Things are dumber than people think. Much dumber. This is a warning, consider it.
He claims to be a tech boy- genius. A visionary who talks about the power of disruption. All sizzle and no steak is what it is. The dude is a bully. He's a billionaire who doesn't know anything at all.
It sounds familiar?
It might make you think about a guy who's running a social networking site. If we've learned anything from this nonsensical saga, it's that Musk isn't the genius he's made himself out to be. When Musk acts like a billionaire completely out of touch with reality, you forget that his company makes rockets. Glass Onion was prophetic. The movie shows us that our billionaire overlords may not be who we thought they were.
EdwardNorton plays the tech billionaire named MilesBron. "Miles Bron has never had an original idea at any point in his life," saidNorton of his character.
During the movie, they hammer that point home and it's hard not to see some Muskian similarities. Similar to how Musk governs Twitter, Bron faxes nonsensical business ideas to his workers. Like Musk and his strange code reviews, Bron sets impossible deadlines for tasks he doesn't know how to do. While people around him realize how red- pilled he is, he has faux-liberal beliefs, like clean energy. It's Musk.
The film Glass Onion was filmed before any of Musk's recent social media antics. I think the film understands someone like Musk at his core. There are a lot of similarities between Musk and Bron. I tried to scrawl as many of them in my notebook as possible while watching the film. It's hard to take legible notes in a movie theater. You can see people posting on the social networking site that they see the same things.
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What the film has to say about people like Musk is more important than anything else. There is a one-for-one relationship between Musk andNorton's character.
The message is more important than anything else. We have to finish the film.
The person is a total fool. The idea was taken for his entire business. He murdered Andi and hid it. He murdered Duke and hid it. People think he can't possibly be that stupid.
Daniel Craig said it all.
"His dock doesn't float. His wonder fuel is a disaster. His grasp of disruption theory is remedial at best. He didn't design the puzzle boxes. He didn't write the mystery. Et voila! It all adds up. The key to this entire case. And it was staring me right in the face. Like everyone in the world, I assumed Miles Bron was a complicated genius. But why? Look into the clear centre of this glass onion. Miles Bron is an idiot!"
An army of fans and sycophants has been created by Musk for his depiction of Tony Stark. It's believed that having a lot of money is a sign of superior intelligence. Musk has built cars, but he hasn't done anything else. He was credited for doing it. He didn't come up with any of the good ideas for his business and he didn't build anything himself.
Musk formed his huge wealth off of valuations of his companies. This disruption process is described by a half-assed understanding of disruption theory. It is the truer description in some respects. You have to be willing to break the rules in order to accumulate wealth.
Disruption works, says the person.
"That's the place where you have to look within yourself, and ask: Am I the kind of person who will keep going? Will you break more things? Break bigger things? Be willing to break the thing that nobody wants you to break? Because at that point, people are not going to be on your side. They're going to call you crazy. They're gonna say you're a bully. They're gonna tell you to stop. Even your partner will say you need to stop. Because as it turns out, nobody wants you to break the system itself. But that is what true disruption is, and that is what unites all of us. We all got to that line, and crossed it."
Glass Onion asked how billionaires are able to bully and fake their way through anything if they have a lot of money. The world needs a dangerous energy source to power it. People go along with it because he's done stupid things before. Musk has shown with his other companies that he doesn't care about the people who work for him and actually do the things he wants. While Musk takes credit for everyone else's work, he gets praise for being a visionary and savvy businessman.
Musk understands almost nothing about the platform, but he still runs it. There is no plan for this area. He thinks he is a genius. People try to rebrand his idiocy into a masterstroke because he's wealthy and successful. It makes sense to subscribe for $8 for a blue check. His tunnels for cars make sense and wouldn't be better used as a subway or city bus. He is doing this because he wants to save the world from climate change.
Not to get at the core of American capitalism, but if we acknowledge that the people with all the power and money might not be the smartest all the time. That is what the teacher tells us about Musk. You are too large to fail if you can scam and claw your way to the top. Failing would mean acknowledging a few things, such as admitting that you didn't deserve your high perch in the first place, or that some people are more ruthless than others. If this man is a dumdum...who else is?
Bron represents all the people in power we should question. All the people who, at best, happened to be in the right at the right time. Or, at worse, people who elbowed their way to the top via hook and crook.
A Musk stand-in, that's right. He seems to come across as a genius similar to Musk. All the people in power should be questioned. The people who were in the right place at the right time. People who went to the top via hook and crook. Look at the sector. The whole thing looks like a Ponzi scheme. It's not the future of currency that was sold, it's the future of scam artists sitting on each other's shoulders.
Sometimes brilliant people are willing to hurt others to climb up the social hierarchy, and that's what Glass Onion shows. The only problem with the film is that it didn't show any consequences at all. His house was destroyed in a fire and he faces a bleak future. Only if it's necessary.