Healthier cultural sublimations

What do we do with the natural instincts of basic human nature, the genetic propensities for food, sex, raising young, defense, order, etc? How do we structure them, how do we culturally sublimate them?

When we more accurately answer the question, who are we?, then we can answer the questions of what we ought to be.  If we wrongly define what we are then we will have misdirection in what we ought to be.

We need now to take more social advice from sociobiology than political journalism. For example, if human beings and human nature is group-selecting in the origin of their basic ethics (as E. O. Wilson has recently reiterated) then we need cultural ways to provide or sublimate these natural instincts of human nature.

The ethics of group-selection lead most naturally to small, distinct states, or even ethnostates, but they also naturally become competitive and need the cultural sublimation of at least a light federalism to protect their independence. We need the perspective that Raymond Cattell called “controlled competitive competition” between groups, as the sublimation of aggression through sports does, along with the sublimating affirmations of the arts.

This would return us to the realities of natural instinctive human nature with healthier cultural sublimations.

Religion can ground this human nature and this social structure in the sacred ethics of long-term evolution to Godhood in the cosmos for all groups, as the Theoevolutionary Church does.