Acceptance of everything?

Today I watched the first few minutes of a c-span book interview with Michael Lewis and Malcolm Gladwell (Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt ) which began with a nudge, nudge, wink, wink at morality, the sort of ironic pose that many modern intellectuals like to take, assuming that morality and values are relative to time, place and environment, which is cultural Marxism. Nonsense. Why is cultural Marxism the exception to the demand for a relativity of values? But the audience seemed to go along with the game, even though most of the audience were probably moralists---unless colleges and universities have been doing a better job of teaching this bilge than I thought they are doing.

Morality is natural, we don't have to bring in supernaturalism---although there are supermaterial goals to natural evolution. Morality is as natural as distinguishing or discriminating between what will hurt us and what will help us; this is a solid part of human nature which helped us survive some very difficult conditions over much time. A relativity in values and morality was encouraged by Friedrich Nietzsche and his followers, who overlooked or underemphasized the vital biological foundation of mutual aid seen in natural altruism, which religion incorporated. Group selection developed out of this altruism and remains today the primary unit of selection, even though this truth is buried in political correctness.

Acceptance of everything is said to give us freedom, but that is like a slave trying to justify his slavery. Yes, it is good to know what we cannot change, but change is directly related to sociobiological success in living and evolving, which is what life is about, and we therefore need to change or revitalize what we believe needs changing. Some things which we work toward may not change in out lifetimes. So What? Heroic living is healthier than slavery. The relativity of values and morals of our intellectual “leaders” (which hypocritically is itself a strict valuation) has led to nihilism, decadence, degeneration, hedonism, and the continuation of the slow destruction of the Western world.  I don't buy it.