Bill Maher made a candid interview. Real time On Friday, the “cute guy” Elon Musk gets closer over what they see as a threat to freedom of speech and what Musk has long derided as the “wake-up mind virus.”
“They’re attacking you a lot and you seem to be laughing about it, which is great,” Maher opened. “I love that you have a sense of humor, because as important as you are, a man who makes changes can use his powers for evil, not good.”
Musk arrogantly said he would never do such a thing.
“I know,” Maher continued. “But as far as I know, you have a sense of humor. You really do,” he said, comparing Musk to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
When Musk told the HBO host that he was once in the audience for his show, Maher seemed quite pleased to hear it.
“Let me go back to how you were a genius,” he fawned, before giving high regard to the tech leaders of the past and present, saying they were the ones who “dealed the cards.” Musk also credited technological innovations such as the Gutenberg printing press and the internet for causing “big leap innovations in civilization.”
Ranging from the proliferation of information to Twitter taking ownership of himself, Musk explained what he meant by the “vigilant mind virus”.
“I think we have to be very careful about anything that is not meritocratic and anything that results in suppression of freedom of expression,” he said. “Culture cancellation would be almost synonymous and obviously people tried to cancel you many times.”
“A lot of time. Every week,” said Maher, who had a schedule. Politically Incorrect It was canceled in 2002. “To the left and to the right. I got it from both sides.
The debate about canceling culture and “waking up” naturally led to Maher firing Fox News’ Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson responded via a Twitter video with regret that there was little room for Americans to “say the right things.”
Maher joked, considering Musk’s recent interview with Carlson, that he was hopeful for his appearance. Real time It wasn’t “a prophecy”.