These mega tech tycoons must actually think they are gods. If you don’t know the One True God I guess that is the fearful reaction to ignoring the evidence given. He has been so successful but he fears the future and thinks it is all up to him to solve perceived problems. I would not want to be him.
They do believe that they are gods. Their sense of self makes Rockefeller, Vanderbilt Carnegie, and Morgan look like the guy who ran the local smith. And in truth they have burrowed their way into the everyday lives and thoughts of more Americans than those Captains of Industry, and including Hearst and Pulitzer and McCormick could have in their dreams bever imagined.
Could be they are more like Howard Hughes and his Glomar Explorer in Project Azorian... and the covert services folks are using their eccentricity and even exaggerating it in order to have crazy cover stories to distract the press and public and foreigners from asking any meaningful questions.