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揭穿埃隆·马斯克——第8部分 –– Debunking Elon Musk – Part 8

埃隆·马斯克的企业性格 — Elon Musk’s Corporate Character

翻译：珍珠

CHINESE ENGLISH

There are at least many hundreds of articles on countless dozens of websites that purport to provide a history of the achievements of Elon Musk, crediting him with the foundation and/or ownership of so many futuristic and revolutionary ideas, propositions, and companies. According to all of the mass media, the primary first-tier Internet websites, and most of the secondary and tertiary layers, Elon Musk “founded” PayPal, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company, the Hyperloop, SpaceX, OpenAI, xAI, and more. Their detailing not only of (a) the founding, but (b) the achievements, of all these companies, appears as a litany of almost unbelievable accomplishments by one of the greatest scientific geniuses and inventive minds in history.

在无数个网站上，至少有数百篇文章声称要讲述埃隆·马斯克的成就史，并称赞他创立和/或拥有如此多的未来主义和革命性想法、主张以及公司。根据所有大众媒体、主要的一级互联网网站以及大多数二级和三级网站的说法，埃隆·马斯克“创立”了PayPal、特斯拉、Neuralink、Boring Company、Hyperloop、SpaceX、OpenAI、xAI等众多公司。这些文章不仅详细介绍了这些公司的（a）创立过程，还介绍了它们的（b）成就，仿佛在历数历史上最伟大的科学天才和发明家之一所取得的几乎令人难以置信的成就。

Sadly, those claims – both (a) and (b) – are not supported by evidence, but instead given undeserved credibility primarily by what appears to be a clear agenda of programmed misinformation infused with fantasy, and by the bizarre but existential need of Americans for heroes. Elon Musk receives disproportionate credit through what we might call “Celebrity Amplification”. The mass media consistently (and I would have to say, “knowingly”) omit most of the crucial details, often leading the public to conflate Musk’s promotion of an idea with its invention, and to ensure the negatives (of which there are many) never see the light of day. His social media persona ensures global coverage, leaving most everyone equally duped.

遗憾的是，这些说法——无论是（a）还是（b）——都没有得到证据的支持，而是主要基于一种显然带有幻想色彩的程序化错误信息，以及美国人对于英雄的奇异但真实存在的需求，从而获得了不应有的可信度。埃隆·马斯克通过我们所谓的“名人效应”获得了不成比例的赞誉。大众媒体一贯（而且我不得不说，“故意”）忽略大多数关键细节，往往导致公众将马斯克对某个想法的推广与其发明混为一谈，并确保负面信息（其中有很多）永远不会公之于众。他在社交媒体上的形象确保了全球报道，让几乎所有人都同样受到了欺骗。

Most of the information dispersed through the popular and mass media surrounding the companies with which Elon Musk has been associated, is recklessly false. Crucial facts are omitted, circumstances mis-represented, and an entirely unwarranted amount of credit bestowed on Musk. This has all been orchestrated by parties unidentified, to create an aura of infallible genius, engineer, innovator and inventor, which is mostly (or totally), undeserved.

通过流行媒体和大众媒体传播的关于埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）相关公司的大部分信息，都是肆意捏造的。关键事实被省略，情况被歪曲，马斯克被赋予了完全不必要的赞誉。这一切都是由身份不明的各方精心策划的，目的是营造一种马斯克是绝对天才、工程师、创新者和发明家的氛围，而这种氛围大多（或完全）是不应得的。

Elon Musk was neither a “founder” nor a “co-founder” of PayPal, and “Elon Musk” did not sell PayPal to e-Bay. Elon Musk was neither a founder nor a co-founder of Tesla, and he does not “own” Tesla, not by any stretch. The concept of Hyperloop transport was active in the imagination of men nearly 200 years before Elon Musk “created” it, and the famed Hyperloop company has quietly closed its doors and gone out of business. Despite Musk’s claims that “OpenAI would not exist without me”, Musk did not found the company. Elon Musk did not “found” Neuralink; the company had eight founders and, aside from funding and fantasy, Musk was not critical to this enterprise.

埃隆·马斯克既不是PayPal的“创始人”，也不是“联合创始人”，而且“埃隆·马斯克”并没有把PayPal卖给eBay。埃隆·马斯克既不是特斯拉的创始人，也不是联合创始人，他并不“拥有”特斯拉，无论如何都不是。在埃隆·马斯克“创造”Hyperloop运输概念近200年前，这一概念就已在人们的想象中活跃，而这家著名的Hyperloop公司已悄然关门停业。尽管马斯克声称“没有我，OpenAI就不会存在”，但他并没有创立这家公司。埃隆·马斯克并没有“创立”Neuralink；该公司有八位创始人，除了资金和幻想之外，马斯克对这家企业并不至关重要。

And, contrary to all the media misinformation, Elon Musk was not the singular “founder” of SpaceX, and his contribution to it (as with Tesla and Neuralink) has been as much criminal negligence as innovative genius. Moreover, in almost every case where Elon Musk was involved with those who actually were “founders”, those original founders left soon after, engaging in bitter lawsuits against Musk after their departure. The only two exceptions were Confinity (PayPal), where Musk was kicked out, and OpenAI, where he left in a huff after failing to take control. But in every case, the victim company found itself embroiled in control disputes with Elon Musk.

