Monday, June 20, 2016
What happens when culture imitates nature?
“What is government itself but the
greatest of all reflections on human nature?” James Madison,
Federalist # 51
When culture imitates nature do
we then see order and harmony? Does it look like ancient Greece?
Medieval Christianity? the United States? Mao's China? Most
importantly when culture imitates nature does it imitate human nature
as well?
Human nature precedes the art and
culture which reflects human nature. And before that nature precedes
human nature. People create culture but then
culture also influences the people.
Art and culture are directly related to
what is considered “good” by the people. The various categories in religion and philosophy
which reflect the definition of the good are not really that much
different from one another when they reflect real human nature.
Beauty is not merely an intellectual
idea or spiritual formula, beauty reflects the materialism and
supermaterialism of nature. Nature is timeless, but there is only the
material and supermaterial. There is Godhood attained in evolution, but there is not the
spiritual, which can be transformed not rejected.
Material evolution tends to change and
innovate the order it creates, usually keeping the best of the past
as new changes are developed. This is the basis of real tradition and
conservatism.
Where does nature place the authority
of culture? In an emperor? In popular democracy? When authority imitates nature and human nature authority is placed in decentralized regions and states
that can be defined as ethnopluralism, which reflects the primacy of
kin and group-selection inherent in real human nature and in nature
itself.
Cultures of distinctive regions and
states and ethnic groups then follow, protected by some form of decentralized
federalism. This view of authority is more or less reflected in the
constitutional separation of powers and states which Jefferson, Hamilton and Madison affirmed in the original Constitution of the United States.
Does the material evolution of nature
and human nature have a goal or purpose behind or beyond the creation
of tradition and change? The goal is for life always to evolve within
the material world toward supermaterial Godhood, with many starts and
stops and selections along the way.
For me this answers the question, what
happens when culture imitates nature?
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