Most everyone believes Elon Musk far overpaid when he purchased Twitter for $44 billion dollars, but why did he do it? He is now claiming that he was actually compelled to buy Twitter — now X — out of an overriding sense of civic duty, because he needed to save civilization itself from a potentially overwhelming “mind virus” propagated by the company’s San Francisco headquarters. Musk delivered his remarks on the Oct. 31 episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience,” podcast.