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Episode: The rise of “Muskism” – Will we live in Elon Musk’s nightmare future?
Description: Elon Musk wants much more than just a radicalised far-right population, a hotline to political power and a civil war in Britain. As Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff, authors of Muskism: A Guide For The Perplexed explain, he’s building no less than a dark new way for society to function. Under ‘Muskism’, technology envelopes every aspect of life, states and corporations are indistinguishable, and humans who disagree are just bugs in the code. But will Muskism survive its creator?
Andrew Harrison talks to the authors about the state subsidies that built Musk’s empire, the real reasons h...