Musk: rat or rebel?

Tech mogul or state actor?

People show they care by doing things for one another. At some level we all have a need for a version of this care. Presumably this is one of the reasons why people enjoy having meals cooked for them, having a haircut, a manicure, or a massage. It can be pleasant to be taken care of.

Some jobs are inherently unpleasant. There are some jobs that few people want to do and which many people look to someone else to undertake. Whether it is dealing with the bins, unblocking the sewer, or tackling tyranny, most people tend to prefer it when somebody else does it. In the case of opposing oppression, over recent years people have looked to organised opposition, corporate journalists, politicians, and celebrity medics to take care of them, with limited success.

Some people have looked to a curiously named tech mogul.

In Canada in the 1930s there emerged a technocratic party that aimed to “replace democracy with a society led by engineers.” It advocated a “universal currency based on a unit of heat” and believed that “science and technology could cure all ills.” It was banned by the Canadian government due to its opposition to World War 2, and one of its leaders, Joshua Haldeman took his family and left Canada for Pretoria in South Africa. Skipping forward two generations, Haldeman's grandson returned to north america and was put under the media spotlight when he was featured in a CNN piece of limited news value, on the subject of him buying an expensive car. The shaping of the image of Elon Musk in the public consciousness had begun.

Where Bill Gates’ father had an involvement in population control through Planned Parenthood and Boris Johnson's father has demonstrated a lifelong interest in population reduction that is evident in his writings and public speaking, Musk's role in creating a technocratic future is the near end of a thread of familial heritage that can be traced to his grandfather.

A registered actor for his role in Iron Man 2 and the subsequent movies and TV appearances that further popularised his image, Musk has become something of a knight in the shining armour of baphomet for 'tech' enthusiasts.

Lauded as the man to end censorship with his purchase of twitter, the censorship continues. Musk declared his intention to provide online “freedom of speech without freedom of reach,” meaning that he would not provide an equal platform for all, but instead employ the 'shadow-banning' tactics to which those questioning state narratives have become accustomed. This form of censorship allows Twitter users to enter content but restricts how widely it is seen, if at all. It is the equivalent of permission to talk in the town square with an official’s hand over one's mouth. As always the question is, who decides whose speech is acceptable for a wider audience?

Musk has recently limited access to information for twitter users to 600 tweets per day, with new accounts limited to 300 per day, unless one pays for verification in which case permitted views increase to 6000.

If Musk is the man to save us from the authoritarianism of the past few years presumably he has been opposing it over that period? Perhaps he was outspoken in his opposition to the dangerous covid vaccines?

He was not. In fact he was initially dismissive of concerns.

“To be clear, I do support vaccines in general & covid vaccines specifically. The science is unequivocal. In very rare cases, there is an allergic reaction, but this is easily addressed with an EpiPen.”

“For sure wise for elderly or immunocompromised to take the vaccine. Some debate about the second jab though. Quite a few negative reactions to that.”

He towed the following line.

“I’m pro vaccination, but anti vaccination mandate”

Musk extolled the merits of the new MRNA technology that prior to 2020 had always been found to be so dangerous as to prohibit its use on humans. Musk claimed and continues to claim it could cure anything including cancer.

In line with his ambitions to merge technology with mankind he says,

“Vaccines are just the start. It’s also capable in theory of curing almost anything. Turns medicine into a software & simulation problem.”

“This will make some people upset, but I need to emphasize that accelerating synthetic mRNA technology was another silver lining. It is a revolution in medicine, like going from analog to digital. The Covid mRNA vaccine dosage level was too high and having a zillion booster shots was idiotic, causing more harm than good imo, but I am convinced that synthetic mRNA is the surest path to curing cancer, among other things.”

Setting aside how it is that he knows the covid injection dosage was too high, perhaps Musk’s continued support of vaccination and mRNA are to be expected, given that he is financially invested in both.

Musk’s said of his company, “Tesla makes the RNA Bioreactor that can make vaccines/cures. Curevac has Version 2 in use. Version 3 is under development.”

Again he likened disease to a technological failure. “In principle, I think synthetic RNA (and DNA) has amazing potential. This basically makes the solution to many diseases a software problem.”

Even when conceding the predictable and predicted covid injection injuries, he promotes the assumed promise of mRNA gene therapy, despite now, to some extent, recognising the harms done by the covid injections.

“First of all, I am generally pro vaccine. I have been vaccinated against pretty much everything, as have my kids. Second, I think there is tremendous promise in synthetic mRNA. It is like medicine going from analog to digital. That said, the world obviously went crazy with excess vaccination against “Covid-19”. I have that in quotes, because the RNA sequences changed so much that I called it the virus of Theseus. So many people I know had serious side effects from the vaccines, including myself. Failure to acknowledge that is a lie. As for the deaths you claim are due to Covid-19, why is the nation of Sweden still alive!?”

Did Musk oppose the lockdowns? Initially he was critical saying “The coronavirus panic is dumb,” as he sought to keep his Tesla plant open, before hypocritically decrying the government subsidising of lockdown of which Tesla was a recipient. Musk went on to become one of the chief beneficiaries of the biggest wealth transfer in history.

