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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