Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Snobbery and the hierarchy of real human nature
Music reviewer James Tate gave an
illuminating definition of snobbery as someone with imposing
standards but who affects those standards for social, not aesthetic
reasons.
Looking deeper though, that could
suggest another kind of snobbery of affecting aesthetic standards
over social standards, which get us into the debate over the place of
art and social behavior in society.
In the hierarchy of real
human nature I believe first comes the biological activation, and close behind
that the social activation, then finally comes the activation of art
and culture. That would be the order of a true snobbery, if snobbery
can be true.
The conservative standard of being
against ideologies could be another kind of snobbery, especially if
conservatism is defined as an ideology.
I believe conservatism starts with the
activation of biology, then follows with the biological origin of our
social and cultural behavior, including art, philosophy and even
religion which synthesizes all of them.
That is how we arrive at the moral art
suggested in theological materialism, and the political suggestion for
an ethnopluralism of ethnostates.
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