For anyone who cares about Elon #Musk , videos like this by Everyday Astronaut are critical to, well, criticize.
Notice how the host prompts Elon. The host puts out these ideas and asks Elon to confirm them.
That's really how the mythology around Musk is built. He's not asking for it, people are projecting it onto him. And so much stuff that people complain about Musk over come down to things that are being projected onto him. And for his sake, he's rich enough to just take it.
And this is a lesson because it can also be applied #Trump.
Rightly or wrongly, these are public figures that are loved and hated based on what is being projected onto them, not their own stuff.
I think it's really important to recognize this phenomenon, and it goes both ways: If you love Musk/Trump you need to realize that what you love might be a projection and not actually part of the person. If you hate them, same thing.
It's academically really interesting. It's practically really sad.
