Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Radicalism versus Reform
Serious reformers don't wish to weaken
the struggle, as the radicals accuse them of doing, but they do
usually wish to remove the radicalism from the struggle. The path of
reform is the path of legality, the path of radicalism is often
illegal and self-defeating.
The West has deteriorated so far that
quick radical solutions are not deep enough or long-term enough, and
they often hinder the solutions. There is so much to correct that
endurance and patience are needed.
The rise out of degeneration may take
several generations or more, since religion, philosophy, art, etc.,
all need reforming. No civilization ever lasted long without a
religious foundation, and religion is largely lost in the West, and
new and reformed religions take generations to establish.
For example, two deep reforms I
advocate here are Theological Materialism in religious philosophy (material life evolving to supermaterial Godhood),
and Ethnopluralism in political philosophy (grounded in group-selection as the primary unit of human selection),
both of which could take generations to establish given our present
indirect cultural Marxism (“It is forbidden to forbid” ), and rule
by global corporations.
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Saving religion and philosophy from abstract principles
God is only an abstract principle in
most religions, and Being is only an abstract principle in philosophy.
When this is more or less realized, people often become atheists or
postmodern Nietzscheans.
But God, or more precisely Godhood, can
be retained when Godhood is understood to be a living supreme object,
or objects, which we can evolve to in the material and supermaterial
world.
The Twofold Path retains the old
abstract inward God or Father, which is transformed in the outward
path to Godhood attained through evolution.
The Inward God is sought by way of the
ascetic denial of human desires and is seen here as the symbolic
experience, often blissful, of real Godhood reached through
evolution.
Central values and morality are
transformed to outward evolution rather than toward the inward denial
of instinctive drives. This can save both religion and philosophy
from mere abstract principles.
Science can this way enter the province
of religion and be guided by the goals of religion and philosophy
rather than by amoral technological progress.
What was the goal set by the program of
creation at the beginning of the cosmos? I believe the activating goal---defined here as the Activation To Godhood, or the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood---is for
life to evolve in the material and supermaterial world to Godhood.
Various early and later religious and
scientific myths have developed sometimes beautiful attempts to portray
the creation and goals, or lately non-goals, of the cosmos. The more intelligent we can become the greater will be
our understanding in pursuing the sacred evolutionary goal toward Godhood.
Friday, June 26, 2015
Gay marriage?!
If traditional marriage, reproduction, and family are
the foundation from which all cultures have grown, what kind of foundation
for culture does gay marriage bring? Ask the Postmodernists. Their belief in no-belief, other than the belief
in no-belief, and their belief in no fundamental human nature, no
absolutes, stunningly includes not believing in the vital foundation of human reproduction
which naturally cannot happen in gay marriages. With gay
marriage now made legal by the highest court in the land, the
Postmodern intellectual leadership have sunk us even deeper into
their degeneration... This won't last,
real human nature, real reproduction and survival always rises, even
if a nation falls first...Our slow decline has sped up.
The origin of ethnopluralism in the material activation to Godhood
The morality of religion and philosophy
have been mostly organized from within in the desire-free value of
attaining truth or reality, or the God or Father Within, which was a symbolic experience
of the real Godhood attained in the Outward Path of material and
supermaterial evolution. The Twofold Path retains but transforms the
restraining goal of the Inward Path to the evolving goal of the
Outward Path.
In evolving toward this sacred goal of
Godhood, human communities and groups, usually arranged as ethnic
groups, can do more for individuals than individuals can alone,
which is the origin of altruism, vital interest in the genetic and
cultural welfare of others. And so over the course of evolution
group-selection became the central unit of selection, and this
behavior became the basic orientation of human nature and evolution,
which we still retain within us today.
The point made here is that harmony in political philosophy
and culture in general works better when humans arrange themselves in
an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, which corresponds best to human
nature. That is, ethnic regions and states, usually protected by
some kind of federalism. This allows real human nature to function
best, each in his own way, with the separation needed for variety in
evolution, along with the deeper goal of long term material evolution
to Godhood.
