Tuesday, August 04, 2015
Now losing but eventually winning traditional moral culture
When “civil rights” absurdly
expands to include such things as gay marriage, transgenders, and even criminal
illegal aliens, traditional moral culture is finished and has become a “culture”
of immorality. Tens of millions of people oppose this immorality but
the cultural rulers, living in cities on both coasts of America, own both academic and
popular culture. And we know that the most underrated danger to
traditional morality comes from highly talented artists, writers, and
actors applying their talents to gross performances which
sell immorality better than the best salesmen.
Yet in spite of the present destruction
of traditional morality, I believe traditional morality will prevail, not so
much due to orthodox religious views but due to basic human nature. Traditional morality
is based in the biological origin of social behavior.
That is, in virtually every human culture ever studied, human nature
included, kin-selection preferences, incest taboos, traditional
marriage, hierarchy, division of labor, gender differentiation,
localism, ethnocentrism, and group-selection as
the primary unit of selection---individualism has been secondary. And we have that same human nature today. If culture proposes to not include
these basic traits of human nature, the culture does not last long and it will always
return to these things.
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