We made the mistake yesterday of trying to read a few pages of the Walter Isaacson hagiography of Elon Musk—you can check it out yourself if you like, on the Internet Archive, and you won't even need an account there. https://archive.org/details/elon-musk-by-walter-isaacson/
(I really hope this doesn't count as furthering the memetic spread of the Musk cult.)
I don't even know if I'd call this a biography, although to fair I didn't get very far. What I saw was pure "inspiration porn"—it's almost like we're supposed to be thankful that Elon Musk got beaten up as a kid, because otherwise we wouldn't have gotten the temperamental genius who's changing the world &c. Nauseating stuff.
I would like to be able to read all of it, eventually. "Why??" you might reasonably ask. There's a couple answers to that. One is that I feel very strongly that I should be able to read anything dispassionately, with a critical eye rather than feeling personally insulted. But also I'd like to know more about the scene that gave rise to Musk's grotesque celebrity. Mind you, I don't expect Isaacson's trashy book to be very trustworthy, but at least he's bound to mention some important names.
~Χαρά
