Long sound, Elon

Not so long ago, in the eyes of many, Elon Musk was considered a somewhat anti-establishment figure. In our age of systematic irony, in which irony has been degraded to a kind of puff pastry that envelops every utterance, it was quite remarkable that one of the richest men in the world, or the richest in the world, or some such nonsense, was an individual with a supposedly visionary intelligence (we ate it ourselves, in the media and on social media), a young man who had known how to bet on the electric car when the world's major automotive brands were reluctant and who had proven himself capable of defying the predictions of economic gurus. Not so minor details, such as his spaceflight project with SpaceX, or having chosen the name of Nikolai Tesla, a legendary pioneer of the early age of electric energy, as the brand name for his cars, gave him a pleasant pop aura, almost likening him to legends like David Bowie. Even when Musk bought Twitter for millions, some still wanted to believe that the Tesla owner would put the social network to work for something transformative. They liked to think of Musk as a kind of insider, the rebellious, punkish offspring of turbocapitalism. The fact that his entry into Twitter came with massive, unfair layoffs, and with his own egotistical omnipresence on the network, didn't bode too well, anyway.

We now know that Musk wanted Twitter to campaign for Trump in the US, and for the neo-Nazi far-right in Germany, the UK, and across Europe. He's been slobbering over Twitter to do so as well (no surprise, by the way, that one of those millionaires with aspirations to become Barça president is a member of the fascist Merdàs).

When good old Musk saw that the political adventure was costing him considerably more than he had calculated, and after having fun with Milei's chainsaw and strolling around the Oval Office as if it were a children's playground, he left the front line amidst reproaches (his own in the rest of the world) and with political action (fired from the American administration for his absurd, and surely illegal, DOGE), and millions more exposed to dying of hunger or epidemic diseases in countries receiving aid from USAID, the international cooperation agency of the United States government, which Musk has ordered to be shut down, so, to put it mildly, Musk doesn't give a damn and feels completely irresponsible. Keynesian social democracy was something that served to prevent the very rich with messianic delusions from causing immense, and hardly repairable, damage to the common good.