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I often say we live in a deeply left-wing society. A society where the exceptional individual cannot exist, and where everything is organized to make sure he never does. It starts at school. Minds are formatted to believe everyone is the same. That standing out is suspicious. That succeeding more than others is necessarily unfair. We ended up confusing two things that have nothing in common: equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. The first is an ideal. The second is leveling everyone down. The result: anything that sticks out gets shaved off. And then there was an anomaly in the system. Elon Musk. He is in a completely different league from every other tech entrepreneur. And not on just one dimension. His ability to go all in. In 2008, he put his last millions into SpaceX and Tesla while both were on the edge of bankruptcy. No plan B. His skin in the game. He doesn't bet other people's money. He bets his own, his reputation, and today his personal safety. His connection to reality. He doesn't run his companies from a comfortable ivory tower, between two committees and three reporting cycles. Marc Andreessen said it: he isn't aware of any other current CEO who operates the way Musk does. To find an equivalent, you have to go back to the great industrialists of the late 19th century. Every week, Musk identifies the biggest problem at each company, goes straight to the engineer on the front line, and fixes it. 52 weeks a year. History has always treated this kind of anomaly the same way. Those who broke the established model were almost always rejected, mocked, persecuted. Socrates, sentenced to drink hemlock for teaching young people to question. Giordano Bruno, burned alive in Rome in 1600 for imagining an infinite universe. Galileo, tried by the Inquisition, forced to recant, kept under house arrest until his death. Gutenberg, who changed the world with the printing press, stripped of his workshop by his creditor. Lavoisier, father of modern chemistry, guillotined in 1794. Semmelweis, who understood that simply washing hands could stop women dying in childbirth. Ridiculed by his peers, died in an asylum. Boltzmann, who defended the existence of atoms against the entire scientific establishment. Died in 1906, just before Jean Perrin proved him right. Wegener, whose continental drift was mocked for decades. Died in Greenland in 1930, vindicated thirty years later. Nikola Tesla, who electrified the world, died broke in a New York hotel room. Alan Turing, who broke Enigma and laid the foundations of computing, convicted in 1952 and chemically castrated. Dead at 41. Barry Marshall, who had to swallow a culture of bacteria himself to prove ulcers came from an infection. Nobel Prize 2005. Dan Shechtman, discoverer of quasicrystals, asked to leave his research group. Linus Pauling mocked him, saying there were no quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists. Nobel Prize 2011. Katalin Karikó, who worked on messenger RNA, demoted by her university and denied funding for years. Her work made the Covid vaccines possible. Nobel Prize 2023. The pattern never changes. First they ignore them. Then they mock them. Then they fight them. And they celebrate them once they're dead. I don't know what form it will take, but I'm almost certain we're heading toward one of two scenarios. First scenario: the Democrats manage to destroy Musk. We slide into a 1984 where innovating becomes extremely hard. And ironically, it could end very badly, including for the people supporting that project today. A system that crushes its anomalies always ends up collapsing on itself. Second scenario: he manages to impose his vision of abundance. And for the first time in human history, the person who brought a new paradigm will be alive to see it. And to build it. Galileo never saw the scientific revolution. Semmelweis never saw antisepsis save millions of lives. Tesla never saw the world run on the alternating current he had imagined. Musk could see his. Personally, I think humanity is ready. Neuralink, Optimus, SpaceX. Augmented human intelligence, automated physical labor, space finally opened up. The combination of these three building blocks can do it. The only question is whether, this time, we let the anomaly see it through. Are we really going to be dumb enough to hold back the one guy who can take us to abundance, just so we can stay comfortable in our mediocrity?

