Monday, December 07, 2015
What conservatism misses in trying to fix higher education
In the West today it is the uneducated
that seem educated in protecting the permanent things that are so
necessary to the survival of any country. Why don't conservatives
promote the science of sociobiology in the
humanities departments of our colleges and universities as a way to help save the permanent
things? Mainly because conservatism has been religiously based in the
anti-materialism of religion, whereas sociobiology is based in the
naturalism and materialism of science.
Teaching students the debauched and
degraded idea (at $40 thousand a year) that there is no determined
human nature, and that authenticity is defined as acting any way they please
(as long as it is politically correct), has meant the virtually permanent
and conservative qualities of real human nature are missing. The
science of sociobiology has once again taught us that human nature
remains as it has always been: kin-centered, gender defined,
age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric,
even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other conservative
things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection.
The bridge between religion and science
is developed in the philosophy of theological materialism, where
conservatives and traditionalists can retain the old ascetic
spiritual experience of the Inward Path to the God or Father Within
but see it transformed in the Outward Path of material evolution to
real supermaterial Godhood. As Russell Kirk said, men cannot improve
a society by setting it on fire: they must seek out its old virtues
and bring them back into the light.
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