Technology enthusiasts have tended to form attachments, fandoms, and religions around specific inventors, inventions, and companies since... well, I have read impassioned letters to the editor from engineering publications dated 1870ish, and I suspect it has been going on for thousands of years. But the intensity, pretzel logic, and just overall weirdness of those enamored of Elon Musk and whatever magic he is pushing this quarter is a different order of magnitude from ordinary tech fandom - and very hard to describe.
Technology enthusiasts have tended to form attachments, fandoms, and religions around specific inventors, inventions, and companies since... well, I have read impassioned letters to the editor from engineering publications dated 1870ish, and I suspect it has been going on for thousands of years. But the intensity, pretzel logic, and just overall weirdness of those enamored of Elon Musk and whatever magic he is pushing this quarter is a different order of magnitude from ordinary tech fandom - and very hard to describe.