This. I'm not defending Musk's intelligence (which is hugely overblown), but we must understand that he doesn't believe the things he says. His statements do not reflect his *analysis* or actual understanding of anything. He doesn't want to weaponize facts; he wants to make them irrelevant.
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Renee (paix120)
I keep seeing takes about Elon's Xs (whatever they call posts over there these days) with takes about how he's a bad manager or dumb because the assumption is that he actually believes what he's posting. Maybe.
But here's how I make sense of everything he posts publicly:
IT'S PROPAGANDA
But here's how I make sense of everything he posts publicly:
IT'S PROPAGANDA
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And a more fraught question, he doesn't value "being liked," and views that as a WEAKNESS. But it's not rebellious, it's sociopathic
https://bsky.app/profile/mimoides.bsky.social/post/3liv24l3buc2l
On one level, you could consider him a cult leader. And with cults, reality doesn't really matter that much.
If David Koresh had been born 2 decades later, he would have been a tech leader because the tech industry is just full of cult leaders who feed off of technically talented but less socially talented people. Steve Jobs, for example, was a cult leader.