One aspect of our (Merkian)
culture:
The
worker-hero was a fixture of
Soviet propaganda. He was a muscular
steelworker, a
lathe operator, a
mechanic; he
dammed and
bridged mighty
rivers and churned out
shells for the
Red Army. The worker-hero also briefly entered allied propaganda during
World War II, in the form of
Rosie the Riveter and such.
(Most democratic
capitalistic societies at least don't make the pretense of being founded on the principles of
fraternity and
equality. In this regard, to borrow from
Lincoln,
overt tyranny is preferable to
damnable lies.)
Similarly, the capitalist-hero appears in the novels of
Horatio Alger and
Ayn Rand. (The latter's worship of the übercapitalist is positively
Nietzscheian.)
Bill Gates and
Steve Jobs grace the pages of
Time and
Newsweek.