‘I have a lot of sympathy for Elon Musk’: Succession creator Jesse Armstrong on his tech bros AI satire Mountainhead
‘I have a lot of sympathy for Elon Musk’: Succession creator Jesse Armstrong on his tech bros AI satire Mountainhead
He is the master of ripped-from-the-headlines drama, a writer who skewers the billionaire class. As Mountainhead takes him into new territory, he talks about his nuanced view of the world’s richest man – and why a bonnet drama may be next
With one sentence, I will never watch anything this man makes
Yeah but full context:
Turning back to Mountainhead, his even-handedness reaches a kind of event horizon. Armstrong, it transpires, feels sorry for Elon Musk. “Musk has done huge damage in the world, particularly with Doge, but I have a lot of sympathy for him.” The owner of X was brutally bullied as a schoolboy and according to a 2023 biography, had a difficult relationship with his father. “This is a traumatised human being,” says Armstrong. Still, not every bullied child ends up making apparent Nazi salutes onstage. “Yeah. That wasn’t great.”
That context doesn't make it any better. In fact it makes it worse. Plenty of people have had the childhood experience musk had, and a lot have had it much worse. Then musk used his very considerable resources to make A LOT of other people's life worse that had nothing to do with him being teased. Fuck musk and fuck anyone that feels sorry for the human version of cancer.
Where is the sympathy for all those people he hurt? I'm sure some of them had dads who less than ideal.
Context does not make it better. Elon should have been bullied to death