Elon Musk Is Our Saviour and Will Get Us to Mars. The Rest of the World Leaders Are Grandpas.
When we zoom in and focus on his day-to-day antics, his jerk side blinds us from what’s actually happening.
Okay, I don’t love Elon Musk and don’t want to marry him.
But I’ve been thinking a lot about the guy. On the one hand he is a brilliant jerk and says some wild things. And I reckon he does a fair bit of bullying too.
On the other hand Elon is one of the most important people in history.
I get chills down my spine when I see him launch rockets
I recently watched a few videos of Elon and SpaceX launching rockets into space. During one moment I got chills all down my spine. I had goosebumps all over.
That’s when it hit me…
Elon’s work is changing humanity.
Sending rockets into space
Trying to fix social media (Twitter saga)
Launching Starlink to provide internet to everyone
Producing amazing electric cars that show oil is no longer needed
The problem with Elon is when we zoom in and focus on his day-to-day antics, his jerk side blinds us from what’s happening.
When we zoom out though, as I did today, you realize that Elon’s work is so damn important.
The rest of the grandpas
Other than Elon there are few people who come close to being useful.
The world leaders we currently have are a disgrace. They reinforce the status quo and allow the institutions that have bled us dry to continue.
The thing that pisses me off is our world leaders are mostly rich grandpas.
There’s hardly any diversity.
Female leaders are almost non-existent.
And young people are nowhere to be seen.
That’s why we keep trying to solve the same problems – like plagues and climate change – with slow strategies that destroy humanity.
There’s no sense of urgency on the real issues.
Everything is wrapped in red tape and industrial-age thinking is applied to problems. At least Elon can get sh*t done and wants us to try harder and achieve the impossible.
The financial system these grandpas run hasn’t helped. They have created money out of thin air since the 2008 financial crisis.
It has crippled our world, created enormous inflation, kept interest rates permanently low, devalued the money in our savings accounts, and got the world into loads of debt we can never repay.
Understand Elon’s background to understand why he’s our savior
Elon grew up in South Africa with an abusive father.
To escape the trauma he played video games. This led him to learn to code. Kids after school would follow him home and throw soda cans at him. So when he was old enough he moved to Silicon Valley in the US.
The guy helped build PayPal and sell it for a lot of money. He had to work 7 days a week and didn’t get any help from rich parents or friends.
Elon took the $152M he made from the sale of PayPal to eBay and invested it in Tesla, Solar Cities, and SpaceX. These three technologies he believed would change humanity.
This was an odd decision.
He could have retired on the PayPal money or gone and had the cushy life of a venture capitalist and tech board member.
But Elon isn’t wired to acquire money like our grandpa world leaders. Elon has a vision and he believes it’s key to humanity’s survival. After PayPal Elon had six kids with his former wife.
One kid didn’t make it.
At 10 weeks old his son died of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). Elon didn’t talk about it. He ignored his son’s death and worked to the bone.
In 2008 both SpaceX and Tesla were on the brink of collapse.
SpaceX tried to launch rockets three times and had almost run out of cash. Tesla was a long way from making the electric car dream a reality.
The mission of both companies was so important to Elon that he described them as his children. Businesses need to be fed so they don’t die.
He even says we should have baby showers for the birth of new companies.
Elon’s hero as a kid was astronaut Neil Armstrong who went to the moon. In a strange twist of events, Neil goes on record to say he doesn’t like what Elon and SpaceX are doing. Although Elon’s disappointed, he keeps launching rockets to prove him wrong.
This persistence leads SpaceX to be the first to build rockets that can be reused and land back on Earth again.
The life experiences and skills of Elon are ones I’d happily bet on.
We must become an inter-planetary species to survive
Elon is the only world leader I’m aware of that thinks we need to live on more planets.
The rest are snoozing on this obvious problem. I call Elon our savior because I believe he will get us to another planet with his way of thinking.
“Occupy Mars” is written on his t-shirt.
The guy acts fast and backs huge ideas. He wants us to think bigger and better.
Elon has never fit in and he doesn’t want us to fit in either, because he understands that’s where our extraordinary potential is found.
We’ve been lucky to have various UFOs visit Earth.
For a long time, this has been a taboo subject and you’d get called crazy if you spoke about it. But recently, for the first time in history, the US government has acknowledged these sightings and seems to believe they are real.
This is huge.
To get to other planets we must understand other beings that may exist. Their technology could be the key to unlocking an entirely different reality.
Still, progress has stalled with the UFO conversation because of our grandpa world leaders. They’ve applied “she’ll be right, act when we can, love” thinking to the topic.
Beyond just occupying other planets for humanity’s survival, the cool thing about Elon is he gives us a sense of adventure.
He helps us see Earth as a prison. He makes us excited about the future and gives us a reason to wake up.
That’s more than I can say for our grandpa world leaders.
In the old days the work Elon does would have got this kind of response:
“Before this decade is out we will land a man to the moon and land him back. No project will be more impressive, difficult or expensive to accomplish” — JFK, 1962
When Elon went into space in 2022 this was the response:
“Lotsa luck with your trip to the moon, I guess” — Joe Biden
I’m not going to play politics here because the whole game is a clown show and I don’t pick sides. (I think I may even sit in the middle.)
But for humanity to go on to do big things and for us to get to space, we need way more encouragement than “Lotsa luck.”
What all this means for you
I’m not joking when I say Elon Musk is our savior.
He is one of the few hopes that will get us to other planets and produce the technology we need to survive and thrive.
Some of the critics will throw stones at Elon, although many of them have achieved nothing in their lives. The haters will focus on Elon’s, sometimes, bizarre behavior.
The truth is while Elon is odd, I can’t see any other human who comes close to getting us to space.
Elon isn’t changing the world, he’s helping us create a new one.
What this means for you is an exciting future. A future where we’re told to dream big, have a vision, achieve the impossible, and do work that makes us extraordinary.
I’d rather live in a world where Elon helps us do all that, than stay stuck with the broken system the grandpas have created and seek to maintain.
World leaders aren’t thinking about space travel. And they won’t accept rapidly disrupting technologies like electric cars. They should. They must.
Musk will force them to make it a must. Thank god for our unlikely savior.
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Ok, I'm engaged. Well done. Your support of exploration is exemplary. Musk needs to be reminded that Earth's orbit is regularly 'corrected' when the orbits of Mars and Venus bring those planets close to ours. Any significant change to their orbits, will affect ours, and potentially alter seasons, irrevocably. Installation of shields at the La Grange points to remedy atmospheric conditions, would inevitably affect life on Earth, let alone attempted nuclear interventions. Any significant impact on current orbit trajectories is an extreme risk. The money this guy makes does not justify the means.
Really loved this piece and fully agree with you!
Elon sacrifices a chill and rich life he could have for the sake of his vision on making human a multiplanetary species.
Just one comment, you write that:
“When Elon went into space in 2022 this was the response:”
What did you mean by this? Since Elon has not (yet) gone to space yet - nor there are any plans in the near future.