Monday, July 01, 2019
Connecting and not connecting with the political right
I think it was the clear
strong paleoconservative writings of Russell Kirk and Pat Buchanan,
which was an American version of the older classical conservatism of
family, race, rank, aristocracy, and continuity, that caused me to
include conservatism in my philosophy. I had to accept the
practical side of paleoconservative continuity, bringing the new into
the old, the way the evolution of the human brain retained the old
reptilian and mammalian brain as it evolved the cerebral cortex on
top of them all. We need to work
within the system to transform it, as evolution does. But the paleos do not like
me using evolution as a comparison because they are skeptical of
evolution mainly due to their religious perspective---astoundingly
Buchanan seems be unsure that evolution is even real. Which is why I
couldn't connect with the paleoconservatives.
My view of the absolute
importance of human evolution kept me away from the
brilliant seduction of the traditionalist school too, which is where
the Alt-right turned from their old racial nationalism. Many on the
far right have now gone over to the traditionalist school of Guenon,
Evola, and the Russian Dugin, and embraced a non-populist, old spiritual religious, imperialist, hierarchy of rule, and have downplayed or even
rejected the idea of evolutionary progress. So I couldn't
connect with the traditionalist school.
I drove myself further
away from those on the right (and the left) who do affirm
evolution as I gradually developed the religious philosophy of
theological materialism, which sees a selector
in natural selection, a direction, a driving intention
in evolution, with evolution moving inevitably in a pattern, even
though it has its random elements, toward ever-ascending levels of
Godhood, in spite of instances of stagnation and retreat. This has
been a bit further than the conventionally science-minded want to go.
And the fact that I conservatively insist on the inclusion of the old
inward spiritual religion transformed in the outward evolutionary path of theological
materialism does not bring the paleoconservatives back my way on this
either.
I never liked supremacism
or imperialism on the right, it is not necessary to hate other races
to love your own; this has caused the most problems for the
right---the hatred is gleefully exploited by the corrupt left. It is
antiquated human strategy to promote the supremacy or imperialism of one group against all others as exclusively superior,
even if this sociobiological tactic enhanced survival in
hunter-gatherer times, this behavior now only brings the overpopulated
world together to destroy the supremacist imperialist group.
I wait for the day when
forced multiculturalism will give way to an ethnopluralism of
ethnostates, in line with real kin and ethnic-centered human nature.
Wilmot Robertson brilliantly suggested this years ago. I think the real debate should be over how we can conservatively adapt the
Constitutional separation of of powers and states to an
ethnopluralism of ethnostates. Cooperative competition between small
ethnostates and regions, protected internally and externally by some sort
of federalism, can bring the variety and creativity that evolution
prefers, as we all evolve toward Godhood.
The right remains divided or rejects these things, and the left just thinks the biological origin of
social behavior is evil.
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