Friday, August 09, 2019
My evolutionary conservatism
I would say I am an
evolutionary realist in art and literature, an ethnostatist in
politics, and a theological materialist in religion. I would place
these under the term evolutionary conservatism. That is what my
writing tries to synthesize every day.
I see evolution as
explained by sociobiologist E. O. Wilson and social psychologist
Raymond Cattell as the main path of progress. I see future politics
leading to the ethnostatism as first examined by maverick historian
Wilmot Robertson. I affirm conservatism as explained by Russell Kirk
and Pat Buchanan. I see art as examined by the writer Tom Wolfe, and
literature as examined by T. S. Eliot. And I affirm my own religious
philosophy of theological materialism.
But of course I don't
agree with everything these writers said. Wilson couldn't emphasize
clearly that the base of group selection and altruism is ethnic
selection. Cattell didn't try to conserve traditional religion
within his courageous new religion from science. Robertson was
brilliant and historically wise but spent too much time
fulminating against the Jews. Russell Kirk's writings were straight
talking but also oddly pretentious, and both he and Pat Buchanan
ultimately affirmed the non-materialism and asceticism of traditional
religion which blocks the material evolution to real Godhood.
So for now at least my
evolutionary conservatism has placed me in no man's land, beyond
these different regimes of thought and action, just outside the city
walls, where I try to accept my fate.
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