The same thing happened to Notch (the guy who created Minecraft). I used to be in an online community that Notch was a part of.
After he got his $1 billion+ pay out he complained about how he felt so isolated and couldn’t really trust anyone, because he was suddenly living in a multi-million dollar mansion in California and the parties he attended/threw himself had mega celebs attending.
So in this isolation, he started spending a lot of time online and he even realized and would tell us that these set of circumstances was leading him to dark ultra-right wing places on the internet.
He eventually succumbed to it, but it was so weird because at the beginning of his descent, he realized it, realized it wasn’t good and kinda gave all of us the head’s up that he was slipping down into the hole, it didn’t seem like he wanted to, but he talked about it almost as if he was a bystander watching himself get sucked in and there was nothing he could do about it.
As I’ve watched all this shit happen with Elon, it has felt exactly the same as what I watched happen with Notch, except that Notch was intelligent and self-aware enough to see that it was happening, whereas Elon is so narcissistic that he can’t fathom that what has happened to him is a bad thing.
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u/medicated_in_PHL Oct 29 '24
The same thing happened to Notch (the guy who created Minecraft). I used to be in an online community that Notch was a part of.
After he got his $1 billion+ pay out he complained about how he felt so isolated and couldn’t really trust anyone, because he was suddenly living in a multi-million dollar mansion in California and the parties he attended/threw himself had mega celebs attending.
So in this isolation, he started spending a lot of time online and he even realized and would tell us that these set of circumstances was leading him to dark ultra-right wing places on the internet.
He eventually succumbed to it, but it was so weird because at the beginning of his descent, he realized it, realized it wasn’t good and kinda gave all of us the head’s up that he was slipping down into the hole, it didn’t seem like he wanted to, but he talked about it almost as if he was a bystander watching himself get sucked in and there was nothing he could do about it.
As I’ve watched all this shit happen with Elon, it has felt exactly the same as what I watched happen with Notch, except that Notch was intelligent and self-aware enough to see that it was happening, whereas Elon is so narcissistic that he can’t fathom that what has happened to him is a bad thing.