而且，与所有媒体的错误信息相反，埃隆·马斯克并非SpaceX的唯一“创始人”，他对SpaceX的贡献（与特斯拉和Neuralink一样）既包含创新的天才，也包含犯罪性的疏忽。此外，在几乎所有埃隆·马斯克与那些真正“创始人”合作的项目中，那些最初的创始人都在不久后离开，并在离职后对马斯克提起激烈的诉讼。唯一的两个例外是Confinity（PayPal）和OpenAI，在Confinity，马斯克被踢出局；在OpenAI，他因未能获得控制权而愤然离开。但在每一个案例中，受害公司都发现自己陷入了与埃隆·马斯克的控制权纠纷中。

Elon Musk was always so determined to have everything according to his wishes that he caused “escalating clashes of personality” with virtually everyone with whom he came in contact who had any standing or authority. He was constantly embroiled in increasing disputes over his behavior which was generally regarded as “erratic and hostile”. Musk has always sought total control of every situation, and would take any action possible to eliminate challengers. The removal of potential challengers, by any means, is a pattern that has existed in Elon Musk’s background from the earliest days, beginning with his little Zip2 and continuing to the present day. And it isn’t only challengers. The record is clear that anyone who confronts Musk with disagreement or inconvenient truths, will be gone. And it’s even much worse than that.

埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）总是如此坚定地希望一切都能按照他的意愿进行，以至于他与几乎所有接触过且有一定地位或权威的人发生了“不断升级的人格冲突”。他经常因自己的行为而卷入越来越多的纠纷，这些行为通常被视为“古怪且充满敌意”。马斯克总是寻求对每一种情况拥有完全的控制权，并会采取一切可能的行动来消除挑战者。从他创立Zip2之初至今，以任何手段消除潜在挑战者一直是埃隆·马斯克的一贯做法。而且不仅仅是挑战者。记录清楚地表明，任何与马斯克意见相左或提出令人不快事实的人都会消失。甚至情况比这还要糟糕得多。

Musk is renowned for considering (and using) the staff of his companies as sexual buffets to satisfy his disgraceful perversities, and any female employee complaining of his “advances” would be fired. Musk is also renowned for taking safety and other shortcuts in most every situation; anyone leaking that information would be fired and possibly sued as well. You will see from the corporate record that Elon Musk has a ruthless and almost obsessive vindictiveness when thwarted. He will fire, sue, lie, slander, defame – and try to ruin anyone who obstructs him.

马斯克以将公司员工视为性资源（并加以利用）来满足其可耻的变态需求而闻名，任何抱怨其“非礼”行为的女性员工都会被解雇。马斯克还以在几乎所有情况下都走安全捷径和其他捷径而闻名；任何泄露这些信息的人都会被解雇，甚至可能被起诉。从公司记录中可以看出，埃隆·马斯克在受挫时有着无情且近乎偏执的报复心。他会解雇、起诉、撒谎、诽谤、诋毁——并试图毁掉任何阻碍他的人。

In all of his enterprises, Elon Musk quickly proved to be out of his depth, but had (and still has) an unrealistic exaggerated opinion of his own knowledge and ability, and is almost obsessive about having things done his way, even against the advice of experts and the protestations of his own management. Musk is living embodiment of the adage that “A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing”. In his early years, Elon Musk was rescued from his own stupidity by wiser men who had more control. Unfortunately, this would not always be the case, as you will see.

在埃隆·马斯克的各项事业中，他很快便证明自己能力不足，但他对自己知识和能力的看法一直（现在也仍然）过于夸大，甚至近乎偏执地要求事情按照自己的方式来，即便这违背了专家的建议和他自己管理层的抗议。马斯克是“一知半解是件危险的事”这句格言的生动写照。早年，埃隆·马斯克曾被更有掌控力的智者从自己的愚蠢中拯救出来。不幸的是，正如你即将看到的，情况并非总是如此。

The record provides abundant evidence that Musk has an amazing capacity for conniving, dishonesty and manipulation, looking always for his own advantage, seemingly assuming others cannot see his motives. This corporate record offers striking examples of Elon Musk’s manipulative obsessions. The historical record of his corporate activity speaks volumes about the man’s opportunism, and also his hypocrisy. There is ample evidence that Musk’s fixation on absolute control, and his pathological resentment at being thwarted, blinds him to reality.

