For those who didn’t read the article, he doesn’t mean the actual cultural elite: billionaires like himself. He means journalists and TV anchors. He wants news reporting to be uncritical of him and his fellow elites.

Luigi Mangione calls for depopulation, instead.

He could have just said the same thing in one word: imperialism.

Here’s the full quote, from this transcript, for anyone interested:

Mark: Yeah, so I think that that’s quite possible. And I do think that there is this cycle that goes on where, you know, within a society, it’s not just the government that has power. There are certain people who, in these culturally elite positions— and, you know, journalists, TV news anchors— who are the people who people broadly trust? They’re not all in government. A lot of people in other positions— it’s like, who are the people that people look to?

I think that basically it needs to shift for the internet age. And I think a lot of the people who people looked to before, they’re kind of realizing, hey, they weren’t super honest about a lot of these issues that we faced. And I think that’s partially why social media isn’t a monolithic thing. It’s not that people trust Facebook or X; they trust the creators and the voices that they feel like are being authentic and giving them valuable information on there. So there’s, I think, going to be just this whole new class of creators who basically become the new cultural elites that people look at and say, “Okay, these are the people who give it to me straight.” And I think that that’s— that’s a thing that is— maybe it’s possible because of social media. I think it’s also just the internet more broadly. I think podcasting is obviously a huge and important part of that, too.

I mean, I don’t know to what extent you feel like you got to be large because of social media, or just because it’s the podcasting platforms that you used, but I think that this is a very big sea change in terms of who are the voices that matter. And what we do is we try to build a platform that gives people a voice, but there’s this wholesale generational shift in who are the people who are being listened to. And I think that that’s a very fascinating thing that is going on, because I think that’s what’s going on here. It’s not just the government and people saying, “Hey, we want a very big change here.” I think it’s just a wholesale shift in saying, we just want different people who we actually trust, who are actually going to tell us the truth, and not give us the bullshit opinions that you’re supposed to say, but like the type of stuff that I would actually— when I’m sitting in my living room with my friends, the stuff that we know is true. Who are the people who have the courage to actually just say that stuff? I don’t know. I think that whole cultural elite class needs to get repopulated with people who people actually trust.

I like that he believes he is part of the “cultural elite class,” and not just another rich douchebag trying to make anything they can touch worse for a few extra dollars to add to their already overflowing wealth.

Dear Zuckerberg.

You have enough money, you have three options.

1. Buy an island, build a big mansion, and just live the good life, away from public view, just slow down.
2. Do what your friend who created Myspace does, get a camera and a good laptop, and live the life of a nomadic photographer, you have zero money issues, you can just travel and take cool photos.
3. Continue being a fucking dickhead, screwing up the world further trying to get a bigger high score, which won’t materially change your life in any way.

Please stop choosing 3, your life will be soo much easier if you do, you will also make soo many other people’s lives way easier.

social media users — should “become the new kind of cultural elites.”

I haven’t been on Facebook or other Meta-owned properties for a few years, but if I remember correctly social media users definitely shouldn’t be considered cultural elites.

I’m calling for the depopulation of the ruling class

Block all Meta domains, stop them profiting from your browsing data! Even if you don’t use Instagram, Facebook or whatever they’ll track you across the web with third-party assets.

They are not even trying to hide it anymore. We are officially at the let them eat cake part of the show.

What the fuck is going on in the world right now? How can so much ridiculous shit be coinciding?

They can’t just have most of the money. They need all of the money.

What with the what

The guillotine approaches, and it won’t be what we want… Just what our country deserves.

I think that’s called a redistribution of wealth.