Hi, @ropagaI. Thanks for your thoughts and for reading :)

I agree that Elon's ideas are great in a sense, but I think they offer technological solutions to psychological and social problems. These rarely work.

I think your assessment of SpaceX is very accurate. And I agree that it is not impossible to work on both problems at the same time: Our planet and our potential to expand beyond it.

I think what confused me most about the Ted Talk was that Elon seemed to be trying to solve problems from within the same state of consciousness that created them. All the old ideas: Better cars; space rockets etc seem to be the objective... And who knows, the system is so unpredictable, that maybe Elon's path leads somewhere unexpectedly freeing for humanity.

However, for me, it looks like he has not yet faced in himself the problems humanity faces . If he's a workaholic mistreating his employees, I don't know how such a state of mind can create a solution to our global dilemma.

He's a microcosm of our global problem in relating to each other.

I'd like him to create from a place of personal peace.

I'm sure he would too.