People like that genuinely believe that they should be in charge because of who they are. He has absolutely no feelings of guilt about the terrible things that he does; he thinks they’re good because he did them.
Narcissistic megalomaniacs, especially ultra wealthy ones, lose their ability to empathize (or even the ability to mask and pretend) because they quite literally never have to care about how another person feels.
I do think he’s confused as to why people hate him though. He sees himself as a lovable cheeky troll instead of the Nazi dickhead that he clearly is.
Before the not-a-cunt mask slipped he was seen as a cool, anti establishment troll by space nerds. I think he is trying to get back to that.
How anyone can see a billionaire as “anti-establishment” is beyond me.
On the face of it, it looks like that. It probably is that.
But if we think about it for a moment. He is a person after all. Brushes teeth, eats, po*p s like everyone else. And it is sometimes when we do these mundane things in our lives, we just think. At least during some of those moments there would be some self reflection. Everyone has something to be guilty about. It’s just that these kind of people have a lot of options in that area. So I’m wondering if they are just in denial. And that is such a sad superpower to have.
I think it’s a mistake to believe that everyone has a sense of empathy; there are plenty of people who do not because of their brain meat or their experiences.
I think the closest Musk gets is the desperate and pathetic attempts to get gamers to like him: it makes him crazy that he can’t just buy their respect like he does for everything else that he wants.
He doesn’t do that thinking. People like him are incapable of self reflection because they truly believe they can do no wrong.
There is quite a bit of evidence that, in his spare “thinking” time, he is ingesting a huge amount of mind-altering drugs.
Musk is so impervious to ego-death that I suspect his will hang around for a few decades after his body.
I’m with the other commenter. There are people in this world born without empathy, and within that group, there is another two subsets, those that can learn it, and those that can not. It gets broken down further to people who can learn it and use it for good and learn it and use it to manipulate.
People born without these emotions aren’t common, but there really are ‘psychopaths’ out there that don’t/can’t/won’t feel things for other people. The only hope for these people is therapy, and even then, therapy is a double edged sword that also teaches them the tools to manipulate. And to a group that already is predisposed to not care how others feel, that’s a risky move.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder
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For people like that there’s no compassion, regret or remorse, it’s either water under the bridge or someone else’s fault.
Yeah, they wouldn’t reach that level of wealth if they had any amount of compassion or self awareness.
A wise man once said “they not like us”.
They’ve got a head full of bad wiring but because they control the money they get away with that psycho shit. As to whether it bothers them it doesn’t, they’re not capable of it.
He’s a nazi, so that means he’s incapable of empathy.
Any pangs of humanity that might be left are killed with Horse Tranquilizer, Ecstasy, Weed, or whatever the advanced billionaire version drug is that we won’t have access to for another 20 years. Probably because it costs $100,000 a dose or something stupid. He’s a junkie. They have no sympathy, remorse, or the ability to look back on their mistakes. Their only goal is more hard drugs, keep them coming, and fuck anyone with full force that tries to stop the drugs.
It’s not a secret on either point. He’s an open public nazi. He’s an open public junkie.
That’s probably what the drugs are for
Drugs is a helluva drug
You know he does ketamine, right? The drug that makes you feel like you’re not yourself but someone else instead?
Elon’s a big believer in Ethical Altruism - the idea that any action you take is ethical as long as it improves life for someone. In his case ‘someone’ is future generations, ie. people who can’t tell him his actions on their behalf are wrong, because they don’t exist yet. It works as long as you don’t think about it too hard, which he doesn’t.
News reports that Musk is a heavy drug user suggest that he self-medicates to cope.
Elon knows all the money in the world can’t make him a real boy and that warms my cold dead heart.
Bonus: Elon’s dad is exactly the kind of POS you’d expect, but his one redeeming quality is that he heaps praise on Elon’s brother while regarding the world’s richest man as a disappointment.
They do not feel emotions like you and I do. All they know is hate, fear, and all consuming greed.
The man thinks (or at least says) that empathy is a bad thing. There’s no guilt without a conscience, and no conscience without empathy. Obscenely unfathomable wealth takes care of the rest.
Thing is, hes criticized amphetamines geavily exactly because they blunt empathy. He’s tweeted at length comments about amphetamine and Adderall minimizing empathy and bringing out the inner asshole
Buyers remorse
Displacement is a hell of a coping mechanism.
Until it isn’t.
I think Putin has kompromat on him and he in some sense doesn’t have a choice. I’m not trying to absolve him of agency but i think he did a horrible thing that he can easily and reliably be totally controlled with that the russians possibly put together
