The modern evolutionary political position

The modern evolutionary political position seems to be this: the state does not provide for our life and our evolution toward Godhood, it can restrict itself to providing protection against external and internal forces, and “protection against the protectors” as someone once put it. Then it is religion and science which can culturally aid in our evolution, voluntarily, with institutions that can be both privately and state funded if we choose to do so. My point is that any given political system is contingent upon the religious ethos.

There need not be a conflict between evolving talented individuals and less talented majorities when these are seen in a reciprocal relationship, the individual needs the group and the group needs the individual.  To honor the talented, the beautiful, the good, is to honor the sacred goal of evolving to the zenith of these things. Envy needs to be understood in light of advancing evolution. Those who seek to create a wedge between this reciprocal relationship, like the Marxists, should not be indulged.

As to modern liberalism, real “progress” is defined by both cultural and biological evolution. As to conservatism, sociobiology defines human nature as innately conservative, so an ordered evolution among small largely independent states within light federations seems most harmonious. Libertarianism and neoconservatism seem as internationalist as they are individualist, in effect they tend to be against the love of ones own nation, the love of ones own people, and against economic nationalism, at least partly due to an overreaction to the brutal and imperialistic world wars of the twentieth century. The same overreaction to the past misuse of science by nationalism and communism seems to have blocked the renewed science of sociobiology from political science and the humanities, where it is needed most.

In the end, man is more homo-evolutus than homo-religiosus, or rather, religiosus is evolutus. Material power is essentially acquired for this religious purpose. The Inward God or Father Within of tradition is included but transformed by the real Godhood we evolve to in the cosmos. It is religion that can hold this all together in strong community, in seeing something higher and sacred which the modern world can strive for.