Elon Musk Is Not Just a Celebrity
However your 2021 is going, what’s undeniable is that after Donald Trump left office earlier this year, a strange cultural quietude settled upon America. No one would dare call it peace. But the audiences for TV news and online media immediately shrunk. Rather than fretting quite as much about an imminent civil war, commentators have been arguing about sexy hip-hop videos. Saturday Night Live, the rare 21st-century entertainment that most Americans seem to maintain some awareness of, has been adrift: Millions of viewers have been sitting out the 2021 season. The show’s most notable segment this year was about sassy icebergs.
Recently, though, America has appearedannounced that the 49-year-old Tesla CEO would host last night’s show, it kicked off a national argument with all-too-familiar overtones. Musk is a billionaire commanding a personality cult with . He’s a self-styled savior of mankind who also the threat of COVID-19. He’s a white man who thinks he’s funny but who really, really isn’t. Some pundits for elevating a figure who has used public platforms to and spread . Others cheered and capitalism. Musk’s fans dreamed of him plugging their favorite cryptocurrency, Dogecoin. appeared all but sure to bust its ratings slump.
