Every age has its geniuses. On some rare occasions these uniquely gifted people address their knowledge, skills, and imagination to a wide variety of subjects.
In addition to being a fine painter, Leonardo DaVinci directed his curiosity to numerous other disciplines. DaVinci and others like him have earned the title, “renaissance man.” These people push civilization forward.
Just as there are rebirths — renaissances’ — in the quest for worldly knowledge, there are often deaths and dark ages, when brilliance is shunned or even attacked. There will always be those among us who despise greatness. Out of jealousy or just wanton malice, schemers and parasites go on the attack when they see another pursue greatness.
Recently, several American Democrats have made it known that they intend to persecute…and prosecute Elon Musk. His crime was clearly to have supported conservative political candidates and to have opposed the Democrats’ new crop of totalitarian parasites. Along with their attempts to find a crime where none exists, they plan to seize his companies — “nationalize” them. Nationalize is a word that means steal but sounds merely procedural. The vultures who have made such plans known are ironically among the most unproductive members of society. Political vampires who have made nothing and in many cases never even held a real job. Bernie Sanders has been a politician his entire life. The leftist politician’s life merely consists of complaining and, over time, acquiring the power to punish the people they’re complaining about. Being a renaissance man makes some people mad.
No doubt others have noted our current circumstance regarding makers and takers as remarkably similar to an Ayn Rand novel. Indeed, there is nothing new about jealousy or the malicious desire to inflict harm as an act of political expression.
Musk has accumulated assets worth over a trillion dollars. Like all wise business persons, this wealth is invested in future projects. If America — humanity — makes it to Mars in the near future, it won’t be from squandering finances (a classic circumstance in government directed enterprises), It will be from creating new wealth and new horizons to benefit the human race. The bitter leftist worldview describes this as a sort of “theft” but the trillion dollars in Musk’s wealth is money that didn’t exist before he literally created it. through deliberate thought, imagination, and willingness to risk loss to himself.
The recent election reveals a population willing to unleash some unsavory elements on the very foundations of the nation, in the hopes that returning to austerity will somehow reduce the cost of gas. That’s probably more than a clue that renaissance men and women will no longer be welcome in the globalist/socialist order.
A 250 year renaissance may be over. …too bad.
