Thinking out loud here: Let’s say the entirety of all-things Musk fall under the “Musk Era”. All manner of shittery going on, popping in, popping out, within that era. In that case, perhaps we could refer to the life-cycle of the Cybertruck as the Musk Era’s Cybertruck Period. I admit that there’s period overlaps, but history can be messy.
Musk Era
Zip3 Period
PayPal Period
Failed Product Delivery Promises Period
Products Exploding/Catching Fire Period
Consumers Used to Field Test Products Period
Cybertruck Period
Wasted Billions of Dollars Thinking He Could Colonize Mars Period
If that’s real, then Elon has no idea how the natural, cultural process of pejoration works. Won’t be long before his own name becomes an insult, like “quisling”, and for a similar reason if only one.
I’ve already seen it used as an insult, as in people responding to stupid or reprehensible opinions on the internet with “Elon Musk, is that you?” (And given that he uses sock puppet accounts, there’s always a very small chance that it actually is him.)
A couple of years on and Leon will be the only human being posting on EGGS, with the AIs using him to play a game which is basically a reverse Turning test.
Oh please Dog, not an era. Call me a cockeyed optimist, but I would rather believe that the Elnocene and the Turmpocene are at worst subepochs of the Anthropocene.
