REVISION OF MY PREVIOUS POST (#2841) ELIMINATING ITS ERRORS:
Steve Harmon was undoubtedly at the right place at the right time with all the right (marketable) ideas--all luck and grandiose self-promotion--to benefit from the boom in interest in internet-centric stocks. For those with a literary or philosophical interest, he was a real life analogue of Georg Lukac's fictional subject in his study of the historical novel, simply and aptly titled The Historical Novel. Harmon is the embodiment of the protagonist of such a novel, who in post-modern critical parlance would be more precisely and aptly termed an anti-hero, a flawed hero, an essentially un-heroic man who succeeds in spite of his flaws and in spite of himself, an unexceptional everyman who finds himself at a critical juncture in history and is swept up in its force, which, through mere happenstance, elevates him into a tool upon whose decisions and movements the future destiny of millions rests. This is his "historical moment," in Lukac's terms. Well, Mr. Harmon, as exalted as he became by a confluence of events beneficial to himself in a unique way, leading to his cult-like investment guru status, has now found himself outside of his historical moment, abandoned by history, an orphan of time, whose appearance is now again what it was originally, and only what it was, before history intervened: a man of non-exceptional natural endowments save for ambition and the luck of the draw. Fate has stripped his glory quicker than it was bestowed, and Harmon is, once again, naked in the world without fate's protective armor.
I observe that the frequency of the publication of his newsletter Internet Insight has been decreasing, implying that it, too, may soon be moribund. And his newly found corporation Zero Gravity Internet Group? Well, that's up to fate.
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