这份记录提供了大量证据，表明马斯克具有惊人的纵容、不诚实和操纵能力，他总是为自己的利益着想，似乎认为别人看不到他的动机。这份公司记录提供了埃隆·马斯克操纵成瘾的惊人例证。他公司活动的历史记录充分说明了他的机会主义，也揭示了他的虚伪。有充分证据表明，马斯克对绝对控制的执着，以及他对受挫的病态怨恨，使他无视现实。

It is obvious also from the corporate record that Elon Musk exhibits a pattern revealing a fundamental truth: For him, considerations such as safety (Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI), ethics (FSD, Robotaxi, Neuralink), humanity, are not operational principles but merely talking points for manipulation.

从公司记录中也可以明显看出，埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）表现出一种模式，揭示了一个基本事实：对他而言，诸如安全（特斯拉、SpaceX、OpenAI）、道德（全自动驾驶系统、Robotaxi、Neuralink）、人性等考量，并非操作原则，而仅仅是用来操纵的论点。

You will see also from the record that Elon Musk not only wants total control of every situation but wants total credit even for things he did not do – such as “inventing” the Hyperloop concept or “founding” Tesla. This obsession for credit extends to his demanding recognition for founding things he never founded (PayPal, Tesla, OpenAI, Neuralink). This was so true that with Tesla the original founders had to sue Elon Musk and obtain a court order forcing him to admit they were the original founders of the company. Like most other Musk characteristics, this takes us into the area of psychopathology.

从记录中你还会看到，埃隆·马斯克不仅想要完全掌控每一种情况，甚至还想要为他没有做过的事情——比如“发明”超级高铁概念或“创立”特斯拉——获得全部荣誉。这种对荣誉的痴迷甚至延伸到他要求人们承认他创立了他从未创立的东西（PayPal、特斯拉、OpenAI、Neuralink）。这一点在特斯拉身上体现得淋漓尽致，以至于最初的创始人不得不起诉埃隆·马斯克，并获得法院命令，迫使他承认他们是公司的最初创始人。像马斯克的其他大多数特征一样，这让我们进入了精神病理学的领域。

准备好飞翔了吗？— Ready to Fly?

SpaceX’s Starship took off at just after 9:35 a.m. April 20, 2023 from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, but minutes later it exploded, before it could separate from the Super Heavy rocket and go to space. Source

2023年4月20日上午9点35分刚过，SpaceX的星际飞船从德克萨斯州博卡奇卡的星基地起飞，但几分钟后，在尚未与超重型火箭分离并进入太空之前，它便发生了爆炸。来源

One trend you should look for in Musk’s behavior is his “break fast” attitude, meaning to test or try before something is ready. It is otherwise stated as “test-fly-crash” and “test-drive-crash”. Elon Musk habitually pushes products out into the market before (sometimes long before) they are ready. Musk insists on launching his SpaceX rockets when they aren’t ready to fly, resulting in frequent explosions and some severe environmental damage. He pushes his severely-flawed Tesla self-driving and Robotaxis into use in spite of many accidents and deaths. He inserts implants into monkeys before the technology is ready, and then must euthanise thousands of animals. This “break fast” attitude is presented as a kind of invention philosophy which disdains the slow but safe approach of NASA for instance. Musk claims he makes faster progress this way. That may be true, but at what cost? His “test-drive-crash” attitude is not a development philosophy but the pathology of an immature, emotionally-disturbed sociopath using the public for human experimentation without their consent.

在马斯克的行为中，你应该寻找的一种趋势是他的“快速试错”态度，即在某样东西准备好之前就进行测试或尝试。这种态度也可以表述为“测试-飞行-坠毁”和“测试-驾驶-坠毁”。埃隆·马斯克习惯于在产品准备好之前（有时甚至很久之前）就将其推向市场。马斯克坚持在SpaceX火箭还没准备好飞行时就将其发射，结果导致频繁爆炸和一些严重的环境破坏。尽管特斯拉自动驾驶和Robotaxis存在严重缺陷，且已造成多起事故和死亡，他仍坚持将其推向市场。在技术还没准备好之前，他就给猴子植入芯片，然后不得不安乐死数千只动物。这种“快速试错”态度被视为一种发明哲学，它蔑视美国国家航空航天局（NASA）那种缓慢但安全的方法。马斯克声称，这样他才能取得更快的进展。这或许是真的，但代价是什么呢？他的“测试-驾驶-坠毁”态度不是一种发展哲学，而是一个不成熟、情绪不稳定的社会病态者的病态表现，他未经公众同意就把公众当作人体实验的对象。

黑暗三合一 — The Dark Triad

The “Dark Triad” is a psychological framework that describes three overlapping yet distinct personality traits linked to manipulative, exploitative, and socially destructive behavior: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and subclinical psychopathy. These final essays on Elon Musk’s corporate history reveal how these traits manifest in his corporate, political, and innovation contexts, with disturbing relevance to the patterns I have discussed.

