Elon Musk: A Throwback to the Age of the Magician

If you look at the Forbes 400 Billionaires All, it is largely composed of successful rent seekers and panderers to the desire to consume. They don't take risks at all, except in some cases non-existential financial risks, which they minimize by corruption and political manipulation. Musk also refuses to see that technology can both exalt man and erode his spirit. With him, technology took a new turn toward downright pleasure. The age-old magician's dream of being able to change the world by thought alone seemed almost to have come true. But a magician's dream is often hubristic, and leads to nemesis. Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for