It’s curious. On the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, the thing that struck the most – and it is indicative of these times – was not the many true proclamations, but the one false gesture. Elon Musk’s outstretched arm. Shortly after the Indian of the Village People had made a double Roman salute worldwide, with the right and the left, Elon Musk, last but not least after Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, even Kamala Harris and practically all the politicians who in the history of world greeted their fans from a stage raised his arm towards the crowd saying good morning, and we hope it really is, to a new era.
Despite the indignant protests of the anti-fascist Italians, the Americans who are neither “fascist” nor “anti”, at most democratic or republican have explained to us, in order: that it is not a Roman greeting but a heart thrown to those who listen, ” My heart goes out to you”; which, autistic or not, is a typical way of doing things for Musk, whose only dictatorship, if anything, is that of the dollar; and that an outstretched arm does not mean an endorsement of fascism just as a clenched fist does not of communism. Nevertheless…
If you think about it, however, it’s a real shame that Musk’s salute isn’t a fascist one.
Raised to the sky shortly after Trump’s promise – “We will plant the American flag on the planet Mars” – it would have been the first time a dream of the left had come true. See, indeed, Fascists on Mars. And instead it’s just them making the usual movie.