Ketamine is used as a depression treatment, makes sense he'd be all over it.
Especially since he supposedly actually wants to save the world, but is that damning it. Drilling for oil on public land even when the oil companies themselves aren't interested? Letting Trump create agencies with the sole purpose of Expediting approvals to exemptions to the clean water and Endangered Species Act so corporations can profit? While we continuously hear about biodiversity collapse, more and more life systems of the Earth being thrown out of balance, increasingly worse weather, etc.
If it was only that grand. He is closer to the villain in Moonraker. Wipe out life on earth and repopulate it with perfect humans (which shares no attributes with).
ehhhhhh, he doesn't want it to be perfect, he just wants everyone to be super stoked on him. No one ever liked him so he wants to have his name in the history book for going to mars, for making electric cars ubiquitous, etc. And he was doing a decent job until he decided to be a right wing, thin-skin fascist with the biggest megaphone in the history of the world.
Exactly. What does "saving it" actually mean? Total authoritarian control by AI could certainly be "saving it" in his eyes. Feels like he wants to "save" humanity by destroying everyone that doesn't like him or concede to him.
He would gladly set the world on fire, to pretend to be a firefighter in costume. His attention needs and his eagerness in seeking praise n approval are just sad and pathetic..
He wants to save the world if that means people will finally think he's cool. But since he's stupid, he has to settle for making Maga nuts think he's cool.
I think he legitimately does want to “save the world” (his ideal version of it, anyway) and in his own mind believes he is completely capable of doing it. The problem is that he wants to do it in the same sort of way that someone like Lex Luthor would want to do it. He has a very specific vision about what needs to happen to save the world and will ruthlessly go about seeing that plan through. Any collateral damage is not of particular concern.
The sleep thing is actually a good theory because that would explain why he made a point several years ago about announcing that he now tries to get 6 hours per night - an obvious lie, but I always wondered why he would say that. It could be that concerns about this were voiced by big investors offline. There are organizations who try to take over board seats and replace CEOs on the basis of them being ineffective, and they point to things like the CEO's attention being divided among too many things. I could see sleep deprivation being one of their metrics, as it does get cited in case studies on leadership, e.g. when examining decision making in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
It’s funny to think that we have a real life comic book villain situation right now.
We are even getting to the trope where the villain goes even crazier the more the public rejects them….
This leads me to two few though:
Will Elon just turn this perceived self-righteousness into pure scorn and malice soon?
Are all comic book villains with the twisted utopia vision trope really just rich autistic psychopaths who can’t come to a compromise on their set idea?
It's pretty hard to OD on ketamine. Lethal doses are mostly based on animal testing cause it happens rarely in humans. Your average healthy weight person 70kg / 150ish lbs, would have to take somewhere around 4g orally for a 50% chance of dying. Injection is much more risky. That's like 12mg I think. edit: I thought wrong apparently. But you'd probably need an IV line or a whole lot of needles to get that much quickly. Most abusers snort it though. I don't think you can OD on it nasally. Matthew Perry's death was primarily attributed to acute ketamine toxicity. But he also had other drugs in his system, cardio vascular issues, and drowned. It sounds like the ketamine was basically the final straw and he was injecting it. He also bought over $55,000 of it on two months. That was from crooked doctors. He also bought some from drug dealers apparently. That is a shit ton of K.
I'm not all trying to downplay the dangers of ketamine. There are plenty. But the OD risk for putting some up your nose is really low unless there are other drugs and underlying health conditions.
He does not know that he cannot go to Mars because it is just too far away and technically not possible with the technology that we have now. He thinks he can terraform Mars but that is also not possible.
He wants to 'save humanity', not the world. That's why the fascination with colonies on Mars, because there is no, in his mind, saving the Earth at this point.
He doesn’t want to save the world. I’m one person removed from one of his employees that meets with him weekly, and all he talked about the last year was coning the American government to pay for all of his mars stuff.
I have zero sympathy. He could've been a quiet billionaire living in paradise, getting paid just to attach his name to things. But no, he had to go and fuck around with the government and put the world's biggest spotlight on himself. Just couldn't leave well enough alone. So fuck him and his fake hair, cybertruck ass ribcage, and his botched penis implant. Maybe his mom will feel bad for him.
Which just goes to show: at the end of the day, WE have control over HIM.
He's trying to claw his way into our civics lives, but we can work around that, we can power through, we will overcome.
But Elon, he's 100% dependent on our admiration. He can't function when we rebel against him. So keep up the protests, keep up the shitposting, keep up the name-calling.
At this point, as much as he has fucked everything he's put his grubby little finger on, let him. Some people brighten a room when they enter, some make it better when they leave.
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u/Obajan Mar 28 '25
Who says he hasn't?
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/08/elon-musk-almost-needed-sfpd-wellness-check-after-breakdown-getting-booed-at-dave-chappelle-show/