“黑暗三合一”是一个心理学框架，描述了与操纵、剥削和社会破坏行为相关的三种相互重叠但又截然不同的人格特质：自恋、马基雅维利主义和亚临床精神病态。这些关于埃隆·马斯克企业历史的最终论文揭示了这些特质如何在他的企业、政治和创新背景下表现出来，与我讨论过的模式有着令人不安的相似之处。

Narcissism: A grandiose self-image, an unshakeable sense of entitlement, a strong need for admiration, and a distinct lack of empathy for people. From this, the person takes credit for others’ work or achievements, freely exploits others for personal gain, and reacts aggressively to criticism.

自恋：拥有浮夸的自我形象，不可动摇的优越感，强烈的被崇拜需求，以及对他人明显缺乏同理心。由此，这类人会将他人的工作或成就据为己有，为了个人利益而肆意利用他人，并对批评做出激烈反应。

Machiavellianism: Fundamentally dishonest and cynical, with a powerful amorality that places ethics in the dustbin. Uses deception to advance goals with manipulation as a basic strategy. The main focus is on power and control. Relationships are treated as transactional, and bureaucratic systems are mined for self-interest.

马基雅维利主义：从根本上讲，这是一种不诚实且愤世嫉俗的态度，具有强烈的非道德观念，将伦理道德弃之不顾。以欺骗为手段，将操纵作为基本策略来推进目标。主要关注的是权力和控制。人际关系被视为交易关系，为了个人利益而利用官僚体系。

Psychopathy: Evidenced by an irrational impulsivity, a low empathy for life, humans, the world. Such a person is thrill-seeking, exhibits very shallow emotions and an astonishing remorselessness. He regularly ignores risks to himself and others, and violates norms without hesitation or guilt. These people – like Elon Musk – appear charismatic but are emotionally detached from their surroundings. Note: “Subclinical” means these personality disorders exist in sufficient strength to drive harmful and dangerous behavior, but below the usual thresholds for incarceration in a mental institution.

精神病态：表现为非理性的冲动行为、对生命、人类、世界的低同理心。此类人寻求刺激，情绪浅薄，冷酷无情。他们经常无视对自己和他人的风险，毫不犹豫或毫无愧疚地违反规范。这些人——如埃隆·马斯克——看似魅力四溢，但在情感上却与周围环境疏离。注：“亚临床”意味着这些人格障碍的存在强度足以驱动有害和危险的行为，但未达到通常被精神病院收容的阈值。

These final essays on Elon Musk’s corporate history highlight how Dark Triad traits become dangerous when combined with power and innovation – exactly what we saw with Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, and Elon Musk with Neuralink, Tesla FSD and Robotaxi, xAI, and SpaceX.

这些关于埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）企业历史的最终论文强调了当黑暗三合一特质与权力和创新结合时，会变得多么危险——这正是我们在伊丽莎白·霍姆斯（Elizabeth Holmes）和Theranos，以及埃隆·马斯克与Neuralink、特斯拉全自动驾驶系统（Tesla FSD）、Robotaxi、xAI和SpaceX身上所看到的。

Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Found Guilty Of Investor Fraud. Source

Theranos创始人伊丽莎白·霍尔姆斯被判投资者欺诈罪成立。来源

People like Elizabeth Holmes and Elon Musk succeed in the short term because of their personal charm and charisma, their audacity, and because their penchant for risk-taking (most often with other people’s lives or futures) and their disdain for rules create illusions of “visionary leadership”. These people climb faster by exploiting their own cynicism, their amorality, their true absence of empathy, and by a host of behaviors that can be collectively classified as “fundamentally dishonest”. They seldom accomplish much in the long term, usually leaving a trail of damaged or ruined lives, ethical scandals and organisational chaos.

像伊丽莎白·霍尔姆斯和埃隆·马斯克这样的人之所以能在短期内取得成功，是因为他们具有个人魅力和风采、大胆敢为，以及他们喜欢冒险（往往拿他人的生命或未来冒险）的倾向和对规则的蔑视，这些都营造了一种“有远见的领导力”的假象。这些人利用自己的玩世不恭、不道德、缺乏同理心，以及一系列可统称为“根本不诚实”的行为，爬得更快。他们很少能在长期内取得很大成就，通常会留下破坏或毁灭他人生活、道德丑闻和组织混乱的痕迹。

We read much about the supposed benefits of what is termed “disruptive innovation”, but Dark Triad persons do not seek disruption as a shortcut to a societal good, but to fuel their narcissism through fame and building a legacy; their Machiavellianism by domination of all circumstances, and their psychopathy by the thrill of bypassing rules and scheming for “regulatory capture” (as with Musk’s DOGE authority) that provides them with immunity against criminal sanction. Consider the many articles documenting that Musk fired Neuralink employees who raised ethical concerns, and how he then used his DOGE authority to fire all the FDA staff who were examining Neuralink for violations. [1] [2]

我们经常读到所谓“颠覆性创新”的所谓好处，但黑暗三特质的人并不寻求颠覆作为通往社会公益的捷径，而是通过名声和建立遗产来助长他们的自恋；通过掌控一切来展现他们的马基雅维利主义，以及通过规避规则和策划“监管俘获”（如马斯克的DOGE权威）来获得心理变态的快感，这使他们免受刑事制裁。想想那些记录马斯克解雇提出伦理问题的Neuralink员工的文章，以及他如何利用他的DOGE权威解雇所有正在审查Neuralink违规行为的FDA员工。 [1] [2]

These people morally disengage partly by the clever use of semantics: people are merely “resources”; ethical employees and ‘whistleblowers’ are “obstacles”. Musk advertises his Tesla software as full self-driving, then blames 1,000 accidents and 50 deaths on “inattentive drivers”. Dark Triad people are never to blame, and responsibility is always diffused.

