George Hahn

He says he's creating the most ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engine on Earth.

and off Earth with AI, rockets, space-based Internet, direct-to-mobile device communications, and the world's foremost real-time information and free speech platform.

In other words, a global communications and information choke point.

With Musk, sometimes you get Dr. Jekyll, electric cars, reusable rockets, and medical breakthroughs for treating blindness and paralysis.

Other times you get Mr. Hyde, bullying a judge, Nazi salutes, and AI porn.

Is Jekyll or Hyde the real Elon?

A. Yes.

As author Robert Caro, who's written four volumes on power through the lens of LBJ, observed, power doesn't necessarily corrupt, but it always reveals.

When you are climbing to get power, you have to use whatever methods are necessary, and you have to conceal your aims, Caro told the New York Times.

But then when you get power, you can do what you want, so power reveals.

Musk is, according to the Wall Street Journal, addicted to ketamine, determined to father a legion level of offspring before the apocalypse, and, no surprise, perpetually engaged in custody battles.

He also sleeps with loaded guns next to his bed.

Is this the person we want at the epicenter of space, connectivity, AI, and media?

A. No one person should have this much power.

I have no idea what Musk intends to do with his power, and that's the scary part.

He's unelected and answers to no one, as we now live in a society where billionaires are protected by the law, but not bound by it.

Even scarier, Musk may not know either.

See, ketamine.

To paraphrase Richard Pryor, ketamine is a hell of a drug.

I tried it once under therapeutic supervision.