Francisco Domingo Carlos Andreas Sebastian D'anconia is my HERO

Francisco D'anconia - Copper magnate. Self-made tycoon. Playboy. Destroyer of his own massive empire ! Heroes exist plenty in the fiction aisle (in the ones worth reading anyways), especially in Rand's books - but D'anconia's the only one who stands true and strides a Titan's swagger. Its easy to be a inspiring protagonist -start deep down at the grueling bottom dressed only in rags, accessorize only with spirit and honor and inch your way to the very top. When you get there, redefine perfection. But once you are at the peak, what does it take to slowly reverse the ride if every core of your being demands you to do so? to excruciatingly grind every speck of achievement into oblivion? It takes a true Hero !
Our world needs one today - in fact, we could use a couple. We have seen the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers, the Ambanis and Buffetts. Every one knows what it takes to become rich and maybe if I had kept up with pop culture, I'd know that going from rags to riches is cliche. Regardless, what is popular are opinions like " surely now that 'we' have created these giants, we can simply take a small small bite from their plates?", "after all, aren't we evolved / human enough to know better than survival of the fittest" and "they needed me to get there anyways". These real-world giants, at least the noblest among them, would be the Taggarts of Atlas Shrugged. They keep fighting a losing battle. We might never really know the Galts even though they exist- sorry, thats just part of the character - the men of steel will, strong muscle and razor-sharp minds, who go on and build their own Utopias. But where are the D'anconias? History has never truly had a D'anconia and its high time for Francisco to make his entry . Just to show us courage, morality, grit and to remind us of what truly makes us human. So, while I tip my hat to Dagny and wink my big brown eyes at Galt - it's Frisco who is my true hero.
He should be yours too। After all, he is the one who tells Atlas to shrug.