这些人通过巧妙地利用语义来在道德上逃避责任：人只是“资源”；合乎道德的员工和“举报者”是“障碍”。马斯克宣称特斯拉的软件可实现完全自动驾驶，然后却将1000起事故和50起死亡归咎于“注意力不集中的司机”。黑暗人格者永远不应受到指责，责任总是被分散。

There is a chilling pattern in all of this. These same traits in Dark Triad persons that drive their ruthless innovation, also “normalize” suffering. Tesla deaths attributable to Musk’s flawed software are dismissed with “Airplanes crash, but we still fly”. His Neuralink monkeys, his SpaceX explosions and their frightening atmospheric holes, Elizabeth Holmes’ Theranos patients; all these are casualties of a system that confuses charisma with competence and audacity with courage. As psychologist Robert Hare warned: “When you mix power, low empathy, and a vision that justifies cruelty, you get atrocities wrapped in a slogan.”

这一切背后有一种令人不寒而栗的模式。黑暗人格者身上那些推动他们无情创新的特质，同样也让他们将痛苦“正常化”。特斯拉因马斯克有缺陷的软件而导致的死亡事件，被轻描淡写地归结为“飞机也会坠毁，但我们还是得飞”。他的Neuralink猴子实验、SpaceX的爆炸事件以及由此产生的可怕大气空洞、伊丽莎白·霍尔姆斯的Theranos患者；所有这些都是一个将魅力与能力、大胆与勇气混为一谈的体系的牺牲品。正如心理学家罗伯特·黑尔所警告的：“当你把权力、低同理心和为残忍行为辩护的愿景混为一谈时，你就会得到包裹在口号中的暴行。”

串通 — The Connivances

‘Connivance’ (or ‘to connive’) is to plan secretly and dishonestly for something immoral, illegal, or harmful to happen that will be to your advantage. I considered titling the final Parts of this series on ‘Elon Musk’s’ companies as “The Connivances”. I don’t mean to suggest by employing this term that the companies were formed as criminal enterprises, but conniving became a standard operating procedure, the corporate activities peppered with fraud, deceit, criminal recklessness, misinformation, brutal revenge, and more.

“纵容”（或“纵容”）是指暗中、不诚实地策划一些不道德、非法或有害的事情，而这些事情的发生会对你有利。我曾考虑将本系列关于“埃隆·马斯克”公司的最后几部分命名为“纵容”。我使用这个词并不是想说这些公司是作为犯罪企业而成立的，而是说纵容已成为一种标准操作程序，公司活动充斥着欺诈、欺骗、犯罪鲁莽、虚假信息、残酷报复等行为。

The following essays provide a documented recap of the history of these companies, Elon Musk’s role (if any) in their founding, and a commentary on his participation. I want to note here that, for the initial part of these final essays, I will provide few references because there are almost no reliable sources to quote. In the hundreds of pages and websites describing Elon Musk’s corporate activities, it is probably not an exaggeration to say that at least half the statements in almost every page or document are factually incorrect. Thus, it seems counter-productive to refer readers to an article containing one truth intermingled with ten falsehoods and twenty examples of venerating hagiography.

以下文章提供了这些公司的历史记录回顾、埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）在创立这些公司中所扮演的角色（如果有的话），以及对他参与的评论。我想在这里指出，在这些期末论文的初始部分，我将提供很少的参考文献，因为几乎没有可靠的资料可供引用。在描述埃隆·马斯克公司活动的数百页文章和网站上，毫不夸张地说，几乎每一页或每一份文件中的陈述至少有一半是不真实的。因此，让读者去阅读一篇包含一条真实信息、十条虚假信息和二十个颂扬式传记例子的文章，似乎会适得其反。

These final essays contain increasingly dramatic evidence of the clear patterns of Elon Musk’s character leading to an obsessive demand for control, his natural self-serving tendency for deceit, conniving, and manipulation, and his almost obsessive vindictiveness when thwarted. When reading through these corporate essays, pay attention to the patterns in Musk’s behavior that emerge and exhibit themselves increasingly strongly over time. Try to connect the dots. Look for the common threads that wind themselves through all aspects of the man’s behavior. Your connecting these dots is a necessary antidote to dangerous hero worship. While reading, try to examine and analyse Musk’s leadership style across SpaceX, Tesla, OpenAI, and Neuralink through an ethical lens. Try to make the connections between Elon Musk’s corporate practices and their human costs. You will see something very different from the public persona created by the (Jewish-owned) mass media.

