Postmodernism goes wrong when it
thinks we can be free from the “bondage” and "terror" of history, or
that we can create meta-narratives minus the bondage of history.
If there is a “bondage,” which is
certainly a pessimistic idea, it is biological. We cannot escape the
“bonds” of biology. Why would we want to try?!
I suspect a cowardice (or deception)
among intellectuals as a consequence of the violent totalitarianism
of Marxism and Fascism, which led to their denial of any bonds to any
narrative, religious or political. But cowardice and deception do
not make good philosophy. Biology cannot and should not be left out
of our views of history.
What needs to be done is to
create/develop/adapt meta-narratives, myths, or religions that harmonize
with biologically founded history. This tends to affirm the Burkian
importance of traditions. We also need to affirm the biological
origin of social behavior, not merely cultural origins, as explained
by the science of sociobiology.
The Twofold Path and theological materialism of the Evolutionary Christian Church affirms biology as
well as culture in that we attain Godhood by way of material and
supermaterial evolution---this is the Godhood that was first seen
inwardly, but partially, in the great religions, which bonds us to
the past and the future.
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