Jonah Goldberg: Elon Musk mistook Twitter for the real world
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
Nov 08, 2022
3 minutes
There’s something tragically poetic about Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter.
There’s a whole subculture of lamentation about modern society that can be fairly well summed up in Peter Thiel’s roughly decade-old gripe that things like Twitter were distracting us from greatness: “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.”
Today, we get twice as many characters on Twitter, but the complaint endures. Not just innovation, but also exploration, have been subverted by screens and scrolling from our couches
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