Devil in the White City #2

In its extravagant size and cost, the Chicago World's Fair was ultimately an exhibition of arrogance. Burnham's goal for the fair is so that it will be known as the greatest,most wondrous,most beautiful World's Fair on the planet -or on any other planet. When a new building needs to be constructed three architects come up with three insane blue prints for three impossible to build constructions. One man suggests his idea of a building that encases another slightly smaller building and inside that building will stand yet another building. The second hopeful architect proposes his idea to construct a building almost exactly like the Eiffel Tower but made out entirely of logs. At the very top of the building there would be a log cabin of some sort. He then boldly proposes that this cabin is to be dropped thousands of feet, attached by some "good rubber" and before smacking the ground, the cabin would bounce. He also slightly hinted that the floor below the tower should be layered with eight feet of feathers for unlikely emergencies. The final proposal from the third architect features a very tall building which, at the very top,would sprout a bridge or two leading to certain important American cities such as New York. Tourists would have the opportunity to visit these cities as they pleased. As you can see, all these outrageous architects had their crazy blue prints all laid out to be chosen and to be selected you must be the best. What fuel this ambition? What fuels anything between any group of men? Arrogance. This fair was just a huge opportunity for Americans to show off. When Mr. Eiffel himself was asked to come up with a blue print for a building just as great as his tower in Paris American architects from all over petitioned and rallied for the tower to be thought up by an American artist because Eiffel was not an American. The entire fair was about pride and arrogance which can often be mixed up together. And regarding such creative acts there is always the chance that creativity may lead to a dark and destructive parallel. One, because it is universally known that you can have too much of a good thing and get carried away. Yes, the Chicago World's Fair is an extravagant masterpiece of a landmark but you can't control absolutely everything that goes on during hours of business (obviously, there was a murderer feeding off of innocent fair-goers everyday and somehow NO ONE EVER KNEW).  Holmes for example was a talented business man or  rather , Mr. Holmes was an excellently creative con man who got a little out of hand and went much too far with his skills in the field of business. He took his talents beyond the boundary line. However, I do not believe that such creative acts  engender a darker, destructive parallel automatically. I think that the parallel evolves very slowly over time because like the construction of the fair, everything takes time to develop.