Beyond culture as empty noise

What is culture? If you say as Nietzsche did that culture is for the production of geniuses, or if you say as Hegel said that culture is fulfilled by the state, you now have to be aware of the sociobiological insight which says that "within groups, selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals." (E.O. Wilson)

The biological origin of our social behavior better explains, or puts in its place, the intellectual defense of the productions of genius, and better explains statism. That is, individual geniuses need the group as much as the group needs the geniuses. All creators are jazz philosopher's riffing on the work of men of the past, or if you prefer, classical composer's creating variations on past themes. For the survival of both the creators and the societies they work within, geniuses need to create social rather than antisocial creations---although during the time of creation they need complete creative freedom.

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Culture needs to be more than high knowledge, it needs to embody the material evolution of man toward supermaterial Godhood. That is the way we "transcend," we do not transcend into a non-material spiritual nothingness defined as the goal of culture. Leave the evolution of the natural world and the evolution of man out of the culture and you have mostly empty noise defined as culture.