22 February

Wonderful short piece to camera from a UK installer of solar and batteries, about how many adults now tell him they refuse to have any Tesla products. Some are even ‘embarrassed’ if their neighbours see them. And how he finds that sad and ‘crazy’, given the quality of the products. This is the kidult society I write about. Tesla has been ‘cancelled’, which is just our weasel word of saying it’s the kid nobody will now talk to in the playground. Not an analogy, grown adults whose only way of processing adult life is the personal, based on who they like and don’t like, and who their particular social team sees as a goodie or a baddie, at that point in time. The same adults happily buy products from a whole range of firms with terrible ethical histories, without blinking. Fossil fuel companies, just for starters. Tesla is just the current ‘trending’ kid we’re all refusing to play with. Kidult life is the meaningless imitative hop from one trend to the next. Like this will change the world, again kidults can’t function or even think outside these schoolyard rivalries. It’s their entire world, the school playground, but in adult life. Not an analogy.