Wednesday, May 01, 2013
What is the internal coherence and necessity of a great culture?
The form of culture is shaped by the
content of culture, but both form and content are instinctively shaped by the traits of the people or ethnic group who live in the culture. What great cultures have is what Nietzsche
called an “exalted and overall transfiguring goal,” a “mastery
of the drives.” At this time the Media has taken the place of real
culture, leaving us with virtually no culture, a degenerating
motley circus.
What is the internal coherence and
necessity of culture? Successful survival and reproduction, but more
than that, a continuing evolution toward the zenith of beauty, truth
and goodness in the people and in the culture, seeking the ultimate
goal of materially evolving to Godhood in the cosmos.
This is not myth-religion as illusion
and deception, contrary to the interpretations of Nietzsche and
Freud, this is real material life and evolution with a sacred goal.
We need more than the mere explanations of science and history, we
need actual philosophically religious direction as a sound basis for
the turn to evolutionary religion.
Early Nietzsche thought the Ancient
Greeks (Hellenes) saved their culture not by cutting the Gordian Knot
but by tying it back together again into a stylistic unity in their
diversity. We need to do that with an ethnopluralism of ethnostates.
Light federalism can unify and protect
divergent states with divergent ethnic groups, then we can---all of us, or only some of us, the choice is free---consciously pursue our evolution toward ascending levels Godhood, toward beauty, truth and
goodness, with the help of religion and science.
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