Musk used his own power to manipulate the prices of a group of cryptocurrencies. This is also a horrific experiment in manipulating human nature and group behavior.
Original Title: “Beware of the Spread of “Musk’s Cult”
Written by: Luo Yihang’s original text was published on Pinwan’s official account, and Chain Wen was authorized to reprint
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on social media that Tesla has suspended Bitcoin payments, citing concerns about the environmental impact of the rapid increase in the use of fossil fuels in Bitcoin mining and transactions . On the same day, all virtual currency prices fell sharply: Bitcoin fell by more than 5% daily, Musk’s “Dogecoin”, which pushed up the price, plummeted by 15%, and Ethereum also fell sharply.
Once supported virtual digital currency, within a year, using a sentence, a word or even an emoji on social media promoted a series of virtual currencies including “air currency” such as Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and Shib. With the sudden increase in currency prices, Musk, who made countless people rich because of this, gently pressed the Enter key again, instantly evaporating the wealth of these people who believed in the direction he was guiding. It is a matter of one thought to give and take; it is overwhelming, and it is a matter of oneself-this is something that all normal-minded adults in this world should sweat coldly.
Musk looks more and more like a “saint”, everything he does seems to have incomparable legitimacy and foresight for the future: Tesla and SolarCity pioneered a cleaner and greener In the world, SpaceX contains mankind’s Martian migration plan and space dreams. Starlink connects everything infinitely. The blessing of Bitcoin, Ethereum and even Dogecoin is a profound revolution in “decentralization”… even this time it stops. Bitcoin payments for Tesla cars are all out of the “human plan” of environmental protection-Musk has been advocating Bitcoin for more than a year. When he used Bitcoin to pay for Tesla’s stock price, he might have forgotten Bitcoin mining and trading have created a lot of fossil fuel emissions. He has also built electric cars and solar panels for more than 10 years. Maybe he still doesn’t know that the production of photovoltaic cells will also cause a lot of pollution…Anyway, what he said, you believe it.
It’s time to remove Musk’s religious mask.
Musk relied on social media to manipulate the value and price of a number of virtual currencies, as well as Tesla’s stock price. He made many people get rich overnight, and deprived many people of their assets overnight. He sent a “dogge” Dogecoin and immediately became unstoppable. He said “We are looking for a Shiba Inu”, and the Shiba Inu coins surged wildly. He let the common sense of alternative currency that “air currency has no value” vanished. He made himself the master of the value of all virtual currencies. A group of people followed his guidance and fell into a carnival. He made a calm statement, knocking down the price of virtual currency, causing these people to cut their flesh and even ruin their families. Will he continue to raise the price of virtual currency? It should be. Because what he wanted was never to satisfy his desire to harvest leeks to make money. He is carrying out a limit experiment, to how much he can confuse fans and believers, and go through fire and water in the direction he guides, and to what extent he can dominate the wealth and sorrow of a large number of people in this world. The ultimate experiment of joy and even life and death.
This is a dangerous experiment, but also a terrifying experiment.
There is no doubt that virtual currency is the easiest bait to manipulate this terrorist experiment. Unlike the traditional legal currency issued by the country as a unit, virtual currency, which is usually referred to as an alternative digital currency (crypto currency), seems to have the attribute of “decentralization”, and it is not in the hands of a certain country or government. Here, it also seems to have a certain “revolutionary.” However, unlike the “general equivalent” attributes of traditional currencies, the attributes of alternative currencies are largely based on social construction-its distribution and transaction form is closer to the form of social media accounts posting information and spreading through interpersonal relationships. This also leads to a problem, that is, it is easy for people with super social network influence to manipulate the price of an alternative currency. I said you are worth money, you are worth money, I say you have to rise when you rise, and I say you fall, you must fall.
