Elon Musk is, let us say, an enigma wrapped in a conundrum.
The puzzle: who is this man now so famous in so many realms, from big business to high-tech to autos (and UFOs), and now to Hollywood, media, outer space, brain chips, and politics?
We’ll keep the politics out of it.
Will he be a force for good or evil? Is he, as one popular YouTube (revelation) argues, the key to our future as we approach a crossroads whereby either technology and faith work hand in hand or, heading on a completely diverging path, the world becomes a spiritless planet run by A.I.?
An agnostic, Musk has been gravitating toward what he calls a “cultural Christian.” He accompanied Trump to Paris during the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral. He also has met with the Pope.
By latest reckonings, he is “worth” more than $300 billion. That exceeds Switzerland’s annual revenues. And interesting? He was just kidding, of course, when he told a podcaster he was an alien hybrid.
Born in Transvaal, South Africa in 1971, Musk holds U.S. and Canadian citizenship. Warning against artificial intelligence, he says it’s more dangerous than aliens or extraterrestrials for mankind, notes the Economic Times.
His company, Space X, now has more than six thousand small satellites in orbit. That’s called “Space-Link.” It relies on contracts with the CIA, the National Security Agency, and the Pentagon, subsuming some of NASA’s core functions. Meanwhile, he also owns “X” and his high-tech Tesla cars are now everywhere on the landscape. He is heavily involved with robots and has unveiled a “robotaxi” that will self-drive: no steering wheel or pedals (this takes courage).
He likes simple letters like “X” (for what was once “Twitter,” which he purchased more than a year ago and named one of his (twelve) children “X AE A-XII Musk” (try pronouncing that, kindergarten teacher). Another of his companies/ Neuralinks, is developing computer chips to repair damaged cerebral circuitry–brain implant–worrying a few that this is the “chip” many anticipating an antichrist have long feared.
We’d be more prone to share that concern if it was more in line with a prophetic word we frequently revisit, the “1990 prophecy,” which in part said, “The anti-christ will be on earth trying to affect the new world order. Hardly anyone will notice the extent of his influence until afterwards. He will not be of tremendous visibility until he is accomplished. That is to say, he will not rule, control, and be at all obvious to the world at the peak of his influence. He will not be unlike a figure such as Marx, except his ideas will be more immediate.”
Musk already is “of tremendous visibility.” (So perhaps we can relax a bit when it comes to that.)
He is so prolific, as regards progeneration, that he has donated his sperm dozens of times and backs in vitro fertilization to the max. He’d like to clone himself. He believes the sperm of “high-intelligence” people should be used. His first five boys came into this world via IVF, and the last girl was delivered using a surrogate mother. A recent headline:
Elon Musk, father of 12, denies volunteering his own sperm to help seed a colony on Mars
To quote one of many reports about this in the conservative Wall Street Journal, which carried an interview between a reporter named Tim Higgins and Elon Musk’s biographer, Walter Isaacson (who spent three years around Musk):
“‘Tim Higgins: A lot has been written about Elon Musk. He lives his life between the tweets. He has upended industries from the auto industry to aerospace, now trying to redo Twitter turned X. You spent two years shadowing him. What did you learn that we didn’t already know about Elon Musk?
“‘Walter Isaacson: Well, there’s certainly multiple Elon Musks, multiple personalities, whether it’s the hardcore engineering mode that you know so well where he can figure out how to do a battery cell or, more importantly, figure out how to do steps on an assembly line that will make the battery cell. But also there’s almost a demon mode of Elon Musk where he turns really dark and that can be very problematic. But with a Musk or anybody, you figure out how did they channel those demons and turn them into drives.
“‘Tim Higgins: What is demon mode in your mind?
“‘Walter Isaacson: Demon mode is something that happened to his father as well. It’s almost like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde where a cloud comes over and he gets into a trance and he can just be tough in a cold way. He never gets really angry, never gets that physical, but coldly brutal to people and he almost doesn’t remember afterwards what he’s done. Sometimes I’ll say, “Why did you say that to that person?” And he’ll look at me blankly as if he didn’t quite remember what happened while he was in demon mode.”
“Tim Higgins: And sometimes, I’ve talked to people who’ve worked with him for years and years who considered themselves close with him and they’ve seen it occur to them and it’s almost, they describe it like a red mist comes over their eyes, his eyes, and he just goes into another world and doesn’t seem to remember it after the fact.
“Walter Isaacson: Exactly. It’s almost, you see a storm cloud coming in and he’s in a trance. And his father says, “It happens to me,” meaning the father. He says, “And I can’t help it. It just happens.” And likewise it happens to Elon. That’s not to excuse it, but he hardly remembers that he’s done it. Now, one of the things that Claire Boucher, known as Grimes, says is you don’t want to be around him when he’s in demon mode. “It’s really frightening,” she said. Then she added, “But demon mode is what gets s–t done.”
We’ll take it for now (and hope) that the “mode” is a simple metaphor.
We certainly see good aspects of this fellow.
But strange? Worth watching?
Unusual indeed.
A woman who reportedly babysat Musk as a 7 year-old child says when she entered his bedroom one time, he was jumping up and down excited because “they”—his imaginary friends–had come through a portal he had created, waving his hands over a replica of the Stonehenge monuments that was on his bed. She complained that the Name “Jesus” was not to be spoken in the household.
Hopefully that has changed.
At least, we can pray for him, and all those of influence in these rapidly shifting indecipherable times.
[For your discernment only (exercise caution)]: