Elon Musk and the Limits of American Libertarianism

This system had basically

killed,

uh, the most valuable part of the

Anglophone tradition, and we were now in the ruins, you know.

And so what was gonna happen about it?

And so

the weird thing about i- the, let's say, the Elon

crash out

is that it's completely oblivious to that whole process, you know what I mean?

It's like, it's like he hasn't followed at

all anything that has happened in the,

you know, the discourse of the libertarian right in

America

over the last century.

And he's just

coming in and saying, "Oh, we can... You know,

why can't we have libertarianism?

We've got,

we've got a friendly president now." I mean, the, the

just shocking naivety. The shocking lack

of,

uh, entrenched functional foundational

despair in it is just the thing that is

amazing to me. Um,

and, you know,

I, I, I h- I think that whatever process of recovery he's

gonna go through,

some of it has to be, like, dealing with that because it's not,

it, it's not gonna work for him to sort of

have this notion that there's,

there's a kind of libertarian option just sitting there to be picked up

if you just have some

slight political will in a democratic context