Thoughts on religion, conservatism, and the very long term future

Why retain the anti-science, anti-material bias of religion, why not cut yourself free from it rather than trying to transform it? I respect the conservative philosophy of life which saves the best of the past even as it changes to the new, mirroring the way the human body and brain evolved by retaining the fish, reptilian, and mammalian brain as it evolved the neocortex as the seat of higher intelligence. That is conservatism in action. In synthesizing reaction and revolution we get conservatism.

Of the three brains which we retained, one evolved upon the other, religion and modern leftist politics tend to try to block the first two, the reptilian and the basic mammalian brain, in favor of the newer, less powerful, rational brain. We try to rid ourselves of our territorial, traditional, kin-centered, and natural ethnopluralistic tendencies. But the primitive brain remains more powerful than the rational brain, which probably explains the cause of many of our modern neuroses. This has given rise to sociobiologically derived psychology (evolutionary psychology), which we hope doesn't drift too far into political correctness.

Thomas Aquinas was brilliantly conservative in saving Christianity by synthesizing the Ancient Greeks. Teilhard de Chardin also tried to include evolution in religion, but evolution for him moved toward the same completely non-material God, which is the antithesis of material evolution.

Burke, Eliot, and Kirk were wise conservative cultural and political philosophers. But the Alt-right has little time for conservative philosophy often rejecting it outright in favor of revolution, although over the last few years many in the Alt-right have absorbed the Traditionalist School of Alexander Dugin by way of Guénon and Evola, which ironically was conservative in synthesizing paganism back into the revealed religions (or the other way around.)

I am a conservative in affirming the American Constitution and deferring to custom and older Western wisdom. I understand that change should be cautiously approached by affirming ordered evolution. I avoid being “provincial in time” by going even further back to our Pleistocene past, where we evolved the human nature we still have today, and also by thinking about our sociobiological responsibility to the future.

I take seriously the earnest warnings of our Founders about avoiding entangling foreign alliances, unlike the neoconservatives who are not conservative and use big government and armed force for nefarious purposes around the world. Even so I support and am proud of our armed forces, especially our special forces, in protecting us from always rising radicals, globalists, and imperialists.

I value variety, which is so important to real evolution, by affirming ethnostates and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, which could be legally accommodated by the separation of powers and states in the original Constitution, actually protecting variety, unlike our present multiculturalism which seeks an impossible homogenization. I think government should be small and the private sphere large.

But I am progressive in thinking there is a necessity for objective international sociobiological research institutes, voluntarily applied toward enhancing our survival and our future evolution. I value the order of nature, especially in its evolutionary aspects, in that we evolve in nature materially and super-materially to Godhood. The Twofold Path conservatively relates to past traditional religious tradition, first glimpsed symbolically as the God Within, which was a hint of the Godhood materially evolved to in the cosmos. With ordered evolution I believe we can now consciously help nature evolve toward the higher evolution it has so far only unconsciously been moving toward, activated inwardly and materially, while being shaped by outside selection and evolution.