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Jill Lepore

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The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

I think Musk is a man of many costumes, and he likes to play roles. He is a person who is very immersed in the world of video gaming and comic books and science fiction and Hollywood superhero movies. Wearing the dark MAGA hat and the Occupy Mars black T-shirt is as much a costume and a performance as it is an expression of sincere political commitment.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

I think Musk is a man of many costumes, and he likes to play roles. He is a person who is very immersed in the world of video gaming and comic books and science fiction and Hollywood superhero movies. Wearing the dark MAGA hat and the Occupy Mars black T-shirt is as much a costume and a performance as it is an expression of sincere political commitment.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

I think Musk is a man of many costumes, and he likes to play roles. He is a person who is very immersed in the world of video gaming and comic books and science fiction and Hollywood superhero movies. Wearing the dark MAGA hat and the Occupy Mars black T-shirt is as much a costume and a performance as it is an expression of sincere political commitment.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

So Musk went to Stanford in 1995 for a PhD program, and he left after a couple days to start his first company. In order to raise funds for their ventures, they were all encouraged. to promise to be altering the destiny of the species.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

So Musk went to Stanford in 1995 for a PhD program, and he left after a couple days to start his first company. In order to raise funds for their ventures, they were all encouraged. to promise to be altering the destiny of the species.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

So Musk went to Stanford in 1995 for a PhD program, and he left after a couple days to start his first company. In order to raise funds for their ventures, they were all encouraged. to promise to be altering the destiny of the species.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

And that sense of the messianic language that was required to get funding from venture capitalists, I think a kind of fully grown up person would engage in that and know that it was bullshit. I'm sorry, this is the radio. A fully grown up person would engage in that and know, you know, this is nonsense. This is what you have to do to get money.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

And that sense of the messianic language that was required to get funding from venture capitalists, I think a kind of fully grown up person would engage in that and know that it was bullshit. I'm sorry, this is the radio. A fully grown up person would engage in that and know, you know, this is nonsense. This is what you have to do to get money.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

And that sense of the messianic language that was required to get funding from venture capitalists, I think a kind of fully grown up person would engage in that and know that it was bullshit. I'm sorry, this is the radio. A fully grown up person would engage in that and know, you know, this is nonsense. This is what you have to do to get money.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

But I think a very young, impressionable, sort of arrested development person who's grown up on superhero culture might really come to believe that, that they are better than anyone else on the planet. And that the future destiny of humanity is something that they hold in their hands.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

But I think a very young, impressionable, sort of arrested development person who's grown up on superhero culture might really come to believe that, that they are better than anyone else on the planet. And that the future destiny of humanity is something that they hold in their hands.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

But I think a very young, impressionable, sort of arrested development person who's grown up on superhero culture might really come to believe that, that they are better than anyone else on the planet. And that the future destiny of humanity is something that they hold in their hands.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

Uniquely.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

Uniquely.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

Uniquely.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

And if I want to be a messiah, there have to be existential risks that I can save humanity from. So they have to keep propagating new risks. So, you know, then it's AI and Musk is determined to either defeat it or create it or depending on the time.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

And if I want to be a messiah, there have to be existential risks that I can save humanity from. So they have to keep propagating new risks. So, you know, then it's AI and Musk is determined to either defeat it or create it or depending on the time.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

And if I want to be a messiah, there have to be existential risks that I can save humanity from. So they have to keep propagating new risks. So, you know, then it's AI and Musk is determined to either defeat it or create it or depending on the time.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

But, you know, in our consciousness, I think most Americans, certainly most people around the world, didn't start paying attention to Musk until he decided that the existential risk to the future of humanity and civilization was Twitter itself in 2022. And then he decides to buy it. to defeat the woke mind virus. And at that point, people start paying attention to him.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

But, you know, in our consciousness, I think most Americans, certainly most people around the world, didn't start paying attention to Musk until he decided that the existential risk to the future of humanity and civilization was Twitter itself in 2022. And then he decides to buy it. to defeat the woke mind virus. And at that point, people start paying attention to him.

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