Time and again throughout human history
empires have broken down into ethnostates and ethnopluralism due
mainly to the real human nature mentioned above. So the action
proposed here is to consciously and rationally move toward
ethnopluralism, but do so legally, conservatively, keeping traditions
even as we transform them. For example, the U.S. Constitution
separates powers and states which could accommodate a future
ethnopluralism, thereby seeking to avoid civil disruptions and even
civil war between increasingly contending ethnic cultures.
The origin of ethnopluralism in the
material activation to Godhood sanctifies the human behavior and
political form which is essential to our survival and well-being,
and our deeper evolution toward Godhood.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Goals and sub-goals in deep conservatism
“Conservatism” has goals and
sub-goals and I think this requires an evolutionary conservatism, a
deep conservatism in view of the final goals here defined as as
material evolution to supermaterial Godhood. This also applies to
politics, religion and philosophy, where traditions can be
maintained, as in conservatism, but transformed, as in theological materialism.
For example, I think the U.S.
Constitution could accommodate ethnopluralism, with regions and
states for distinct ethnic cultures, grounded in the tradition of the
separation of powers and states, which could help the increasingly
feuding ethnic groups in America, and the unending legal and illegal
immigration into America, and do so in a realistic way that does not counter
real human nature, which remains group-selecting.
Deep conservatism could also apply the
Inward Path of traditional religion which is designed to reach the
symbolic experience of the God or Father Within and retain but
transform it into the Outward Path of material and supermaterial
evolution to real Godhood.
This helps define a deeper conservatism
with final theological goals and sub-goals. The more we know the
better we can adjust the sub-goals to the goals. Human genetic and
environmental improvements can improve our decision-making---it is
not only artificial intelligence that requires enhancement.
Monday, June 22, 2015
What Can Mediate Modern Life?
Religion no longer mediates much of
modern life, philosophy doesn't, science doesn't (other than a sort
of technocracy), and politics doesn't, not in meaningful ways. What
seems to lead us now, as Pierre Manent pointed out (Modern Age,
Winter 2015), is conquest through expansion of the human commercial
empire and the claim that it “lifts all boats.” That is how we
try to relieve the tensions and mediate between everyone, rich, poor,
different ethnic groups, nations, etc, this is our modern “universalism.”
This has left modern man, individuals and nations, without much
deeper meaning and direction.
The proposed form here of mediation or “political
science,” between “what we are and what we do,” is
the following: We start with the universal activation of life to
survive, we include universal human nature as being essentially
group-selecting, then following real human nature we separate
ourselves politically and culturally into a natural ethnopluralism of
ethnostates, protected by some form of federalism---which can be
accommodated by many conservative traditions, then we mediate our
biological and cultural evolution with the evolutionary and
sociobiological sciences, and finally more deeply we mediate with the
religious philosophy of theological materialism, which specifies that
material life is universally evolving to supermaterial Godhood, with
starts and stops along the way, and we consciously, religiously, philosophically, scientifically, politically and culturally help that sacred evolution along.
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Final goals at the activation of creation
Supposedly at the primordial creation a
goal-system of life was present. Some think there are no such goals,
but it seems to me that the definition of life itself suggests that
life requires at least the goal of living and surviving.
I think the zenith or final goal of
evolving life is for life to evolve materially and then
supermaterially to Godhood, which is the greatest survival, and I
think this goal was there from the primordial creation of life, even
if life has been created many times over in many cosmos.
To reach the final goals of life it would seem that the more
intelligent we are---which might include beauty, truth and
goodness---the better we will see and reach the final goal, and so
these traits and values could be consciously pursued in consciously
helping to direct evolution.
Final goals in this sense might be said
to constitute a key aspect of survival, and have been present with the
activation of life in the first place, and present as the activation
within life, called here the material/supermaterial Spirit-Will-To-Godhood.
Thursday, June 18, 2015
The method we use to deal with change is the central political question
Culture and politics need to be
compatible with human nature or we end up getting nowhere. Prior to
the central question of political change the question is: what is
human nature?
