“As societies become wealthier and more educated, the reliance on a super-being and church attendance goes down but they still look for idols. Into that void steps technology leaders because technology is the closest thing we have to magic. Our new Jesus Christ was Steve Jobs, and now Elon Musk has taken on that mantle. And every ridiculously mean, nonsensical, irrational move he makes is somehow seen as, “chess, not checkers.” [His worshippers say,] “We’re just not privy to his genius yet.”

– Prof. Scott Galloway,
interviewed by Christiane Amanpour