/lit/ - Literature

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>But everything you are describing, and what I've read from Rei, seems reactive.
REI describes the beliefs of the ideal person, the hero, as proactive.
Funny that both REI and icycalm view Hitler positively, but for very different reasons. REI believes he was fighting a noble battle against the ignoble, and that Hitler wanted to create a world populated by the platonic ideal of mankind, the Aryan. REI likely views Hitler as very near his ideal person, the wise soul. icycalm respects him for his proactivity, to genuinely lead, but cares little for the direction he was going in, just that he had a strong will and the ability and drive to actualize it; icycalm loves the strong and abhors the weak.
I would not describe REI as reactive, but that he sets up ideals and goals that are not aligned with the status quo or with those who currently hold power, just as Hitler had goals and ideals not aligned with the status quo of his time. You can call that reactive or ressentiment or whatever; he does not oppose them because they have power, but because they do not use power in an optimal way, id est for the purpose of transcending the world instead of perpetuating the evils and suffering within it.
>He can't get a job that he would be happy doing, or get his money through a way other than a job (crime, being an investment wiz, etc.) so he's NEET.
Or perhaps he's opposed to the capitalist system itself; not everyone shares your goals and values.
>He doesn't like the modern world, probably because he sucks at it, so he talks about how it needs to be destroyed.
He disagrees with the ideals that the modern world holds; to suck at a game you do not want to play says nothing about the abilities of the person in question.
>His brand of mystism... is a reaction to how much he sucks at the physical world so he escapes into his mind.
You keep saying that he escapes into his mind, when his beliefs are meant to be actualized within this world, our world, the physical. He does not advocate ascetically retiring as a hermit (at least not until one has completed one's heroic duty)
>I'm not dissing this sort of talk about union with the god-head or whatever. I know these thoughts and have great respect for them when they are presented in healthy forms.
In what way is REI's perspective "unhealthy"? I doubt that you have read or comprehended what REI wrote. It seems to me you gathered some ideas from glancing at his work, categorized it with some other people you've read before, and now are dismissing him based on the category you've assigned to him instead of actually addressing his ideas in themselves.