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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