OMG Elon, you have become state whip. Just imagine that. Congrats man, you are really putting your mouth where it belongs, in a sense.
Yet, you need to be careful, remember when you bought Twitter, how much fuss you got from that and all the trouble?
My experience with political development is, that you need to move with positive intent. You bought Twitter to make a more free world.
So now that you have taken this task of getting the American state to work. What is it you want to attain, truly?
For each branch of the state there are ideals and virtue.
So academia is, in the more left wing system, and not all, pretty woke. But I mean, we also have Noam Chomsky who is an ardent truth seeker and rebel against all forms of oppression. Bernie Sanders, who is this amazing old idealist who wants to make a better more united world.
My point is, yes academia is, in Berkeley and universities, woke. Also some of Hollywood and so on.
Yet the vast majority of universities have a lot of diversity in terms of ideas.
What is the REAL problem, if I would say something. Is, the ability to search for truth is often hindered.
New ideas, absolutely open debate. Idealism in terms of enlightenment is a lacking quality.
It is the very aim of science, and yet humanity’s innate refusal of the truth makes it difficult to be 100% true.
We need to keep an eye on that, and on the methods used by academia. If it is not based on an unwavering dedication to truth as an aim, then we should, by all means, chastise this.
Just be careful that you stay somehow popular. I am just saying this as your friend. Last time you challenged the system, you almost fell of the horse. Just be careful.
G-d bless the will to make an academic renaissance. May we all develop.