Saturday, May 11, 2013
How my worldview deals with the complications of human nature and modern culture
It seems to me that most of the complexities in political and cultural discourse today come from not being able to accept the stark reality that we
are higher animals driven by biological needs that help create the
cultures we create, adapting our selves and our cultures to our
various environments. There is too much cultural baggage devoted to
such things as universal sameness and equality. To see past these things, or to
see biological man, for many modern intellectuals is too much for them. The
propaganda for the modern liberal view has been powerful throughout
our educational systems and the whole media.
So its seems to be realism versus
idealism, with idealism always fading as the world and human nature
always do what they really do, that is, separate according to
differences, different states, different ethnic groups, different
cultures based on the needs of different environments, and then they
tend not to cooperate. So what can be done about this when
intellectuals don't even accept the biological part of this worldview and they
continue to think we have to find a way to all get along equally within
the same democracy? This is mainly where the complications come from,
because it really can't be done successfully.
My work tries to deal with real human
nature and real human behavior, to find a way for order to be
achieved rather than chaotic disorder over time. Sociobiology has to
be strongly included in this search because it has dealt with the
reality of real human behavior. Nietzsche's conflicts regarding the
individual and society it seems to me split into before the break
with Wagner and an after the break. Before the break he thought of
heroes working within the cultural order, and after
the break from Wagner it was individualism, individual heroes all the
way. The latter libertarian side of Nietzsche is becoming more and more popular among intellectuals on the left and the right.
What does sociobiology say about this (Wilson's version) ?
It says that the group is vital, that the group actually created our
values and ethics, with such things as altruism, which is the basis
of most religions. So libertarianism takes a back seat in this view
of human nature and the creation and maintenance of culture.
Sociobiolgy for me suggests small states, even ethnostates, and a
light federalism to protect them from internal and external threats.
But then something is needed to help then cooperate beyond
federalism.
My work moves on to worry about society
without religion, which we virtually have now, accept for surging Islam. My religion takes sociobiology into account, but unlike
Cattell's courageous Beyondism (which I admire), I keep God in
the equation, or Godhood, with my philosophy of the Twofold Path, theological materialism, etc. Conservatism influenced me more than it did Cattell, which made him too radical in relating to human nature in my opinion. But this
is thinking beyond where modern intellectuals want to go. I
think who we really are as humans will eventually take us to
evolutionary religion, if we manage to survive until then.
So that is how my worldview deals with the complications of human nature and modern culture.
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