As Paul Lewis pointed out (Modern Age,
Winter 2015), Edmund Burke's rising Whig bourgeoisie could have
created a revolution against English feudalism if England had not
already gone through centuries of change, such as the so-called
“Glorious Revolution” against the Stuart kings, which brought
about more press freedom, annual sessions of Parliament, and a more
limited monarchy---although the “revolution” also included some
violent change as well.
Those who think America was not
class conscious because we had no feudal past don't define the Civil
War as a northern bourgeoisie revolution against a feudal South, which it was
in many ways. Now we have seen the rise of another feudal-like
system, global capitalism, with the one percent controlling more and
more of the wealth and the people becoming more like serfs.
So we can anticipate revolution against
the one percent, as well as disruptions, civil disorder, and even revolution
resulting from multiculturalism and contending ethnic groups, which
is increasingly seen. And here is where the method dealing with
change becomes vital. I think we need a combination of conservatism,
modern liberalism, and the evolutionary science of human nature, a
combination of Burke, Thomas Paine and Edward O. Wilson.
Contrary to Burke, human nature is not
a “mere abstraction,” human nature is the state of nature that
preceded the creation of culture. But contrary to Paine, human
nature is also much influenced by the environment, social groups,
habits and traditions, which depend on the time and the place. It is true that abstract ideas have
often led to radical revolution, but social traditions have often led
to stagnation. So, again, how political philosophy deals with change
is vital.
I believe human nature is now defined
by the evolutionary sciences more accurately than ever before as
including kin-selection preferences, incest taboos, marriage,
hierarchy, division of labor, gender differentiation, localism,
ethnocentrism, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other
things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection. If
culture or political philosophy proposes to not include these things,
the culture does not last long and it will always return to these
things.
I believe this view of human nature
leads to the ethnopluralism hypothesis, and so I think we need to
apply the best methods to deal with the changes needed to establish
ethnopluralism. Will it be revolutionary or conservative change? As
mentioned above, I think a combination of conservatism and modern
liberalism grounded in the evolutionary science of human nature—a
combination of Burke, Paine and Wilson---is the way to change.
In the United States the separation of
powers and states seen in the original Constitution could legally
lead to an ethnopluralism of regions and states with ethnic cultures,
protected by a light federalism. I think this might better avoid
radical revolution against the new feudalism of the global one percent, as
well as avoiding civil disorder and revolution from multiculturalism, with
contending ethnic groups, which is increasingly seen.
With a deep conservatism, I would hope
that the religious foundation required by any long lasting
civilization would, gradually, change toward the philosophy of
theological materialism, which retains but transforms past religion,
as we all evolve materially in our own ways toward supermaterial Godhood.
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
How Franzen's “Freedom” was almost a great novel
I finally read Jonathan Franzen's long novel
“Freedom,” five years after it was published. I don't read many
modern novels because I usually find them intellectually arrogant, merely pornographic, and always modern-liberal.
Franzen is of course a modern-liberal
but he is also a literary genius, and because he is a genius he very
effectively holds his mirror up to modern liberalism, that is,
environmentalism, overpopulation, sustainable agriculture, and so on, and so on, which are important, but massive government programs are not the way to resolve these issues---to his credit Franzen does ridicule neoconservativism.
But Franzen's beautiful mirror of
nature leads to becoming unintentionally
a striking condemnation of the wasteland of modern-liberalism with no
way out other than individualistic love between lost people. Love is
of course important but divorced from a larger religious sensibility
it can become sterile. Religion has had answers to what purpose we are
born, although I think traditional religion limits life's purposes to experiencing the
ascetic Inward Path to the God or Father Within, which secondarily points to
Franzen's love as the answer, and that is not
enough.
The
universe is orderly and meaningful, material life evolves to
supermaterial Godhood, with starts and stops along the way, which is the real purpose of life and religion. Art
and religion can both affirm this meaning and purpose. The material and the supermaterial
are as one. To change T.S. Eliot, this is not a dead land, this is
not a cactus land, only the Inward Path requires the blocking of all material desires to experience the God Within. Art can affirm the sacred Outward Path with evolutionary realism, as life evolves toward outward Godhood.