🚨 A CALL TO DONALD TRUMP, JD VANCE, JAVIER MILEI AND EVERY DEFENDER OF THE WEST 🚨 Watch Poland. Closely. Friday: riot police enter Poland's Constitutional Tribunal. Its president is suspended. The head of state cuts short a foreign trip and flies home. The worst constitutional crisis in years. Days later: a "special operation" on the Kaliningrad border. Counter-terror units, army, special services. Officially: a sabotage threat. Maybe. But I've read enough history to know what cornered regimes do. They don't reform. They go to war. Every great war of the modern era was triggered by the same thing: a bloated state that promised everything, could no longer pay, and needed an enemy to survive. 1914: European empires drowning in debt, strikes and internal revolt. War became the escape hatch. A national emergency silences every domestic question. 1933–1939: Weimar hyperinflation, then the Depression, then National Socialism. A state that controlled everything, owed everything, and could only keep its machine running by expanding. Result: 60 million dead. 2026: Europe hasn't really grown in 15 years. Record debt, record taxes, collapsing trust, governments that fear their own voters. The pattern is back. And this time, humanity as a single organism has to understand one thing: if we go to this war, it will very likely be the last one. Einstein said it: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." So here is what must be done: Open a massive investigation into the globalist networks. Who funds whom, who decides what, and who was never elected. A Nuremberg 2.0 for communism. Put on trial the other totalitarianism of the 20th century, the one that killed 100 million and was never judged. Prosecute and jail those who truly corrupted our institutions. Real evidence, real trials, real sentences. Trigger a Renaissance. Build, explore, create again. Tell the people the truth. They were lied to for decades. Tell it the way the lie was told: series, cartoons, films, games, distributed everywhere. That is how the West is reborn. And Elon Musk's project fits this perfectly: free speech, a lean state, and a civilization that builds again and aims for the stars. The choice is simple: Renaissance or the last war.

Why socialism always ends with walls, prisons and graves. Explained so simply an 8-year-old could get it. @D_Tarczynski grew up in communist Poland. Today he begged Americans: please, don't do it. He's right, and the reason is almost childishly simple. Imagine your whole school has one cafeteria, and one grown-up decides what every kid eats, every day, forever. He doesn't know that Léa hates peas, that Tom is allergic to peanuts, that Thursday will be hot and everyone will want ice cream. He can't know. Nobody can. In a free market, nobody needs to know. Prices do the work. When everyone wants ice cream, the price goes up, someone makes more ice cream, and nobody had to be in charge. Hayek called this the knowledge problem: the information needed to run an economy isn't in one head, it's scattered across millions of heads, and prices are the messengers that carry it. Ludwig von Mises saw it even earlier, in 1920. If the state owns every factory, nobody buys or sells factories. No buying and selling, no prices. No prices, no way to know whether a steel mill is a better idea than a bakery. The planner isn't necessarily evil. He's blind. Now watch what happens when a blind man is in charge of everything. The plan fails. Shelves go empty. Everyone becomes equal, equally hungry, as Tarczyński put it. The planner now has two choices: admit the whole idea was wrong, or find someone to blame. Kulaks. Saboteurs. Speculators. Traitors. Every socialist regime picked the second option, because admitting the mistake means losing power. Then people stop playing along. They work less, because why work hard if you get the same either way? They trade in secret. They try to leave. So the planner needs police to stop the secret trading, informers to catch the "lazy," and walls to keep people in. The Berlin Wall didn't face outward. It faced inward. This is Hayek's most famous chapter in The Road to Serfdom: "Why the Worst Get on Top." A plan for everyone requires power over everyone. And in a system where you must force people, the ones who rise are the ones who enjoy forcing. Decent people quit. Ruthless people get promoted. It's not bad luck. It's selection. Milton Friedman summed it up in one line: "A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither." And in Capitalism and Freedom he explained why. If the government is your only employer, your only landlord and your only grocery store, then disagreeing with it means losing your job, your home and your food. Economic freedom isn't a bonus on top of political freedom. It's the floor political freedom stands on. So here's the chain: blind planner, failure, scapegoats, force, walls, the worst on top. USSR, China, Cambodia, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela. Different languages, different continents, different decades. Same movie. Tens of millions dead. That's not a bug in some unlucky versions. It's the logic of the machine. "But Sweden!" Sweden is a market economy with high taxes. Its companies are private, its prices are free. When it pushed state control further in the 70s and 80s, it stalled, then spent the 90s reforming. Sweden proves that markets can pay for a welfare state. It doesn't prove that planning works. Now look at France. The protests started