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At some point we have to be honest about what makes life truly good. Landing on Mars may be an incredible feat, but it is only love and the pursuit of meaningful communion with others that makes such an endeavor worthwhile in the first place.
Elon Musk’s family life and views on procreation are making the news, including in a recent exposé in the Wall Street Journal interviewing several women who have borne his children. The picture that has emerged is ugly, messy, and weird. This is not just a story about a talented but morally flawed Silicon Valley visionary. Musk’s is an attitude of detached posthuman nihilism that enables him to evade the norms of familial relationships in the pursuit of creating more and better babies. This vision strips procreation and family of their intrinsic meaning and goodness and ignores the earnestness and intimacy of family life that are hallmarks of authentic natalism.
Musk’s Family Life
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www.thepublicdiscourse.com
Elon Musk’s family life and views on procreation are making the news, including in a recent exposé in the Wall Street Journal interviewing several women who have borne his children. The picture that has emerged is ugly, messy, and weird. This is not just a story about a talented but morally flawed Silicon Valley visionary. Musk’s is an attitude of detached posthuman nihilism that enables him to evade the norms of familial relationships in the pursuit of creating more and better babies. This vision strips procreation and family of their intrinsic meaning and goodness and ignores the earnestness and intimacy of family life that are hallmarks of authentic natalism.
Musk’s Family Life
Continued below.
The Radical Deficiency of Elon Musk’s Pronatalism
At some point we have to be honest about what makes life truly good. Landing on Mars may be an incredible feat, but it is only love and the pursuit of meaningful communion with others that makes such an endeavor worthwhile in the first place.
www.thepublicdiscourse.com