这些最后的文章中包含了越来越具有戏剧性的证据，清晰地揭示了埃隆·马斯克性格中的模式：对控制的痴迷追求、天生倾向于自我服务的欺骗、纵容和操纵行为，以及在受挫时近乎偏执的报复心理。在阅读这些企业文章时，请注意马斯克行为中随时间推移而日益凸显的模式。尝试将这些点连接起来。寻找贯穿该人行为各个方面的共同线索。将这些点连接起来是避免危险英雄崇拜的必要解毒剂。在阅读时，尝试通过伦理视角审视和分析马斯克在SpaceX、特斯拉、OpenAI和Neuralink的领导风格。尝试将埃隆·马斯克的企业行为与其对人类造成的代价联系起来。你会看到一些与（犹太人拥有的）大众媒体所塑造的公众形象截然不同的东西。

Some readers may correctly note that I seem to dwell only on the negatives about Elon Musk and ignore all the good, great, and even miraculous things he has done. If I may paraphrase Marc Antony (“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him”), I come to bury Elon Musk, not to praise him. And let’s be honest. You already have thousands of newspapers, magazines, TV stations, and only heaven knows how many website articles already telling you of the good, great, and miraculous things Elon Musk has done. You already have 10,000 voices on that side of the fence; you don’t need another. But my purpose is to document for you that nearly everything you have been told by those other 10,000 voices is wrong, and to awaken you to the fact that Elon Musk is not only toxic, but downright dangerous. I make no apologies for this.

有些读者可能会正确地指出，我似乎只关注埃隆·马斯克的负面消息，而忽略了他所做的所有好事、伟大的事，甚至是奇迹般的事。如果我可以借用马克·安东尼的话（“我来是为了埋葬凯撒，不是为了赞美他”），那么我来是为了埋葬埃隆·马斯克，而不是赞美他。说实话，你已经从成千上万的报纸、杂志、电视台，以及天知道有多少网站文章中了解到埃隆·马斯克所做的那些好事、伟大的事，甚至是奇迹般的事。你已经有一万种声音站在那一边为你发声；你不需要再多一种。但我的目的是为你证明，其他那一万种声音告诉你的几乎所有事情都是错的，并让你意识到这样一个事实：埃隆·马斯克不仅是有害的，而且是极其危险的。对此，我毫无歉意。

媒体宣传攻势 — The Media Propaganda Flood

Elon Musk is an “influencer” with a persona carefully crafted by those same powers for purposes far beyond the Hyperloop.

埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）是一位“影响者”，其形象由那些同样的力量精心塑造，其目的远不止于超级高铁（Hyperloop）。

I have written in other essays that most news items remain in the headlines for a day or two and are then inevitably replaced by the next new event. It is rare occurrence that an event is prolonged and remains in the news beyond that first day or two.

我在其他文章中写过，大多数新闻事件只会占据头条一两天，然后不可避免地被下一个新事件所取代。很少有事件能持续存在，并在头一两天之后仍然占据新闻头条。

But there are occasions when we experience what I term “a media flood”, where an event, or more often, a non-event, is in the news constantly for weeks, months, and even years, seeming to fill the headlines daily. If it hasn’t already occurred to you, these times are not “news”; they are indoctrination propaganda being pushed onto you by the powers behind the scenes.

但有时我们会经历我所称的“媒体洪流”，即某个事件，或更常见的是某个非事件，会连续数周、数月甚至数年占据新闻头条，似乎每天都是如此。如果你还没有意识到，这些时候并不是“新闻”；它们是幕后势力强加给你的灌输式宣传。

We saw this during COVID, where seemingly every headline in every major news source on every day – for two or more years – was about COVID, about the terrible risk, about the need for social distancing, and especially the desperate, imperative urgency for vaccinations. Yet no epidemic or pandemic in history has ever received such a deluge of content. We were not being given news; we were being indoctrinated. I won’t go into the purpose here, but I want to stress that these “media flood” occasions all emanate from the same power source and all have a distinct purpose which will be apparent only to a few. I advise you to not dismiss the force and power of a media flood too quickly.

我们在新冠疫情期间就见识到了这一点，在两年甚至更长的时间里，几乎每天各大新闻媒体的头条都是关于新冠疫情、关于可怕的风险、关于保持社交距离的必要性，尤其是关于接种疫苗的迫切需要。然而，历史上没有任何一场流行病或大流行病曾像这样被铺天盖地地报道过。我们不是被提供新闻，而是被灌输。我在此不赘述其目的，但我想强调的是，这些“媒体泛滥”的场合都源自同一个源头，并且都有一个只有少数人才能看出的明确目的。我建议你不要过早地忽视媒体泛滥的威力和力量。

This can take many forms. One constant such agenda deals with the genocide in Palestine. It is a matter of record that Alan Dershowitz, a Jewish professor at Harvard, gave a speech to AIPAC imploring all Jews and all Jewish media to loudly promote the fiction of China committing genocide in Tibet precisely to take the heat off Israel in the public mind. Dershowitz did the same with AIPAC and other groups, demanding they flood the media with false claims about another Chinese “genocide” in Xinjiang. These are effective; immediately following Dershowitz’s urging, Google Trends listed an abrupt 400% increase in searches on Xinjiang.

