This winter Saturday, in Rome, in the moats of Castel Sant’Angelo, the Pope’s fortress built on the mausoleum of Emperor Hadrian, science fiction met fantasy. On December 16, 2023, Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet and an entrepreneur eager to colonize others, was the prized star guest at Atreju, the annual party of the president of the nationalist council Giorgia Meloni, Fratelli of Italy. The demonstration that, the young activist, Mme Meloni was released in 1998, named after a character from The never ending storyfantastic novel by German author Michael Ende, published in 1979.
The political family of Giorgia Meloni, relegated for a long time to the margins of Italian public life, has, in fact, in its heterogeneous legacy an excessive taste for the epic stories offered by this literary genre, crossed by Manichean struggles and revised to through a traditionalist prism. Curiously, the event whose name refers to a certain nostalgic revolt against modernity strongly welcomed a transhumanist billionaire with pioneering companies on different fronts of innovation, from space to neural implants, including electric vehicles.
No matter, Giorgia Meloni and Elon Musk had already discovered many common points. The president of the council was in the front row, in front of the stage where the billionaire presented his views during a laborious interview with journalist Nicola Porro, deputy editor of the right-wing newspaper. The Giornal. Shaking his fist high and carried by an enthusiastic audience, Musk denounced, after a breakthrough on interplanetary exploration and to the great satisfaction of far-right activists, the “the virus woke up”environmentalists responsible for “loss of hope” in the future, illegal immigration, the tyranny of political correctness and an excessively bureaucratic and regulatory Europe.
Therefore, the president of the council had reason to rejoice: one of the most powerful men in the world came to declare in his capital that he had the same enemies as her. Too bad some of Musk’s children were conceived through surrogacy, something the majority in power in Rome has since done. “a universal crime”. The billionaire’s pronatalist obsessions are certainly welcome in a country with inevitable demographic decline. But, above all, the privileged relationship that Mme Meloni was working with him to provide the international influence-seeking president with an additional, and no less important, gateway into the political world of former US President Donald Trump, whom she hopes to return to the White House.
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