Monday, December 10, 2012
Bringing culture back to human nature
“...a living thing can be healthy,
strong and fruitful only when bound by a horizon.” (Nietzsche)
A great disparity between culture and
human nature causes weakness in the culture. That is not to say that
natural law necessarily trumps human traditions, as Leo Strauss seems
to say, because traditions are developed from human nature and
natural laws. If we claim in our culture that we are all the same,
demand equal results, seek only profit or absolute individual
freedom, then we have moved culture beyond human nature and
eventually weakened culture. Going back to human nature means going
back to kin, group, localism, regions, and back to small states or ethnostates,
protected by a light federalism.
Nietzsche thought mankind requires
“illusions” to function, and I suppose myth, religious faith and
scientific hypothesis can be defined as that, but we cannot have too
many illusions or disparities from actual human nature without
weakening culture. In any case, I don't think of faith in the material Will or Tirips, as illusion because I believe that activation is an
instinct of nature itself, the zenith of the instincts, activating
material life to evolve to Godhood.
There is a deep link between religion
and culture, religion has been a unifying function bringing it all
together with an image of the cosmos and the world, without this
there is social fragmentation and even anarchy. According to Nietzsche, Socrates caused this fragmentation in ancient Greek culture, which continues with the relativism of modern culture.
Bringing culture back to human nature
is what revitalized conservatism is all about, back to kin, group,
localism, regions, and back to small states protected by a light
federalism. The Twofold Path is the rebirth of religion
which at least early Nietzsche hoped for (he called it myth) while retaining both
science and traditional religion, which later Nietzsche would
probably not have done. That is, the Inward Path contemplates the Father
Within, and the Outward Path is evolution to real Godhood in the cosmos.
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