it's the perfect story for the Western System: rugged individual immigrant maverick succeeds to be one worlds richest man in our outstandingly excellent freedom system,

To be fair, if you've got that kind of crazy go for it mindset good things tend to happen, so long as you can back it up with results. And Elon got in on the dot com craze when crappy products could make you millions (or get you bought out by Paypal) lowering the bar further.

But I agree, I think he is a joiner. His wife was a witch and his mom is a witch. They are in the club.