By Jericho Slade, WPS News, Ad-Hoc Historian

Elon Musk is not a genius gone rogue. He’s not a billionaire “disruptor.” He is the final product of a long, cruel American tradition — one born in the trauma of the Great Depression, hardened in World War II, and dressed up as success by Playboy, Bond films, and every man who ever called control “freedom.”

And now, he’s doing what broken men do:

  • He’s isolated his 4-year-old son, the child he literally named “X,” from the world — from his mother, from family, from care — raising him as a high-tech version of Richie Rich with a grudge.
  • He’s using X (formerly Twitter) to promote hate, platform fascists, and humiliate the vulnerable — all under the banner of “free speech.”
  • He’s rebuilt the old Playboy fantasy — power without accountability, women as props, emotion as weakness — but now it’s digital, global, and monetized.

This isn’t just personal. It’s political.
It’s cultural.
It’s generational.

Musk didn’t invent this sickness. He inherited it. From the same postwar male code that told your father not to cry. From the same Playboy logic that said a key and a cocktail were manhood. From the same American myth that traded empathy for dominance — and called it leadership.

James Bond had Pussy Galore. Elon Musk just has an algorithm.

The 1960s fantasy of a suave man dominating every room, every woman, every world — that’s what built the Playboy mansion, filled the Cold War with martinis and missiles, and gave us a culture of men who mistake conquest for connection. But at least Bond had style. Musk has bots.

Pussy Galore was a lie too — a male fantasy dressed up in leather and one-liners. But even she had more agency than the women in Musk’s world of X, where female users get doxxed, mocked, and hunted for sport by fanboys drunk on power and meme coins.

On July 23, we don’t just bury Musk’s platform. We bury the whole fantasy.
A world with no softness. No vulnerability. No love. Just the illusion of control — and a deeply broken little boy calling himself a man.

📢 JULY 23, 2025 — WE CALL IT OUT.

Every platform. Every language.
Two posts per region — 09:05 and 21:05 local.
We say it plain:

“X is not a platform. It’s the last Playboy mansion. Elon Musk’s fantasy is not our future. His pain is not our inheritance. His child deserves more than this broken legacy.”

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Because here’s the final truth:

You can track everything wrong with this world — misogyny, authoritarianism, digital cruelty, toxic fatherhood — back to a single lie:

“If you control everything, nothing can hurt you.”

Musk believes that lie. On July 23, we bury it.

This image is provided for historical and cultural study purposes only, illustrating the digital evolution of postwar sexual politics. It is not intended as endorsement or exploitation.

📚 References

Banet-Weiser, S. (2018). Empowered: Popular feminism and popular misogyny. Duke University Press.
Nagle, A. (2017). Kill all normies: Online culture wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right. Zero Books.

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