I also read
a book called The Aye Rand Lexicon. Before this, there is an understanding
about “Hatred of the Good for being Good”. Aye Rand explains this feeling as a
deep-seated resentment directed at humans who are morally or intellectually
superior, not because they have made some mistakes, but easily because they are
good. It is neither hatred, wicked, nor jealousy in the usual sense, which
wanting someone else has, but a malicious opposition of virtue itself. This is
an emotion. For example, the resentful coworker. A highly skilled
employee is precisely reprimanded not for mistakes, but for "making
everyone else look not good." Instead of improving, coworkers gossip,
undermine, or demand the hard worker be "humbled." The hatred isn’t
about fairness—it’s frustration that someone dares to excel.
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