The way out of decadence

Romanticism tried to balance the classicism and scientism of the previous age, which had been a reaction to strict religion, and individual psychology tried to balance the nationalism that grew out of romanticism, and our present narcissistic individualism grew out of individual psychology and existentialism. We still require wholeness.

It is not enough to turn inward as a gnostic Jungian or outward as a supremacist nationalist, these pursued alone can lead to narcissism, and Stalin or Hitler. Both psychological and political change are necessary, and this large scale wholeness comes with religion. But not religion that exclusively follows the same gnostic inwardness of the great religions. That is incomplete.

The great religions essentially turned their backs on material evolution, and science essentially turned its back on spiritual growth, whereas the Twofold Path of the ECC proclaims the evolution of material life to the Godhood first seen inwardly. This leads in practical terms to an affirmation of all groups, and it brings back the affirmation of classic heroes who triumph on behalf of the group---not only for themselves as in our time. The vital difference in this worldview is that imperialism and one-race dominion are the certain enemy.

We are all, all groups, all ethnostates, evolving to Godhood in different stages, and ideally we can evolve while in cooperative competition. This evolution can be guided by the Church, with small states protected by a light political federalism. This can bring the modern world out of its spiraling decadence, this can establish long term wholeness so that the cycles of change don't have to be so radical. Ordered Evolution is the long term conservative path of change.