Tesla and X owner Elon Musk had a very public meltdown last Wednesday during an interview in which he told Disney and other major companies to go f**k themselves. He even said hi to Bob, who presumably is DIsney CEO Bob Iger. That confrontation against the biggest powers in the world may have been the final nail on the X platform's coffin that was bound to happen eventually. Although he claims to be a free-speech champion, Musk transformed Twitter into a place where conspiracy theories reign supreme and the so-called 'citizen journalism" runs rampant. Granted, there are many media outlets who are not accurate with their reporting on many different matters but the X platform is not helping fix this problem in any way.
Elon Musk admits to having dark thoughts
During the interview, Musk seemed extremely uncomfortable and he even forgot the presenter's name despite being friends with him for over 20 years. Musk also said that the X platform was doomed to die if advertisers didn't return to it but he also tried to blame it on Disney and other big names. However, the most unsettling moment of this interview came when Musk publicly admitted to having 'demons in his head' and suicidal thoughts when he was only 12 years old. Musk previously stated he suffers a type of Asperger Syndrome, which is something he has struggled with since he was a child. Speaking to The New York Times' Aaron Ross Zorkin at the DealBook Summit 2023, we got a deeper look at how Elon Musk's mind works.
This is what Elon said: "My motivation then was, well, my life is really finite ... but if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness then we are better able to figure out what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe and maybe we can find out what is the meaning of life. My mind often feels like a very wild storm because I have a fountain of ideas. Not a happy storm. I think to some degree I was born this way, but it was amplified by a difficult childhood, honestly. Even in a happy moment s a kid, I felt a rage of forces in [his] mind constantly. These demons of the mind are, for the most part, harnessed to productive ends. Once in a while, they, you know, go wrong."
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