I’m fed up of reading about Elon Musk and Twitter. And yet I also confess to a voyeuristic reflex.
The characters in those stories and the philosophy that animates them — pretentiously called “objectivism” — bear a superficial resemblance to people like Musk. That might explain why Tesla founder Musk, Amazon.com titan Jeff Bezos and quite a few other hard-driving — and almost invariably male — tech tycoons adulate Ayn Rand.or the Capitalist Ubermensch John Galt in, are cartoons of what Musk and his ilk aspire to be.
Mars it is, then. It’s telling that Musk’s vision is named after a Roman god. I picture Roark and Galt high-fiving Musk as they climb into the pioneering SpaceX saucer with him to embark for that next frontier. Musk’s autism, which he acknowledges openly and humorously, makes his focus even more laser-like. I always assumed that Roark and Galt also had Asperger’s.
In that real world, Tesla turns into just another car company, which its first-generation employees eventually leave in disappointment. The Boring Co actually becomes boring. SpaceX seems self-indulgent. Neuralink is science fiction. As for Twitter, it’s just a site where media types like me curate their work while mobs of trolls and bots cast aspersions and spread conspiracy theories. Normal people needn’t waste time on it.
Those employees aren’t Randian moochers. In their own ways, they may be just as talented and idealistic as Musk. But they also have families, lives and bills to pay. They’ll be forgiven for rolling their eyes.
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