If there was ever a time for bread and circuses, to take our minds off the Biden family fiasco, and the gruesome spectacle of Donald Trump being fed, limb by limb, into the federal woodchipper, this might be it. Which is why this space supports, firmly and without reservation, the proposed prime-time smackdown featuring Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
There has been no shortage of pearl-clutching on this topic. Many think it represents the rock bottoming of American culture, which assumes such a thing ever existed, and in the age of toxic-masculinity and mansplaining others are aghast at the continuing, and probably instinctive, appeal of martial contests in any form whatsoever.
But here in the bunkhouse we think the fight is entirely appropriate, particularly now that so much of public life has begun to resemble the madcap theater of Wrestlemania. What could be more All-American than titans of innovation, Meta versus Starlink, in a ju-jitsu showdown with an ancient Roman backdrop? And, naturally, with all the proceeds allegedly benefitting veterans.
We should have been doing this all along.
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