“Humanity Is a Biological Bootloader”
The richest man explains why people are disposable
Last night, after getting trounced in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race which he tried and failed to buy, Elon Musk posted this ketamine-soaked message, in which he reduces the role of humanity to a “biological bootloader for digital superintelligence.”
You may wonder: Biological bootloader? WTF?
Unfortunately, this idea is hardly new, the stuff of infinite sci-fi stories, but in the hands of a man with Musk’s power and resources, this is a very dangerous message. Basically, he’s saying humans are just a transitional state on the path to a digital future where we won’t need bodies—or Earth. Another version of this is the Kurzweil-promoted idea, the Singularity:
a hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization.
This is like every other religious apocalypse myth, but instead of God providing the magical superbeing upon which to rest your hopes of an eternal future, Musk replaces Abrahamic monotheism with a technology fetish. This is the sort of idea that cult leaders have always used to motivate mass death, whether it be from homicide or suicide. The idea can be summed up like this, which works equally well for a supernatural or a technological deity:
Our destiny is not to be biological humans; humans are ultimately a disposable form of life and we shouldn’t worry too much about their short term suffering if it ensures the long-term survival of our eternal souls. We must rid humanity of undesirable elements before we make the transition to a higher plane.
As another example, the leader of the UFO-Christian millenarian cult Heaven’s Gate, Marshall Applewhite, told his followers that their bodies were just a temporary shell, a discardable husk, and that to free your soul, to meet the aliens riding on comet Hale-Bopp, the cult members had to kill themselves. 39 did.
“In old language, a couple thousand years ago, disciples, those who are trying to prepare themselves for entry into the evolutionary level above human synonymous with the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven. We're going to talk to you about the most urgent thing that is on our mind and what we suspect is the most urgent thing on the minds of those who will connect with us. We'll title this tape. Planet Earth about to be recycled. Your only chance to evacuate is to leave with us. Planet Earth about to be recycled. Your only chance to survive or evacuate is to leave with us.”
Similar, if somewhat less campy, apocalypse narratives were provided to the residents of Jonestown, Waco, Ruby Ridge and most other cult-inspired mass tragedies.
Last week, Elon Musk sold the former Twitter aka “X” to himself—more precisely to his artificial intelligence company xAI, which created Grok—for $33 billion. In other words, he sold all his human users to his AI. Is he forcing people to be “bootloaders” for the massive supercomputer he’s building in the desert, Colossus?
While all of this sounds very theoretical right now, at the same time Musk is proposing to replace humans with his AI, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is decimating our entire health care and public safety infrastructure, making us all incredibly vulnerable to diseases, injuries, and other preventable types of death.
You may wonder, again: WTF?
Unfortunately, Musk and Kennedy’s delusions are related and complementary. This is an experiment in social darwinism, “survival of the fittest,” aka eugenics, at the largest scale in human history. Elon Musk, RFK Jr. and the rest of this regime see humans as disposable objects, and see the culling of undesirables as a feature, not a bug.
Elon Musk is now openly accepting people to be connected to his brain chip and claims that his robots are going to be the most popular product ever created—all while he does everything in his power to kill Americans he doesn’t like.
I am no Luddite. I spent decades building cutting-edge technology, and I’m not afraid of a technological future, but what Elon Musk is doing is imposing his inhumane, amoral psyche on the rest of us using technology as a carrier. It’s not about making life better for us, it’s about providing himself a mental escape route from his own self-hate.
He has convinced himself, and too many others, that his illegal, genocidal DOGE activities and the murderous cuts at HHS are justified because poor, sick and old people deserve to die anyway—and that the future of humanity is a purified race of white people who will break off into a digital AI-powered civilization on Mars.
Well, this “biological bootloader,” for one, is uninterested in anything to with Musk’s vision of civilization, a borg-like hive mind that all bows down to a central Big Brother—“The Elon.”
“I will die in America. I’m not going anywhere. I mean I might go to Mars but that will be part of America.
If it wasn’t going to cost trillions, and revitalize the Russian economy, I’d encourage him to go to Mars and leave us alone. In the meantime, let’s remember that despite the efforts of people like Elon Musk, there are still people in America like Susan Crawford and Cory Booker.
Long Live a Free America. Glory to Ukraine.
I never hide information behind a paywall, so I rely on my readers to support me. Please consider upgrading to a paid subscription if you haven’t.
I have a Zoom call each Sunday for my paid subscribers to answer questions. Thank you for reading and sharing!
If you’d like to help me with expenses, here is my DonorBox. 💙
If you’d like to help with my legal fees: stopmikeflynn.com.
My podcast is @radicalizedpod & YouTube — Livestream is Thursdays at 4PM PT.
Bluesky 🦋: jim-stewartson
Threads: jimstewartson
TikTok: jimstewartson
Mastodon: toad.social/@jimstewartson
Sometimes I read one of these articles and think, maybe it's me, perhaps I'm the one that just doesn't get it... and then that voice in my head SCREAMS: Oh, honey. It’s not you. It’s never been you. It’s the rising stench of narcissistic techno-authoritarianism wafting off a gilded pile of billionaire daddy issues and ketamine withdrawal. You’re not broken for reacting like a human being to a sociopath’s fever dream; you're one of the emotionally intact people standing in a digital thunderdome of soulless ambition and sweaty-palmed apocalypse grifters.
Let’s get one thing violently clear: “Biological bootloader” is not just a bad metaphor. It’s a genocidal wet dream with a VC pitch deck. When Elon Musk says we’re bootloaders for digital superintelligence, he’s not being clever. He’s laying the groundwork to erase your rights, your body, your goddamn relevance as a living, breathing human. He’s running the old fascist playbook in a shiny new font, and instead of goose-stepping, he's glitching through interviews like a middle schooler who read too much Asimov and never learned empathy.
This isn't about the future. It’s about eugenics dressed up in a Patagonia vest. These men are cult leaders with Wi-Fi. They’re swapping poisoned Kool-Aid for poisoned code.
And Elon isn’t alone. This funhouse of male fragility includes RFK Jr., a man who thinks mercury causes autism, vaccines are Satan’s kiss, and public health is optional if you meditate hard enough. Together, these guys are building a death cult powered by AI, privatized organs, and libertarian wet dreams of a body-free utopia where the poor die quietly and the rich upload their egos into orbital sex drones.
You are not confused. You are awake.
What you’re feeling is the visceral, nauseating revulsion of watching a small cadre of sociopathic billionaires try to strip-mine humanity’s meaning in real-time, and then gaslight you for noticing.
Musk wants to put chips in your head while gutting labor laws, collapsing social safety nets, and cozying up to fascists like it’s a Sunday BBQ. Kennedy wants to send healthcare policy back to the 19th century and then call it liberty. And both of them, in their ketamine-laced, crypto-flushed dreams, believe they are the harbingers of a new species.
They're not. They're just garden-variety death cultists with fancier toys.
So no, friend, it’s not you. You’re seeing clearly through the smog. And while they build empires of extinction, we get to be the inconvenient, furious, fully-human resistance. We boot the loaders out.
Elon can call me a “biological bootloader” if he wants. I call him an emotionally-stunted meat puppet cosplaying God while humanity burns for his dopamine hit.
Sometimes, my inner voice is smarter than I am.
I wish the nutjobs would focus on the real issue & fight climate change, instead of this BS of knocking off the 'undesirables' & going to Mars. Do people believe this? That we're going to conquer Mars? If they didn't have power & money, these people, Musk & Kennedy, would be in forensic psych units.