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Musk is faltering, after all.

Alexei Sorokin
3 min readDec 10, 2023

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At this moment, while you were enjoying your Sunday, 100K people tuned in to Twitter to listen to Alex Jones, Elon Musk, Andrew Tate & Vivek Ramaswamy. Nice company, isn’t it?

My son is a pretty heavy user of Twitter, and he texted me this:

He then added: “They are basically spewing conspiracy theories.”

In the past, when I saw people bashing Musk, I always defended him in my mind. It’s not in my nature to criticize successful people. Success isn’t luck, especially the success of that magnitude. Being a keyboard warrior and criticizing successful and influential people is easy. It’s much harder to create something of real value or to help the world.

But then, several weeks ago, I observed the storm that followed Musk’s now-infamous anti-semitic tweet:

And I started thinking that Musk is really “losing it.” By losing it, I am referring to essential emotional intelligence — self-control and self-restraint. I am not even analyzing the very substance of Musk’s “You have told the actual truth.” My question is of a different nature: why in the world, with your influence, power, and interplanetary ambitions, would you reply to a…

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Alexei Sorokin
Alexei Sorokin

Written by Alexei Sorokin

A Russian immigrant in America, father of 4, Cambridge and Harvard Business School alum. I run and write every day. https://runningwritingliving.substack.com/

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