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Originally Posted by Emily Fox Seaton
Tony has always been the smartest person in the room. Over many years he has learned he cannot rely on others because they can never produce anything as good as him and thus he has learned he must do everything himself. He has few friends and doesn't trust many people because often, they disappoint him. Tony is often funny and flippant but it is mostly his way of trying to be relatable to others.
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while it does sound somewhat like me but there are many traits of Steve that I have adopted in my masks. And these traits are very useful.
While I absolutely dont trust anyone, even my parents (for valid reasons) I do all I can to avoid showing it; and its quite normal I guess. Telling or showing lack of trust in others and in their intentions is in most cases useless and contra productive. Mind the difference between telling/showing vs
having it deep inside.
One of the examples of such persons is Joseph Stalin. I strongly recommend that anyone here studies his entire life from the moment he became an outlaw long before the commie revolution to the very last few days when he was unconscious after the stroke and what was happening around him at that time and why.
This guy was a real master of being Steve AND Tony. When he was younger he was more Steve (was wearing the mask of Steve since he was Tony all along). That made him popular but not enough to lead the party and to be the ultimate dictator in history. After Lenin's death there were a few candidates to lead the party and Stalin was the unexpected winner. In the power struggle he was a manipulative intriguing Tony and much less Steve.
During his reign and especially during his later years he was the ultimate Tony. Ultra paranoid, merciless, having his closest friends killed off in one wave of terror after another.
While for the masses he was still being Steve. In fact the media was always portraying him as the ultimate Steve and the audience was mostly buying into it and those who werent, they ended up digging holes in permafrost of Siberia.
His life and his path to success is quite remarkable in every sense of the word.
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I absolutely see myself as Tony Stark. I have often expressed frustration that I am never the leader or the BFF in anything in my life even though I am smarter and SHOULD be the person who is the leader or the BFF.
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you need to learn to be Steve for the outside world. Believe me, it will pay dividends
