Photo: Courtesy Tesla<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nI can’t help but be reminded of Rebecca Solnit’s comment that few of us “recognize what a radically transformed world we live in, one that has been transformed not only by such nightmares as global warming and global capital, but by dreams of freedom and of justice.” You, Mr. Musk, have such an enormous reach across multiple global, social, and economic groups. You really do have the capacity to use these boring tunnels as a way to provide a dignified, productive, and creative life beyond economics for people who do not experience privilege.<\/p>\n
May I ask you, politely and with great hope: Will you use your wherewithal to develop these boring tunnels with a moral philosophy that requires courage, temperance, and prudence to help other individuals to develop fully their human potentials through economic justice? You would foster harmony as you work alongside others for the common good.<\/p>\n
Sources<\/strong>: Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed<\/em>, 1968, p. 36, 44; Howard,\u00a0Learning Privilege:\u00a0 Lessons of Power and Identity in Affluent Schooling,<\/em> 2007, p. 15; Solnit, Hope in the Dark,\u00a0<\/em>2004, p. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk’s TED Talk 2017 discussed, in part, his idea about boring tunnels under LA and beyond. What are the social justice ramifications of his idea?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":46528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1194,7679,11777,15298,34444],"spectra_custom_meta":{"_yst_prominent_words_version":["1"],"_edit_lock":["1493727692:195"],"_edit_last":["195"],"short_title":[""],"_short_title":["field_583ea23ff5864"],"related_posts":[""],"_related_posts":["field_58385d00fecb7"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":["43"],"_at_widget":["1"],"_publicize_twitter_user":["@psave"],"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input":["boring tunnel"],"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":["boring tunnel"],"_yoast_wpseo_content_score":["30"],"_yoast_wpseo_focuskeywords":["[]"],"_thumbnail_id":["46528"],"_yoast_wpseo_linkdex":["71"],"_oembed_0905e077c82011954a158f8b31eee79d":["