Happy New Year to you and to all my readers!
When I look around, there are so many mediocre, shortsighted people, that I tend to think that rather than a group of "very powerful people" acting consciously and with determination, we are under the spell of a self-reinforcing system where everybody acts according to impulses harking back to deep human nature and looks after their own best interest. In this system of ours some people have more power than others and they work relentlessly to maintain and increase their power. The result is a Europe that is going down the drain, and a western civilization that is fraying and splintering.
As often in history, to change tack it's useful to have "larger-than-nature" strong willed men: Gilgamesh, Ramses III, Alexander the Great, Caesar, Napoleon, Churchill ... and today Musk
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I don't buy into the theory that everything is controlled by a small group of very smart, very rich people either (I think we're too chaotic for that and there's too much room for error), but I do think there are those who have wiggled enough power to control some others towards their own selfish needs and desires and that people thinking they're doing good and walking the righteous path risk falling under their sway. I think some of these politicians opposing Musk genuinely believe they're doing good, but I think they're like us only human and may be influenced by people knowingly doing evil.
I also think it's a strong selling point for politicians to take an anti-Musk stance since a lot of young people seem to think he's the Devil incarnate for some reason or another (mostly propaganda imo) so there must be some short-sighted as you said public figures thinking less in terms of "will this benefit the greater good of our Europe" and more "will this make me popular".
He's certainly one of a kind and the next four years promise to be very interesting, indeed. Something to be optimistic about, for sure, that such people do manage to reach such high places .