The Curious Case of Elon Musk

After much back and forth, Elon Musk ended up buying Twitter. My guess is that he didn't have much choice but to stick with the deal. It's also evident that the rich and the powerful are determined to destroy Twitter, now that it's no longer under their direct control. All of this has been fairly predictable. However, there's something distinctly odd about the whole situation.

Musk benefited greatly from the green agenda, and the corruption associated with it, so why has he decided to upset this liberal world order? What drove him to this, and why hasn't he been stopped?

The deep state doesn't normally allow people to rise to great riches without having some dirt on them that can be used to control them. But nothing shocking has been revealed about Musk, and it's almost as if Musk has manged to turn the tables. He has Pelosi invested in Tesla options, and he's now sitting with the keys to all sorts of dirt locked away in cabinets in the Twitter headquarters.

But none of this explains why Musk is doing things that upset those who used to be his greatest fans and backers. The man is not a profoundly moral person. He pushed Bitcoin and even Dogecoin onto hapless laymen. He has ruined many lives on his way to ever-greater riches, so I wouldn't attribute his change of heart to pure undiluted love for liberty and free speech.

Musk's transformation over the past two years is undeniable, but there's no single event we can point to for an explanation, so I suspect we're looking at a complex mix of factors. He's not getting any younger, and being already rich, he may be looking at ways to leave a legacy. That could be done by creating a trusted to some good cause, as is what most rich and powerful people do to create a legacy for themselves. But Musk wouldn't need to control Twitter to do this. The fact that he started to toy with the idea of buying Twitter some two years ago indicate that he has something else in mind.

My guess is that Musk is seeing an opportunity in politics a little over the horizon, and that this is what he's now aiming at. His ambition may be to one day become president of the United States. However, his ambitions may be even greater than that because Twitter has the potential to completely reshape the global political landscape, and he may be visionary enough to realize this.

The current political system of the world is centred around nation states. This system is so ubiquitous that hardly anyone can imagine an alternative world. But Musk is not an average guy. He may see the profound political potential of social platforms like Twitter, and his behaviour of late appears to confirm this.

Musk has the habit of making polls for all sorts of things. He issues a suggestion, and everyone on Twitter gets to vote on the subject. He's the king of Twitter, and he asks his clients for advice before taking decisions.

This is similar to how Irland was organized back when it was an anarchy. The Irish people were free to choose between several different kings who all operated in parallel. Each king would provide protection, insurance and legal assistance to those who paid their taxes to him. Anyone with property would thus choose a king for themselves in case of disputes and conflicts.

If Musk expands into legal services, protection and insurance, Twitter will become a parallel kingdom, competing with our current system centred around nation states. If so, people will start to ask what use they have of the nation state if all they truly need is provided by Twitter and similar platforms.

The entire world could become like Irland was before the English invaded it and turn it into a fiefdom under their control. Irland had more than ten kings, so the world could easily have thousands of kings, some operating locally, and others operating globally. Everyone would be free to choose their own preferred king based on price and services rendered. 

Is this what Musk is seeing over the horizon, or is he merely hoping to one day become president of the US? Nobody knows, but it's interesting to see how the custodians of the current world order are reacting.

Musk's vision is not in harmony with the one-world-order that is currently being pushed, and corporations like Apple have decided to act against Twitter in an attempt to curb Musk's ambitions. Apple has also come down firmly on the side of the Chinese Communist Party in its effort to squash opposition movements, so Apple and Twitter are now opposing forces in the battle of control in China.

The EU, always eager to move sovereignty away from the populace and into the hands of world leaders, is threatening to ban Twitter altogether.

Musk's reaction to Apple has been to investigate the possibility of creating a smart phone that cannot easily be used as a tool for oppressive regimes like China.

Musk's reaction to the EU has so far been to say nothing. If EU decides to act on its threat, EU is once and for all revealed to be an anti-liberty organization, and if EU doesn't act on its threat, it reveals itself as a toothless tiger. Either way, Musk wins, so my guess is that he will remain silent towards his adversaries in the EU.

The push to squash Twitter is ongoing and fierce. But Musk has so far stayed firm. Time will tell if the elite is as powerful as it is believed to be, or if we are looking at hubris before an epic fall. Either way, a lot is at stake both for Musk and his adversaries.

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By Duncan.Hull - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link