Right now, this manipulator is Musk. It reveals that the mirage of the “decentralization” of alternative digital currencies is so colorful. Under the easy manipulation of Musk, a group of people’s money, sorrow and joy, and life and death are used as candlestick hype. After several rounds of ups and downs, most people will be deeply involved and believe in Musk’s “greatness” and “prophet.” And omnipotent. In this way, alternative digital currency has become a highly centralized tool-it is not a centralization of a country or an organization, but a centralization of a person’s will. It is difficult for a person of normal mind to believe that this is a manifestation of the progress of human society-with the exception of Musk’s loyal followers.
Yes, a large number of Musk’s loyal followers have formed in this world-it is not excluded that there are some Judas-style opinion leaders in the currency circle who are holding money bags and taking Musk as the banner of “innovation” to cut leeks. Among them, most of them are kind and innocent. They have good hopes and visions for the future of mankind. They believe that the revolution of science and technology will infinitely broaden the boundaries of human dreams and imagination. However, this treasure was bet on Musk, a ruthless mockery of their kindness and beautiful vision.
Musk has been draped as an “inventor” and “dreamer”-this is his label that has been popular in the world for 10 years. It seems that he did a lot of things that shocked the world. After all, the Tesla sedan is the world’s highest-selling electric car. SpaceX has indeed successfully launched many recyclable space rockets. Starlink sounds like it. Somewhat exciting. After all, Musk is not a liar who relies on PPT to make money.
However, this does not mean that Musk is really a man who invented many new things and pushed his dream to the extreme. Musk did not start Tesla, just like he did not really start PayPal, he was an investor in Tesla, and later expelled the founder to become the CEO himself, and since then named himself the actual founder of Tesla. Before Tesla, the world was not without electric cars. Before the large-scale delivery of Tesla cars, BYD did the same on the other side of the Pacific.
Musk is not the first to launch a recoverable rocket into space. He founded SpaceX is the first private company to launch rockets into space, but this is not enough to prove SpaceX and Musk’s own achievements in aerospace technology. After all, SpaceX’s previous rocket launches are more like a large-scale public relations marketing. If the rocket explodes, the chicken soup of “believe in the future” and “believe in dreams” will sweep through social media; if the launch is successful, just the word “not exploded” can make Musk fans ecstatic. As the inventor and dreamer of the canonized “Iron Man” and “Martian”, Musk has threatened to land on Mars for more than 10 years, but SpaceX has successfully launched rockets for so many years. It has been too close to the Earth’s atmosphere and to Mars. Too far. In all fairness, SpaceX’s actual contribution to the cause of human space cannot be compared with NASA, the China National Space Administration and the Russian Space Agency, but it has received more flowers and applause on social media. Similarly, private companies launch rockets and aircraft. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s “Blue Origin” (Blue Origin) has received much less applause, even though Blue Origin has been launching rockets.
After all, “building a rocket” is an aphrodisiac for people who pretend to love innovation, and Musk is the debugger of this aphrodisiac.
Unlike the true inventor and innovator, Apple founder Steve Jobs, who died 10 years ago, Musk’s “invention” is a combination of some rare debris and mud. Jobs never looked up to the stars, but he was the inventor of personal computers and real smart phones, as well as the inventor of the business model where digital music and software were purchased and traded in a store. Jobs never talks about things that are not related to him. Almost all his time is spent inventing next-generation products; he doesn’t bring a rhythm to anything that has nothing to do with Apple on social media. Instead, he prefers to talk to himself. , Conduct meditation and spiritual practice. Jobs had no intention of becoming an opinion leader, but he became a well-deserved opinion leader-this is the fundamental difference between him and Musk.
Musk’s position as an opinion leader is something he has been tirelessly dreaming of for many years. Musk’s reputation as an “Iron Man” rose to fame in 2012. The death of Steve Jobs at the end of 2011 brought the “idol vacuum” in Silicon Valley, which was filled overnight by Musk. It is hard not to be regarded as the result of careful operation of public opinion. As an ordinary programmer, Musk did not really participate in the research and development of Tesla batteries and the design of the car body, nor did he have too much substantial involvement in space and aerospace technology, but he spent on social media and star variety shows. The time it takes to bring goods for himself is not much less than that of Trump, who was re-elected as president of the United States six months ago.
