So the world’s smartest man is out there, doing the sort of stuff that the world’s smartest man does.

Everybody knows he’s the world’s smartest man, because he’s the world’s richest man—though maybe not anymore, but let’s table that quibble, because these things are difficult to track, and whatever his ranking, he’s possessed of a wealth inherited from the wreckage of an apartheid state that he’s now grown into a boodle as massive and indestructible as a continent.

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Let this sink in.

The Reframe

Having indestructible wealth means he’s the smartest man in the world. If you were the world’s smartest man, after all, you’d have turned your inheritance into the world’s largest fortune, and since you haven’t done that, you aren’t the world’s smartest man. Why, you might not even be a man, the definition of which is something the world’s smartest man seems to have some opinions about.

Where was I? Oh yeah, the world’s smartest man. He’s doing the sort of things the world’s smartest man does.

He’s sending us to Mars by 2022, for example. Well, that was the timeline in 2017. I think it’s something like 2028 now, which is about how far in the future 2022 was in 2017, I notice.

It’s a specific amount of time: soon enough to get excited that the smartest man in the world is sending us to Mars, but not so soon that we pack our bags.

I don’t know if he’s defined “us,” but one thing is clear: the world’s smartest man is sending some value of “us” to Mars, and you shouldn’t doubt it.