What makes Musk tick? It’s time to care

LAST week, Elon Musk’s neurotechnology firm Neuralink revealed its first human subject to receive a brain chip implant – but the real action was happening within the billionaire’s own noggin. Musk’s disastrous interview with ex-CNN host Don Lemon was also released last week, giving the average armchair psychologist plenty of material with which to work.

The hour-long interview, which covered everything from hate speech on X to Musk’s ketamine use, saw one of the world’s richest men grow increasingly testy as Lemon’s questions grew tougher.

Backed into an intellectual corner over the need for moderation on X, Musk regressed to the sophomoric and lashed out playground-style at Lemon by saying, “You want censorship and I don’t.” This escalated – amidst protests to the contrary by Lemon – to, “You desperately want censorship” and finally culminated in: “You want censorship so bad you can taste it.”