Even if you don't ask him, he will tell you: "Alternative for Germany" is the "last spark of hope" for the European state, the cession of the Crimean peninsula from Soviet Russia to Ukraine was "Khrushchev's mistake", and Taiwan is "an integral part of China". On his profile on the social network X, he shares materials popular among Russian propaganda circles, explaining how the US and NATO are to blame for Russia's aggression against Ukraine, and humiliating insults towards the authorities in Kiev. And in 2022, when the Kremlin invaded its neighbor, it was he who gave Ukraine the opportunity to use the internet from his Starlink satellites. Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his gratitude for this again in his three-hour interview with the American podcaster Lex Friedman yesterday.
In fact, his X profile is something like a wall of shame and a tool for public racketeering: if you fit into his agenda, he lobbies for you (for example, when he tried to launch his candidacy for US Treasury Secretary, at the expense of the one preferred by Donald Trump); if he doesn't like you, he "puts" you on the social carousel of the whip (no matter whether you are the German president or the British prime minister). As long as you agree with him, you are friends and he takes pictures with you; when you tell him he is wrong, he turns against you (the recent case with the chairman of the British Reform UK party). Anyone who is upside down in their world takes on the role of Cersei Lannister from the film adaptation of the book series of the same name "Game of Thrones", who had to walk naked through the path of humiliation, while the sect of "sparrows" pelted her with rotten vegetables and organized chants of "Shame, Shame" ("shame, shame"). Although the blue thrush on the social network in question was replaced as a logo with an X, the chickens around his profile continue to obligingly tear apart the targets they have been given.
When at the end of last year The Wall Street Journal published a story according to which the man in question had periodically contacted the Russian authorities heavily sanctioned by the Americans, including President Vladimir Putin, which is why Democratic senators demanded a federal investigation into the matter, he again used his X profile to say that "I will find who is making these accusations and I will destroy them".
Do you remember what happened to Kevin Spacey? The career of a unique actor was systematically destroyed as a result of this same hysterical culture of canceling everything that cannot fit into the production mold of woke liberalism. A fighter against the woke culture of the short story, the man in question here wields the same scourge of shame against anyone who doesn't conform to his worldview. Apparently, social ostracism and public kicking aren't the problem, only the color of the turbans the buffoons are wrapped in. When George Soros funds universities, media and NGOs in various countries so that they can reflect the propaganda of misunderstood liberalism, including the undermining of the sovereignty of individual states, and all this was bad, then how can the call for intervention by an external force to free the British people from their democratically elected government be defined?
The bearer of this infantile understanding of social communication and these sharp emotional amplitudes, generally characteristic of ladies in their debatable monthly periods or simply of adolescents whose social maturation is still a prospect on the horizon, is the richest man in the world, owner of SpaceX, Tesla and X, Elon Musk. And if his influence in the world of business and technology - fully deserved, given his skills and entrepreneurship - is clear, his political one stems from the fact that he is in the inner circle of Donald Trump. The latter appointed the businessman as head of the Department of Management Efficiency (in fact, this is more of an Agency, the purpose of which will be, in addition to the declared efficiency of the bureaucracy, also the optimization of its costs). Of course, Musk's influence on Trump does not stem from such hollow structures with an unclear institutional framework, but from the similar worldviews of the two and the trust between them. Because of the latter, it was Musk, and not one of the people with relevant expertise in the team of the newly elected president, who was also entrusted with the diplomatic task of meeting with the Iranian ambassador to the UN again at the end of last year.
Elon Musk is a deservedly mega-rich and influential person who does not even need people's recognition, since his successes in areas such as automotive and space technologies, as well as those related to artificial intelligence, speak for themselves. Of course, he is entitled to an opinion on any issues, including those concerning bilateral relations between the United States and Iran. Just as professors of international relations at the University of Oxford are entitled to an opinion on how space rockets can be transformed into reusable space vehicles with which to colonize Mars.
But for the sake of the general well-being of the world, it is better for international relations specialists not to present their opinions on space technologies as objective knowledge and for Elon Musk not to draw on his social network X the peace plan between Ukraine and Russia as the final view of the truth. The reason is identical: Musk has no idea about international relations (of the history, culture, religion, diplomacy and politics that sculpt their fabric) and professors of international relations have no idea about rocket engines powered by cryogenic liquid methane and oxygen. The blessing of democracy is that everyone has the right to an opinion. Its curse is that far from every opinion is backed by knowledge.
Every person, writes Arthur Schopenhauer, takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect, as inevitable as the error of the eye that allows us to imagine that on the horizon the sky and the earth meet, concludes the German philosopher. And here true intelligence, which should not be confused with erudition, is to realize the limits of one's own knowledge. In other words, to distinguish between opinion and knowledge (those shouting "crucify Him, crucify Him!" in the praetorium of Pontius Pilate also had a lot of opinion and little knowledge).
The discrepancy between opinion and knowledge was also clearly illustrated in the article published by Elon Musk for the Sunday German publication "Welt", in which he stated that "Alternative for Germany" is the solution to the country's problems. Regarding the text of the American businessman, the MP from the Christian Democratic Party Jens Spahn wrote, quoted by the English edition of DW: "Elon Musk says: "Look beyond the AfD labels". Now, let's do it then: AfD wants to leave NATO, resume "Nord Stream 2" and is an anti-American, pro-Putin and pro-Russian party. Is this what the US wants?".
Baron Munchausen has remained in literary heritage as a hero who rode a horse, defended the cause of the Russian Empire and spoke complete nonsense. In contrast, Elon Musk drives his Tesla Model S electric car.