Wednesday, January 08, 2020
Means and Ends in Art and Culture (from 2012)
I don't think high culture
sits above the struggle for existence, or that culture is above the
world of necessity. Sociobiology has taught us of the biological
connections with all social behavior.
The “State” is usually
thought of as a means to an end, but so is culture, including
religion. Life is evolving to ascending levels of Godhood and that is
the end to which biology and culture are going, consciously or
unconsciously. Perhaps only when we are fully conscious can we attain
the goal of Godhood.
High art is an affirmation
of this divine goal and should not therefore be defined as being out
of the world of struggle for existence or out of the world of
necessity. High art is an affirmation of the sacred and evolving to
Godhood is sacred. Art and culture are not an end in themselves, and
when they are, it creates inferior and lower directed art and
culture.
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