I bet the video freaked them the hell out

No matter how hard people try to avoid philosophy, they always come face to face with it when they push boundaries. So many physicists, computer scientists, social scientists, etc. who tried to philosophize without philosophy at their respective frontiers and failed.

Our generation grew up knowing that a bowling ball with a fuse sticking out of it is what bombs look like and that knowledge is in danger of being lost

Impossible. They wouldn’t be hot anymore, all that informedness just cools them off

All pain comes from grasping up to the minute results

Think of them, Jamelle, when you wonder why NCIS has been on the air for 23 years, or why we all for some reason have to know who Jay Leno is

he does have a PR machine keeping a steady stream of headlines on feeds of stories he has nothing to do with, yet center him anyway. (Musk says vague thing about GMOs)
Oh, and a following of caustic loudmouth bros.
In other words, branding. Guess what some other dipshit with branding was able to do.