Sacred but practical ways to bring the individual to the group

When we think of both Greek tragedy and the Christian mass as sacred ways to bring the individual to the group. soothing the alienation of the individual, we can defend those tragedies and masses with a more materialistic knowledge from the science of sociobiology, which examines the biological origin of social behavior within real human nature. This shows us, in the words of E.O.Wilson, that "within groups, selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals." Social bonding ceremonies, celebrations, or rituals may include bonding with heroes or martyrs but they nevertheless bring the alienated individual and the group together in harmony, enhancing both.

The bonding problems come when religious, artistic, or political ceremonies or bonding rituals ask the individual to bond with things that do not relate or harmonize with real human nature, such as asking or demanding that the individual be universally altruistic or universally egalitarian when human nature is basically kin-centered and ethnocentric. Concern for others simply weakens as we move out to try to include the whole earth,

This is why our bonding ceremonies, celebrations, or rituals need to take real human nature into account if we want to bring the individual and the group together in unselfish harmony. The biological origin of our social behavior actually ends the intellectual defense of postmodern relativism, only they don't know it yet. The defense of real human nature affirms in general the populist nationalism now trying to rise in the corrupted West.

This also suggests that real human nature leads naturally to the cultural expression of regionalism, localism, and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, protected by some sort of federalism. Given who we are this appears to be the best way we can bring the individual back to the group, soothing the alienation of the individual, while optimizing the gene expression we inherited from our human ancestors.

But even more deeply we can resolve the human tragedy when we affirm the sacred goal of evolving material life to supermaterial Godhood. That is what needs to be bonded in religious/philosophical celebrations and masses. which can also bring the unification or synthesis of religion and science, biology and culture. That is what can save a naturally and rightly separated humanity over time.