Definitely parallels Elon Musk, and Donald Trump, and Kanye West. Selfish, mistreat anyone outside of their milieu without a second thought, wreak havoc on everything and everyone in their vicinity, and commit murder to get rid of people who know the truth about them. Not merely evil, preternaturally stupid, their legitimacy propped up only by the deference of those around them. The result is an allegory for all of us living with the omnipresent Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Kanye West, and so many others. Under direct scrutiny from Blanc, all of the myths that Bron's friends and followers built up around him quickly vanish. Bron is not playing 4D chess. He doesn’t have a secret plan. He’s just bumbling along. The ultra-wealthy are increasingly empowered to exert their influence on politics and culture at least partially thanks to many of the rest of us who want them to, we are wrongly convinced that, by dint of their riches and power, they must know something we don’t.
This fandom is why people like Elon Musk can feel compelled not just by money but by popular adulation to over companies like Twitter, which only furthers their social influence. Peter Thiel is funding artists in New York City and politicians in Arizona because he thinks they’ll influence culture and politics toward his vision of a new right. Neither is going well for him. FTX founder and large political donor Sam Bankman-Fried at some point bought the boy-genius myth that he was selling to everyone else, lost a lot of money and landed himself in priso. Musk made an offer for Twitter because he wanted to punish people on twitter and now his companies and his own brand seem to be in freefall. Donald Trump ran for president so that he could immunize himself from mega-bankruptcy and financial investigations he was under for years, to show his dead father that he now controlled America (controlling America is the Holy Grail for Corporations), to crush all the people and civic institutions and laws he hated, tweeted through it and was tried for impeachment during his presidency and post-presidency is now hawking NFTs while still trying to dodge prosecutions. Ye, better known as Kanye West, embraced shocking behavior until it lost him lucrative business deals and, reportedly, billionaire status.
At some point, all of these men accrued enough capital that they found themselves surrounded by people who fanned their egos in the hopes of a kickback. But as they settled into these carefully constructed worlds that were built to reinforce their supposed genius, any creative spark or understanding of business or American culture that helped them in their journey to the top, was bound to dim and fizzle out. Influencer culture is wrecking America.
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