As higher primates our instinctual default is to follow a powerful male… no matter where he might take us,
This has ALWAYS been the case, which is why the most consistent events over human history are genocidal wars for territory. In other words we are just sophisticated chimps blindly following the biggest bully in our tribe.
In the US we have had a leadership deficit for decades. Obama looked like The One but he was actually a spineless, crypto-academic benign narcissist whose vapid platitudes accomplished NADA. Hillary was a spiteful wannabe male harridan who felt “entitled” to power but never really earned it. So in desperation we chose Trump.1, who was a scatter brained malignant narcissist whose pathetic reaction to COVID led to our replacing him with a vegetable with ZERO leadership characteristics. When the Dems defaulted to a ditzy side piece as their nominee we had no choice (unconsciously) but to swing back to Trump.2, err… ELON, who is a techno-fascist with zero capacity for human empathy.
Meanwhile, our opposition is lead by blatant sado-masochists in Russia and China who will inevitably clash with us and one another.
We seem doomed by our evolutionary legacy?
It will figure out what do with us pretty quickly.
Is Elon just a human HAL!
Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey