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Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Is There Something New About Muscism?
Musk ism may be more like a world view, or an approach to human life that just kind of shatters a conventional understanding of whatever that is. I actually the idea that thereis something deeply new and profoundly disruptively innovative about muscism is part of the self mystification of that world view. Like, it's important to these people to think that they are doing something new, wholly new and bigger and better and more extreme. But it's actually not. You know, these are mere mortals like the rest of us. They put their pants on one leg at a time, and then they try to gain power and subvert ordinary people's ability to control their own lives
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