Polarization and control

Part 1: Introductory remarks + Who is Elon Musk

It’s a bit surprising that people who witnessed the media spectacle around something like Musk’s Nazi salute at the inauguration, coupled with his bizarre appearances in support of European radical right parties such as the German AfD, do not now realize that all of this is part of a quite intentional public relations process towards distraction and polarization.

I mean, look at the authoritarian theatrics seemingly taken from Michael Radford’s 1984 at the event of a de facto Neo-Nazi organization, where Musk emphasizes how “past guilt” for historical misdeeds should no longer be on the minds of those present.

These are not random, off-the-cuff ramblings of a confused crypto-fascist. They’re highly intentional acts of communication that are also heavily publicized and highlighted by the major news agencies, such as Reuters and AFP.

But neither are they indications that the US power structure has now suddenly been usurped by a rogue fascist contingent that will transform the benevolent republic into a totalitarian and expansionist ethnostate. Some of you might remember the US Patriot Act, and why we were opposed to it. It was pushed through congress almost 25 years ago, and its sweeping surveillance measures are still mostly in place. The resultant infrastructure is deeply entrenched across all “liberal democracies” in the West, and joined at the hip to the emerging new model of digitized governance through surveillance and propaganda.

The purpose of the new actors on stage is to help you forget facts like these, and to play the foil for the deeper layers of the power structure to enact such measures of control and governance that couldn’t be plausibly sold as the policies of an ostensibly enlightened and liberal administration.

Their role is also to foment polarization, and to get the hoi polloi and the self-styled public intellectuals of the “content creator” proletariat to argue the finer points of what precise angle of an outstretched right arm is necessary for the gesture to constitute a Hitler salute.

These people have always been on the same team, since the crucial factor here is class and very little else.

With that said, what’s really the background of this peculiar figure, Elon Musk?

He’s from Pretoria, South Africa, born in the early 70s into the wealthy Musk family. His grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was a leading figure in the Canada-based Technocracy Movement during the 1930s, which included early proponents of the “World Machine” as detailed by Jacob Nordangård. N. M. Butler, Julian Huxley and early peak oil proponent M. King Hubbert are other prominent names in this circle.

Musk moved to the US in the early 1990s and enrolled at Stanford around 1995, where he encountered Peter Thiel and became inducted into the “PayPal Mafia”, which more or less is the corporate foundation of today’s US tech sector. German-born, radical transhumanist activist investor and Bilderberg steering committé member Peter Thiel is another chapter all on his own, but we can leave that aside for now.

Musk funded SpaceX in 2002, with money from the sale of PayPal to eBay, with the stated goal of colonizing Mars. This process officially began with Musk joining up with Robert Zubrin and his Mars Society. Zubrin is an investor and engineer with deep ties to the US military-industrial-techological complex, presumably through which Musk soon was came in touch with Michael Griffin of the CIA:s venture capital arm which bankrolled and later supported SpaceX through handing the company significant government contracts when Griffin later became NASA admin.

In 2008, Musk was anointed as one of the “young global leaders” by the WEF, where many of the above-mentioned PayPal clique are also entrenched. The same year, Musk was appointed CEO of Tesla, having bought his way in with the money raised from selling PayPal to eBay back in 2002.

SpaceX launched the Starlink project in 2019, which has been instrumental in supporting Ukraine in the Ukraine war, and whose military branch, Starshield, is currently developing a state-of-the-art satellite surveillance network.

The Wall Street Journal reported in February the existence of a $1.8 billion classified Starshield contract with an unknown intelligence agency without detailing the purposes of the program.

Reuters reporting discloses for the first time that the SpaceX contract is for a powerful new spy system with hundreds of satellites bearing Earth-imaging capabilities that can operate as a swarm in low orbits, and that the spy agency that Musk's company is working with is the NRO.

Reuters.

But the media gives you two options when it comes to figuring out who Musk is. He’s either this loose cannon, zany, radical capitalist, free speech advocate who bought Twitter just for the hell of it and who sided with Trump to drain the swamp and stick it to the man — or he’s a crypto-fascist of a fringe white supremacist group which inexplicably wrested contol of the US regime through some miraculous confluence of events.

And neither of these seems to square all that well with the basic facts.