Working with what we have

Traditions matter and are often times wiser than elites (which affirms Burke and is contrary to Leo Strauss), and this suggests that changes work best with an ordered evolution. I believe in working with what we have, since I also believe we will never have perfection. That being acknowledged and affirmed, I would probably prefer to have a meritocratically selected elite of sociobiologists govern the country.

However, I agree with Raymond Cattell that if we are working within a democracy we can modify the disadvantages of democracies---such as the tendency for the have-nots to rob the haves, and the ill-informed to judge rather than a selected elite---by having selected elites help to achieve what the majority votes for and wants. I think we need to do as China is doing right now, and begin to genetically enhance our health, energy, intelligence and emotional maturity.  Everyone wants these things, right? Sociobiologists would affirm this as a high value, at least the honest and courageous ones would.

The United States actually is more undemocratic than most people think, as Fareed Zakaria pointed out, with a Constitution and Bill of Rights that expressly limit the power of government, an unelected Supreme Court, and a Senate that is one of the two least representative upper legislature bodies in the world. “All men are created equal” really needs to be seen as “equal before the law,” and equal in the Spirit-Will activating the life within all of us. There is no equality on the various dimensions of biology, culture, and genetic potential before birth, if contributions to society is the arbitrator.  We all can soon accept this reality, can we not?