Elon Musk, Wokeness, and the Myth of Meritocracy
How Tony Stark, the myth of meritocracy, and our unspoken beliefs about genius explain Elon Musk and the (re)turn of eugenics to the right wing
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Bibliography and Further Reading
Interview with Stan Lee where he talks about the creation of Iron Man: https://screenrant.com/stan-lee-iron-...
How Albert Einstein was no "lone genius": https://www.nature.com/articles/527298a
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn, 1962
How many filaments Edison tried in creating the lightbulb: http://uncommoncontent.blogspot.com/2...
Talented and Gifted programs and their legacy of Eugenics: https://rethinkingschools.org/article...
On the creation of the IQ Test: • The dark history of IQ tests - Stefan C. D...
Alfred Binet thought intellegence couldn't be reduced to a number: https://www.verywellmind.com/history-... while Lewis Terman disagreed: https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-...
Terman study subjects results more about socioeconomic status than intelligence: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/bl... and the high performers and low performers had about the same IQ: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/07/sc...
The Bell Curve is based on junk, fraudulent "science": • The Bell Curve
What Intelligence Tests Miss, Keith E. Stanovich, 2009
On "Gifted Kig Syndrome": https://thehowleronline.org/6490/view...
Local education systems are funded by property taxes: https://www.npr.org/2016/04/18/474256...
DeSantis campaign says "woke" is awareness of systemic injustice: https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire...
Someone working 40 hours a week at minimum wage is still below the poverty line: https://www.cnn.com/factsfirst/politi...
Why DEI was created: https://www.americanprogress.org/arti...
Study where resumes were sent out with stereotypically black and white names and their results: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks...
On the long, toxic history of "Cultural Marxism": https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/op...
Cultural Marxism and the "vast, Jewish conspiracy": https://www.dailydot.com/debug/what-i...
The "Hyperloop" is an idea that can never work: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-ba... and was just a ploy to disrupt the development of trains in California: https://time.com/6203815/elon-musk-fl...
Wired story from 2018 about Musk mistreating his employees: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk...
Some More News on Musk: • Elon Musk Is Not Your Friend - SOME MORE NEWS
Tesla cars fall apart in motion: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/...
Tesla cars suspected of turning off self-driving moments before a crash: https://futurism.com/tesla-nhtsa-auto...
Musk not interested in labor laws or regulations: https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-...
More on Musk mistreating employees: https://www.latimes.com/business/stor...
Musk spreading lies on Twitter: https://futurism.com/elon-musk-black-...
Musk antisemitic tweets: https://www.theguardian.com/technolog...
Musk racist tweets about asylum-seekers: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/...
Musk the eugenicist: https://disconnect.blog/why-silicon-v...