, and most recently, a Sieg Heiling Trump supporter, but long before he and his supporters used autism as a defense against allegations of Nazism, he was an outspoken hater of San Francisco.
If Elon Musk isn’t calling San Francisco a crime infested shithole, he’s saying it’s a cultish hellscape that has been infected by the “woke mind virus.”
However, the mother of some of his children, Grimes, seems to feel differently. Shortly after multiple wildfires began ravaging Los Angeles, Grimes made her way north for better air quality and to get a front row seat to the tech capital of the world that most of you call home: San Francisco.
She referred to the city as “Peak Athens,” which is a major departure from the rhetoric of Elon Musk. Why does Grimes think San Francisco rivals the intellectual peak of Greek civilization? Well, in her opinion, San Francisco has nice, tech-centric billboards that can be observed while cruising the city in a self-driving car.
And in many ways, that is the allure of modern San Francisco. It’s a city with a rich history focused entirely on the future. For a tech-forward artist like Grimes, San Francisco probably feels like an urban playground that manifested from the minds of our greatest science fiction writers, and philosophical futurists.
Tourists flock to the city not only to see the Golden Gate Bridge in all of its architectural brilliance, but also to see a car drive itself across it. It’s a place where appreciation for the past can comfortably coexist with contentment for the present, and a hopeful curiosity for the future.
The problem with Grimes’ and Musk’s interpretations of San Francisco is that their observations are devoid of critical thought.
Musk’s lampooning of San Francisco as a lawless hellscape is completely devoid of any class consciousness. Why would a city with so much wealth have several streets that serve as a juxtaposition against Silicon Valley’s greatest contemporary achievements, and future aspirations?
Grimes’ fascination and appreciation of San Francisco, despite surface level differences with Musk’s assessments, also suffer from the same exact flaw: no semblance of class consciousness. Athens was a city of human enlightenment through the use of questioning to find a core truth; this is more commonly known as the Socratic Method. Human thought and participation was foundational to Athenian society. San Francisco’s tech economy, despite the impressiveness of its achievements, seems to be obsessed with eliminating humanity, and its participation in the economy, wherever possible.
Unless adequate social safety nets appear overnight, more and more workers will be introduced to the realities of abject poverty. As poverty and desperation among the working class rises, the symptoms of that poverty like drug use, homelessness, and yes, even public defecation will rise. It may be pushed out of San Francisco by an increasingly aggressive police force, but it will exist somewhere until it’s too hard to hide.
For every tech innovation that San Francisco sacrifices itself to be associated with, and for every novel experience someone like Grimes will appreciate, there will be the bodies of those who died trying to cope with the ever-present march of change.
As long as they are visible, they will be displayed as “proof” by people like Musk of the Left’s incompetence. And he is right, but for the wrong reasons. The Left’s ineffectiveness shouldn’t be calculated by the amount of homeless that crowd some of San Francisco’s sidewalks, but by the fact that people like Elon Musk are allowed to exist to exacerbate those conditions in the first place.
But other than that… Peak Athens.