Side Effects of Ketamine Could Explain a Lot About Elon Musk's Behavior

I think it's fair to say that ketamine may be affecting his faculties, but this is dipping it's toe into "the drugs make him do it!" sanewashing.

Drugs don't make people assholes. They were assholes before they took the drugs, and the drugs emphasise what an asshole they are.

I'm gonna tap the sign.

(The Drug User's Bible, by Dominic Milton Trott)

Do not let Elon Musk own ketamine. It is a valid depression treatment.

Ketamine, like any drug, should be thoroughly researched. Whether good, bad, or mixed, the knowledge would be useful.

In any case, I think that being wealthy is the most dangerous drug of all. It frees you from the consequences of your actions. Being invulnerable from society, prevents you from knowing what it means to be harmed. It is why rich folks tend to be assholes, since they don't understand the reality of being human. They are more akin to space aliens or dragons.

...at this point, excessive wealth is something I believe to be a drug that harms society, not individuals.

Growing up the son of a wealthy emerald-mine owning dysfunctional family in apartheid South Africa explains a lot of his behavior too.

They gave my cat ket before they euthanized her. She looked absolutely blissful, but certainly in no fit state to run a government.

Who cares what the cause of the behavior is? It is unacceptable.

That should be enough. No need to even try to explain of empathize with it.

But it is telling that the richest man in the history of mankind acts like this. People should see that wealth does not equate to strength, intelligence, good politics, etc. But instead people see wealth as a way to get away with anything they want, even if it is completely embarrassing stuff that no one with self respect would even think about.

People are too hard on drugs. Drugs are great. the ketamine might be helping for all we know. It's money and feeling unwanted as a child that has caused this man's brain damage.

I have a lot of ketamine users in my town and many highly functioning ones and it's very clear that the drug has long tail disassociative effects. They are so disconnected and zombie like despite seemingly functional.

I say this as a psychonaut myself - long term K use is pretty scary but people are afraid to shit on K because if not abused it's seems to have a lot of powerful positive effects on many.

I'm currently taking 80mg ketamine troches and can verify that I am not a sociopathic Nazi.

It's not drugs, he's just a douche

A fragile ego and sense of entitlement could also explain a lot of it. This comes from experience and, thankfully, at least some people can get better.

I dunno man, I've done ketamine and it didn't turn me into a nazi.

Maybe he's just a bad person.

Have you met his mother? That also explains a lot.

I'm not huge into drugs, can someone explain to me why a billionaire takes ketamine? Isn't it a prescription painkiller?

Shouldn't he be smoking brainstem of an endangered rainforest frog, or some nameless lab chemical synthesized personally for him?

Excuses at this point

Or him having been an entitled narcissist surrounded by sycophants for his entire life.

Hey look, the media blaming drugs for stupid people doing stupid shit.

This isn't the ketamine. He would probably be even worse without it.

Who is giving him this shit?

Catch me on the street with whatever pharmacy of dugs Musk is taking and I’d probably be sitting in front of a judge pretty quickly. Just another example of the rich doing whatever the F they want with no consequences.

Ketamine is the least of this dude's problems.

history just keeps on rhyming

I mean.. we all have that friend who does mushrooms or drops acid and thinks they are the savior of the human race.

The only difference is that the next day they have to go work their shift at IHOP rather than waking up and being the richest person in the world.

Imagine coming out of a K hole and finding that you’ve caused the most powerful nation in the world to collapse.

Musk = POS Nazi wannabe!

Yeah, no shit. Now how do we make it stop?

So here's one thing: all humans are the same.

It doesn't matter how evil you are, you are not immune to guilt, when you fuck up millions of people you are going to be affected. They (corrupted rulers) are probably on multiple drugs and pills to patch up their conditions.