The way Musk speaks of those forced into the pincers of control that are envisaged in the Fourth Industrial revolution echoes the words of WEF prophet of doom, Yuval Noah Harari, (who for some reason cannot pass without a mention of his middle name). Musk and Harari see the advent of technology as rendering many people 'useless,' and presenting them with a life without meaning. They thus presumptuously assume that the meaning to people's lives is found only in being of use to the current system of financially indentured servitude – though the apparent reluctance of people to return to the workplace after the lockdowns suggests otherwise.

Musk says, “Universal Basic Income, it’s going to be necessary. The harder challenge, much harder challenge, is how do people then have meaning? Like, a lot of people derive meaning from employment. So if you don’t have...if you're not needed, if there's not a need for your labour how do you...what's the meaning? Do you have meaning? Do you feel useless? That's a much harder problem to deal with.”

In this comment he chimes in with Harari’s caustic assessment,

“I think that the biggest question in maybe in economics and politics of the coming decades will be what to do with all these useless people? I don't think we have an economic model for that. My best guess, which is just a guess, is that food will not be a problem. With that kind of technology you will be able to produce food to feed everybody. The problem is more boredom and how, what to do with them and how will they find some sense of meaning in life when they are basically meaningless, worthless, my best guess at present is a combination of drugs and computer games.”

In Harari's vision of an augmented humanity he makes the three promises of the serpent in the garden of Eden, namely immortality, knowledge, and that ‘ye shall be as gods.’ In theory these could be fulfilled in some part by Musk's neuralink project. The US Food and Drug Administration has given Neuralink approval to test on humans despite its high rate of failure with animals. Along with transhumanism’s links to eugenics, this is one of a number of concerns articulated by Whitney Webb.

Musk muses, “If you assume any rate of advancement in AI, we’ll be left behind. We would be so far below them in intelligence that we would be like a pet. Like a house cat.”

Harari goes further, “this time if you're not part of the revolution fast enough then you probably become extinct.”

Musk also nudges his audience away from cash and perhaps even from currency, which he repeatedly refers to as “the most effective database for the information that is money.”

“This thing we call “money” is just a (slow, lossy & unsecure) database for labor allocation. Investing is meaningless without people, at least until AGI (artificial general intelligence) happens, which will obviate need for labor & necessitate UBI.”

In presenting alternatives to prevailing financial systems, Musk has said that “buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app.”

He admires the Wechat model on which people in China are able to conduct much of their lives, including financial transactions. “WeChat acts as an all-encompassing service that includes messaging and video chatting, video games, photo sharing, ride services, food delivery, banking, and shopping.” Musk hopes to revolutionise banking and that a huge portion (maybe half) of the world's financial transactions will be made on his x app in future.

"If you're in China, you kind of live on WeChat," he said. "It does everything — sort of like Twitter, plus PayPal, plus a whole bunch of things, and all rolled into one, with a great interface. It's really an excellent app, and we don't have anything like that outside of China."

Musk’s ventures include producing technology to augment humanity, ‘an everything app’ with ID verification, on-line finance, internet provision and satellite surveillance, electric vehicles, solar power and lithium battery plants. He has promoted covid vaccines, mRNA technology, and limits to freedom of speech online. His grandfather was a technocrat. He has a huge media profile, his wife is a transhumanist pagan witch, and he has children named X and Y, one of whom was born to a surrogate.

Given the close alignment of his projects to the transhumanist, CBDC, surveillance, green, medical, and censorship agendas, perhaps it should be no surprise that Musk is a former World Economic Forum (WEF) Young Global Leader. On May 12th 2023, he appointed Linda Yaccarino, the former chair of the WEF’s Future of Work task force, as his new Twitter CEO.

Also notable is that Musk’s high profile but unprofitable ventures are bank-rolled by $5 billion in US government subsidies, and his Starlink satellite internet provision provides surveillance for US military interests.

For those with concerns about the WEF and the philosophies behind those with supranational plans, Musk's decision to celebrate Halloween adorned with the image of baphomet was not reassuring. When, for the New York Met Gala, he wore a jacket embroidered with the words novus ordo seclorum (latin for new world order), it raised eyebrows still further. Is this a case of the maverick mogul being deliberately provocative or should we observe the old adage, that ‘when someone shows you who they are, you should believe them?’ Musk made a further occult reference, this time in relation to AI when he likened it to summoning the demon. “You know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water and he's like yeah, he's sure he can control the demon. It didn't work out.” In the context of reports of sentience or self teaching AI, is this a warning we should take seriously?

For those who suspect that the Apollo lunar module did not travel the 240,000 miles to the moon, or protect the sometimes unhelmeted and unsuited astronauts within from radiation, micrometeorites, and massive fluctuations in temperature, while they received telephone calls from the earth, all utilising 1970s technology that NASA is not now able to replicate; Musk's claims about space travel are viewed with skepticism. Speaking of images of his project to put a Tesla roadster car in space Musk said “you can tell it's real because it looks so fake.” This unusual rationale calls to mind George Orwell writing of the ever watchful totalitarian Party in his novel 1984, “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Should we observe this command in relation to Musk? Or should we believe that he is taking care of our interests?