Monday, August 03, 2026

Dr. Fauci, a modern day Prometheus


Prometheus was the Titan who defied the Olympian gods by taking fire from them and giving it to humanity in the form of technology, knowledge and, more generally, civilization.
He was punished for this action by being chained to a stone where an eagle would come daily and feast on his liver. His liver would grow back over night, then again with the eagle.

Looks like a lot of people have found a scapegoat in Dr Anthony Fauci.

He has been accused of funding dangerous gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China, that may have resulted in a lab leak, releasing SARS-CoV-2 into the world; promoting mitigation policies that infringed on civil liberties; profiting off his pandemic-era fame; and hiding the truth about what he knew about the virus’s origins and when.

I think under his guidance many lives were saved during the CIVID pandemic. I hate to imagine how COVID would have gone if RFK Jr were at the wheel.
In Ayn Rands novel “The Fountainhead” the hero Howard Roark is portrayed as a modern day Prometheus.

In the Western classical tradition, Prometheus became a figure who represented human striving, particularly the quest for scientific knowledge, and the risk of unintended consequences.
And now Senator Rand Paul, he wants to eat Fauci's liver.





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