>>115669906Pretty much? Both are mad scientists, both heavily rely on individualism and logic over emotion, but the Randian hero tends to be a mad scientist and wealthy industrialist.
The difference is the Randian Hero ultimately seeks his own happiness, recognition for his achievements. Meanwhile, the Ubermensch is more often a pragmatist. Oftentimes believing the ends justified the means.
For instance, Hitler favored himself an Ubermensch, willing to cross many moral lines in order to achieve his goal by constantly putting logic before emotion.
He could be said to serve as the ultimate IRL deconstruction of the Ubermensch. Namely, no one had any idea of just how naturally we sway to emotion, nor did we have much knowledge of the shadow self. Statistics tend to show the more and more logical and rational someone tries to be, the more likely they are to fall to emotional sway during certain choices.
Randian Hero is more an Elon Musk figure. A rich industrialist who benefits the world in the pursuit of his own hopes and dreams, not letting anything get in his way and staying true to his morals at all times.
The issue comes in that last sentence. Nietszche figured humans are contradictory in our nature while Rand infamously said “A is A”.
There is no human being who can stay 100% true to a moral code at all times, much less one that is consistently out for themselves.
Rand had believed that it was possible to be this selfish and not go around cheating people and screwing them over, as long as you were logical and set your own moral code.
Where both really failed was that psychologically, our morals come from a mix of emotion and logic, we morally act based on the people around us and our emotional connections to them. 100% individualism is almost psychologically impossible unless you’re a socially inept psychopath.
