Trillionaire grifter Elon Musk – the man behind the DOGE show that did nothing to put money back in Americans' pockets (more precisely, he/DOGE did nothing to reduce the pilferage of Americans by the government and the corporate lampreys that ride it) – said the other day not to worry about your financial condition because "an age of amazing abundance" is just around the corner, courtesy of the Tech Bros, AI and data centers. "The most likely outcome," he assures us, is that soon "anyone can have anything they can think of."

This would of course render Elon and the Tech Bros – Larry Altman, Sam Ellison, et al – just like the rest of us. Why, we'll all be able to have mega-yachts and 20,000 square foot homes and private jets, too! If you believe this, you may believe that you're also about to get a $5k check from Elon's buddy in return for Voting Harder on Tuesday, next week. Those who do believe this have probably already forgotten about the other $5k check they were promised by the Dynamic Duo courtesy of all the "waste" that DOGE was rooting out.

There are also people still lining up for their free flu/COVID shots, too.

It's all nonsense, of course. Trillionaires and billionaires are not looking to equalize things; to render all their wealth – and more importantly all their power – essentially meaningless, which is exactly what would happen if billions of humans were elevated to the material status of billionaires (or even millionaires). Elon is either special – a mild case of Down Syndrome or autism – which is not an unreasonable diagnosis if you look at him or listen to him; his observations aren't brilliant but ordinary – or he is something else. The bulk of the evidence suggests it is something else.

He is the son and grandson of technocrats – the people described by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World, his novel about a managed future society in which adults had been turned into docile grown-up adolescents, programmed from before conception via genetic manipulation to be biological cogs in a vast machine. The World Controller – a working synonym for technocrat – was Mustapha Mond. He and a few other controllers were allowed a degree of autonomy as well as intelligence, in the awareness sense. They alone consciously understood the nature of the society – the machine – they'd built. It is the machine Elon and the Tech Bros are building, with the connivance of Trump – a man the Tech Bros probably look upon the way an intelligent mafia don regards his best enforcer; i.e., a useful thug. Trump lately demands everyone stop referring to the AI God the Tech Bros are building as artificial intelligence but rather, super intelligence. It has a reverential smack to it, doesn't it?