这可以表现为多种形式。其中一项持续的议程涉及巴勒斯坦的种族灭绝问题。有记录显示，哈佛大学犹太裔教授艾伦·德肖维茨曾向美国以色列公共事务委员会（AIPAC）发表演讲，恳求所有犹太人和所有犹太媒体大肆宣扬中国在西藏实施种族灭绝的虚构事实，正是为了在公众心目中转移对以色列的关注。德肖维茨还对AIPAC和其他团体做了同样的事，要求他们向媒体大量散布关于中国在新疆再次实施“种族灭绝”的虚假说法。这些做法很有效；在德肖维茨发出呼吁后，谷歌趋势显示，关于新疆的搜索量突然激增400%。

I mention it here because the concept applies in spades to Elon Musk. There exists a vast network of propaganda tools, all controlled by a small group of people, using the media for their own private agenda, in this case to promote the man as one of the world’s leading visionaries and inventors, a virtual god. I want to give you the example of the media flood promoting Elon Musk as the “creator” of the Hyperloop, a distinction not only undeserved but outrageous.

我在此提及此事，是因为这一概念在埃隆·马斯克身上得到了淋漓尽致的体现。存在一个庞大的宣传工具网络，全部由一小群人控制，他们利用媒体来达成自己的私利，在这种情况下，就是将这个人吹捧为世界上首屈一指的有远见者和发明家，一个虚拟的神。我想举一个媒体铺天盖地宣传埃隆·马斯克是超级高铁“创造者”的例子，这种称谓不仅名不副实，而且令人愤慨。

The Hyperloop concept in one form or another had been active for more than 200 years but the entire history of this concept has been credited to Elon Musk. There must be hundreds of articles on hundreds of websites all describing “Elon Musk’s” Hyperloop. I’ve read it so often, I might believe it myself, and that is the entire point. The intense media flood has conditioned us to view Elon Musk as the “inventor” of a radically-new transportation system when the man in fact did nothing at all.

“超级高铁”的概念以这样或那样的形式活跃了200多年，但这一概念的整个历史却被归功于埃隆·马斯克。数百个网站上的数百篇文章都在描述“埃隆·马斯克的”超级高铁。我读得如此频繁，以至于我自己都可能相信了，而这正是关键所在。铺天盖地的媒体报道让我们习惯于将埃隆·马斯克视为一种全新交通系统的“发明者”，而事实上，他什么也没做。

In reality, the Hyperloop story is a case study in how celebrity endorsement can distort historical attribution, and this was not an accident. There are substantial Jewish powers that control the mass and social media, and who carefully planned the almost interminable blitz meant to create the fiction of Elon Musk as inventor, visionary, innovator, scientific genius, and more, but Musk was (and still is) none of these things. Elon Musk is an “influencer” with a persona carefully crafted by those same powers for purposes far beyond the Hyperloop.

事实上，超级高铁的故事是一个案例研究，展示了名人代言如何扭曲历史归因，而这绝非偶然。有大量犹太势力控制着大众媒体和社交媒体，他们精心策划了这场几乎没完没了的宣传攻势，旨在塑造埃隆·马斯克作为发明家、有远见者、创新者、科学天才等形象，但马斯克过去（现在）绝非如此。埃隆·马斯克是一个“网红”，其形象是由这些势力精心塑造的，其目的远不止超级高铁。

The media’s framing of Elon Musk is a totally false hagiography, and clearly part of an intensive media campaign to inflate Musk’s reputation as a visionary. Hyperloop’s narrative reveals how celebrity distorts innovation history. Musk may have been a megaphone, but certainly not an architect. There was nothing substantive in anything Elon Musk did or said, but the media still rush to credit him for a non-existent transportation revolution.

媒体对埃隆·马斯克的塑造完全是一种虚假的圣徒式描绘，显然是媒体大肆宣传、夸大马斯克作为有远见之人的声誉的行动之一。超级高铁的叙事揭示了名人如何扭曲创新历史。马斯克或许是一个扩音器，但绝非建筑师。埃隆·马斯克所做或所说的一切都没有实质性内容，但媒体仍然急于将他归功于一场不存在的交通革命。

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), wrote an article titled, “The Hyperloop: A 200-Year History of Hype and Failure”, in which the authors stated “Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Alpha is another overhyped venture, recycling 200-year-old dreams and exaggerated claims of innovation.” And it was never real. There is no “Hyperloop” anywhere. The original Hyperloop company quietly sold off its assets, closed its doors, and went out of business.

