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The uncanny parallels between Charles Lindbergh and Elon Musk: pioneering new frontiers, fathering many children despite tragedy, hated by Democrat and journalist warmongers for anti-war stances
Comrades: Charles Lindbergh and Elon Musk are pioneers of the modern age. I read both of their biographies and discovered that they share many uncanny similarities. Legends like them only come around once in a generation, so today I will examine what patterns and lessons we can glean from their lives.
Both won admiration for advancing humanity into the heavens. Lindbergh became the most famous human on the planet after becoming the first to fly across the Atlantic in 1927. Musk built several iconic companies including Tesla, SpaceX, and Paypal. On top of that, he has resuscitated free speech and uncovered crimes at Twitter. I once met someone who worked for Elon. He told me that he tried not to hero worship the guy, but he really is that brilliant. To the detractors: he’s not perfect, but who else could do even a fraction of what he has accomplished? He has all the right enemies. Musk’s rocket launches inspire the masses the same way Lindbergh’s landings did as he toured the world.
Both lost their first-born sons in tragedies. In the crime of the century, Lindbergh’s son Charles Jr. was kidnapped and killed at 20 months old. Elon’s son Nevada died of SIDS at 10 weeks old. I cannot fathom the pain of losing a child, much less one that young, but I can understand how it fueled them to make the most of their short time on this earth.
Both had strong fathers who took principled stands. Lindbergh’s father was one of the few Congressmen who voted against US entry into World War I. Musk’s father stood against apartheid on the Pretoria city council. Both were awkward and introverted as children, but displayed precociousness from a young age. Today they might be considered on the spectrum, ADHD, or both and prescribed adderall or lupron. Both also had strong mothers who separated from their fathers. They grew up far away big cities; Lindbergh in Minnesota and Musk in Durban South Africa.
Both fathered many children. Lindbergh had 6 children with his wife Anne and 6 more with 3 secret mistresses in Europe. Musk had 6 children with his first wife Justine, then had 3 more with 2 other women. It doesn’t take a psychoanalyst to see that the grief of losing their firstborn and narcissism to spread their seed led to large families. Unfortunately, their nomadic lifestyles and ambition meant that they don’t see much of their children. Lindbergh was constantly flying around the world and lived in several different countries, while Elon is technically homeless and hopping around on his jet.
Both were attacked by Democrats and bootlicking journalists for their anti-war stances. Lindbergh led the America First Committee, which had broad support across the political spectrum. He was a principled anti-war isolationist and anticommunist who filled stadiums everywhere he spoke. Lindbergh was prophetic that World War II would destroy Western civilization and that the bigger threat came from Soviet Russia. As a result, he was smeared as a Nazi. He was officially sidelined but flew secret missions in the Pacific, where witnessed firsthand the horrors of war and the technology he pioneered. Shortly after the German surrender, he was on the ground where he saw the aftermath of the mass rapes and firebombings.
Just as Lindbergh was assailed for wanting to stay out of WWII, Elon was criticized for advocating deescalation in our proxy war against Russia to avoid WWIII. Just as Lindbergh’s planes were used to rain death and destruction in WWII, Elon’s Starlink is deployed in Ukraine. Just as FDR and his cronies went after Lindbergh, the Biden regime has warned Elon to pipe down. The Current Thing hivemind demands support for the War Machine, otherwise you are a Hitler or Putin-loving Nazi.
Both men had a nuanced appreciation for humanity and technology. Lindbergh lived with African tribes and retired to Maui, which inspired him to become an environmentalist. He portended that mass commercialization of flight would lead to overdevelopment and globalization. Distinct cultures and cities became closer together and indistinguishable during his lifetime. Elon has given interviews where he expresses his love for humanity, which drives him to improve our planet while inspiring us to reach for Mars and beyond.
Did Gattaca pay tribute to Lindbergh’s final words in its final scene?
It's remarkable how you valorize people whose lives in large part demonstrate contempt for the values you repeatedly state as central to your own life.
Men who are bad fathers are bad men, regardless of anything they may accomplish in the public sphere on behalf of all the rest of humanity.
Men who cannot form stable honest relationships with women are seriously damaged. When you describe these two men as you do, and have previously expressed an almost swooning admiration for Andrew Tate, I wonder how you reconcile the spiritual values you write about so often with the actual behavior of these guys on the human plane of our existence.
There is no separation between the private and the public in any person's life. Someone who tyrannized his family, who left the raising of his children to four different women he spent time with only to impregnate, apparently, who let his wife provide a public image of saintly intellectualism that would be the necessary PR balance for all his own less-than-sterling morality, seen and unseen, was just a poseur at manhood.
Elon is untroubled by commercial partnerships with the worst and most dangerous government on the planet. He's building cars with such dangerous batteries as their fuel source that when they catch fire, few fire departments have the equipment that can quickly put them out.
Smart and creative he is, sure. A great guy overall, he's not.
Top notch post, Yuri.