Is Elon Musk’s connection
to the latest US Election
somewhat similar to the movie
The Manchurian Candidate
that stars Denzel Washington?
In the movie,
the multinational corporation
Manchurian Global
deploys a candidate
brainwashed by genetic modification
to run for the US Vice President.
The Manchurian candidate is set
to manipulate the state’s ultimate power
to maximize the corporation’s
accumulation of capital.
While the real screen
is not exactly the same as the silver one,
Musk, the world’s highest accumulator
does show an unerringly similar motivation.
He is now the richest of all
of the past and of the present,
and who knows may be of the future as well,
for his time is in fact about to begin–
an era of Elonization,
potentially as promising as
European colonization.
Like Manchurian Global,
Musk has the Neuralink at his disposal
to control human brains,
although the objective is apparently very noble,
to help those helpless and disabled.
Could it also create human puppets,
empowering Musk to be the puppet master,
just the way in the film
soldiers are controlled by Manchurian Global?
For many
Musk is the master already
through his X-algorithm
that can generate consent
without involving any genetic modification.
His Starlink will eventually be
the sole star
in the sky of the internet
with an incredible coverage
through satellite connection,
replacing the weaker exploiters
in the respective local markets.
Could it enable him to access
all the data of all individuals
and of all organizations?
Only time will say that,
but perhaps green capitalism is a camouflage,
which’ll make his electric cars more relevant
in a world of changing climate.
Will Tesla’s self-driving cars
make taxi or Uber drivers irrelevant,
increasing global unemployment?
Through his SpaceX,
he will soon start selling space in the space
and the things still unimaginable.
And surely, he will invest more on AI
to expand his tech empire,
Elonizing the entire earth and the space
in a way that no empire has done before.
For better or for worse,
trans, ladies, and gentlemen,
get ready for the era of Elonization.
Rakibul Hasan Khan is a Bangladeshi poet and academic based in New Zealand, where he is at the moment a visiting scholar in English at the University of Otago. He can be reached at [email protected].