So
for those reasons I think the novel was “almost” a great novel. I could
have defined it as great if Franzen had retained his genius paean to
modern-liberalism but then at the end, with the denouement, his
characters had discovered paleoconservatism, or better yet, affirmed the
ethnopluralism hypothesis as the way out of the devastation of
modern liberalism. And deeper than that would be an affirmation of
theological materialism for the lost world of modern philosophy. But then it might not have
found a publisher.
Monday, June 15, 2015
Fate and Nature's Evolution
“Fate is decreed, no one can escape it,
not even a God.” (Herodotus)
“Necessity” as the way of nature's
evolution might help explain “fate” in ancient Greece. Evolutionary “justice” in nature is
not always the same as human justice, and this is where justice might
seek harmony with nature's evolution. In this sense, Charles Darwin and E.O.Wilson could be thought of as our
evolutionary “oracles.”
Fulfilling what appears to be the
largely determined fate of nature's evolution seems to be the
overarching challenge, but how to discern nature's evolution and
nature's justice and then apply it to human justice is the epic question.
Meanwhile, we often act as if we are
free when we don't know our fate in nature's evolution. But then
animal's fulfill their fates in nature even though they are totally
ignorant of their fates. We can apply science to try to figure out
any determinism in nature, but we can also apply intuition and even
revelation (oracles to the Greeks). Rationality might even have to
bring itself in line with nature's evolution.
The fundamental pattern perceived in the fate of nature's evolution as seen in theological materialism, written about here, is the largely determined evolution of material life to supermaterial Godhood. Humans are at least partially free to choose between several determined paths. Ronald Osborn (Modern Age, Winter 2015) thought that localized political freedom was applied by the Ancient Greeks but it could not release them from the underlying fate of their Gods.
Osborn suggests why obedience to the rule of Law by the Greeks was superior to obedience to the absolute monarchy of the Persians: “the law bids them always the same thing” whereas the monarch can be capricious and unpredictable. This had profound consequences for future politics and the social order in the West.
The fundamental pattern perceived in the fate of nature's evolution as seen in theological materialism, written about here, is the largely determined evolution of material life to supermaterial Godhood. Humans are at least partially free to choose between several determined paths. Ronald Osborn (Modern Age, Winter 2015) thought that localized political freedom was applied by the Ancient Greeks but it could not release them from the underlying fate of their Gods.
Osborn suggests why obedience to the rule of Law by the Greeks was superior to obedience to the absolute monarchy of the Persians: “the law bids them always the same thing” whereas the monarch can be capricious and unpredictable. This had profound consequences for future politics and the social order in the West.
The old Norse suggested a way out of fate
through great courage or great love---“Courage at the edge of the
Abyss”---which is interesting coming from one of the gloomiest
ancient religions regarding the certain fate of man and the world.
Saturday, June 13, 2015
The definition of the object is secondary to the object itself
Does the sacredness of the living
object elevate the physical over the mental? What it seems to do is
place the definition of the object, by word or mathematics, as
secondary to the object itself.
We have been defining and than
worshiping the definition since before Plato, and not worshiping the
living sacred supreme object, or supreme objects of life, which we can materially and
supermaterially evolve to become, culminating in real Godhood. This
is the legitimate transvaluation needed, not the death of God, which
was the transvaluation Nietzsche desired.
Definitions and symbols are of course important, in their place, but religion, philosophy, and culture,
need to be liberated from worship of the definition.
Thursday, June 11, 2015
The American Founders and Sociobiology
I agree with Robert Kraynak that each generation needs to
rediscover the American Founders. Here is how I do it.
I prefer the term ordered evolution to
“ordered liberty,” based on the observed patterns of natural
phenomena leading to natural law. After centuries of study human
nature can now be seen as kin-centered, gender defined, heterosexual
marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and
religious-making, among other mostly traditional things, with
group-selection as the primary unit of selection. And due mainly to
basic human nature, America has become a melting pot which did not
melt, and we are left with Native Americans,
Afro-Americans, Latin Americans, Asian Americans, Jewish Americans, European
Americans, and so on.
Deeper than this I believe that natural
law also contains the material and supermaterial activation of life
to materially evolve toward Godhood, which was first only
symbolically experienced as the Father or God Within in the Inward Path of traditional religions. Ordered evolution mirrors this sacred goal more clearly than ordered liberty. Freedom is not the
hyper-individualism of libertarianism, and not the state empowering (supposedly) people with a powerful centralized state.
