Raymond Cattell said that a group is
the means to the satisfaction of individuals and it will be
cohesive only as long as it provides those satisfactions. Wilson has
recently reaffirmed group selection.
An individual has a sum total of
energy, love and ethical obligations such that a greater investment
in one cause means less in another. Cattell even set up a loyalties
calculator to help map out a realistic way to examine the love for an
individual who is not in his community.
Cattell's calculus is more related to
actual human nature than Ken Wilber's version of “nests” of more
“primitive” loyalists and more “advanced” non-materialists.
“Love of mankind” does not mean that we are all the same. Human
nature loving its own group first is like the bricks forming an
international building, you need the bricks first to build the
building.
Love of mankind is justified by all of
us cooperating in our evolution to Godhood. It is hard for humans to
grasp that hate is not concomitant with competition, in honoring your
foe. Competition is good for progress in evolution.
Altruism (Agape) needs to be controlled
as much as lust (Eros).
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