{"id":73438,"date":"2025-01-25T09:32:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T14:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=73438"},"modified":"2025-02-13T22:35:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T03:35:23","slug":"those-glitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/those-glitches\/","title":{"rendered":"Those &#8216;Glitches&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have to admit a certain curiosity, and a tinge of uneasiness, with the barrage of tech multi-billionaires suddenly on the global stage.<\/p>\n<p>One of them, Elon Musk, has enormous influence not just in the West, but also Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p>Our &#8220;new world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, is the greatest global retailer in history.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg owns Facebook. No comment necessary.<\/p>\n<p>And so forth.<\/p>\n<p>They are rather unique, one might say peculiar, sorts.<\/p>\n<p>At the inauguration of Donald Trump, this was caught on video:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@nosaboguera\/video\/7462084533228227870\" data-video-id=\"7462084533228227870\">\n<section><a title=\"@nosaboguera\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@nosaboguera?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@nosaboguera<\/a> <a title=\"elonmusk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/elonmusk?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#elonmusk<\/a> <a title=\"\u266c original sound - NoSaboGuera\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7462084552551303967?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; NoSaboGuera<\/a><\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Was he simply exercising his neck to prevent stiffness? Bored? The result of too many video games?<\/p>\n<p>Social media lit up with theories on everything from aliens to scanning the room like a robot.<\/p>\n<p>Many crazy things are said. This was, however, somewhat (let us say) unusual. (A former nanny says that as a child, Musk tried to summon imaginary friends from a replica of Stonehenge. Musk himself has spoken of his &#8220;demon mode&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>And Mr. Bezos?<\/p>\n<p>His look (his eyes), and those of Mark Zuckerberg, have sometimes given pause. Is it simply that techs are a bit unnatural due to the nature of their work (what some have perhaps uncharitably called &#8220;nerdiness&#8221;)? Or a sign of genius?<\/p>\n<p>Here is Bezos at the inauguration, likewise (in all likelihod) trying to unwind a bit:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Donald Trump Inauguration Billionaire Jeff Bezos GLITCH #shorts #trump #news #amazon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WN74uvBf2Ko\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/thumbor\/wpEfiYqvr3t-QInJ46zM1ml9-c0=\/2x83:3870x2259\/960x540\/media\/img\/mt\/2019\/01\/GettyImages_645831994\/original.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos in formal attire\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And Mark?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GgsdcPeWMAAJmYP.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73156\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GgsdcPeWMAAJmYP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"675\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pretty, ah, intense.<\/p>\n<p>Also, understandable?<\/p>\n<p>We are perhaps called not to worldliness, but to a higher station, in these strange times, in need of prayer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"strange-things\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1737797562\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Those &#8216;Glitches&#8217;\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have to admit a certain curiosity, and a tinge of uneasiness, with the barrage of tech multi-billionaires suddenly on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1750],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-strange-things","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}