Tesla's Truth Can Not Long Be Hidden

Courts are now letting customers sue over full self driving claims and the government is investigating Elon Musk's historical claims regarding autonomy. This could get really ugly.

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”

— Buddha

This is one of those bullshit phrases I’ve known about for decades. Hell, I don’t even know if it was actually ever said by Buddha or not — nor do I care.

This phrase pops up in places where people believe they're having some type of pseudo-intellectual and philosophical awakening that they need to prove to the world. For example, at one point, it was a popular high school yearbook quote. I also used to see it on MySpace profiles and in AOL Instant Messenger away messages. It comes up when you search for smart sounding quotes on all those internet quote websites.

Nowadays, you can see it on those stupid little wooden signs you buy at HomeGoods to hang up in your house next to the "Live Laugh Love" sign, located under the "Paris Bistro" sign in your kitchen.

Not to fuck up your party, but news flash: you’re running a bistro in the same way a 24 hour gas station convenience store is — which is to say, air frying dino nuggets at age 41, drunk off chardonnay at 3am on a Tuesday, isn’t quite the same as sampling exotic cheeses in the French countryside.

But that’s another discussion for another day. The point today is not to let the ubiquity of this simple quote take away from the fact that, at the end of the day, it happens to more right than wrong. The truth does have a way of making its way out.

And that’s bad news for a lot of people, but it is especially bad news for Elon Musk.