The one that bothers me the most is Musk with Star Trek. He’s never seen a fucking second of any part of the franchise. He just knows that it’s about spaceships
The amount of conservative Trekkies is crazy. Ted Cruz calls himself a Trekkie. TED CRUZ.
What makes you think they’re misinterpreting it?
“WOW if this terrible dystopian thing happened, I could make fucking BANK if I am the one who leads it” is the thinking.
They aren’t dumb, they’re psychotic. They know EXACTLY what they’re doing.
Yeah, the video says that. Misreading it can be intentional. And capitalism rewards that pretty often.
Same reason assholes have been misinterpreting media since the beginning. Everyone is seeking validation of the choices they have already made or want to make. Most great works of media are produced by intelligent people who want to convey a specific message, and that message is generally counter to the desires of complete assholes, so those tend to be the people that most frequently misinterpret them.
There was that crusade thing when some blokes said that a book about some middle eastern hippy said they should actually pilliage the middle eastern countries for gold and jewels.
The same reason they think rage against the machine is on their side
