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I knew this would happen when people started worshiping him. Our culture loves to elevate people to near Godhood and then smash them down. It's our own symbolic version of ritual human sacrifice. Maybe it ensures a bountiful harvest.

Both his cult of personality and the new attacks on him are vast exaggerations. Elon is just human. He does great things and he also says and does stupid shit and makes mistakes just like everyone else.

His apparent genius stems from two factors IMHO. One is that he actually is pretty smart, but another is that he looks super-human next to the know-nothing MBA apparatchiks that dominate American business today. He seems incredible in his ability to deliver on very tough technological innovation because he's actually an engineer who runs a company. Most companies today are run by people who barely understand what the company does. If most companies were run by engineers with domain expertise in their areas Elon would not seem so atypical.