Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Can traditional conservatism avoid its own tragic drama and downfall?
Traditional conservatism
is right in trying to religiously harness human nature but wrong in
the type of harness applied, and this is mainly due to the view of
a "fallen human nature."
Traditional conservatism
agrees for the most part with the scientific sociobiological view of
human nature---or perhaps I should say that the scientific
sociobiological view of human nature agrees with traditional
conservatism---in human nature across the world being kin-centered,
gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making,
hierarchical, and religious-making, among other things, with
group-selection as the primary unit of successful
selection, followed by individual selection.
But the "religious-making"
of traditional conservatism falls down (like modern liberalism) in
not including ethnocentrism, xenophobia, and fundamental materialism
as an important and
healthy part of human nature. Traditional conservatism excludes
these things mainly due to their view of human nature as having
fallen from the very ascetic Christ who was the most perfect man
with a perfect nature. It is those basic materialistic parts of human
nature that need to be religiously harnessed or guided rather than
called unimportant, or cut out of human nature, or called evil.
And here is where the
traditional conservative view of god needs to be transformed rather
than murdered, by seeing Godhood as material or supermaterial and as
evolved to in the material world. The "fallen"
human nature, the ethnocentrism, xenophobia, and the fundamental
materialism of real human nature can be seen as not fallen but the
very traits involved in our evolution toward real Godhood; those are
the attributes of human nature that need to be harnessed or guided by
both priests and evolutionary scientists toward evolving to Godhood
in our very material world (applying, for example, an ethnopluralism of ethnostates). To call these things evil or fallen is
to block the upward path to real Godhood.
Is traditional
conservatism headed like a tragic drama toward suffering extreme
distress or sorrow and the downfall of the main character? If
traditional conservatism can transform its view of Godhood from the
spiritual to the evolutionary material/supermaterial, and revise its
view of fallen man, then it has a chance to not only survive but
reach the Godhood it has so fervently sought. If not we may see a real
traditional conservative tragedy unfold.
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