The tech press is entirely responsible for Musk, but the political press covered for his true ambitions and that's why we're here. His rise needed access-obsessed idiots who didn't understand what they were looking at, but it also required selling him as a lib to the NYT types to work.
Coach Finstock
That the tech press spent so much time fluffing this smooth brained huckster when he came on the scene is how you know his whole plan was to find some useful idiots to build his image from the ground up.
Coach Finstock
Never forget that genius boy decided to use 60 year old rocket tech but waved off engineers who said it would explode without a flame trench and then it did and his acolytes said it was a success and that rockets are supposed to blow up
Coach Finstock
LOL at the "massive rise in exceptionally smart people in the last half century or so" because you just know he's talking about himself and his VC buddies, as if their little drug parties are on par with the Solvay Conferences on Physics.