Remember Musk’s cameo in Iron Man 2? People were even calling him the “real Tony Stark.” Or when Musk guest starred on The Simpsons, and Lisa called him “possibly the greatest living inventor,” even though Musk has never invented anything in his life?
With the benefit of hindsight, this was clearly ludicrous, but even at the time it should’ve been obvious to everyone that it was nonsense. Unfortunately, it wasn’t obvious to everyone, many people bought it. That’s scary. It’s scary that a megalomaniacal narcissist with enough money can convince large numbers of people that they are something that they are not.
I’m sure it wasn’t intentional and I’m sure it was just the Scriptwriters being terrible at their job but Edison was a dick, possibly not Elon level but maybe that was just a lack of internet access.
Constantly stole credit for other people’s inventions and even when they were his inventions he had a whole team behind him, but always tried to imply that he was the only one involved.
I watched it more recently and a thought it was really good foreshadowing.
Spoilered for those that don’t know discovery.
Tap for spoiler
The person who said this stuff is secretly evil.
He’s exactly the type of person Edison and Elon are and so him just naming his favorite scientists and 2 of them happen to be actually evil just made me go “maybe this guy sucks” and Boom! Plot twist! He sucks!
Him aspiring to those terrible people was a good writing choice imo… Even if it might not have been intentionally a good writing choice
Or just redid Tony’s lines to something like, “no, for the last time, your polygon car idea sounds fucking stupid. When we block your number, it means we aren’t interested, not that you need to get new numbers.”
Remember Musk’s cameo in Iron Man 2? People were even calling him the “real Tony Stark.” Or when Musk guest starred on The Simpsons, and Lisa called him “possibly the greatest living inventor,” even though Musk has never invented anything in his life?
With the benefit of hindsight, this was clearly ludicrous, but even at the time it should’ve been obvious to everyone that it was nonsense. Unfortunately, it wasn’t obvious to everyone, many people bought it. That’s scary. It’s scary that a megalomaniacal narcissist with enough money can convince large numbers of people that they are something that they are not.
He was also mentioned in star trek discovery alongside Edison and Einstein. It’s amazing what a lot of money and a good PR firm can do.
Edison is a pretty good comparison, though. Both just business men that larped as inventors.
I’m sure it wasn’t intentional and I’m sure it was just the Scriptwriters being terrible at their job but Edison was a dick, possibly not Elon level but maybe that was just a lack of internet access.
Constantly stole credit for other people’s inventions and even when they were his inventions he had a whole team behind him, but always tried to imply that he was the only one involved.
I watched it more recently and a thought it was really good foreshadowing.
Spoilered for those that don’t know discovery.
Tap for spoiler
The person who said this stuff is secretly evil.
He’s exactly the type of person Edison and Elon are and so him just naming his favorite scientists and 2 of them happen to be actually evil just made me go “maybe this guy sucks” and Boom! Plot twist! He sucks!
Him aspiring to those terrible people was a good writing choice imo… Even if it might not have been intentionally a good writing choice
He was also mentioned in Rick and Morty in a similar capacity.
I would love it if Disney edited him out of both of those.
Or just redid Tony’s lines to something like, “no, for the last time, your polygon car idea sounds fucking stupid. When we block your number, it means we aren’t interested, not that you need to get new numbers.”