Body Snatchers from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

In 2022, Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, and renamed it X. When asked why he wanted to own the social media network, Musk talked a lot about something he called the "woke mind virus." Where does the idea of a mind virus come from? Jill Lepore looks to Cold War science fiction and the recently uncovered writings of Elon Musk's grandfather in South Africa.

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Body Snatchers from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story is an episode from The Last Archive by Pushkin Industries.

This episode is 27:24 long.

This episode was published on Mar 30, 2025.

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