Elon is not a representative of the US government or a greedy (by nature inherently like the others) capitalist, but a friend, to whom I do no favours (perhaps). Thus in summary Premier Meloni’s press conference at the beginning of the year. ‘A friend’ is not reality, a friend is the one you know from your school days, or with whom you have spent holidays together with your children, but it is the perception you put forward to people through communication.

Hitler was a socialist, maybe even a communist, in fact his party was called ‘national socialist’ at the time, practically one you could call D’Alema, by the way they both wear moustaches. This is what Alice Weidel, leader of the AFD, Alternative for Germany, communicated live with Musk, a man of 200 million followers, on the platforms in the middle of the election campaign. I am not radical, I am a democratic libertarian, she says, Hitler was different from me, in fact he was a leftist, one who nationalised companies, a communist in essence.

The world is everything and its opposite: reality, history, that of books, are no longer needed in the time of the web, documents, the boredom of analysis and study, are overcome by the simplification of a tweet or an Instagram image, perhaps processed with AI. Things don’t have to be true, they have to be narrated verisimilitude, so they are not told to a critical and hair-brained populace, but to a fan base waiting for the word to be posted.

Not least because in a non-partisan democracy, absolute majorities do not count, but participating minorities do. The others, although they have equal rights, do not participate in the game, and so they go offside, unreciprocated like the moderate centrists absorbed by the extremes. To win today requires courage and unscrupulousness, the extremists have them, the moderates don’t, you have to stand up for things that no sensible person would do. These things do not need to be true, but perceivable as such, they are like slander, a breeze today, a tsunami tomorrow. Anyway, the shootings change every day at the pace of complex problems and nobody checks anything. Tesla’s market share collapses in China where electric reigns? Space X not making enough money? Twitter is in the deep red?

It doesn’t matter, Musk doesn’t sell tangible things, with verifiable balance sheets, he doesn’t pay taxes being in Delaware, he sells the future, which like love is made of the same stuff dreams are made of. Buy yourself a dream, a virtual American dream, subscribe to Musk. Maybe you won’t go to Mars, but you can wear the pins of the party of the future, and if they are a bit hooked, don’t mind them.