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It's sad really. I used to idolize him so much. I read through all of WaitButWhy's [0] blog post series on Musk back in '15/'16 and loved every bit of it. He literally became my demigod during my undergrad days.

And from all that... to this?

From a much admired and respected 'inventor' to a cringeworthy Twitter 'edgelord.' Just been a crazy ride.

[0] https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/03/elon-musk-post-series.html

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You've gotta ask yourself: has there really be a fall from grace? Because there are those of us who saw him as a cringeworthy Twitter 'edgelord' in 2015, and we don't notice much of a difference at all today. It's probably just that he's being more consistently overt about it, and his PR machine can't compensate.

What did you think of his public behaviour over the past few years? It's one thing to be enthralled by a praise-heavy series of blog posts, but it's not like you couldn't get first-hand impressions from the man's own very public persona.

I was a lot more vulnerable to manipulation via propaganda and good PR back when I was a college student, I suppose. Aside from the naïvety of late teens/early 20s.

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