Saturday, March 22, 2014

Our Ordered Evolution


Plans for improving life through evolution can never forget the old conservative wisdom that culture needs to be adjusted not merely to reason or science but to human nature, of which reason is by no means the greatest part, as Edmund Burke cautioned. Ordered Evolution is the watchword. Reform not revolution. The way people are, their traditions, the way they live, ethnic groups, these need to be seriously included in any thoughts of change.

Real evolution also needs to include variety, a variety of ethnic groups living in a variety of territories, each with their own bio-cultural trajectories. Class differences? It is improving the qualities of intelligence, beauty, and good character that are looked for, and these traits can show up anywhere. We need sociobiologists and geneticists to help guide us in our higher evolution, always adjusted to real human nature. Cooperation between groups even in competition is the other byword, as we all evolve toward real, not symbolic, Godhood.

This is how we, gradually, bring ourselves out of the various nihilistic blockades, the one-track world-hating religions, short-term consumer passions, declining people and cultures, which cover the modern world.  With the Twofold Path we retain the old Inward God, but it is reached in the Outward Godhood of material and supermaterial evolution...The world is not quite ready for this, but it will be, if we can survive our present dilemmas.

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