Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Adding Quality to Quantity
The concern for the size of the population
has been understood but the next step has to be concern for the
quality of the population. China is now understanding this but the
West drags far behind.
A conservative Burkian dynamic can be
applied which caters in genetic planning to the particular cultural
demands of particular group in a particular place (tradition), while at the same time
creating new improving mutations. I have called this Ordered Evolution.
Raymond Cattell points out that man adapts his environment to himself,
to his ecological niche, although the environment does have the last
word. More emphasis on sociobiological research needs to be used to
help guide society. Nations don't have to necessarily go through the
cycle of democracy, oligarchy and dictatorship with no progress ever
made to break this historical cycle. However, progress is not
inevitable since 99 out of 100 new mutations are for the worse, and
so this needs to be conservatively, scientifically, and morally guided.
Religion needs to catch up with science
so that science can be given the moral vision it has generally not
had. Religion can ground evolution in the sacred evolution of life
to Godhood. We can perhaps avoid some of the problems of a revolutionary new
religion such as Cattell's noble "Beyondism,"---which wants to
replace the revealed religions with a religion from science---by
holding to religious tradition even as religion includes the new
science of evolution, as we do in the Twofold Path of the
Evolutionary Christian Church.
Who is against improving the quality of the population and why? When
answering this we can see mostly selfish and hypocritical groups and
lobbies, counter-evolutionary religions, and scare tactics due mainly
to ignorance of sociobiology. Coercive systems, such as China has,
are not advocated in this advancement toward human quality,
representative governments protecting the independence and power of
their individual states can work very well with this evolutionary
perspective.
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