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Jill Lepore

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117 total appearances

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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 that's just the latest in a list of existential risks that he and he alone can fix. And so it's soon after that that he hitches himself to Trump.

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

But that's just the latest in a list of existential risks that he and he alone can fix. And so it's soon after that that he hitches himself to Trump.

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

But that's just the latest in a list of existential risks that he and he alone can fix. And so it's soon after that that he hitches himself to Trump.

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

The thing about it as a historian that really pisses me off, this is pedantic and narrow, but like he misreads everything that he reads. He miswatches it all, right? Like he looks at Batman and he kind of wants to be...

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

The thing about it as a historian that really pisses me off, this is pedantic and narrow, but like he misreads everything that he reads. He miswatches it all, right? Like he looks at Batman and he kind of wants to be...

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

The thing about it as a historian that really pisses me off, this is pedantic and narrow, but like he misreads everything that he reads. He miswatches it all, right? Like he looks at Batman and he kind of wants to be...

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

The bad Batman, you know, the Christopher Nolan, the one who dresses in black, you know, the guy who is just a fascist ruling over the city of Gotham because the people are so stupid and such losers.

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

The bad Batman, you know, the Christopher Nolan, the one who dresses in black, you know, the guy who is just a fascist ruling over the city of Gotham because the people are so stupid and such losers.

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

The bad Batman, you know, the Christopher Nolan, the one who dresses in black, you know, the guy who is just a fascist ruling over the city of Gotham because the people are so stupid and such losers.

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

He's not Adam West. He's also not. The Batman of the 1930s comic books, you know, who was really created in 1939 to fight fascism. It's a weird underwater world to try to be in the mind of Elon Musk or even just the let's conquer Mars in the spirit of H.G. Wells. You know, H.G. Wells was a critic of British imperialism. All of his colonization stories were anti-imperialist cautionary tales.

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

He's not Adam West. He's also not. The Batman of the 1930s comic books, you know, who was really created in 1939 to fight fascism. It's a weird underwater world to try to be in the mind of Elon Musk or even just the let's conquer Mars in the spirit of H.G. Wells. You know, H.G. Wells was a critic of British imperialism. All of his colonization stories were anti-imperialist cautionary tales.

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

He's not Adam West. He's also not. The Batman of the 1930s comic books, you know, who was really created in 1939 to fight fascism. It's a weird underwater world to try to be in the mind of Elon Musk or even just the let's conquer Mars in the spirit of H.G. Wells. You know, H.G. Wells was a critic of British imperialism. All of his colonization stories were anti-imperialist cautionary tales.

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

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started as a BBC radio drama in 1978. It was broadcast to Pretoria, where Musk was a little kid. So Musk talks about a very consistent kind of how I became Elon Musk story that he has told for the whole of his adult life was that when he was 12, he had a kind of existential crisis about being human.

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

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started as a BBC radio drama in 1978. It was broadcast to Pretoria, where Musk was a little kid. So Musk talks about a very consistent kind of how I became Elon Musk story that he has told for the whole of his adult life was that when he was 12, he had a kind of existential crisis about being human.

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

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started as a BBC radio drama in 1978. It was broadcast to Pretoria, where Musk was a little kid. So Musk talks about a very consistent kind of how I became Elon Musk story that he has told for the whole of his adult life was that when he was 12, he had a kind of existential crisis about being human.

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

And he, you know, he read Spinoza and Nietzsche, and he didn't really understand them. But then he read Hitchhiker's Guide. There's a book version as well. And it helped him to understand the meaning of life. And he dedicated himself to exploring the cosmos and bringing the light of human consciousness to the stars. And this truly Drives me insane.

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

And he, you know, he read Spinoza and Nietzsche, and he didn't really understand them. But then he read Hitchhiker's Guide. There's a book version as well. And it helped him to understand the meaning of life. And he dedicated himself to exploring the cosmos and bringing the light of human consciousness to the stars. And this truly Drives me insane.

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

And he, you know, he read Spinoza and Nietzsche, and he didn't really understand them. But then he read Hitchhiker's Guide. There's a book version as well. And it helped him to understand the meaning of life. And he dedicated himself to exploring the cosmos and bringing the light of human consciousness to the stars. And this truly Drives me insane.

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

Yeah, it's Zaphod Beeblebrox, who is the captain of the Heart of Gold spaceship, which is what Musk has promised his first spaceship to Mars will be called in honor of Beeblebrox. evil rocks. He's a goon. He is the most self-deluded, grandiose idiot. He's a bumbling fool.