Heroism or Cynicism?

Hindu (ॐ) depiction of
Virabhadra (वीरभद्र) and Daksha (दक्ष)

Heroism or Cynicism?
Saturday – May 30, 2026

In our world it is all too easy to fall into cynicism, and indeed for the most part it would seem that the revolutionary elite would prefer for you to remain cynical, as this ensures that they can keep controlling your mind, because after all, a lot of the disease and really, if you will, the infantile disorders or our times stem from the psychic realm, read "What is Mental Illness?", because after all the power of deviation requires the mental control as this would be impossible without a critical mass; in other words: it would be impossible for the world to exist in its current state without mental confusions all over the place, read "Democracy". In a sense you could view cynicism as the opposite of heroism, read more about heroism here.

    No, I do not require you to read my previous post about heroism as this post is separate from that post, but in that post I do provide a more detailed account of true heroism, or rather I explain in more detail what I mean by heroism. This is why I think that it would be prudent of me to begin this post by stating that heroism is not equivalent with action of one kind or another, and really because most people tend to be under this impression it is important for me to dispel this confusion, and I should also add that in a lot of ways heroism is the opposite of action, but not always, and not in the way that it tends to oppose cynicism, because what we are dealing with here is something that has to do with potential and the intention of moving potential, and only after the intention has been aimed in one direction or another is action a relevant factor; if you must, then mind the materialist conception I am providing of heroism.

    Imagine that a man saves a woman from some kind of danger, and that he in the process not only saves her life but the life of her unborn children, here children should be understood as pure potential, would this not be heroic? Indeed it would, and most men would recognize this as heroism, but what most men would get wrong is the definite range of heroism, because heroism does not, nor could it, extend beyond the psychic; when the man in my example moves towards action, he has already moved towards God in the supra-individual order, and at the point of saving the life of the woman his actions are no longer his own, for it would require a certain amount of divine intervention for him to truly save the life of that woman. The heroism in this example is not when the man moves to save that woman, it is rather when the man moves closer to God, for a man without God would simply discard that woman, and indeed this is the case with almost all modern men, and they would not admit this, but most of these modern men would at the same hand find no troubles in their all too many creative reasons, excuses, for not saving that woman; so it is fair to say that heroism is not possible without sacred instruction, really without divine inspiration. Of course, most modern men would counter that assertion with loose and evermore confused ideas about moral relativism and humanism, likely asserting that they indeed would find no problem saving that woman because a supposedly "good man" requires nothing but humanity alone. Of course, that assertion, that argument within the context of "open discourse", requires at least a couple of metaphysically very troubling things: for one, a man claiming that his humanity alone is what makes him righteous in moving towards action would require morality and ethics to be brought down to the human level, the human state, which further would entail that action alone and the corporeal contingencies associated with some defined action is all that matters in the end, and that the circumstances of those contingencies in the fallout is what defines, or is allowed to define, heroism, and this is the central thesis, that morality and ethics requires no knowledge and no doctrine and by extension no God, which indeed in the end would render morality completely subjective and relative, and by that extension towards the ontological limit of the manifested world, read "The End of History", one would at some point simply by definition be made to define each man, deserving or not, as the hero of his own domain, the individual in his own right; and secondly, if heroism only requires human input, then it is very likely that the entire concept of heroism will become, as can be seen, corrupted and allowed to degenerate into something completely different, in our case cynicism, because, as I mentioned above, all to often cheap and vain (populism) cynicism is what passes for heroism these days, often in the form of negation (negativism), that is to say often in the form of men simply passing along the same old and reused excuses as to why they may not act, and this failure to truly and deeply contemplate is really what should be thought as a representation of a kind of great crack in the wall as well as the reason why most modern men fail to act in the first place. If you are unable to steer your actions, then you may not claim to be in charge of your own destiny, for you know not of God; if you do not know God, you may not know yourself, and indeed whatever "identity" you have furnished your life with hitherto is false and Satanic, read "What are Demons?".

    What heroism and cynicism does have in common though, is that they are truly qualified, read "Qualification", because even the true cynic is qualified in the infra-human sense, and the true hero is qualified because he has earned his rank in Heaven; of course, one could make the argument that the cynic has earned his rank in the Kingdom of Satan, at any rate he has surely earned his rank in the Kingdom of Satan on Earth, for he is the pioneer of evil. If all men were made to fall into heroism, read "Hyperborea", the world would truly become paradise, and if all men were made to fall into cynicism the world would truly become the modern world, or close to it, for the truth of the matter is of course that even in our times it would not be quite possible for all men to become cynics. I should mention that the circumstance of opposition between the heroic, the qualified, and the cynical, the crude and the material, is all around us and it is within this ongoing and age-old struggle that manifestation is possible, and only in this crucible can true heroism emerge supreme above all the cynicism of all the cynics in the whole of the world.

Reginald Drax – May 30, 2026.