Culture can be beautiful, which means harmonious, if the various parts of culture are working together, just as a woman can be beautiful when her looks are symmetrical and harmonious. Why is harmony and symmetry considered beautiful? In humans, it tends to indicate all around good health, in nature, it indicates an ecological harmony of the parts, which seems to enhance the survival of nature.
So what is a harmonious culture? The ethnopluralism hypothesis suggests to me the most
harmonious culture possible, given human nature. In every human
culture ever studied human nature included, among other things,
kin-selection preferences, incest taboos, marriage, hierarchy,
division of labor, gender differentiation, localism, ethnocentrism,
even xenophobia, and with group-selection as the primary unit of
selection. If culture proposes to not include these things, the
culture does not last long and it will always return to these things.
These things also happen to be at the core of conservatism and
tradition, whereas many of these traits are missing in, say,
communism, modern liberalism and post-modernism.
How close culture, politics and
religion should be is perhaps debatable, but I favor the separation
of powers and states, as seen in the original U. S. Constitution, but
with separate states and regions for ethnic cultures.
When the religious philosophy of
theological materialism is added to the harmony of man, nature and
culture then the evolution of life toward Godhood can continue with an all
around harmony. Politics isn't the heart of culture, religion is (and the West has all but lost its heart), but
at the heart of religion is the material and supermaterial evolution
of life toward Godhood, which can also harmonize religion and science.
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