⚠️No⚠️ Elon has not ever responded to my QTs and he may well not do now - but for anyone wanting to know why I give a resounding NO‼️ Here’s why……..and why it goes to the heart of American Independence, unalienable rights and Constitutional Republican self governance in operation. The American Founders’ insistence that man ‘must be neither a ‘dog’ nor a ‘horse’…….’ doesn’t simply refer to a commentary on barbarism, collectivism, tribalism, social status or station - but to man’s metaphysical capacity - his ontological rational and moral agency as a bearer of logos (imago Dei) as codified in the first principles of the Declaration of Independence, which is necessary for the preservation of a free republic. A dog follows commands. A horse may be trained and directed (behaviourist Education Pedagogy and institutional/organizational/managerial procedure, policy etc). But both ‘dog & horse’ are governed externally (tyranny of Hegelian State and the political/ideological warfare of propaganda operations). The Founders explicitly rejected the illegitimate tyrannical notion that man is to be managed through coercion, impulse conditioning, or elite rule. They understood that liberty demands internal governance; self-rule through Right Reason. Man is rational, not because he can calculate, but because he can apprehend what is; reality as it is. Man is moral, not because he obeys rules, but because he participates in the discernment of the good, which is objective and knowable. Therefore, man must be educated not to blindly obey, but necessarily to govern himself; to choose the good because he sees (discerns not projects) it and loves (commits himself to) it. See the Education of the Founding Fathers (Walsh). A ‘dog or horse’ …….a pack animal……cannot do this. They are subjects to be controlled, domesticated, or broken whereas a citizen is not. Talk of man as a ‘pack animal’ negates the Constitutional Republic, negates self governance, unalienable rights and man as a human being. It is the talk of Rousseau’s “savages made to live in cities” and Hobbes’ sophist thought experiment ‘State of Nature’ - the propaganda of its own day and like today, serving State power. The American Constitutional Republic upholds and defends man as a human being in the created order, his created nature with endowed faculties, of right reason oriented under authority and grounded in Faith. This doesn’t serve the political warfare operations does it. There are reasons for that! “Let a man be neither a dog to be taught by beatings, nor a horse to be managed by a bridle.” (John Adams, Discourses on Davila, 1790)