Among the right, drugs like ketamine are not merely used in a utilitarian spirit to get a competitive edge over rivals but are tied to a larger ideology of caste superiority. Da The Nation
In the last few years, the mind of Elon Musk has dramatically moved in two directions, one lateral and the other vertical. Ideologically, he has shifted from a moderate big-business centrist who supported Barack Obama to a far-right partisan of Donald Trump, a White House adviser whose contentious tenure ended last Wednesday. Cognitively, Musk has gone from being hyperbolic but still grounded in reality to being—or so it would seem—almost permanently high as a kite. That metaphor might be too dated for the high-tech Musk, the futurist behind Space-X and Starlink. Perhaps it is more accurate to say he’s as a high as a satellite circling in the exosphere—and is occasionally on the verge of leaving earth’s orbit altogether to go careening out of the solar system entirely.
