We need not give up on "saving the world."
Wednesday, September 05, 2018
"Civility" does not solely come from ideas it derives more deeply from biological bonds
Burke and Kirk convinced me of the
wisdom of conservatism, but Darwin and E. O. Wilson convinced me of
the wisdom of the evolutionary sciences. Our social bonds do not
solely come from ideas, they derive more deeply from biological
bonds. And so "civility" also originates in biological
bonds. Contrary to the abstractions of liberalism, civilization does
not require a blocking or weakening of kin and ethnic-centered human
behavior. We are not more civilized when we try to neuter all
biological and local bonds to try to serve a Utopian fantasy of
universalism or equality---which both religion and politics have
attempted to do.
If there is to be a real social bonding
it must come from biological bonds that do not try to move outside of
what human nature actually is, and that is kin-centered,
gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making,
hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making,
among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of
successful
selection, followed by individual
selection.
This means civility in
reality is best grounded and even depends on natural separations, such as an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, where
distinctive groups can develop distinctive cultures in line with real
biological bonds and the biological origins of most of our social
behavior. We are now seeing what
multicultural/multi-ethnic/multiracial diversity in the same living
space has brought us, declared and undeclared civil/racial war.
And standing on the
shoulders of Burke, Kirk, and Wilson, an ethnopluralism of
ethnostates can be adapted legally (no radical revolution here) from
the traditional constitutional separation of powers and states, and
protected externally and internally by federalism.
As to the bonds of
religion, I find a conservative synthesis of these fields in the
philosophy of theological materialism, which says that both the
Inward and Outward Path experiences of Godhood in the Twofold Path
are material and supermaterial not spiritual and are of the phenomenal material world.
The traditional material inward experience of Godhood as seen or experienced
in traditional religions is retained in theological materialism but
transformed and fulfilled and reached in the Outward Path of material
evolution to supermaterial Godhood, a Godhood which is ever evolving.
We need not give up on "saving the world."
We need not give up on "saving the world."
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