We are born and only later awaken to the possibilities of our lives. Our brains come first, then our minds grow within them. In this awakening process, we come to realize that an external world exists, and operates by consistent principles. If at that point we decide that we like being alive, we change our values to encourage the life process that produced us.
I. Nihilism
Rejection of all inherent value frees us from a fascination with both materialism and moralism. These beliefs assert that what exists has ultimate value, and therefore that it is an end in itself and not a means to a life process. Nihilism asserts the opposite, and thus begins a path which leads us past fear of death to a heroic worldview.
In a diseased time, such as the current era, the individual is constantly assaulted by a barrage of imaginary reality, including morality, politics, economics and social factors. Any mind which wishes to become aware beyond this barrage must find a persistent means of removing this, and the best method is nihilism: denying all value except the meaning of experience and outcome.
Reality
To a person who has come to these realizations, objects and people are viewed as that which one manipulates to achieve differences in the structure of reality, which is represented by objects much as meaning is expressed by language. As evolution shapes a species, all natural events are products of this transactional nature.
The significance of outcomes is not equally perceived by all, nor does it exist in a realm of meaning; it exists solely in minds which can perceive it, and is a product of a mechanistic nature which knows neither goal nor aim, only rulesets built on what functions. Truth can be perceived, but it does not "exist."
Most belief systems operate by establishing some form of "objective" linear truth by which adherents must abide, and thus proscribe nihilism as a destruction of all that holds such belief systems together. The proper name for this form of belief system is politics, as it operates by inducement and coercion to create uniform behavior among a disparity of people.
Subjectivity
From the point of view of such systems, there are two realms for the human individual, the subjective (mind) and objective (body), so divided because the subjective is limited wholly to the perceptions of the individual, and the objective to physically verifiable events such as the realm in which the body exists.
The derivation of truth, and attainment of goals in the language of truth, is a process of uniting mind and body that transcends subject/object division. These perceptions are not objective in that they originate and end in the individual, but are stimulated by and acted upon within objective space. The individual, and its thoughts, are part of the mechanism of life.
For this reason, moral distinctions such as "mind your own business" and "thou shalt not kill" are meaningless, since they presuppose the barrier between subject and object, and mind and body, to be absolute.
A simple example can be found in nature. A man moves to a distant valley and sets up his house. Because he exists in the external world, he must use it to survive; because he can conceive of the concept of farming, he acts upon this and creates a farm. Yet he attempts to do so in concert with the tendencies of nature, such as seasons and rainfall, so that he may succeed with the minimal amount of friction with the tendency of his world.
It would be false to say his desire was wholly subjective, because it was shaped by the objective. Also false is the idea that it was objective, as it originated in his mind. This is part of the mind/body dualistic paradox that causes us to perceive either that our thoughts are more real than our world, or that we must not act to change our external world because it is divided from our thoughts.
Idealism
When nihilism is understood in this context, it can no longer be seen as a desired end state of indifference to events, as it is defined in the vernacular. Instead it becomes a method of perception that rapidly leads one to philosophical idealism, which refutes the desire to preserve material comfort and moral rectitude (not harming or ending any other individual lives).
Philosophical idealism states that the external world and our thoughts function by the same method, thus that subject/object division is overcome in a continuous "mind" of which the body is a perceptive interpretation. Idealists see material and moral reality as a means to an end, and instead of hoping to end suffering esteem transcendence, or the state of finding ideals more important than physical conditions for positive reasons of achievement.
Another way to articulate this is to say that thoughts are a logical sequence of conclusions arrived at by transactions within their medium, whether physical or mental, and that we are more concerned with each outcome, as it provides the basis for future outcomes much as any learning lets us build upon it. This is how nature creates complexity that arises from very simple starting points.
Valuation
When a goal is an ongoing state, measured in perpetual degrees of attainment and not a binary state of accomplishment, it is a value. Concrete goals are specific to a certain context, and thus do not have the "portable" nature of values between situations. Values might be construed as preferences, in that in any given situation the individual wants to approximate a type of thing instead of a specific thing.
In the modern (post-liberal) view, at this point humanity would diverge into as many different goalsets as exist individuals, but to an idealist, because all values are based on adaptation to the same objective reality, what is present are many viewpoints with the same basic values interpreted according to the ability of each individual.
"Rationality" is a word used to express the degree of correspondence between an intended course of action (mind) and its consequences (body). Much as a highly refined mind can describe the structure of an idea, or predict the results of an experiment, or throw an unhittable pitch, rationality varies with intelligence, experience and discipline of the individual.
This line of thought shows the idealist how there is only one reality, often called "ultimate" reality, based in the physical world, including the workings of each mind with its specific degree of rationality. It is known to us through metaphor, meaning the consistency of its operation according to abstract rulesets, and therefore whether its mechanism is mind or body is irrelevant; its operation can be measured and predicted without knowing its composition.
II. Integralism
III. Blasphemies
IV. Changes - Personal
V. Changes - Society
VI. Conclusion
Resources for further reading:
The Iliad
The Bhagavad-Gita
On truth and lies in a nonmoral sense
Collection by Pentti Linkola
The FC Manifesto by Ted Kaczynski
Nihilism by S.R. Prozak