I had read about Steve Mallory, but now I know one.
Now I know, why Ayn Rand would have written Fountainhead. What would have caused her to create characters like Steve Mallory and Peter Keating. Years have passed since fountainhead was first published, but the world is still at the same juncture, has not even moved an inch. All the globalization and industrialization, digital age that we talk about is fake as their very existence is challenged by the stiff thinking patterns of society. Can a society really progress when the thinking of society never developed?
The world was always and will always be, a lair of second handlers. People, who can’t control their life, but are trying to collaborate with other similars to control life of others, to dictate terms and lifes of others. People who talk of ‘fate’ and the invisible hand of God, governing everything from markets to one’s life. People, to whom, innovation is just a ‘buzz’ word. Actually they don’t want to innovate. The world is a herd of monkeys, where they pull down and beat the monkey who is trying to climb high or is trying to evolve.
This is the world where people take pride in what they didn’t earn, but got by chance. They boost about the wealth they got by legacy and not of the money they’ve earned by hard work. They blabber about innovation, but strangle it in groups. Once in a while, if someone gets enlightened and tries to think, they kill his thinking. To me killing of thinking is more heinous crime then killing the person himself. They gang up, those pathetic second handlers, and create another Steve Mallory. But this world is san of any Howard Roark, who would come and rescue those Steve Mallorys. They’ll rot and rot, finally give up life or the straggle, becoming a second handler once again.
The difference between riches and poors is a gift of capitalism and not individualism and its only getting wider. Till the point I have diamonds of Superior quality and people know that I have diamonds of superior quality, they’ll approach me for it.
