Envy/Hatred of the Good for Being the Good
"Today, we live in the Age of Envy.
"Envy" is not the emotion I have in mind, but it is the clearest manifestation of an emotion that has remained nameless; it is the only element of a complex emotional sum that men have permitted themselves to identify.
Envy is regarded by most people as a petty, superficial emotion and, therefore, it serves as a semihuman cover for so inhuman an emotion that those who feel it seldom dare admit it even to themselves. . . . That emotion is: hatred of the good for being the good.
This hatred is not resentment against some prescribed view of the good with which one does not agree. . . . Hatred of the good for being the good means hatred of that which one regards as good by one's own (conscious or subconscious) judgment. It means hatred of a person for possessing a value or virtue one regards as desirable.
If a child wants to get good grades in school, but is unable or unwilling to achieve them and begins to hate the children who do, that is hatred of the good. If a man regards intelligence as a value, but is troubled by self-doubt and begins to hate the man he judges to be intelligent, that is hatred of the good.
The nature of the particular values a man chooses to hold is not the primary factor in this issue (although irrational values may contribute a great deal to the formation of that emotion). The primary factor and distinguishing characteristic is an emotional mechanism set in reverse: a response of hatred, not toward human vices, but toward human virtues.
To be exact, the emotional mechanism is not set in reverse, but is set one way: its exponents do not experience love for evil men; their emotional range is limited to hatred or indifference. It is impossible to experience love, which is a response to values, when one's automatized response to values is hatred.
~ Found at Ayn Rand Lexicon - Envy/Hatred of the Good for Being the Good
I would rather be the most hated individual on earth, after this fuck show, and dead, than truly spend time with human beings. I know why I have been out here. It has never been to gain something I do not deserve, did not earn, or don't want.
- I'm not a child, slave or sacrificial animal!
I will never be forced into anything. You stole so much of my life long fucking ago, while you enjoyed your life. Be scared! I don't run shows, I don't run lives, but I promise you with great conviction, you shall never tell me what the fuck I do, after this fuck show.
