Tuesday, October 02, 2018

Adapting Hegel's grand synthesis to natural reality


We can see the way the Ancient Greeks developed the individual sacrificing to the universal, as seen in Greek tragedy, which lost the individual to the universal, and on to the Romans who brought the individual to the legal, and the medieval losing the material to a universal spiritual, and now the postmodern way of trying to make the individual the universal, with each historical movement losing one vital bond or another in the synthesis.

The universal realistically and naturalistically bonds with individual genetic drives and desires even at the furthest and weakest end of altruism, or being-for-others, as the earth and the universe itself must survive if the individual is to survive, and then altruism gains strength moving from the universal to the nation, ethnostate, ethnic group, kin and self, becoming ever stronger altruistically in genetically-activated bonding due to ever closer and therefore stronger genetic relatedness.

Next we can see how real human nature has been affirmed throughout human history to this day as being 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 logically and naturally points toward the political/cultural solution of an ethnopluralism of ethnostates. It is a conservative transformation---not revolution---which can bring about a sociopolitical or political/cultural structure most in harmony with the real human nature and natural universal evolution. "Within groups, selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals." E.O. Wilson

In theological materialism the universal exists in both the material Tirips, which is the material activation within life toward evolving to supermaterial Godhood, which works along with outside perhaps sometimes random natural evolution---and the universal also exists in individual knowledge.

So we can altruistically synthesize and bond with the individual, kin, ethnic group, ethnostate, nation, earth, and the universal, without resorting to a non-material, un-bonding,  "spiritual/universal," and we can realistically bond with the real supermaterial Godhood at the zenith of material evolution, without losing any of these bonds.

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