We’ve truly reached the peak of vulgarity, banality, and outright sordidness. At the pinnacle of global power, two chaps are squabbling like spoiled, ill-mannered children, because one didn’t get what he wanted.
It’s impossible to know if Trump would’ve lost the election without Musk’s money and influence. Yet, that hypothetical isn’t what’s most interesting about this farce; rather, it’s how deeply it exposes their transactional view of personal relationships. They used one another, and when one decided the other was no longer useful, he was unceremoniously discarded. This instrumentalisation of people (a tactic they apply to everything and everybody) stands as the exact opposite of Kant’s categorical imperative: to treat humanity (both in oneself and others) as an end in itself, and never merely as a means to an end.
Something is deeply flawed within a system that incentivises and elevates such individuals to the highest echelons of power.
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