A pushback against the Great Lunacy?

Elon Musk's coup against the Twitterverse isn't the only sign that something has shifted

Hercules Killing the Lernean Hydra; Cornelis Cort, c 1565.

Straws in the wind, perhaps — but are we witnessing the beginning of a fightback against the great madness we’ve been living through in the west?

The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, is buying Twitter for $44 billion. Apparently, he was provoked into doing so after Twitter suspended the Babylon Bee for making a joke about the transgender US assistant secretary for health and human services, Rachel Levine.

The reaction to his purchase of Twitter has plumbed truly epic levels of imbecility — much of it, naturally, on Twitter.

Here, Musk’s coup reminds the writer of Weimar Germany; here, Musk apparently wants to “gaslight” and discredit his critics; here, he will apparently have a “chilling effect on journalism”;  here, he is said to run, in Tesla, a racist company; here, he is said to want to use Twitter to promote “white power”;  here, his free speech promise is said to threaten to unleash “lawless hate, bigotry and misogyny”;  here, he is said to be “behaving like a movie super-villain”; here, a tweeter speculates that if he purchased Twitter “it could result in World War Three and the destruction of our planet”; here, he was denounced as an “imperialist” because he wants to colonise Mars.