A Legion of Children Before the Civil War
From Elon Musk? Ew, no. Just … ewwww.
A note from Lawrence
According to Ashley St. Clair, the richest man alive texted her that he needed “a legion of children before the civil war.” Not before the election. Before the civil war. The line surfaced in Alex Gibney’s four-hour documentary Musk, and it should rearrange your afternoon.
I pull apart the public version of Musk’s birth-rate panic from the private one. One is a demographic worry repeated by credulous podcasters. The other is a man who expects the country to break into open violence and wants numbers on his side when it does. And of every word he could have chosen, he picked the one a demon uses in the Gospel of Mark.
