After dabbling in the political world, Elon Musk is finally ready to go back to his first love, technology — more specifically, using technology as disruption. The Tesla CEO took to the platform he owns, X (formerly Twitter), to publicly pontificate about why someone hasn’t made a real-life version of Jurassic Park “work” yet.
Perhaps because it’s a bad idea. But that’s not the problem here — bad ideas come from well-intentioned people all the time. That’s why life is so exciting. The issue here is that Musk, alongside his pronatalist club in the tech world, has a fundamental misunderstanding of how art works and, by extension, how the world works. They can only understand the concept of consumption. All they talk about is more control, more time on your phone, and ultimately — of course — creating more value for the shareholders.
I hope someone makes this work! https://t.co/EH3STKtHu3
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 5, 2026
Musk was one of the first members of the Silicon Valley tech founders to fully back Donald Trump in his 2024 campaign. Eventually, they all joined in. A few years before that, they were all liberal and would occasionally do photo ops with Barack Obama, making vague claims about how they wanted to save the world by fixing the climate and food systems. When there were more taxes to be cut by backing a Trump bid that constantly flirts with far-right movements, suddenly Musk — an immigrant himself — claimed to be against immigration.
But all of this is not why Elon Musk thinks it’s a great idea to build an island filled with bio-engineered dinosaurs. He thinks it’s a great idea because he is uncultured. It’s very unlikely that he’s even seen the movie — and if he has, he certainly understood very little of one of Steven Spielberg’s most ambitious films. In the movie, whose main point is a warning about human hubris trying to play God with nature and genetics, the most famous line is: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” It literally spells it out for the kids — and the man-children at the back who were just watching because “dinosaur so big.”
The tweet gathered so much backlash, with people reminding him of the core message he missed. But the clearest assessment of Musk’s Twitter page had already been made a few months before he started sharing his movie takes with the world. That was when the 87-year-old writer and culture critic Joyce Carol Oates commented on yet another Musk post bragging about his wealth. She wrote:
“So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates — scenes from nature, a pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but I doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact, he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty and meaning in life than the ‘most wealthy person in the world.’”
Musk has truly never recovered from that. The post got 5.7 million views on Musk’s own site, and it’s obvious he saw it because since then he has been trying to comment on arts and culture. But his obvious misunderstanding of it all only proves Oates more right.
Published: Mar 6, 2026 06:51 am