Imagine being the real-life Tony Stark: A billionaire, jet-setting tech whiz playboy who’s developing the multi-billion-dollar rockets that will not only privatize space travel but help get humanity to Mars. And imagine you announce the whole thing on Twitter with a big, splashy “Occupy Mars” picture of the red planet . . .
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 23, 2019
Only to be told that you posted a picture of the moon by mistake. A red-hued “blood” moon, to be sure, but the moon nonetheless.
How embarrassing.
Luckily, the cool billionaire tech guru who’s selling electric cars and building underground hyperloops and rescuing Thai children from caves (and selling Not A Flamethrowers to raise some money on the side) took it exactly how you’d expect he would: by tweeting a couple of laugh-crying emojis and a hearty “Moon too!”
What class. But then again, would you expect anything less from the man whom Werner von Braun predicted would be the future leader of Mars? Of course not.
What many may have missed in the back-and-forth about the moon/Mars gaffe, however is another tweet Elon Musk made about the scheme. Granted, this one is not quite so exciting to the general reader: “Accelerating Starship development to build the Martian Technocracy.”
Accelerating Starship development to build the Martian Technocracy
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 23, 2019
The “Martian Technocracy?” What’s this? More whimsy from everybody’s favorite mega-rich tech geek?
Sadly, no. In fact, what Musk’s supporters might not know is that he has a very real family connection to the actual, historical Technocracy, Inc. movement/political party, which might help explain Musk’s outlook, his rise to prominence, and some of his wackier (not to mention creepier) ideas on the eventual merging of humans and machines.
Intrigued? Of course you are. Find out all about Musk’s surprising family tree and his plans for a technocratic, transhumanist nightmare future in this week’s edition of The Corbett Report Subscriber.
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