Heroes

	One of the few modern voices to point out that, in order to actually fix our environmental problems, we have to roll back modern society and in the process, reduce our population, industry, technology, mass travel and entertainment culture. Linkola advocates dictatorship and eugenics as a means of having a higher quality of human, so that fewer humans are "needed." Read More
	This English author, several decades before Nietzsche, wrote about humankind creating technology it could not control that would eventually lure it to its own destruction (Frankenstein), and later penned a book entitled Last Man. Thus ahead of the existentialists, she was also a first-rate novelist. Spinoza Ray claims this was his ideal mate.
	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche fought back against the encroaching liberal democracy and Judeo-Christian thought, calling Christianity "the greatest evil of mankind" and suggesting a naturalistic, eugenic, aristocratic feudal society to oppose modernity. He also opposed race-mixing on the correct grounds, noting that it would destroy the unique traits of all populations involved, and was circumspect in his criticism of Judaism, which he separated from anti-Semitism by identifying his dissent with the religion and not its people.
	Julius Evola wrote about how the traditional society of Indo-Europeans was being absorbed by modernity, and posited in response a revolt of "occult warfare," by which moderns regained the internal discipline of the past and used it to survive and resist the modern world.
	Creator of a transcendental naturalistic belief system, Ralph Waldo Emerson rekindled appreciation for nature in many hearts, and espoused the kind of cosmic idealism that was also popular with the German idealists from Kant through Schopenhauer. He did this in a poetic, unselfconscious style which is a model of rebellion for anyone ever criticized for giving too much of a shit.
	Savitri Devi emphasized the continuity of ancient Vedic, ancient Greco-Roman, and modern National Socialist thought, and did so from a mystical point of view which illustrated how modern society is a degenerate age approaching its own time of sacrifice. She upheld the values of honor, caste and truth, and remained an unrepentant speaker of her truth even at times when it was completely socially demonized.
	William Blake was one of the first thinkers to apply transcendental naturalist thought to Christianity, including in his belief a powerful universal idealism which eschewed moralization for a morality of the whole. As a result, he was completely misunderstood except by a few who understood what a rarity in humankind his work was.
	The pessimistic curmudgeon named Arthur Schopenhauer created a system of German idealist thought which invoked the learning of ancient Vedic scholars through a system of relativity, inspiring later Italian physicists to develop the basic thought on relativity that was later borrowed by overrated American scientists. With his The World as Will and Representation, he fired off an angry shot against the Jewish concept of Absolutism, and replaced it with a cosmic idealist system which inspired centuries of philosophical thought.
	Although he is also known for blowing up a few dozen toads who supported mass destruction of the environment, Ted Kaczynski's major contribution to humanity was The Unabomber Manifesto, an exposition of how liberal democracy and industrial society originate in low self-esteem and oversocialization, and suggesting that immediate action against them was necessary.
	Most view music as decoration, or something one puts on to match the mood when cleaning house or filing papers; for most music, this is appropriate. A few stand above the crowd, and one who went even further, unifying the art of music with the spiritual discipline of expressing the eternal (Schopenhauerians would add: "will"), was Ludwig van Beethoven. Laboring alone aware that only a few would perceive what he had created, that civilization was in decline and that most misinterpret art as decoration, he created what is probably the most amazing series of musical works on record. What he did was like the faith of a parent in a child; believing that some day it will grow up, he leaves for it great things to discover, knowing he will die without hearing a "thank you."
	Working in the design-oriented fields of architecture and computer programming, Christopher Alexander created the concept of "pattern language," or ways in which things can be expressed to fit circumstance. Instead of saying that beauty exists only when certain static ideals are met, for example, one says there is a language of beauty, in which any thing may be expressed accordingly. There is thus no longer an Absolute, but an adaptive concept of ideal which can be put into practice depending on situation. His ideas are still too "far out" for modern society.