Musk’s Thoughtcrime: “Suicidal Empathy”
How the richest man created an alternate reality where you don’t have the right to feel things
“The Pursuit of Happiness” is in the Declaration of Independence as a different way of expressing the idea of “freedom”. But the right to feel what you want, and to pursue more of it, seemed like such an integrated part of the human experience that it wasn’t enshrined in the Constitution per se. This created an opening for our enemies because our right to feel things is, in fact, under attack in ways never seen before — because technology never allowed it.
Elon Musk has repeatedly decried the existential danger of “suicidal empathy” — which is the absurd idea that if you care too much about people, it’s the equivalent of killing yourself, except on the scale of “civilization.” He has effectively declared empathy to be thoughtcrime.
This idea is popular among psychopaths and malignant narcissists in the broligarchy because it gives them an internal rationale for their own deviant psychology and a pseudo-intellectual framework on which to pin their sadistic behavior. There was no better example of this in action than the gaslighting ambush that took place in the White House on Friday. It was the setup of a man heroically fighting for democracy and the lives of his citizens, a setup with the specific and deliberate intention to tear him down in front of the world.
But while Trump and Vance were attacking Zelenskyy in order to benefit war-criminal Vladimir Putin, the richest man and unelected autocrat of America, Elon Musk, was recording an interview with former Fear Factor host turned fascist propagandist Joe Rogan.
This was damage control for a “Cabinet meeting” where Musk, who is not in the Cabinet, and has no official role other than “Special Employee,” dominated the room with lies about Ebola prevention — while wearing a “Tech Support” t-shirt and black MAGA hat. A week before that Musk brought his son who proceeded to tell Trump to “shush your mouth.”
Joe Rogan’s job is to make fascists like Musk palatable to young white men while he steals them blind and destroys their country. Here are some quotes from the interview (emphasis added):
Elon Musk:
“If I fully destroy the corruption and the graft, they will kill me.”
“So it’s kind of weird when you talk to someone who gets all their information from like what I call legacy media. They’re living in a different world than if they say are listening to your podcast or getting news from X. You know it’s kind of wild. Like you talk and it’s like they’re living in an alternate reality.”
Joe Rogan:
“What kind of responsibility do you feel, knowing that if you didn't take over Twitter and turn it into X, the world would be a very different place right now Trump would have never come back. Alex Jones definitely would have never been back. Does that weigh on you?”
Elon Musk:
“I'm just trying to keep civilization going here, for longer. I think we at least want to build a city on Mars and become a multiplanet civilization, which I think would be incredibly important in ensuring the long-term survival of civilization.”
To translate this, Elon Musk wants people to believe that he is a godlike, heroic figure with the only true vision for saving humanity (his Mars hoax) — but is in grave danger from his enemies. Of course, his would-be murderers are not specified, nor is exactly what he means by “fully destroying the corruption and the graft”.
Particularly revolting to me personally, however, is his projection that “legacy media” — or as he defines it, anything not like Rogan’s podcast or “X” — is an “alternate reality.” As I’ve written, I was one of the pioneers of alternate reality games, so I know exactly what he’s talking about and what he’s admitting to. Elon Musk has created an alternate reality, one in which empathy is suicidal, cruelty is celebrated, and truth is woke. “X” is like “Q” but multiplied by a half-trillion dollars.
Rogan praises Musk for the fact that Russian propagandist and Nazi apologist Alex Jones, a man who destroyed the lives of grieving Sandy Hook families through sheer cruelty, a crime for which he had his companies taken, and owes over a billion dollars, is now part of the “alternate reality” Musk built.
This is a deliberately delivered pandemic of psychopathy, of cruelty, by people who have figured out a way to spread their own abnormal psychology to others by bathing them in exciting but deadly alternate realities. But the “suicidal” reality is the one that denies that vaccines work, cheers for its own enslavement, and wants to reverse not just FDR, but the Enlightenment.
The next version of America, the one that rises from this shock to our system, regardless of the damage that it ultimately causes, must recognize that people have a right to empathy, they have a right to care about others, and even, as quaint as it may seem, they have a right to have their own government care about them in return.
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Thanks Jim for your insightful analysis as always. I honestly think Musk views himself as an accelerationist pinning for the collapse of our society and borrowing out our government for the resources for his Mars mission as crazy as it sounds to us empathic normies.
"Elon Musk has repeatedly decried the existential danger of “suicidal empathy” — which is the absurd idea that if you care too much about people, it’s the equivalent of killing yourself, except on the scale of “civilization.” He has effectively declared empathy to be thoughtcrime." Pure Ayn Rand.