What stood out in this interview was not Musk’s cruelty towards other people, but the cruelty of the interviewers towards him.
It was literally a straight shot from “he had some bad things happen to him as a child” to “do you think his business decisions are influenced by them?”. The idea that there might have been a human being who had a…
What stood out in this interview was not Musk’s cruelty towards other people, but the cruelty of the interviewers towards him.
It was literally a straight shot from “he had some bad things happen to him as a child” to “do you think his business decisions are influenced by them?”. The idea that there might have been a human being who had an emotional experience in between doesn’t even seem to have entered the consciousness of either his biographer or his biographer’s interviewer.
Likewise, the whole notion that someone who is obsessed with space and the future of the human race but can’t be bothered to keep track of his children is supposed to be some kind of a bad thing is just bizarre. Hope for the future is an emotion. Anger at being targeted by the federal government is an emotion. Ambition is emotive as well. The idea that this is a guy who struggles with emotions belies the drive that he possesses. The definition they seem to be using of emotional health is what, exactly? Someone who comes home to the same house every night, says “honey I’m home” to one wife with nowhere near his talents and disappears into the vagaries of history?
The guy is a strange personality, but that’s what makes the world move. He has flaws, but the things they’re trying to get him on seem like his strengths, not his flaws. His flaws include that he wastes time on culture war BS and reads Twitter too much.
What stood out in this interview was not Musk’s cruelty towards other people, but the cruelty of the interviewers towards him.
It was literally a straight shot from “he had some bad things happen to him as a child” to “do you think his business decisions are influenced by them?”. The idea that there might have been a human being who had an emotional experience in between doesn’t even seem to have entered the consciousness of either his biographer or his biographer’s interviewer.
Likewise, the whole notion that someone who is obsessed with space and the future of the human race but can’t be bothered to keep track of his children is supposed to be some kind of a bad thing is just bizarre. Hope for the future is an emotion. Anger at being targeted by the federal government is an emotion. Ambition is emotive as well. The idea that this is a guy who struggles with emotions belies the drive that he possesses. The definition they seem to be using of emotional health is what, exactly? Someone who comes home to the same house every night, says “honey I’m home” to one wife with nowhere near his talents and disappears into the vagaries of history?
The guy is a strange personality, but that’s what makes the world move. He has flaws, but the things they’re trying to get him on seem like his strengths, not his flaws. His flaws include that he wastes time on culture war BS and reads Twitter too much.