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ELON MUSK’S MOTHERS
From right wing Daily Caller newsletter, so is a copy paste. Pour that cup of coffee to get a little something to stimulate an intellectual(?) perspective on the richest man in the world and a creative genius.
ELON MUSK’S MOTHERS
What, if any, virtue is there in Elon Musk’s crusade to repopulate … his living room? The country? The human race?
Specifically I’m referring to his having 14 children with four women. The number has been widely reported and in an article today for the WSJ, “multiple sources” say the publicly known number is actually well short of the “real number.”
WSJ refers to the known women almost diminutively as his “harem” or possessively as his “mothers,” even while making the case that his sperm slinging – and I mean that literally, he’s actually been giving certain people samples – is part of a deeper pathology around declining birth rates.
That pathology is also well known in public. Musk has talked about it dozens of times in high profile venues. He believes that not only the West is in danger of decline, but humanity altogether, if the right people stop having babies.
He’s highly specific about that last part. It needs to be the right people. Smart people, successful people. He isn’t just dumping sperm samples on street corners in Baltimore, there is at least some standard Musk adheres to prior to shooting his shots, which WSJ also outlines.
None of this gets to the heart of the matter, though, at least for conservatives. The real meat of the current debate is nearly identical to the disconnect liberals were hoping to exploit between evangelicals and Donald Trump almost a decade ago.
How do conservatives square their traditional family and Christian values with Musk’s semi-unmoored progeny?
The answer to that question is pretty simple and they would know why the contradiction is not a sticking point for conservatives or Christians if they bothered really talking to any of them.
It’s become almost a trope at this point, especially with regards to the gay community, but put simply: Reject the sin, not the soul.
Musk can correct his ways any time he wants to, at risk of sounding cliche, come to Jesus.
The beauty of Christ and Christianity is in redemption. Of course, liberals would call that a copout and demand a more vociferous denunciation. Even though, “Yeah that’s bad, totally agree, he should be a better father” is perfectly in line with what anyone would expect a normal person, yes even a Christian, to say. Nevertheless, they want more.
What they really want is already obvious to you, Dear Reader.
It’s for that outcry on the right to become so loud that Trump simply has to part ways with Musk. As far as motivations go, this much could barely be described as ulterior. Onlookers in public can see the real goal.
So that’s definitely not going to happen.
But the original question was “what virtue” is there in Musk’s cultivation of a “harem” of mothers?
The virtue, as I see it, is that in a sea of misdirection, outright lies, and thinly veiled motives, Musk is at least authentic. His talk about repopulation isn’t just talk. It’s action. (It’s also arguably some highly effective action.)
Musk is unvarnished and direct and he does exactly what he says he’s going to do. He, in fact, often exceeds what he says he’s going to do.
We live in a world where doublespeak has become a dominant matter of discourse, where euphemism and rebranding and spin is always, 100 percent of the time, part of the equation when it comes to engaging with the public.
Not even the media’s focus on Musk’s disconnect with conservative values is explicitly stated. Can’t they just be honest? They want him out. They want his efforts to cut government waste stymied. They want to drive a wedge between him and public support in order to protect their beloved bureaucracy.
They also think you are all too stupid to see those true motives.
(Never mind us rapidly identifying the dissonance between a media generally working to denigrate the nuclear family suddenly being super concerned about Musk’s very un-nuclear families – what happened to strong independent women who don’t need a man, eh?)
When it comes to public trust, as shifts in the media landscape have shown more recently, authenticity is now the most compelling currency. You can be wrong, but for the love of God be honest. Be yourself. And, for God’s sake, stop lying.
Why, aside from the worldview on sin and forgiveness, would conservatives view any of this with a silver lining?
As we triage threats to public good, consenting, conservative, politically aware adults are unlikely to place Musk’s scattered brood above, say, the deep state. A subversive, unelected, anonymous hydra working as hard to strangle the will of the people as it is to fund transgender puppet shows in the third world.
Which one is more likely to rapidly deconstruct western values, Musk’s promiscuity or USAID subverting foreign elections?
It’s also garnish on the plate when I say that Americans historically love a flawed hero. Even the highly hyperbolized (fictionalized?) alcoholism of Ulysses S. Grant only deepened America’s fondness for the man.
He’ll save the nation despite his flaws! Heck, even priests drink, am I right?
So it goes with Elon’s mothers. He’s a man who acts on his beliefs and achieves greatness despite his inadequacies. He’s human and distinctly not a part of the soulless Washington borg.
He’s also done a pretty good job battling that borg.
