Musk

IMHO, the beginning of the end was when he hosted Saturday Night Live in May 2021. Most people would say the downfall began in 2018, when he called that British caver a “pedo” during the Thai cave rescue debacle, but I personally wrote that off as a poorly performed “yo mama” joke. In one of the interviews in this four-hour opus (which should have been a four-episode HBO series), a former colleague explains that it was the pandemic that flipped a switch in him. So when he hosted SNL, something was… off. Publicly visible narcissism had taken control. He thought he was funny, and there’s nothing more unfunny than a nerd trying too hard to be funny. He was so forced and premeditated, and his eyes were dead. Maybe that was just the ketamine. 

By the fall of 2021, people were already handing out “Anti-Elon Tesla Owner” bumper stickers, but I couldn’t put one on my Tesla because it was a lease. It really is a great car. The best car I’ve ever owned. Too bad their CEO is a psychopath, as this aforementioned 4-hour documentary makes clear. The most substantive and revealing interviews were with Justine Wilson (his first wife) and Ashley St. Clair (the mother of one of his many, MANY children) as well as two sharp reporters from Wired Magazine. Otherwise, a few narrative devices don’t land as well as they could. There’s a first-person-shooter video game motif, as though Elon is shooting up the world. These segments go on too long and don’t add much. There’s also an effort to “interview” Musk himself through an animated A.I. likeness of his face and voice repeating actual Musk quotes. It’s weird and feels out of context. Oh, and the quotes are terrifying. 

It’s absolutely historic how quickly this man blew up so much goodwill. He seems intent on destroying his own reputation, and the world along with it. It’s as if he’s being eaten alive from the inside out by a toxic alien parasite. We just wanted an electric vehicle for the common people. He helped provide that. We made him rich for it. And he showed his appreciation by pooping and vomiting hatred all over the world, like a monster. That makes him, I think, a finalist for worst person in the world.