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== Psychological profile ==

== Psychological profile ==

The psychological underpinnings of Ayn Rand's socio-political and eco-political views are arguably related to her gender in the same way that Karl Marx’s views can be related to Marx’s gender. Namely, by the tendency of the genders to becoming overly sensitive in regard to their respective virtues. The male is most able in matters of individualism, the female in matters of the collective. Ayn Rand’s disfavoring of the female virtues, and her consequent exclusivism in favor of the male virtues, may have been caused (in a modern world in which all good things are turned into more-or-less exclusives by some group or nation) by a particular sensitivity on her part to the female virtues.

The psychological underpinnings of Ayn Rand's socio-political and eco-political views are arguably related to her gender in the same way that Karl Marx’s views can be related to Marx’s gender. Namely, by the tendency of the genders to becoming overly sensitive in regard to their respective virtues. The male is most able in matters of individualism, the female in matters of the collective. Ayn Rand’s disfavoring of the female virtues, and her consequent exclusivism in favor of the male virtues, may have been caused (in a modern world in which all good things are turned into more-or-less exclusives by some group or nation) by a particular sensitivity on her part to the female virtues. While it is good to feel things for others, it is not good to have that feeling used, in effect, to make one feel that one has no personal rights and needs. It can be argued that Rand typically felt so used, as do many women, but that Rand, unlike them, found herself with an opportunity to so 'right the wrong' that, unknown to her atheism, she went much too far.

 

Like Marx, Rand's atheism saw only one way toward a global salvation, namely by the opposite of her natural virtues. Jesus never preached liberation of women from men, nor men from women, but most perfectly empathized with the plights of both in the face of the other. Adam was created without a penny to his name, but he owned the entire earth; and, he never shrugged to get it, which means it cannot be owned by an individualism which denies a common culpability for a common plight of suffering.

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