Brilliant piece Robert. Thanks for bringing your expertise to this complex topic. Maybe Musk is just trying to make his ole buddy Trump look sane by comparison. Pathological Narcissists Deluxe, indeed. And your point about crying fire in crowed theater should counter some of his "free speech' claims. If anyone gets hurt they should sue Musk, he can afford it. They could sue Trump, but he would never pay. However, all this cat eating craziness is also quite strategic for these wannabee Nazis. And, even when Trump changes his stories his followers love him more. Hannah Arendt observed even when the the Fuhrer changes his crazy crap daily, his followers think that they are somehow in on the joke. They think how clever he is to be deceiving the unclean. Trump was made for the so-called INFORMATION AGE. As Harari points out in his history of information, The Matrix , we thought that if we flooded the world with information, the truth would float to the top, but it actually sinks to the bottom.