Two of my heroes: Elon Musk and Jensen Huang, at a conference in Saudi Arabia.
Here we have two genuine geniuses, two visionaries, giving us some ideas of where they see the world in ten or twenty years. I fear I won't be here to see if they're right or wrong, though I'm still hoping...
Now, I've never been a fan of Saudi Arabia. I think their government is horrid. The way they treat women, minorities, foreigners, non-Muslims, is horrid. They've been long run by the Wahhabi sect of Islam, one of the most extreme and horrid of a horrid religion.
But... but... There's been some change at the top in recent years. They're no longer quite as horrid as they used to be. They've given women some rights. They kicked out the Muslim Brotherhood and have urged the west to do so as well. They're engaged with the west and want to become a part of growing with the future.
This is far from a democracy. But it's a movement towards something better, less fundamentally Islamist, than it was. Surely we can support that. After all, how many other Islamic countries are moving in the direction of improvement? Answer: none. None, anyway, outside those who signed the Abraham Accords.
We must not succumb, ever again, to ideas of "nation building", as did the W. Bush brigade and other "neocons" on the Right and the Left. We must give up the idea that we can instil "democracy" in middle eastern or south Asian states.
But it would be smart of us, the west, to engage with those that are working to improvement. Surely that's something we ought to support. Rather than, like the Press, continue to slag Saudi because their secret police dismembered one of their members. Am I right?
And that's clearly what Elon and Jensen are doing. Following the lead of Donald Trump and his Abraham Accords.
Thanks for the vid to Aussie entrepreneur, Tesla Bull, YouTuber, the "man with three first names", Steven Mark Ryan.
