Steve Harmon was undoubtedly at the right place at the right time with the right ideas--all luck and great self-promotion--to benefit from the boom in interest in internet stocks. For those with literary of philosophical interest, he was a real life analogue to Georg Lukac's fictional subject in his study of the historical novel. Harmon is the embodiment of the hero of such a novel. An essentially unexceptional everyman who find himself at an important critical juncture in history and is swept up in its force, which, through mere happenstance, elevates him into a tool by which the future destiny of millions rests upon his decisions and movements--his "historical moment" in Lukac's term. Well, Mr. Harmon, as exalted as he was by a beneficial confluence of historical events, leading to his cult-like investment guru status, has found himself now outside of his historical moment, abandoned by history, now a historical orphan, whose appearance is now what it was, and only what it was, to begin with: a man on non-exceptional natural endowments save for ambition. Fate has stripped his glory quicker than it was bestowed, and Harmon is now, once again, naked in the world without its protective armor.
I observe that the frequency of his newsletter communications has been decreasing,implying that it may soon be moribund.
God save us
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