Transcendent evolution as the cultural pivot

We may center on evolving great individuals but Nietzsche didn't emphasize enough the idea that individuals live within groups which are even more vital to our transcendent ideals. Nietzsche's program was therefore more revolutionary than the evolutionary conservatism of this blog.

We need to have our eye on our own age, and we shouldn't live in the past or the future, but we require the broader mission in accord with a transcendent ideal. Evolution is the cultural pivot. But this is not the basis of our artificial culture today, we have no culture in this sense, but it needs to begin, even if the first generations are ridiculed by the philistines and pedants. Such is reality.

Culture can either enhance natural human nature or warp or block it, but first we need to define human nature. Sociobiology stands on the shoulders of past great biologists and social psychologists and it defines human nature more accurately than it has ever been defined before. We are here to survive and reproduce successfully and are cultures rise from this motive---but this is not the only motive.

Evolving to Godhood in the cosmos is the transcendent religious goal which needs to be attached to the science of sociobiology. One might ask, if nature is capable of evolving higher men then why is education or culture needed? Nietzsche pointed out (“The Republic of Genius,” Quentin Taylor) that nature has its purpose but nature can be wasteful, nature does not always proceed wisely, man needs to help nature work toward his own perfection---we have become conscious of our unconscious evolution. I see this in terms of the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood which activates material life from within to Godhood, but then life is also shaped by a far less direct outside evolution.

Nietzsche thought that human existence stands in need of “justification,” with Christianity fading. and with secular creeds inadequate to the task. Our evolution to Godhood is the sacred justification, and with the Twofold Path it can work in conjunction with traditional Christianity.