Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told global elites gathered for the World Government Summit in Dubai that too much power concentrated in the hands of just a few people would eventually lead to the collapse of all civilization.
“One thing I should say, I know this is called the World Government Summit, but I think we should be maybe a little bit concerned about actually becoming too much of a single world government,” Musk said.
“If I may say that we want to avoid creating a civilizational risk by having, frankly, this may sound a little odd, too much a cooperation between governments,” he continued. “You know, if you look at, say… history and the rise and fall of civilizations, really all throughout history, civilizations have risen and fallen, but it hasn’t meant the doom of humanity as a whole. Because there’ve been… all these separate civilizations that were separated by great distances.”
“While Rome was falling, you know, Islam was rising, and so you had like… the sort of caliphate doing incredibly well while Rome was doing terribly,” Musk added.
“That actually ended up being a source of preservation of knowledge and many scientific advancements,” he went on. “And so I think we want to be a little bit cautious about being too much of a world of a single civilization, because if we are too much of a single civilization… the whole thing may collapse.”
“No, I’m not, obviously not suggesting war or anything like that,” he added, “but I think we want to be a little bit wary of actually cooperating too much. It sounds a little odd, but we just want to have some amount of civilizational diversity such that if something does go wrong with some part of civilization, that the whole thing doesn’t collapse. And, you know, humanity keeps moving forward.”
Musk responded to someone on Twitter who noted his remarks at the event and posted a clip of them.
“Seemed like the right venue,” he said.
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Musk said after he acquired Twitter saw a “massive drop in revenue” due to left-wing activists.
Musk tweeted, “Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists. Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.”
Musk‘s statements came just days after the business magnate met with a group of “civil society” leaders made up of far leftists in what he said at the time was a meeting to help Twitter in its fight against “hate and harassment.”
The leaders named in the tweet from Musk include CEO of the ADL Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL Vice President Yael Eisenstat, Color of Change President Rashad Robinson, Free Press CEO and Facebook Oversight board member Jessica Gonzalez, Asian American Foundation CEO Norman Chen, NAACP President and CEP Derrick Johnson, and others.
The Post Millennial reported at the time that a statement from members who attended the meeting stated that prior to the meeting with Musk, “Free Press, Media Matters for America and Accountable Tech organized a mass sign-on letter in which nearly 50 civil-society groups called on Twitter’s top 20 advertisers to demand that Musk commits to brand and user safety.”
The open letter urged advertisers to “suspend Twitter ads globally if Musk can’t commit to enforcing the brand- and community-safety rules already on the platform’s books.”
