Elon Musk – X: The ominous, threatening letter

Great thing, such a variable! A letter that can mean everything. Mathematicians suspect that we will now talk about. Right, of that “X” in equations and formulas that has brought the heads of learners and researchers to smoke for centuries. It was René Descartes who introduced the symbol in European science practice. The French philosopher (“I think, so I am”) is also considered a pioneer of presenting geometric problems through algebraic formulas. For unknown sizes, he used the last three letters of the alphabet: X, Y, e.g. The first of them made the greatest career – and thanks to Elon Musk, all the news is dominating.

For the native South African, the X became an emblem of a steep ascent. In the name of his space company SpaceX, the symbol letter as well as the Tesla-SUV Model X. even meets his son, who accompanies him like an inheritance prince on public dates, called the illustrious billionaire X Æ a-XII. In private, Musk should mostly call the four -year -old “X”.

But the PayPal predecessor, who today the richest and most powerful man in the world founded in the late 1990s, was called X.com. 2017, long after leaving, Musk bought the Internet domain back. The plans for his most important coup were already in the drawer: the purchase of the short message service Twitter in October 2022 and the renaming to X. Since then, the platform has known to go to the sludge swimming pool right -wing extremist agitation and Kruder conspiracy myths. That probably contributed to Donald Trump’s election in 2024.

Musk identifies with her own logo until body language. A man, a letter.

Long before Musk, the algebraic governor also conquered the popular culture for small or large numbers. Just think of X-Men. Film or comic superheroes from the Marvel universe, which owe their supernatural skills of a genetic mutation. Or to the disillusioned »Generation X«. The title of Douglas Coupland’s novel has become a demographic catchphrase for the years between 1965 and 1980.

But where does the X come from? If you only ask about the origins of the letter, the trail leads to the Phoenicians. Your alphabet was later taken over by the Greeks. However, the two slashes that cross in the middle have even older roots. Pre- and early historians know reduced representations of human forms of human forms with slightly groomed legs and diagonally raised arms. Some stretch legs or spears. This posture can be an expression of a triumph in hunting, but it also says possible enemies: Caution, we know to fight! Graphically abstract, the deterrent pose results in what we call X or St. Andrew’s cross. As such, the warning gesture of the early people survived in many contexts. Medieval shields often see paintings or metal fittings in X form. The crossed bones on the pirate flag could also be influenced by this. In modern road traffic there is also an example of the carnival function with the red and white sloping cross before level crossings.

Musk will also know all of these relationships. As with every brand, his activities are under the banner of a single letter. And what would better fit a tech giant than something that is hardly missing in any algorithm? Nevertheless, there is more behind it. Musk identifies with her own logo until body language. He likes to jump in the air with the freaking -legged and high -stretched arms to become the X himself. A man, a letter.

Doesn’t this symbolic policy take advantage of the mathematical signature for centuries? Its openness. X can be a signature of Christ (as a Greek Chi), as St. Andrew’s cross on torture practices or sadomasochism and then convey an emancipatory idea again. As with Malcolm X: The X stood for the African family name that the black civil rights activist never experienced because his ancestors were kidnapped. At the same time, the abbreviation protested against the surnames imposed by the slave owners. The racist practice was lyrated. A deletion.

Depending on the fact, the X means different things. This is exactly why one speaks of a variable. It contains the late Latin “variabilis”, which can be translated as “changeable”. And this property goes perfectly with musk. Like Donald Trump, the Tesla CEO features of erratic behavior. First he threatens to switch off the important Starlink system to Ukraine, then he assures that he never wants to do so. In 2018, the toxic tech-Bro, with the news of privatizing Tesla at the course of $ 420, caused unrest. In the end, the storyteller even had a fine of the stock market supervision. In the penultimate presidential election, the currently most important supporter of the US Republicans donated for the Democrats.

Which of the different meanings of the WIES CROSS MUSK ICOMMENIES is on, as open as all of his intentions. Does he want radical liberal laws for his company empire or does he reach for the oval office himself? Should Tesla become an autonomous corporate state or is the future plans going to techno -fascist world domination?

You don’t have to refer to Charlie Chaplin’s Hitler parody “The Great Dictator” in which an X replaces the swastika. Musk is completely sufficient for his evil game: X is a secret and the unknown naturally worried. Doesn’t a legendary mystery series “file X”? The group autocrat apparently enjoys the double power of its psycho-marketing. On the one hand, the confessing ketamine consumer stirs up collective fears against an uncertain future. On the other hand, he presents himself as a populist Messiah, who, thanks to his media and economic potency, can guarantee the only future security, prosperity and digital progress. With all of this, America’s shadow president wages a nerve war against society. US state employees are intimidated with legally dubious termination emails, deadlines and requests for the performance report. Musk intervened in the German election campaign in favor of a part of a right -wing extremist party.

An existential threat lurks under the Sigle X. Not only America’s authorities or Tesla employees should be afraid, but the whole world.