Friday, May 22, 2015

Ordered evolution and the middle-class


It seems that other than the middle-class, which tends to hold on to traditions that derive from real human nature, the other classes seem revolutionary or decadent. Decadent upper classes (often neoconservative) are increasingly creating only two classes, the rich and the poor, and this is accomplished at the expense of the middle-class. The middle-class is now being destroyed by global Big Money/Big Business and by unchecked immigration. And the lower class revolutionaries (often Marxist) rise by destroying middle-class conservative order. The weakness of the middle-class is their negative reaction to all change, but this seems somewhat easier to remedy than trying to turn decadents or revolutionaries into conservatives.

I believe conservatism needs to be understood as stagnating and harming the middle-class (and all groups) if it doesn't value evolutionary change within conservatism. Evolution not revolution needs to be thought of as slow but permanent. Ordered evolution rates higher than ordered liberty, which makes people too happy with the status quo. Ordered evolution affirms conservative order along with evolutionary change. There is a “maturational lag” involved in genetic improvements which requires time and order to adapt the changes. The fast pace of artificial intelligence should also slow down for the same adaptive reasons so that AI doesn't end up controlling us.

After all, it is the sacred evolution of material and supermaterial life toward Godhood which is the religious transformation required.

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