I knew back when everyone was worshipping Musk that in a few years everyone would turn on him. It's something we do as a culture: pump people up to celebrity s

I knew back when everyone was worshipping Musk that in a few years everyone would turn on him. It's something we do as a culture: pump people up to celebrity status and then ritually sacrifice them (or their character at least). We do it to our celebrities and sometimes political figures too. It's our version of the old wicker man ceremony. Maybe it guarantees a bountiful harvest. Neither the hero worship of Musk nor the vilification is true. He's not superhuman. He can be an asshole and he overpromises and makes mistakes. But he's also someone with a record of taking on soul crushingly difficult problems and delivering major advances, and while he might be a hard driver he does not trip my sociopath alarm. In short he is an ambitious human who tries to lead immensely hard projects and sometimes succeeds. Seriously. Mass producing an ambitious new kind of car and reusable rockets. Those are literally two of the hardest things I can think of to attempt. Any degree of success in either is miraculous. He's succeeded to some extent leading Tesla and to a (IMHO) greater extent with SpaceX. That is pretty incredible. I get the sense that Tesla is really in trouble. Personally I'd be happy to see Elon sell it and double down on space. I think that's his true love anyway. Electric cars have enough momentum now they will tip with or without him.