麻省理工学院（MIT）撰写了一篇题为《超级高铁：200年的炒作与失败史》的文章，作者在文中指出：“埃隆·马斯克的超级高铁Alpha项目又是一次过度炒作，它只是重新燃起了200年前的梦想，并夸大了其创新之处。” 而它从未成为现实。世界上根本不存在“超级高铁”。最初的超级高铁公司悄悄出售了其资产，关闭了公司大门，并宣告破产。

This is precisely the same as “Elon Musk’s” adventure to Mars. Men have dreamed of going to Mars for countless generations. For at least the past 75 years, there have been literally hundreds of books and movies about Mars and Martians, about traveling to Mars, about colonizing it, but once again we see literally hundreds of websites and articles in the mass media, sometimes daily, and we begin to equate the idea of men going to Mars as a radically new idea created by the “scientific genius and outstanding inventor” Elon Musk. Do not dismiss the thought that powerful forces are behind the media flood. Nothing like this happens without planning at a very high level, and with a distinct purpose.

这与“埃隆·马斯克”的火星探险如出一辙。无数代人一直梦想着前往火星。至少在过去75年里，关于火星和火星人的书籍和电影数以百计，讲述着前往火星、殖民火星的故事，但同样，我们再次看到大众媒体上涌现出数以百计的网站和文章，有时甚至每天都有，于是我们开始将人类登上火星的构想等同于“科学天才和杰出发明家”埃隆·马斯克创造的一个全新理念。不要忽视媒体洪流背后有强大力量在推动这一想法。没有如此高层的策划和明确的目的，这样的事情是不可能发生的。

It needs to be noted emphatically that the dream of going to Mars has been proposed by hundreds of scientists and others over many generations, and is not particular to Elon Musk. However, the media and dozens of websites make a considerable effort to give him all the credit. We have headlines like:

需要着重指出的是，去火星的梦想是历经多代、由数百名科学家和其他人士提出的，并非埃隆·马斯克独有。然而，媒体和数十家网站却大肆宣扬，将所有功劳都归功于他。我们看到的标题有：

Elon Musk’s Mars Ambition: Bypassing the Moon for the Red Planet

埃隆·马斯克的火星雄心：绕过月球，直奔红色星球

Elon Musk says life on Mars possible

埃隆·马斯克称火星上可能存在生命

Elon Musk’s Mars Mission Math: Building A Self-Sustaining City

埃隆·马斯克的火星任务数学：建设一座自给自足的城市

Elon Musk on how human colony in Mars will be

埃隆·马斯克谈人类在火星上的殖民地将会如何

Elon Musk Reveals What It Takes to Build a City on Mars

埃隆·马斯克揭示了在火星上建造城市所需的一切

The Astronomical Gamble: Elon Musk’s Vision for Mars

天文豪赌：埃隆·马斯克的火星愿景

Elon Musk’s plan to slash Mars colonisation cost

埃隆·马斯克计划大幅削减火星殖民成本

Do you get the feeling that there might be a legend-building promotion occurring here?

你是否感觉到这里可能正在进行一场塑造传奇的推广活动？

Next Essay: Zip2, x.com, PayPal

下一篇论文：Zip2、x.com、PayPal

Mr. Romanoff’s writing has been translated into 34 languages and his articles posted on more than 150 foreign-language news and politics websites in more than 30 countries, as well as more than 100 English language platforms. Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held senior executive positions in international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export business. He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, presenting case studies in international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. He is one of the contributing authors to Cynthia McKinney’s new anthology ‘When China Sneezes’. (Chap. 2 — Dealing with Demons).

罗曼诺夫先生的作品已被翻译成34种语言，其文章被发布在30多个国家的150多个外文新闻和政治网站上，以及100多个英文平台上。拉里·罗曼诺夫（Larry Romanoff）是一位退休的管理顾问和商人。他曾在国际咨询公司担任高级管理职务，并拥有一家国际进出口企业。他曾担任上海复旦大学的客座教授，为高级EMBA课程讲授国际事务案例研究。罗曼诺夫先生现居上海，目前正在撰写一系列共十本书，总体上与中国和西方有关。他是辛西娅·麦金尼（Cynthia McKinney）新选集《当中国打喷嚏》（When China Sneezes）的特约作者之一。（第2章——与恶魔打交道）。

His full archive can be seen at = 他的全部档案可以在以下网址查看：

https://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/ + https://www.moonofshanghai.com/

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NOTES

[1] Cleaning house: Musk fires FDA employees overseeing Neuralink

[1] 清理门户：马斯克解雇了负责监督Neuralink的FDA员工

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r1r0jtw51e

[2] DOGE fired FDA employees overseeing Elon Musk’s Neuralink

[2] DOGE解雇了负责监管埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）旗下Neuralink公司的美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）员工

https://fortune.com/2025/02/18/doge-fired-fda-employees-overseeing-elon-musk-neuralink/

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