There is a universal law that conforms to human nature-people usually emphasize that they have the things they lack the most, and at the same time try to conceal the things they care about. From Tesla in the United States to China, from Musk himself to Tesla’s executives in China, they love to declare that they are truly focused on products and are not willing to engage in marketing. This actually provides a good angle for us to observe what Musk and Tesla really care about. After all, when the iPhone 4 “antenna door” incident occurred, even though Jobs kept saying “That’s because you hold it in the wrong way”, he quickly held a brief press conference to explain the bug, and immediately Fixed related issues. In contrast, Tesla has a lot of obsession with the “wrong way of stepping on the brakes” of Model 3 global owners, but has never tried to make repairs and adjustments on the product, which is not something it cares about after all.
Tesla will not apologize because it cannot apologize. Tesla can’t apologize, because Musk can’t make mistakes. Musk can’t make mistakes because God can’t make mistakes.
In the past 10 years, everything Musk has done has been along such a path. Everything he does seems to have indisputable legitimacy and a sense of future; every idea he advocates seems to be full of elements of innovation and dreams; every appearance and performance he makes in public, They are trying their best to prove that he is a geek, a revolutionary dedicated to breaking all shackles. However, he is a speculator, a careerist who uses innovation and dreams to package dangerous games that manipulate human nature and the mental behavior of believers, and a self-centered tyrant who wears the garb of a hippie on the West Coast of the United States in the 1960s.
When Bitcoin is connected with the payment method for buying Tesla, when Dogecoin and SpaceX’s Mars landing fund crowdfunding are connected, many people will think this is too cool, will tears in their eyes, will Crazy for it. However, the Bitcoin payment for Tesla can be easily written off by Musk. The use of Dogecoin as the “cosmic currency” for an expedition to Mars is even more a game between thoughts. However, Bitcoin has risen and fallen, Dogecoin has risen and fallen, and the game of manipulating human nature and crowd behavior has succeeded, in the name of innovation and dreams. Those who see Musk as a prophet rather than an ambition, those who see alternative digital currencies as a tool to liberate mankind rather than the equivalent of gold, and those who see Tesla cars as a sacred object rather than as a means of transportation, are all stigmatized. Sk was captured.
Musk’s behavior today tells us that an individual with the characteristics of a “theistic” leader can be packaged in the name of technology, innovation and dreams. Many are well-educated, mastered advanced scientific and technological knowledge and wealth distribution in society. People in a superior position in China cannot withstand this “temptation”—in fact, intellectuals, businessmen, and scientists who lack faith have always been targets for groups and individuals with a “theistic” attribute with a high hit rate.
In China, we have more reasons to be vigilant and curb the spread of “Musk’s Cult”.
There is no doubt that Musk has gained a lot of “believers” in China-this is even the basic plate of Tesla’s Chinese fan base. Tesla’s certain degree of “rice circleization” in China is directly projected from Musk, the “idol.” When the idol god was enlightened, things changed.
If the “Musk’s theology” spreads, the weird theory of “Why China can’t come to Musk” will be rampant, and the proposition that “Musk should teach Chinese entrepreneurs more” will be quite marketable. “China New Energy Rumors that cars are besieging Tesla’s Guangmingding and driving Tesla out of China will be widely circulated. In all fairness, China may really need Jobs, but it does not need Musk. There are too many people in China who try to become Musk, but they are not as “smart” as Musk. Chinese entrepreneurs do not need Musk to be a teacher. With Tesla’s staff turnover and internal governance, it is not worth emulating at any level. In China, no Chinese new energy vehicle company deliberately wants to squeeze out Tesla. Tesla’s problem in China is the extension of its global problems in China, not because of new problems arising from China; similar to 10 years ago The rumors with ulterior motives that “Baidu forced Google away” reappeared on Tesla, and the implications are too profound.
Of course, China will not accept the value and enthusiasm of an alternative digital currency to kidnap people’s attention and beliefs, whether he is Musk or Niusk.
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