The Founders wanted limited government
with a separation of powers and states protected in their
independence by federalism. This separation of powers and states can
fit with having ethnic cultures living in virtual ethnostates and regions with an
ordered ethnopluralism, protected by federalism. This can be done slowly---we might even have regions that want to try to remain multicultural in one territory.
The Founders did not support global
imperialism even while thinking that America could remain a great
power. Economic nationalism fits this best, with tariffs on foreign
goods and with the protection of American manufacturing, which is now
nearly lost to the enrichment of a global few, very few.
As to the cultural wars, “enlightened
traditionalism” (Kraynak) fits with the biological origin of much
of social behavior as discovered since the time of the Enlightenment,
which has even affirmed human nature as perpetuating the traditional
values, as mentioned above.
The balance to get right is the
freedom to evolve in accord with human nature and natural law, which
I think leads to ethnopluralism, while accommodating the rediscovery
of the Founders ideas of America and their vision of limited
government and the separation of powers and states. Rediscovering and
transforming the ideas of the Founders into a workable ethnopluralism
would cause far less human suffering than waiting for human nature to
explode and split America apart in civil war, or in being overcome by a
foreign power.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Why we may want to anthropomorphize artificial super-intelligence
Anthropomorphizing artificial super-intelligence
may keep it from controlling us. The challenge is to not let human
intelligence slow down creative artificial super-intelligence without
creating a monster.
As Nick Bostrom put it, there would
be a huge difference between artificial super-intelligence with an IQ of,
say, 6,455, and a human with a 130 IQ. It would probably be
impossible for humans to predict what a 6,455 IQ might do. That is
why we have to be on guard. The same unpredictability might happen with the appearance of an alien extraterrestrial intelligence.
Bostrum asks, what if the
super-intelligence decides to pave the world with solar panels to
serve its own energy needs? Indeed. A super-intelligence might be
programmed to seek Nietzschean power only. I think power,
happiness, even survival are secondary drives to the primary goal of life
evolving toward Godhood. Artificial super-intelligence does not have that ancient sacred life
activation, which is defined here as the
Spirit-Will-To-Godhood---science has not even as yet recognized it.
It would be far better to have
artificial super-intelligence working with life as an aid in our
evolution. It often seems that the futurist's want to replace
life with artificial super-intelligence, they seem to applaud this, which is really anti-life, unless they controlled it for themselves. That might bring that old overbearing imperial dictatorship again.
Monday, June 08, 2015
Religion and Ethnopluralism
This morning on the news when police
moved in at a hip-hop concert to stop black lawbreakers, one man
cried “You treat us like animals!” I suppose if a police chief
said: "When you break the law you act like animals,” that
would only cause another riot. But what can be done about the increasing
racial unrest we are seeing?
“Multicultural” societies are
inefficient in creating uniformity of purpose in the members of a
large motley group. Ethnic cultures share many of the same traits and
have better social coordination, which is why ethnic groups tend to
live near one another even in multicultural societies. Sure there are
arguments and even fights but ethnic societies are far more
coordinated than multicultural societies.
I think since we already tend to
naturally separate ourselves, we should do this formally, with a real
ethnopluralism, that is, small ethnostates and regions, which in
America could be legally accommodated by the separation of powers and states in the U.S.
Constitution. This is the most realistic chance we have of all
getting along together.
The task of preserving order and
tradition should be the mission of conservatives, but
multiculturalism goes largely unopposed by conservatives, perhaps
mainly do to the non-material equality of souls as seen in the
Christian Inward Path. This has caused some realists to reject
religion, or to go back to a partially revived paganism.
Science and the arts, and modern or
postmodern philosophy, mainly fathered by Nietzsche, have not offered
a living alternative to religion. All civilizations were founded in
religion and decline when religion declines, which we are now
increasingly seeing in the West.
Theological materialism and the Twofold Path can salvage religion, the basic elements and symbols of religion
are reborn and transformed. Inherent non-materialism has caused
religion to be unequipped to deal with real life over the long term.