in September over crumbling high schools and missing teachers in Paris' poor northern suburbs, then turned into a nationwide movement. A group forced its way into the city hall in Limoges and set it on fire. The Prime Minister said 1,200 people were arrested in a single day. The government itself blames the hard-left LFI for inflaming the protests. And the slogan on the banners? "Tax the rich." Same script as always. The problem is never that the French state already spends more than half of everything the country produces and still can't keep a high school running. The problem is always an enemy. The rich. The bosses. The system. And here's the part almost nobody says out loud. A revolutionary movement that has lost the working class needs a new army of the "oppressed." Part of the far left found one in political Islam. Not Muslims, Islamism: the political project. In 1994 the British Trotskyist Chris Harman wrote The Prophet and the Proletariat, arguing the left should sometimes ally with Islamists. In 1978 Michel Foucault went to Tehran and wrote admiringly about the revolution. What do these two have in common? Only the essential. Both put the group above the individual. Both split the world into oppressors and oppressed. Both want a total system that rules your work, your speech and your private life. And history already told us how this alliance ends. In 1979 Iran's communists and leftist guerrillas marched alongside Khomeini. Within a few years the Islamic Republic had banned them and jailed their leaders, and in 1988 it executed thousands of political prisoners, leftists among them. The useful idiots were used, then buried. So, for the 8-year-old: when someone promises to make everyone equal by taking control of everything, ask one question. What happens to the kids who say no? The answer has always been the same. Walls, prisons, graves. Don't do it. Not in America. Not in France.

Recently I was talking with a friend about universal geniuses. And something struck me. Florence, 1480–1510. Same city, same moment: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola. Raphael right behind them. They walked the same streets. Europe, 1600–1700. Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Pascal, Huygens, Newton, Leibniz. In two generations, we got calculus, modern mechanics, probability theory, and the scientific method. Athens, 470–320 BC. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Phidias, Thucydides. One century, one city, and the foundations of Western thought were laid. Europe, 1890–1930. Poincaré, Hilbert, Einstein, Marie Curie, Tesla, Planck, Bohr, then von Neumann. Always the same pattern. In every great era, the West had 15 to 20 minds of this caliber alive at the same time. People who could touch everything and push the frontier of several fields at once. Today we have one. Just one. Elon Musk. And Elon is an anomaly. Not in the sense that he shouldn't exist. In the sense that the world we built is designed so that someone like him never emerges. Statistically, he shouldn't be here. Because what forged Elon was an absolutely insane move. October 2002. eBay buys PayPal. Elon walks away with roughly $180M. Anyone else buys an island and never works another day. He puts $100M into SpaceX, $70M into Tesla, $10M into SolarCity. Almost everything. On rockets and electric cars, two industries no sane person wanted to touch. 2006–2008. The first three Falcon 1 launches fail. Tesla is burning cash, the financial crisis hits, investors run. He has enough left for one last launch. Just one. He borrows money from friends to pay his rent. September 28, 2008. The fourth launch reaches orbit. December 23, 2008. NASA awards SpaceX a $1.6B contract. December 24, 2008. The Tesla round closes at the last possible hour. A few more days and everything collapses. That's what a genius is. Not just IQ. The ability to put everything on the table when the entire world tells you it's impossible, and be right. Now the real question: why do we only have one? Because a genius needs three things. The freedom to try. The right to get massively rich if it works. The right to fail without being destroyed. And that's exactly what the collectivist left and the technocrats have torn down across the West for the past 50 years. They turned success into suspicion. Making a lot of money became a moral failing. Taking risks became irresponsible. Rising above the crowd became an insult to equality. They stacked up norms, committees, permits, regulations written in Brussels by people who have never built anything in their lives. In Europe, Elon would never have been allowed to blow up three rockets. He'd have been stopped at the first form. They want to tax capital before it even exists, cap fortunes, redistribute what others created by risking everything. They replaced excellence with conformity. Our schools produce docile people, not dangerous ones. And a genius, by definition, is someone who disrupts. Their entire system is built to neutralize the people who disrupt. The result: where we should have 15 to 20 universal geniuses alive at the same time, we have one. Just one. And you want to put him in prison. You summon him before judges, you raid his offices, you insult him morning, noon and night, you dream of breaking up his companies. The man who lands rockets vertically and wants to take humanity to Mars. You're disgusting. History won't remember your names. It remembers Galileo, not the inquisitors who tried to silence him.