Sunday, February 19, 2012

The moral imagination and prophets of evolution


My take on Russell Kirk's “moral imagination” (and his mentor Edmund Burke) is that the moral imagination should aspire to the right order regarding the material activation to Godhood, and the "right order" in political structures, but also the right order in philosophy and art.

The “total art work” was supposed to do this, as envisioned by the Ancient Greeks, and much later by Richard Wagner. But in this sense religion is the real total art work.

This affirms the definition of great art as, art that affirms the sacred. Art obviously does not do this today, which means that modern art is not good art, if it can even be called art.

What is “right order?” Right order means distinct and varied people directing their lives toward evolving to Godhood in the cosmos, living in small states, or ethnostates protected by a light federalism, and creating art and philosophy which affirms and seeks to illuminate the sacred path of material evolution to Godhood.

This means we need prophets of evolution more than prophets of inward salvation and human stage utopian political schemes, which we have had plenty of.

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