Thursday, September 06, 2012
The sacred commonality within our differences
We all need to be proud of our
identities, our ethnic backgrounds, this pride is grounded in the
most basic human nature. We should champion
who we are in regions, small states and localities. But what holds
us together, our commonality, is our evolution toward Godhood, all of
us, which necessarily reaches beyond the human species to future
species. This is the universal and particular ethics we must work
with if we are to survive.
But our commonalities are not looking
so good at this time. I think of Nietzsche's comments about how
there is nothing more powerful than when a slave class has learned to
consider its existence an injustice and sets about taking revenge, not
only on its own behalf but on behalf of past generations. Blacks and Latinos in America are angry and loudly proclaiming their own
identities, usually by attacking whites, and the controlled popular
media are going along with this, continually and increasingly
depicting white males as uncool fools and white females as greedy
airheads.
Whites will not continue to take this
without objection, especially whites who had nothing to do with the
past immoral enslavement of one people over another. Whites will
increasingly affirm themselves, especially when they feel even more
threatened as they become an electoral minority in their own
country... This all can lead to very dangerous politics.
Wise politics sees the future and tries
to get in step with it. Our differences will tear us apart, even to
the point of civil war, if we don't affirm the commonality of our
evolution beyond the present human species, all the way to Godhood---if we are wise enough. Can we do it? Religion can do it, making
sacred the evolutionary path, a religion which affirms differences
and particulars within sacred universals, as the Theoevolutionary Church does. I know of no better way to balance our rough
ride to the future.
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