Does Elon Musk Really Want Mexicans To Govern The USA?

Sep 5, 2024

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In Divided We Stand United We Fall, I make a point about how US Supreme Court justices clearly have great intellects, but great intellects aren’t always accompanied by common sense.¹

So someone could be considered to be very intelligent in one regard, but surprisingly dim in another.

Today a story popped up in my feed about Elon Musk commenting on a tweet to say it was an “interesting observation”.² We’ll circle back to the point above and relate it to Musk at the end, but first to set the scene.

The text of the original tweet was:

‘People who can’t defend themselves physically (women and low T men) parse information through a consensus filter as a safety mechanism. They literally do not ask “is this true”, they ask “will others be OK with me thinking this is true”. This makes them very malleable to brute force manufactured consensus; if every screen they look at says the same thing they will adopt that position because their brain interprets it as everyone in the tribe believing it. Only high T alpha males and aneurotypical people (hey autists!) are actually free to parse new information with an objective ‘”is this true?” filter. This is why a Republic of high status males is best for decision making. Democratic, but a democracy only for those who are free to think.‘

If we just consider the logic, we can see how it will kinda make sense to some people. The claim is that only strong and powerful males can think freely because they won’t feel intimidated into blindly following groupthink.

Throw in psychological effects like the bandwagon effect and group polarization and we can probably put together a sufficiently satisfying pseudo-scientific explanation to support it.

Especially if we throw in a dash of research that shows increased testosterone levels correlate with higher fluid intelligence levels in men.³ We’ll ignore inconvenient factors like the advantage is lost at very high levels of testosterone (the highest of all the high Ts) and that crystallized intelligence is arguably more relevant to the kind of thinking required to govern a society, democratic or otherwise.

Pure Junk

It’s junk though.

It supposes that the biggest problem facing free thought is the beliefs of others when the reality is that our own pre-existing beliefs are a much greater barrier to effective free thought. I’m going to meander a little before getting to this point.

The writer of the tweet believes that fear of not agreeing with the group stops women and low T men from from asking “is this true”.

For that to be the case, society would have to have achieved a single consensus on everything. But society is divided, and across a broad range of subjects. How can these women and low T men know which group their thoughts need to align with?

They can’t without first working out which group’s beliefs align with theirs. Granted, once they have found their group, they may then moderate their opinions for the sake of harmony. With so many different groups with differing opinions, though, they can always move on if they find their thoughts are being constrained within one group.

Even if that wasn’t the case, the barrier to all of us asking “is this true” is ourselves.

Bertrand Russell said something like “What men seek is not knowledge but certainty.” I ramble rather more on this in the The Lies That Divide Us chapter, but in short, we want to be right more than we want to know the truth. Making us a soft touch for confirmation bias.

So it’s all very well claiming that a high T will ask “is this true”, but that doesn’t mean they’re equipped to answer correctly. When a high T, like all of us, assesses the truth of something, they’re assessing it in the context of their existing biases.

If I believe high T men are superior to other men and women, I’ll see a tweet suggesting that only high T men should govern in a democracy and think “interesting observation”.

If I believe high T men are just as susceptible to confirmation bias as other men and women, I’ll see a tweet suggesting that only high T men should govern in a democracy and think “for ducks sack”.

Of course, no high T is going to change their views towards the concept of high T males running society based on that, so let’s just poop on the buffet instead.

Blacks To Rule The UK, Mexicans To Govern The US

Clearly I’m not a fan of this idea of high T governed democracy, but perhaps the problem is I’m a low T male and I’m unable to ask “is this true”.

Add in my inability to counter my own confirmation bias and suddenly my arguments fall apart.

An awkward position to be in.

I have to instead accept the premise presented and agree that the writer of the tweet is correct that only high T alpha males should govern us.

So what would that look like?

Almost certainly not how the writer imagined.

Apparently Mexican-American men have the highest testosterone levels.⁴

I imagine that may come as a bit of a surprise to the tweet’s writer. Well, we can’t fight against the truth, can we? As the writer so eloquently explained to us, the rest of us are too weak to think for ourselves and so we have to accept that only the high T males can govern us.

So, the new US government should be made up solely of Mexican-American men. The good news is that with some 37 million Americans of Mexican descent, if half are men and we make a guess at the number of children, we’ve got around 14 million new US leaders available to make democratic decisions on behalf of all Americans.

The number of Mexican-Americans in the UK is rather lower. There were about 9,000 Mexicans living in the UK in 2011, but stats specifically for Mexican-Americans aren’t so forthcoming. I’m guessing it will be fewer again, so could be quite the political elite.

Not to worry though, because I have even more good news for the tweet’s writer.

It turns out that black men have higher testosterone levels than white men too.⁵

Hallelujah and praise be to the sweet baby beavers!

Looks like there could be a way back into government for Kwasi Kwarteng after all. Who among us can honestly say we saw that coming?

Another study found black men had higher testosterone than Hispanic men too, but that’s a less specific group than Mexican-Americans, so for now I’m afraid the black men will just have to be satisfied with governing the British.⁶

And so we circle back to the beginning.

Elon Musk is clearly a hugely intelligent person. He’s probably going to be the force behind putting a human onto another planet for the first time. If it happens, it will arguably be the greatest achievement in human history.

He’s also intelligent in seeing the value in controlling a global communication channel like X may be much greater than the financial figures suggest.

But ultimately, he’s got exactly the same potential as the rest of us to think like a dick.

Interesting observation?