In one of the episodes of The Simpsons, Elon Musk appears befriending the ineffable Homer and confessing that the outlandish character's ideas had stimulated his own. Certainly, the richest man in the world is a disconcerting character. He boasts that he is neither on the right nor on the left, that he considers himself half-Democratic and half-Republican, and that he defines himself as socially progressive and fiscally conservative. But his opinions have been denouncing him for a long time, such as when he signed up to conspiracy theories about Covid, when he restored Donald Trump's account on Twitter or when he blinded his satellites so that Ukrainian drones would not hit the Russian ships at the base. Crimea.
And in case anyone had any doubts, this weekend we saw him as a guest star on the show of Giorgia Meloni, the Italian Prime Minister, who has brought together the most conservative personalities on the planet, such as the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the President by Vox, Santiago Abascal. The festival held in Rome was named Atreju, inspired by the brave warrior from The Neverending Story. The underlying issue at the meeting was policies to stop immigration in Europe. Musk valued the social network X to combat the woke culture, the name given to the social policies of the current left.
Musk aspires to be the new populist leader of the global right. It is possible that he does not need to run in the United States elections, because his company is on track to be as powerful as a large state, with leading companies in automobiles, satellites, rockets or artificial intelligence. The character may end up being a problem for democracy.
In the recently released Netflix film Leaving the World Behind, starring Julia Roberts, a cyber coup d'état occurs, where the planet's satellite communications are canceled and driverless Teslas are hacked to crash on highways in order to close the passage to law enforcement. Musk has protested angrily, but he turned yellow as a Simpson when he saw that the producers of the film were Michelle and Barak Obama.
