Tuesday, December 04, 2018

The mediation between individualism and socialization


Philosophers and psychologists have continual disputes about the mediation between individualism and socialization but few see the science and art of sociobiology as the key to the mediation. Instead they get lost in fastidious displays of learning.  Most of science has distanced us from the self within the folds of cold objectivism, and religion has distanced us from reality with a fantasy-non-materialism as the goal of life. 

The science and art of sociobiology mediates between individualism and socialization realistically.  As E. O. Wilson put it "Within groups, selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals....Hereditary altruists form groups so cooperative and well-organized as to out-compete non-altruists groups.” That concisely explains the mediation between individualism and socialization. Group-selection is the primary unit of successful selection, followed or tracked by individual selection.

But we don't need to lose either religion or science. Sociobiology suggests that real kin and ethnic-centered human nature leads naturally to the social expression of regionalism, localism, and politically leads toward an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, if we have the courage to admit it. Given who we are this appears to be the best way we all can optimize the gene expression we inherited from our human ancestors. 

Then to ground this worldview as deeply as possible we need a religious philosophy to express the material evolution of life to supermaterial Godhood, which is seen in the philosophy of theological materialism.

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