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I have worked with many people at the very top of their professions. What I observed is that our society requires an almost mono maniacal narcissism in order to achieve these posts. Impervious to criticism and hell-bent on future outcomes, unfortunately the people working for them often become commodities... I did not see that here with Musk. This is the problem we have with the presidency as of late. . . In order to achieve that kind of power position, you would need to be thick skinned to the point of DSM diagnosis. I loved what Walter I. said in the interview about the duplicitous nature of human beings and our societies incapability of mirroring that back to us since Shakespeare. In the Sociopath Next Door - worth the read BTW.... She quotes the statistic that 1 in 5 people could be diagnosed as such. 1 in 5.... Who's the Sociopath in this dialogue? I'm not sure I believe that, but I do believe that if I was launching rockets, had read the entirety of the Encycolpedia Britannica and believed in Free Speech in a country that was heading toward a 1984 kind of Socialism, I might snap sometimes and curl up in a ball on the floor too.

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