Universals and Particulars In Evolution

To adapt a phrase by Jeffrey Folks writing about conservative novelist V.S. Naipaul ( Modern Age, Summer 2011), it is the continuity of our evolution to Godhood that determines the universal values, and the particular rise and fall of one-race imperialism needs to be seen from this perspective.

The ethics of the particular group are vital to successful survival and reproduction, but ultimate universal ethics point beyond the present to the evolution of future species out into the cosmos. 

This does not make particular group and kin selection less important, they are dominant, but we also need to include vital universal values.

This leads to a conservative worldview, although it is a Revitalized Conservatism and an Ordered Evolution taking into account steady evolution.

Competition can then be more cooperative when there is agreement on the universals. If there is no agreement among competing groups then there are usually only raw battles for power, which often hurt both groups more than they help.