Another 'Hero', whom I'd never heard of until this morning. But thanks to the Internet has now been found and the assimilation of his words begins.
How many times must I re-learn that there is nothing that hasn't been said and done before? So if I cannot be original, I will gladly be a replicant, if only to take my place in the long chain, and hopefully provide a stepping stone to some future scribe whose words will make an immediate difference.
Robinson Jeffers, Poet Laureate of "Inhumanism" 1887-1962, along with Ray Flynn, Smedley Butler, and H.L. Mencken, knew and wrote of the dark side of the American Character decades before I discovered it. (because public schools sure as hell didn't teach it ...but then anything of any real value must be searched for)
Inhumanism? a shifting of emphasis and significance from man to notman; the rejection of human solipsism and recognition of the transhuman magnificence.... This manner of thought and feeling is neither misanthropic nor pessimist.... It offers a reasonable detachment as rule of conduct, instead of love, hate and envy.... it provides magnificence for the religious instinct, and satisfies our need to admire greatness and rejoice in beauty.
