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What Elon Musk Wants (nytimes.com)
8 points by jakubmazanec on Feb 7, 2025 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments



Musk is emotionally immunocompromised. (Now forget him; everything that follows applies to everyone like him.) This is of course a shame and I would have him helped, if there were any way to help him -- but there is not. So the only question that remains is, shall his problem be allowed to become everyone else's problem? And the answer must be no, and that answer must be given immediately, unanimously, confidently, and backed up with effective action.



As well as video games, he's very influenced by sci-fi.

My own theory is that he sees himself as a kind of Hari Seldon figure (can't remember for sure but think I saw him wearing a "Foundation" t-shirt at some event). Or someone like Alan Saul from Neal Asher's "Owner" series.

This delusional belief, along with typical emotional/ego issues, may be what gives him that righteous fervour for "making life interplanetary" or whatever.


I've read two accounts from people who know him personally that claim he wants to be "emperor of the world." He fancies himself Lex Luthor.


This is full of gems:

> I think what was really interesting is a lot of these guys — can I use this in The New York Times? — have tiny-dick energy. I don’t know what else to say.

> Yeah, Zuckerberg is such a beta. [Laughs.] He’s such a beta. I love saying that.

> You indulge children for long enough and give them sugar all day long — they’re going to become terrible people.

> They’re trying to cosplay a version of a man. It seems pathetic to me. But I think it gives them great comfort.


She was the biggest Elon suckup of all and now going all over the place pretending otherwise. Maybe calling Zuck beta and tech employees spoiled will keep one foot in the door with Elon




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