Sunday, October 06, 2019

Ideas are expressions of the biological origin of social behavior


Ideas are expressions of the biological origin of social behavior related to whatever field the ideas are presenting. This includes the ideas of religion, philosophy, politics, art, etc, which usually define the moral superiority of their causes. Ideas often mask the will to life of biology. But the idea of the biological origin of social behavior obviously does does not mask the biological origin of social behavior. 

We can indeed immanentize the eschaton, attain Godhood directly within nature and evolution, when we affirm that evolution moves inevitably in a pattern, even though it has its random elements, and the pattern has a discernible direction, in spite of instances of stagnation and retreat, toward higher and higher more effective living forms, all the way to Godhood. 

Affirming the biological origin of social behavior is an antidote to the abstractions not only of 19th and 20th century ideologies but to conflicting religious claims of moral superiority. This does not lead to radical revolution as the 19th and 20th century ideologies and as old religions often did, it leads to better understanding the reality of human nature living and competing in the world. 

Human nature IS ethnocentric and racialist and has been since humans became humans. Group-selection was the only way for individuals to successfully survive, so altruism, or being for others, was naturally limited mainly to kin and ethnic group because they shared the same genes which strive for survival. Trying to rid human nature and culture of the deep-seated preference for kin and ethnic group, which is attempted by many ideologies and religions, is like trying to rid human beings of being human. That is inhumane and cruel. 

This strongly suggests that the biological origin of social behavior and real human nature lead naturally to regionalism, localism, and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, protected from marauding imperialists and supremacists by some sort of federalism. This defines evolutionary conservatism. 

All groups can then get on better with the natural business of an ethnopluralism of ethnostates and aiding our evolution to real Godhood.

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