Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year

Re:Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’... by Fnoord on Friday August 17, 2018 @06:42AM (#17781747)

Mind you, I didn't call him a narcissist. I said its classic narcissism behaviour. There's a subtle nuance between those two. There's no further psychoanalysis either.

I want to be a Musk fanboy. I am very much into the things he's innovating. I care about those things (solar power, electric vehicles, (self-)sustainability in general, though SpaceX not so much). He's become a if not the face of those ideals I find important. That's why that particular tweet was so disgusting and ultimately disappointing to me. I did not see it coming!

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Re:Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’... by l33tbro on Friday August 17, 2018 @05:34PM (#17785678)

I agree. However, I also realise that in being the 'face' of these things that he is truly just that: a mere face, a phantom, an archetype in the collective psyche. Behind all this is a flawed human (like the rest of us) who is trying to reconcile his place as the eco-ubermensch and regular family guy.

I actually didn't feel at all disappointed by the tweet. I feel disappointed by people's lack of concern for a guy who's fighting the good fight who is clearly going through something awful.

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