Source: CounterPunch
by Joshua Sperber
“Musk, an awkward rich try-hard who’s the supposed paragon of human brilliance or something, has in fact become so ridiculous that it is easy to imagine a scenario in which Trump generates great fanfare by publicly firing him. This would of course change little, although it would be a useful reminder that much of the absurdity and brutality on display today is neither new nor original, phenomena Machiavelli identified five centuries ago as keystones of the modern state …” (02/27/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/27/musks-machiavellian-moment/