Thursday, May 16, 2019
The reconciliation of opposites that the conservative “fusionists” applied left out biology, specifically sociobiology, and that seems to have doomed them
Much of this had to do
with the objections of the neoconservatives who would label anyone
who mentioned biology or the biological origin of social behavior a
racist, which could destroy careers.
Much of the objection also
came from the Catholic conservatives who could not reconcile the the
biological origin of social behavior with the spiritual origin of
social behavior, especially the idea that religion was the
consequence of the biological origin of social behavior seeking
bonding order for better survival.
The inherent chutzpah of
the neoconservatives claimed Pat Buchanan was anti-Semitic and kicked Pat, who is a realist not
an anti-Semite, out of the conservative journal “National Review,”
which had been overwhelmed with well organized neoconservatives, like
many conservative institutions.
So what is to be done? Is
conservative fusionism over? Not for me. The
biological origin of our social behavior actually ends the
intellectual defense of postmodern relativism and the cultural
Marxist ideologues. But it also takes some of the virtue-signaling away
from conservatives. Fusionism needs the reconciliation
of the opposites of spiritualism and
materialism, and virtually no-one wants to go there. It means
grounding conservatism in the biological origin of social behavior,
and no one wants to go there either---the Alt right will go there but
most of them reject conservatism.
The
biological origin of our social behavior brings forward
the idea of ethnostates and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, based
on real kin and ethnic-centered human nature, which in the U. S.
could even be established legally with our constitutional separation
of powers and states, protected by federalism.
The
goal of materially evolving to Godhood need not deprive us of either
science or religion. As I wrote yesterday, the fusion of the
Twofold
Path in theological
materialism respects the philosophy of conservatism and retains
the "non-material" Inward Path of traditional religion, but
transforms it in the Outward Path of material and supermaterial
evolution to real Godhood. The traditional peak material experience
of God reached inwardly by blocking material desires is seen as the
first preliminary experience of Godhood now understood as reached by
material and supermaterial evolution. The old testaments of
traditional religions are retained but transformed in the new
evolutionary religious commitments.
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