Elon Musk recently explained why he believes that the DEI agenda and the woke mind virus kills the art of video games.

Elon Musk via AutismCapital on X

During a town hall, Musk was asked, “With recent flops like Concord and Dustborn, games are prioritizing pronouns and things like that and stuff instead of actual gameplay. So I was wondering have you ever thought about making your own gaming studio and making an impact on the industry?”

After describing the inclusion of pronouns as “annoying,” Musk answered, ” You know if there is one thing actually that would be a fun thing to do it would be to start a gaming studio because I do actually intrinsically love video games. And I think if you apply sort of AI to video games you could really make incredible video games.”

He then explained why DEI and the woke mind virus kills art, “Just generally for content, the problem with sort of the DEI and woke mind virus is that it kills the art. When you can see something that is forcibly imposed on the story and it’s discordant, it destroys the art.”

“And now it’s hard to enjoy the story. It kicks you out of the story because you can just feel you’re being lectured,” he added.

Elon Musk via AutismCapital on X

In a post to X, Musk shared his comments and declared, “DEI kills art.”

Musk’s comment echo what J.R.R. Tolkien said in his “On Fairy Stories” essay.

He noted that a story-maker is proven a successful sub-creator when “he makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is ‘true’: it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore
believe it, while you are, as it were, inside.”

However, he added, “The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside.”

J.R.R. Tolkien via Sidh Aniron YouTube

Tolkien continued, “If you are obliged, by kindliness or circumstance, to stay, then disbelief must be suspended (or stifled), otherwise listening and looking would become intolerable.”

“But this suspension of disbelief is a substitute for the genuine thing, a subterfuge we use when condescending to games or make-believe, or when trying (more or less willingly) to find what virtue we can in the work of an art that has for us failed,” he asserted.

J.R.R. Tolkien via Talking About Tolkien YouTube

What do you make of Elon Musk’s explanation for how the DEI agenda and the woke mind virus kill the art of video games?