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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