Thursday, April 05, 2018
Should history be interpreted politically, theologically, or biologically?
Is it lack of knowledge or lack of
courage that causes historians to interpret history politically
rather than theologically or biologically? Now days if a historian
interprets history biologically he will be called a racist or bigot
and drummed out of history departments, which suggests a lack of courage
that is almost, but not quite justified, especially if there is a
family to feed.
I don't know if history departments
will one day be subsumed by the science of sociobiology---after
postmodernism is seen as a Machiavellian fraud---but I do think
sociobiology will one day be one of the main academic tools in
history departments.
Should history be interpreted
politically, theologically, or biologically? I think history should
be interpreted biologically but with a biology that includes
theology, call it theobiology. Politics follows after those forces. Why? Because the essential drives of human
history are biological and evolutionary as life seeks survival and
reproductive success, which develops our cultures, and the ultimate or zenith of success is
materially evolving to supermaterial Godhood, the essential evolutionary goal of life and history.
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