Like they had such a great opportunity to explore how power corrupts, how capitalism encourages merchants of hype who profit off the manipulation of the masses, and how the specific subjectivity of someone who looks at others as pawns to be shuffled around is both a product of this system and a reinforcing, validating factor in its propagation.

Elon is a power-mad manchild, of course, but the story doesn't begin or end there, so framing the narrative around his personal descent into mental corruption and hypocrisy is so limiting.

Much better: this is where the corrupting effects of power will lead all autocrats, fascists, and would-be strong men whom the masses choose to follow.

In the absence of competing narratives that undermine the totalitarian, monopolising effects of capital, narratives that feed into Great Man theory just prop up the status quo, which is brutal, unrestricted, and asymmetrical class warfare.