Friday, August 20, 2010

Ordered Evolution Is Not Apollo-Dionysus

I would not try to balance order and evolution as perhaps early Nietzsche tried to do with Apollo/Dionysus. Evolution dominates order, but it is not Dionysian evolution which does not appear to have a destination, with only endless flux toward goalless power. Evolution is the tiger and order rides the tiger; there is not a balance here, there is a determined goal to evolve to higher forms and eventually to Godhood, with an undetermined path.

Ordered Evolution can this way bring Tradition along with evolution. Evolution alone, like Dionysus alone, tends to bring radical change without order. Human nature has been more successful with the slower changes of Revitalized Conservatism, and in this way can shape or order evolution toward the natural goal of Godhood, without destroying everything in the process.

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