The expression “going over to the dark side”, or “turning to the dark side of the Force”, is one of the most overused and stereotyped we hear these days. And yet, it fits Elon Musk like a glove.
In George Lucas' The Empire Strikes Back, directed by Irvin Kershner, Darth Vader reveals to Luke Skywalker that he is his father, and sets out to lure him to the dark side of the Force.
Let's imagine Darth Vader had succeeded in his endeavor.
Well, in real life, that's what happened with Elon Musk. I'd go even further: like Luke fighting Darth Vader in the cave of Dagobah, Elon Musk has become his father.
That said, if you're a former employee of Elon Musk, you might say: “He's always been on the dark side”. And in a way, it makes sense. Musk has always had brutal management methods towards his employees. I mean, just reread my article on Ashlee Vance's biography of Elon Musk, and the way Elon treated a certain Marie Beth Brown.
It's quite possible to imagine that Musk, as a good manipulator, only voted for Obama and Biden to hide his game. That he married a progressive fantasy novelist, Justine Wilson, in the year 2000, just to keep up appearances. Although at this stage, you have to admit it sounds a bit far-fetched.
It could also be argued that Musk's commitment to climate change is not real. That he only decided to put his fortune of a hundred million dollars on the line in electric cars (in 2008) and Space X because, as an excellent entrepreneur, he saw future market opportunities there, and not to realize his childhood dreams. That he only used the aspirations and dreams of the progressive people around him to trap them. Because his goal, right from the start, was power. The power of money and fame.
In short, it's probably possible to paint an even darker picture of Elon Musk than he really is.
But that would mean forgetting a crucial element named Errol Musk. Elon's father. Errol Musk is himself an entrepreneur and an engineer. A big supporter of Donald Trump.
What should tip you off, though, is that Errol Musk says that the one of his sons who has really made it in life is Kimbal, not Elon.
Elon was not the favorite son, to put it mildly. We know that he left the family nest in South Africa at an early age to migrate to Canada and then the United States. The son thus put an ocean between him and his father.
In Musk's interviews about his childhood and adolescence, we understand that he hated his father and sought to distance himself from him. What makes me think that Elon Musk wasn't always on the dark side, and that his progressive impulses weren't just facades, is that he was able to recognize his father's unhealthy side and fight it, to a certain extent.
But, like Luke Skywalker in his cave, while fighting his father, as he adopted all his father's methods, Elon became his father.
The fact, for example, that he chose the same profession as Errol and was attracted to management shows the ambivalent aspect of young Elon. In his profession, he has chosen to follow in his father's footsteps. While he showed resilience at a young age by distancing himself from this unloving father, he took on his father's management methods and values... or lack of values, since we shouldn't forget that a company like Tesla had to face a racism lawsuit, which the company lost.
Elon Musk began to repeat the family pattern, with the same drive for power and wealth as his father.
And it's gone further than those ultra brutal management methods. It's gone further than the hyper-aggressiveness I already described in this 2019 article, and which is one of Elon Musk's driving forces.
The moment when the multi-hatted manager began to “officially” switch to the dark side was undoubtedly the covid 19 pandemic in 2020. The disease confused a lot of people, including Elon. But Musk's analytical mind subsequently perceived that there were real political benefits to be gained from this sudden loss of people's bearings. People were suddenly much more vulnerable to fake news.
The technological leap in which Musk is fully involved, with the insane acceleration of computing and science, is accompanied by profound changes on the sociological level. A much greater emphasis on women in society. The recognition of sexual as well as ethnic minorities, which has taken the name of wokism in the USA, has itself been propelled by the metoo phenomenon.
For me, wokism is the right of the weakest. A descendant of the human rights essential to society. The fact that this term was only coined in the 20th century by Martin Luther King speaks volumes about the human species. But wokism has always existed, and is not peculiar to the United States or to communitarianism. We just had to put a name to the concept.
The struggle of minorities is, of course, a struggle for power. It can lead to excesses and shortcomings, and in particular to an absolutely detestable attempt to police language, and to instruct a kind of thought police, of permanent “political correctness”.
These excesses have given a very negative tinge to wokism among most Americans. It's part of what sowed the seeds of Kamala Harris's defeat of Donald Trump in the year 2024. But let's be clear, only part of it. As I see it, the people who voted for Trump did so first of all selfishly, to have their taxes lowered. Second, they did it to reject mass immigration. Thirdly, they did it out of disgust with the previous government, and only on a fourth level out of rejection of wokism and societal evolutions.
The widespread loss of reference points, both sociological and technological, has naturally encouraged a conservative impulse.
So it's highly ironic that one of the greatest propagators of change, Elon Musk himself, after buying Twitter in 2022, turned it into X the following year before, in 2024, turning it into a propaganda tool in the service of his new master, the emperor of conservatism Trump. Musk posted hundreds of tweets a day in support of Trump's campaign, and donated $100 million.
