Friday, March 25, 2016
Solving the diabolical problem of human nature
Very strong drives within human nature
take human nature away from human nature, with bad consequences. For
example, the will to live, or the will to power of individuals and
groups often denies real human nature as a means to power.
Universalism and equality are promoted even as the individuals and
groups who promote these things consciously or unconsciously drive
for their own unequal superiority.
Throughout human history human nature
has been, and remains, kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded,
heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even
xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with
group-selection as the primary unit of selection. Within groups selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals. Culturally and
politically if we want to harmonize with real human nature we
will form ourselves into ethnic regions and states protected by some
sort of federalism.
I think we have a chance to be
realistic and to harmonize with the laws of nature, and find a way to
overcome this diabolical problem of human nature, because I do not
believe that the will to power, although very powerful, is the
central activator of life. I think the will or spirit within life,
which I have called the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, activates material
life to evolve toward the supreme success of attaining Godhood within the cosmos, and this drive, working along with the natural selection process, is dominate even over the will to power, which is only a means. That
is the origin of the instinctive and logical hope behind advocating theological materialism and ethnopluralism.
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