Musk, on the other hand, has done just that — freezing sperm, not spreading charm — and hopes to be even more prolific on Mars in the future than he has been on Earth in the recent past through the more traditional, in-person route of multiplying. This, too, is ironic, since having fantasies about breeding programs for a new white master race is something you would expect from a former SS member like von Braun but not an immigrant from South Africa like Musk. Wait, what? South Africa? Maybe it isn’t so terribly ironic after all. Who is behaving like Dr. Strangelove now?
And depending on how things go on Nov. 5, Elon Musk, just like Wernher von Braun, might find himself hired as a government employee. Unfortunately, this time it won’t be the Kennedy administration. I guess we need Ian Fleming to come up with a happy end to that plot.
Henning Schroeder is a professor at the University of Minnesota and currently teaches in the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch. His email address is [email protected] and his Twitter (X) handle is @HenningSchroed1.