This can be overcome in the biological and superbiological evolution
to real Godhood as affirmed in the Outward Path of theological
materialism, which was only symbolically experienced as the Father Within of the Inward Path.
Evolution can then continue in a more orderly way as each ethnic culture is affirmed in its own way, in its own space. It is time to at least start thinking of this.
Saturday, June 06, 2015
How to detect if you're conservative
When I read a Victorian novel and a
modern novel at the same time it's always a relief to come back to
the Victorian novel. It seems that modern novels are usually
culturally chaotic, whereas Victorian novels are orderly. I'm not
here speaking about looking
for order, I'm looking to be entertained or perhaps to learn
something. Still the Victorian novel is a relief after the modern
novel. I'm talking here about feelings
before thoughts.
Not to complicate this too much, but it
seems that often our behavior, the roles we play, are designed for
some artificial social or political objective, rather than
living---or reading in this case---with authenticity. Since I believe
group-selection is instinctively the primary unit of selection this
suggest an instinctive human social and moral order. I wonder if
hyperindivualistic modern liberals have this feeling of preferring
order but are ignoring it, do to the imbibed a-morality of modern culture, or are they unaware of this feeling for order? Then again maybe I've inauthentically imbibed the role of conservatism, but I don't think so, I didn't arrive at my version of conservatism through the usual channels.
Friday, June 05, 2015
Allowing Ethnocentrism
The above title will seem outrageous to
many people, but the way to combat racism is
to allow it. Being against racism certainly has not stopped it. The
solutions of both the liberals and conservatives have been mistaken:
conservatives tend to deny racism and liberals want to outlaw it.
Modern western culture has created a
vast field of ruin, to use a phrase of Nietzsche's. There has been an
attempt to escape real human nature with hyperindivualism and
solipsism, leading to self-indulgence, greed, sensual excess,
addiction, and so on.
The day will one day come when one is
not called a bigot for admitting ethnocentrism, because real human
nature does eventually rise. According to the honest (and
courageous) wing of the sociobiological sciences, human nature
remains kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual
marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and
religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as
the primary unit of selection. Human nature does not really atrophy
but it can be shoved underground in society by fostering other
emotional values.
This means that ethnopluralism with
small ethnostates is the realistic way to create social and cultural
order, protected by some sort of federalism---we cannot rely on our
own virtues alone. The U. S Constitution could even legally affirm
ethnopluralism in view of the separation of powers and states. Like
school children fighting in the schoolyard, the way to create peace
and order is to separate them, give them their own space.
And finally, the highest values are not
merely preservation (survival) or enhancement (power), contrary to
Nietzsche. Values are defined by evolution, ongoing material and
supermaterial evolution toward Godhood, with Godhood reaching the
highest value. Survival and power are secondary to this evolutionary
valuation. Eventually we are evolving beyond our present ethnic
groups.
Wednesday, June 03, 2015
The Aesthetics of How We Know
I don't reject the empirical way of
knowledge or reject epistemology, but I give intellectual intuition,
as seen in aesthetics and in religion, a central role. The human
empirical restrictions or disciplines can come later to affirm what
intellectual intuition finds.
I say “human” ways of thought
because humans do seem confined to the limitations of their own
minds, but I don't believe we are trapped there, as Kant thought,
unable to find real truth or find the thing-in-itself. Like the
latest “speculative realists” I don't see “epistemology having
primacy over ontology,” as Steven Shaviro put it.
Epistemology can trap us in the human
process, whereas the cosmos has more than the human process working.
There are things in the world outside of the human perception of
them. But we can think or intuit that all living things share an
activating Spirit-Will-To-Godhood residing materially or
supermaterially within life, which humans can grasp intuitively, and
which other things or objects in the world may or may not grasp. There is, or was, even such a thing as intuitionist mathematics which relies on intuitive more than discursive reasoning.
We can grasp reality in nature because we are part of nature even if we are not the whole of nature. We are evolving along with nature toward Godhood. And this is not defined as philosophical idealism or spiritualism, the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood is a material or supermaterial activation and dependent on evolution.
