Mythic

Elmo is not a genius. He's not a visionary. He's not a mythic hero in any way.

He was born to privilege, riding to school in his daddy's Rolls Royce.

He's just another parasitic billionaire making money on other people's work.

And he's playing the rubes like a tin whistle.

• He didn't start Tesla. He bought it.
• He doesn't build rockets. Government engineers do that for him.
• He didn't create PayPal. He bought in, and when he tried (and failed) to take it over, he was forced out.

His fortune was created by contracts, subsidies, and tax loopholes, compliments of various levels of government.

Tesla is losing market share and the stock price is down 26% since mid-December.

Twitter has lost 80% of its value since Musk took it private.

Membership is down by millions of users

Hate speech is up by triple digits

Credibility is near-zero

SpaceX is a gauzy dream of billionaires who think they can fuck up the Earth any way they want, and then just migrate to the next Green Spot - in a galaxy far far away - to start the raping and pillaging all over again. While, at the same time, it's a way for Elmo to fleece the rubes and keep them distracted.

While real leaders innovate, and elevate, and motivate the people to excel, Musk markets himself by picking stupid fights, tweeting conspiracy fantasies to keep his devotees entertained, and consolidating his power so he can go on mooching off the taxpayers.

We have to break free of this kind of Gilded Age brain fog we're trapped in. We have to stop allowing these leeches to make themselves out to be our god-anointed rulers, worthy of unending fealty and bloodlust-invoking devotion.

We have to move on to the next Enlightenment.

We have to tax these assholes

into non-existence.