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Hello and welcome to another DailyJim friday night edition. It is May 20th friday 2022 11:59 p.m. So I squeaked it in technically.
Yeah. You know the time of day really affects what I want to talk about. Earlier today I was thinking I'm going to talk about politics. I'm gonna talk about Elon musk, I'm gonna talk about twitter, I'm gonna talk about this, I'm gonna talk about that. There's the midnight chime again. I wonder how loud it is on the recording anyways. Um. Music.
All right.
Yeah. You know, I think I'll still talk about what I wanted to talk about a little bit, which was about twitter and Elon musk and just thinking that as one becomes a celebrity, perhaps, one of the things that people try the most is to hide their secrets because you know, if it's me or you or somebody who like right now, I don't think I have that many people are paying attention. But you know, for some, some of us, most of us we don't have that many people in our lives who are going to try to research and find out what's going on with us, you know, that are really going to try to find out a lot more about us. Um I think as we get more and more followers, more and more people who know us becoming well known, there are a lot of people who are going to try two investigate and to try to figure out our secrets.
And I think maybe that's what we're seeing with Elon musk in that there are some secrets in his past, whether it's from some sexual encounters, consensual or not. Whether it's from some lawsuits that he settled and made people sign N. D. S. From those cases or from other cases related to his company's or who knows what I think it could be. Uh, there's, there's so many things that could be considered, mm hmm, taboo or illegal that one doesn't want to come out. Um, and I think.
I see so many people trying to deflect and really trying to fight hard for certain secrets to come out. And I kind of understand why you know I think we tend to have at least in the U. S. But I imagine other countries as well we tend to have this idea of punishment, legal punishment. So if somebody has done something in the past if it comes out that they did it now they are in legal trouble and they may go to prison so they have a strong incentive to not let that secret out. But even if it's not something that is against the law it may be against morals or maybe against some people's morals. Or basically meaning that will make some people feel really angry upset sad confused regardless. And so a lot of times we don't want those secrets to come out because we're afraid of I think of what those people will do in response. So the whole you know quote unquote cancel culture but it's not even just canceled culture it's excommunication is being ignored as being blacklisted or there's probably a better term for that I've heard that's a term that's, kind of going away because even maybe that language comes from, slavery I believe it was. Um I don't know about that but there, I do think there can be social repercussions to certain secrets getting out and so I think a lot of times as we become more and more famous we. Worry that there's going to be more and more people investigating us has become more powerful. More people investigating us to not only expose illegal things but immoral things or things that maybe they don't even bother other people but they bother us. We don't want the world to know them. So we may assume that the world is going to have this adverse reaction to what happened to us or what we did or did not do. And so therefore we fight tooth and nail to hold some of this stuff in. We we hide it but it's hard to hide. And nowadays with the internet it's so much easier to research. Somebody on the other side of the planet. Could be sitting at a computer researching digging through emails or trying to figure out what happened with you. Um So it's a lot easier to lie and it's easier to lie about other people's stuff son. And I think this is a whole conversation itself that could be a lot more than five minutes. But I think there's something to the idea of us being so afraid. Certain secrets getting out. We sign N. D. A. As we lie we hide we appoint the blame and other people. There's so much that we do because we're afraid of people finding out what we did often because we're afraid of the way that they're going to respond. Which tends to be in many ways tends to be we tend to frame justice as. Punitive or retributive retributive so many words I can read but don't know how to say out loud and. I think that can lead into our fear even more of not wanting people to I know some of our secrets. Yeah, so I don't know, I don't really know what the solution is. It's as I become more and more known, I think I become more afraid that, people will know things that don't necessarily want them to know or more than anything that I just won't have control over the narrative. And I think sometimes people like Elon musk who get into these positions of being quote unquote well known is that they they have a well known narrative and, they spend a lot of time crafting that narrative, whether it's Elon musk or whether it's donald trump or whether it's a Beyonce or whether it's you know a lot of the Kanye West, a lot of these celebrities seem to have a, person like a persona story that they put forward a brand and or maybe afraid that if certain things come out it's going to ruin that brand or confuse that brand, and in a way I kind of understand, I kind of feel the the pain or the worrying that to just. Yeah, it's a challenge. I I am curious to explore this more about how to be well known in an internet age and, how that leads to us hiding or lying or redirecting or other things to try to maintain a specific image, On that note seven minutes and Friday night it's over, have a good weekend, I'll talk to you next week.
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