The man many of his employees no doubt nickname Darth Vader, Musk, has gone so far as to have the algorithms of the former Twitter modified to favor pro-Trump rhetoric. The CEO undoubtedly conceived an unhealthy glee in transforming Twitter, a formerly progressive and moderate instrument, into a big computer virus disseminating fake news and propaganda. Remember: the same sociopathic glee he used to feel when walking around Twitter's premises carrying a sink.
To take another metaphor, if Trump is the evil Pied Piper dragging his people into the abyss, the flute is X.
Elon's anti-Wokism isn't just political. On the contrary, it's strongly linked to his family. A detestation of the high school his son Xavier attended, where he is said to have contracted “the woke virus”. For me, the day Elon signed his passage to the dark side with his family's blood was the day he said that the woke virus had killed his son Xavier, in 2022. The day he rejected his own son because of his transition to female. The day he rejected Vivian Jenna Wilson for good.
That's when Elon Musk merged with his father Errol.
And Vivian Jenna Wilson reacted, in 2024, in the same way as her progenitor did when he left the family nest to migrate to another country. Following the election of Donald Trump, Vivian in fact announced her decision to leave the United States.
Are you starting to believe me when I talk about family patterns?
It's worth noting that people who make transitions to the opposite sex in good faith, and go through with it physically, are often autistic.
Elon Musk himself has Asperger's autism. It's a safe bet that Vivian Jenna Wilson is also on the autism spectrum. Which means Musk may have rejected the family member closest to him. Out of ignorance. Out of insanity.
And now, in 2024, Elon Musk and his father Errol are joining forces to sing the praises of one man, Donald Trump. Donald Trump, who will benefit from Elon's good advice, as he enters the cryptocurrency business. A business all the more juicy when you become President of the United States. No, no, no conflict of interest, of course...
Trump is not, of course, just a surrogate father to Musk. Rallying behind him will allow him to benefit from tax exemptions from 2025 onwards. His rallying is first and foremost about business, as demonstrated by the surge in Musk companies on the stock market once “Dumpy Trumpy” was elected.
I mentioned Donald Trump in my article on mental illness, about sociopaths. But I also talked about possessive mothers and unloving mothers.
Looking at the case of Elon Musk's family, I think it's fair to say that there's an “unloving father” fusion aspect to both Errol's relationship with his son, and Elon's relationship with Vivian Jenna Wilson.
My hypothesis is that the schizophrenia gene has derivatives, including autism, and in particular Asperger's autism. Autism and paranoid schizophrenia are obviously very different conditions. But to my mind, what links them is the fusional aspect. In this case, Elon Musk's passage to the dark side would mean a mental regression in which his psychic individuality would merge with that of his father.
Elon's father, Errol, is 81. The way to test my theory would be to examine the state Elon finds himself in when his father dies. If he finds himself completely devastated, in a state of deep depression, that would be a sign that my hypothesis is correct.
I'm not a qualified psychologist, of course, but because of my family background, I'm interested in conditions such as schizophrenia and its gene derivatives (to be clear, I've never suffered from schizophrenia myself. But ask the authors around you, and I'm sure you'll find cases of schizophrenia in their families).
So now, you may ask, what are we to think of Space X and Tesla? Should we boycott Musk's companies as we would boycott Elon himself?
My answer is no. If I had to choose a new vehicle today in 2024, and not in 2020 as I did, I probably wouldn't want to put money in Elon Musk's pocket by buying one of his cars. I'd probably turn to the competition, to another electric car. But that would be an emotional response above all, because the best charging network is still Tesla's.
And let's face it, my Tesla is still a fantastic car in my eyes, even if Musk's ventures bear his signature indelibly, and even if my opinion of the individual has greatly evolved. As you can see from the articles below.
In my opinion, the vast majority of Tesla and Space X employees are still progressives. They want humanity to evolve in the right direction, not in the direction of the Trumpist dictatorship, from which we don't know if the United States will recover.
On the subject of Space X, the desire to industrialize space still seems essential to the conquest of Mars. But there will be ecological repercussions that could have a serious impact on the ozone layer, and which we need to monitor very closely.
The fact that oversight bodies such as the FAA and FDA will be subject to the control of Elon Musk himself from 2025 under the Trump administration is chilling. On the other hand, the theodule committee decreed by Trump, which Elon Musk will co-chair, already looks like a pantalonnade. A committee tasked with slashing public spending that is going to pay not one but two directors doesn't seem to me to embody the values of sound economic management or efficiency.
The fact that oversight bodies such as the FAA and FDA will be subject to the control of Elon Musk himself from 2025 under the Trump administration is chilling. On the other hand, the theodule committee decreed by Trump, which Elon Musk will co-chair, already looks like a farce. A committee tasked with slashing public spending that is going to pay not one but two directors doesn't seem to me to embody the values of sound economic management or efficiency.
So much for my very modest insight into the latest developments from Mar-a-Lago's new resident, Elon Musk. Hopefully, you'll get a bit more out of it than just a chat over the counter.
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