“You might be proud of your fellow South African but you are venturing out on thin ice with this post.”
The great Shaun Tomson, a slickly articulate and cruelly handsome man who redefined backside tuberiding at Pipeline in 1975 and who won a world title at twenty-two, has never been afraid to call a spade a spade, as the saying goes.
A few years back, Tomson launched a wild harangue at the Australian surfer Noa Deane for his since redacted anti-WSL stance. Tomson, a clean-skin with a fiery anti-drugs stance and was once described by Kelly Slater as the “ultimate pro”, fumed.
“I’d love to see these wildcards, you know, the big mouths like Noa Deane, big mouth, I want to see that dude, give him a wildcard at ten-foot Pipe. I want to see Noa Deane with his big mouth come up against Italo Ferreira…
“Let me tell you, the dude will be savaged! He will be cryyyyying… with his body… he will be flayed. The guy’s got a big mouth and never stops whining about the WSL. Let’s see that dude step up! People just let these dudes chirp. Step up and put up or shut up!”
Since then he’s crossed swords with Ian Cairns, Christian Fletcher and the Yay Palestine crowd.
Now, and accidentally it seems, Tomson has set off leftists worldwide with his fulsome praise of tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who is also, like Tomson, a South African.
Tomson posted a video of Elon along with the message,
If you haven’t watched this remarkable video of Elon Musk, WATCH IT. An insight into a rare mind. He lays out the future.
The only question that stopped him in his tracks was this – Once robots can do everything better than humans, what will people do with their time?
Like him or not, he is a futurist and we better step there with our eyes open – this interview is an eye-opener.
Pretty milquetoast whatever your political stripe but it drove Tomson’s followers on Facebook crazy.
Almost one hundred furious comments.
For sure is a futurist, but he is also the one is also the one who spent words to support Alternative für Deutschland (AfD extreme right party, fascist/nazist) in Germany. Here in Europe the far right is growing, also in Italy, and this must be fought if we do not want history to repeat.
he’s destroying democracy in American…buying politicians to do his bidding. I wonder would you be ok with him doing that to your country…a place he left to become a US citizen
paving the road to dystopia. one crypto coin at a time. there’s nothing futuristic about a return to the late nineteenth century robber baron age. just because it looks futuristic doesn’t mean it is. a futurist is more like buckminster fuller or frank lloyd wright. musk is just a greedy douche. as long as humans don’t ride on his spaceships, designed and engineered by others with lack of attention to the kind of process required for man rated spaceflight, at least no one will get killed.
Maybe stick to surfing. This guy is a dangerous toxic narcissist just like the rapist he helped put in office. We need innovators in this country, not oligarchs.
