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How Elon Musk's Ego Took Over

2025/6/4
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Elon Musk
以长期主义为指导,推动太空探索、电动汽车和可再生能源革命的企业家和创新者。
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Faiz Siddiqui
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Taylor Lorenz
通过深入探讨互联网文化和政治,Taylor Lorenz 为听众提供了对在线世界的深刻分析。
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Taylor Lorenz: 随着埃隆·马斯克的影响力增长,他的人格中出现了一个令人不安的方面:猖獗的自大狂。我感觉他变得越来越痴迷于自己,尤其是在掌管Twitter之后,他似乎需要来自公众的认可,渴望被视为救世主。他试图迅速地将自己置于中心位置,不尊重那些在特定领域拥有知识和权威的人,并且常常表现出一种“救世主”情结,认为自己可以挺身而出拯救世界。他将自己定位为独特的领导者,并建立个人崇拜,这使他多年来免受许多问责,并且似乎无法接受任何形式的批评或讨论。 Faiz Siddiqui: 马斯克想成为带我们去火星的人,他需要成为帮助人类实现目标的人。当他没有被认为是天才时,他会感到沮丧,并抨击他人。他否决平台的指导理念,并认为自己知道什么是最好的。他认为社会受到法规和所谓的觉醒思想病毒的束缚和扼杀,而他必须成为将人类从这种束缚中解放出来的人。马斯克认为自己有独特的能力来实现他控制联邦政府的愿望,即使他没有相关的专业知识。他甚至声称自己是亚历山大大帝精神的转世。总的来说,马斯克表现出一种强烈的自恋倾向,渴望成为关注的焦点,并常常以一种神一般的姿态出现。

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This chapter explores the early signs of Elon Musk's egomania, tracing its development through key moments in his career. It examines how his ambition morphed from visionary disruption to rampant self-obsession, focusing on incidents like his involvement in the Thai cave rescue.
  • Musk's ambition to colonize Mars was less about humanity's future and more about personal glory.
  • His involvement in the Thai cave rescue was self-serving, showcasing his technical prowess and leading to baseless accusations against a rescuer.
  • Musk's increasing reliance on Twitter for validation fueled his egocentric behavior.

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As Elon Musk's influence has grown, so too has a darker, more troubling side of his persona: his rampant egomania.

Faiz Siddiqui is a former colleague of mine at The Washington Post and he's the author of the new book Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk.

In this episode of Power User we break down exactly how Musk's narcissism has evolved throughout his career, and the key moments that reveal just how deeply Elon's self-obsession has shaped his life and the future he claims to build.

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