'Elon Musk’s bedtime routine is giving him nightmares. To hear him in public is to catalog a running list of his greatest fears: end-of-the-world type stuff, k

'Elon Musk’s bedtime routine is giving him nightmares. To hear him in public is to catalog a running list of his greatest fears: end-of-the-world type stuff, killer AI threats and, in recent years, the scourge of what he calls the Woke Mind Virus. “I listen to podcasts about the fall of civilizations to go to sleep,” Musk said this past week during an appearance at the Milken Institute conference. “So perhaps that might be part of the problem.” One provocateur, in particular, has caught his attention of late: Gad Saad, a marketing professor at Concordia University in Montreal, and author of the book “The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense.” To read the book, which was first published in 2020, is to see reflections of Musk’s most contentious comments during the past few years, as the billionaire has increasingly expressed concerns about diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and illegal immigration overtaking the U.S. “I read your insightful book on the parasitic woke mind virus,” Musk tweeted praise to Saad earlier this year. “It gave me nightmares.” Both men share a common embrace of social media. On X, Saad has almost 900,000 followers and on YouTube more than 300,000 subscribers. Both men have separately appeared on the popular Joe Rogan podcast several times.'