The denial of human nature

Human nature does not change much if at all and has not changed since the ancient hunter-gatherer times before large civilizations began. This means we can understand human nature and we can represent human nature in philosophy, politics and art and in our daily lives. Human nature is both atavistic, present and future.

It is astounding how distorted this has become, with modern philosophy even saying there is no human nature, no essence, only changing outer existence. By calling human nature “relative” and not fixed this tends to make life seem meaningless, which is a state actually championed by some thinkers. Even some religions have had problems with human nature calling it evil.

According to sociobiological studies and according to historically observation, human nature is innately conservative and we developed traditional values because these helped us survive and reproduce more successfully than not having these values. But human nature is also more deeply evolutionary, which suggests an Ordered Evolution rather than merely unchanging ordered tradition. There is an underlying telos to human nature and existence, we are evolving to Godhood in the cosmos.

How can you build a culture that ignores what we are, that ignores human nature, and why would you want to ? Modernity doesn't seem to like what we actually are, or they want to distort it so they may advance some other agenda, at least for a time, because then, often after much trouble, societies and human beings go back to what they are, which is not merely “going back” but living in the present and evolving forward.