This also does not reject traditional religion, it transforms the Inward God, or the Father Within, from only the inward symbolic experience of Godhood, to the Outward Path of material evolution to real Godhood within the cosmos. The beauty of real conservatism, or deep conservatism as I call it, is that it finely modifies past tradition but does not reject it. For example, we can arrive at the orthodox view of beauty, which is not merely in the eye of the beholder, and truth is not beyond the grounded values and morality of our material and supermaterial evolution toward Godhood.
We can grasp reality in nature because we are part of nature even if we are not the whole of nature. We are evolving along with nature toward Godhood. And this is not defined as philosophical idealism or spiritualism, the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood is a material or supermaterial activation and dependent on evolution.
This also does not reject traditional religion, it transforms the Inward God, or the Father Within, from only the inward symbolic experience of Godhood, to the Outward Path of material evolution to real Godhood within the cosmos. The beauty of real conservatism, or deep conservatism as I call it, is that it finely modifies past tradition but does not reject it. For example, we can arrive at the orthodox view of beauty, which is not merely in the eye of the beholder, and truth is not beyond the grounded values and morality of our material and supermaterial evolution toward Godhood.
We can intellectually intuit the
activating forces within the life we are living, and we do that the
way the artist uses intuition as the medium of knowledge, or the way
the religious seer uses intellectual intuition as the criterion for
awareness of reality, goodness, truth and beauty. This is the way the
activating Spirit-Will is seen or understood. After this aesthetic
and religious intuitive medium we can apply the more humanly
restricted forms of empirical knowledge.
The post-moderns have trapped
themselves in Kant's blockade of human knowledge, which has caused
them to embrace nihilism as truth. The intellectual intuition
affirmed here, and in theological materialism, allows us to break out of the Great Spiritual Blockade
so that we may continue, consciously this time, evolving materially
and supermaterially toward Godhood. This leads to the foundational
values and morals of our lives... This helps explain the aesthetics
of how we know.
Tuesday, June 02, 2015
Bruce Jenner's repugnant attempt to change himself from a man to a woman
To see the entire national media
applauding former Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner's repugnant attempt to
change himself from a man to a woman suggests that it won't be long
before describing sexual perversions as “pathology” in the United
States will send you to jail, which is now done in some European
countries.
I have never given much attention to
the Kardashians, not because they are debauched, but because they are
boring and unoriginal. But now I understand how ill-fated it was for
the Kardashian children to have had a father (and stepfather) who was
so pathologically ill that he did not care what they did or who they
did it with. The national media and the academic world probably can't
believe how lucky they are to have found another way to defile and
emasculate white males.
Well, real human nature, which sociobiologically
remains kin-centered, gender defined, age-grading, heterosexual
marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and
religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the
primary unit of selection, always rises to cultural power and puts
these kind of deviations back in the closet in order to save itself.
Monday, June 01, 2015
Ethnopluralism shores up the weakness in two systems
In an essay in “Chronicles” a while back Andrei
Navrozov speculated on the differences between the West and East as
between Western “civilization” and Eastern “militarization.”
Militarization is collective, external, sacrificial, civilization is
individual, inward, pleasure-oriented.
Some general once said that a good leader never walks past a mistake or it will come back to hurt you later. It seems to me we need both the advantages of group-altruism and the creativity of individualism to shore up the weakness in both systems---but we need to add ethnopluralism to any long-term solution. Ethnopluralism can offer both group-selection and creative civilization in their most natural state.
Can this be done? The task of
ethnopluralism in the West is to liberate the culture from the
sorcery of cultural Marxism which defines political correctness---it
is a lie which has covered up control by an imperialistic few.
Given the security implications of
government forms, I consider this to be a security issue. Ethnopluralism
can save America from eventual chaos and disorder. According to real human nature, people naturally prefer their own kind, living in their own territories. I am an
American patriot, the U.S Constitution could accommodate
ethnopluralism with its natural separation of powers and states, which
tends to happen anyway following civil disruptions or war. But I
certainly advocate doing things legally.
If other nations East or West see the
wisdom of ethnopluralism, so much the better for them.
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