To Elon Musk, the Government Worker Whose Lives He's Ruined Are Nothing More than NPCs
Elon Musk recently spoke to FOX about the fierce backlash against his aggressive attempts to destroy democracy, whining, “Tesla is a peaceful company. We’ve never done anything harmful. I’ve never done anything harmful. I’ve always done productive things. They basically want to kill me because I’m stopping their fraud and they want to hurt Tesla because we are stopping this terrible waste and corruption in the government. I guess they are bad people. Bad people do bad things.”
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are crazed, surreally unselfconscious narcissists who take great pride in cheating the system at every turn for power, money, and influence. They’ve decided to destroy the government’s ability to do good and help people because someone, somewhere, might not be playing by the rules.
Musk genuinely does not seem to understand why running around with a chainsaw to illustrate your eagerness to cancel granny’s Social Security checks and autistic eight-year-olds’ occupational therapy might make people mad. In his mind, the anger can’t be justified, so it must be born of evil or corruption.
In Musk’s deluded mind, he has never done anything harmful. Like Trump, Musk labors under the delusion that he’s objectively doing such a brilliant job reshaping the government in his image that nobody could be genuinely dissatisfied with him or his job performance. So the widespread rage over dismantling the Department of Education or attacking social security must be artificial. It must be the product of George Soros paying sleazy opportunists to protest Tesla dealerships to create the misconception that people are somehow angry at Musk.
In Musk’s Ketamine-curdled brain, the only reason anyone could object to an unelected billionaire on drugs taking a metaphorical chainsaw to our most cherished institutions is because they’re a hate-filled embezzler and a bad person.
When he’s not running/ruining Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, and the United States government for his best friend Donald Trump, Elon Musk loves to play video games. Where does he find the time? That’s not a rhetorical question. I’m genuinely curious as to how he’s able to create so much destruction while also finding time to do things like eat and sleep and have three or four children with random women every year.
Because he is a braggard, liar, and pathetic man-child, Musk bragged about being one of the top Diablo IV players in the world. I have only a vague idea of what that even means. Reading Grimes’s tweet about the situation only confused me further.
“Just for my personal pride, I would like to state that the father of my children was the first american druid in diablo to clear abattoir of zir and ended that season as best in the USA. I did observe these things with my own eyes. There are other witnesses who can verify this. That is all” Grimes tweeted about the fifty-something, almost inconceivably powerful father of her children.
I was thinking about Musk the gamer when I came to a realization that, to be fair, many have made before me, including Musk himself. For the widely and correctly despised Tesla mogul, the people who are losing their jobs, their insurance, and their ability to care for their families aren’t people with agency, dreams, and ambitions: they’re NPCs.
NPC stands for Non-player character. They’re essentially extras and supporting players in video games who linger pointlessly in the background or play some minor role in the hero’s journey.
These digital dunces fundamentally do not matter.
Musk sees D.O.G.E as a real-life video game with himself as the larger than life hero saving civilization from itself and the awful twin plagues of Empathy and Woke, and paving the way for the settlement of Mars.
The people fired by Musk and his geek squad are mere abstractions to him. They’re statistics that he may or may not understand but feels compelled to act upon all the same.
For Musk, “the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” Musk has no empathy for the people whose lives and livelihoods he is destroying because he doesn’t see them as people. To him, they’re not fullly human or even mostly human.
He instead sees them as numbers on a spreadsheet, useless NPCs who must be bulldozed over to achieve his goal of cutting two trillion dollars from the budget to finance massive tax cuts for himself and the other eighteen billionaires in Trump’s cabinet.
You can do anything to people you consider less than human, and in Trump’s America, if you’re not an American citizen, then you’re less than human and have no rights. Trump talks about non-documented immigrants in sub-human terms, as monsters and scum and killers poisoning our bloodline. He delights in the suffering of others.
Musk sees himself as the hero. He sees himself as more than that: he sees himself as a superhero saving humanity from Woke and LGTBQ. He doesn’t understand how people could possibly be angry at him for destroying countless lives to fit his own needs. Don’t they understand that he’s the hero? Don’t they understand how little their lives matter? Why can’t they appreciate the exquisite stagecraft and irreverence of a billionaire using prop comedy involving a chainsaw to illustrate his eagerness to end a Social Security system that benefits tens of millions of vulnerable Americans?
The Trump administration similarly doesn’t understand how the richest man in the world taking away granny’s Social Security check hasn’t proven universally popular so it’s gone out of its way to cheer up Musk, while expressing zero compassion for the tens of thousands of people Musk has fired.
Musk believes that Billionaire Lives Matter, but everyone opposing him is inherently bad but also fundamentally unimportant. They’re NPCs. In Diablo 4 and Musk’s bizarre conception of reality he’s the hero, and everyone else is just in the way of him winning, which is all that’s important to Musk and his sidekick Trump.