Ideas do not transcend biology

Ideas do not transcend biology. The biological origin of social behavior activates the ideas and develops whole cultures that enhance biology. This does not mean that geography, social organization, religion, etc. do not contribute to the creation of our cultures, they obviously do.

But everything healthy depends on unblocking the knowledge of the biological origin of social behavior. The disguising of the biological origin of social behavior is ironically often activated by the biological origin of social behavior. Modern liberals (cultural Marxists) are mainly ignorant of doing this because they have not been taught or have been blocked from this reality by the media and the schools.

“Biology and the genes are the hardware and culture is the software...The genes are like the keyboard on which the song of life is played, but the pianist is the social environment. It helps determine which genes are turned on or off.” John T. Cacioppo

Human nature is biologically kin-centered and ethnic-centered, even xenophobic, as well as being genetically gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, and religious-making, with group-selection and ethnic selection as the primary unit of successful selection. Even the conservatives don't accept all of real human nature, they too block or conceal the ethnic-centered and xenophobic parts of human nature due perhaps to universalist religious edicts, or from fear of losing their likelihoods, which is understandable but must be overcome so we can realistically heal our dying cultures.

We are naturally fragmenting into a nation of competing races in a zero game where the gains of one ethnic group is offset by the losses of another ethnic group, with much cruel social discord in the process. But all is not lost.

We may gradually realize the reality that multicultural multi-ethnic societies just don't work. The twenty first century could be the century of the rise of ethnostatism. The humaneness of ethnostates will be understood as being in harmony with the biological origin of social behavior, and in accord with real human nature.

A true natural rights or civil rights movement would promote an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc., and defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

A federalism of the American variety with strong states rights can also work for future ethnostates

My conservative instincts and my mind tell me that in order to conserve traditional America changes are necessary. First of all it's the people that need conserving, the biological origin of social behavior tells us that the culture and the laws are there to aid in the successful survival and reproduction of the people living under the culture and the laws.

The biological origin of social behavior and real human nature, which is genetically kin and ethnic centered, leads naturally to regionalism, localism, and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all ethnic groups or races, black, brown, red, white, or yellow. In the U.S. ethnostates can be adapted from our Constitutional separation of powers and states, and then protected with a defensive federalism from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and global money grubbers.

A federalism of the American variety with strong states rights can also work for future ethnostates. A defensive federalism will be is necessary because small ethnostates will need protection from big imperial projecting countries like China and Russia. For example, China is building its own space force since space is the high ground from which future wars will be fought. We will have to master space to defend our nation and our future ethnostates. And China and Russia will have to master the natural pull of their own people toward ethnostates.

Why Evolutionary Realism in Art (from the archive)

Art is an imitation of some sort, as Aristotle thought, but more importantly art values the thing represented, the content of the thing represented. For example, great art is often an affirmation of the sacred as defined by the culture. In traditional or classical art, low art it usually a less sophisticated version of high art. In modern times most art is minor or low art which usually negates or denies the sacred.

Realism remains the best way to affirm the sacred, but then Evolutionary Realism takes into account change within the Ordered Evolution of life, which is the authentic conservative perspective. Unrealistic art can of course affirm the sacred but it is less suited to reaching the people and the culture with its message.

Hume thought the principles of taste are generally uniform in human nature but human nature is capable of corruption, systematic mistakes, and ethnic differences (for more on this see the excellent "The Art Instinct" by David Dutton). Without real human nature judgments on art would collapse into personal preferences---interesting that postmodernism has rejected human nature and rejected essences and therefore promotes a complete relativity in taste.

Life never ceases to evolve toward ascending levels of Godhood, with stops and starts along the way, and Evolutionary Realism seems best suited to affirm this sacred mission in art and culture.

Giving new life to pursuing the higher goals of great philosophy and literature

 What if the pursuit of an understanding of the spirit as the higher task of philosophy and literature finds that there is no non-material spirit but there is a sacred material activation to evolve to ascending levels of Godhood in the material and supermaterial world? What does that do to conservative philosophy and literature? It keeps philosophy and literature ultimately centered on the higher goals which great philosophy and literature should examine but life is freed from the great spiritual blockade and allowed to get on with the vital business of evolving to ascending levels Godhood in the material and supermaterial world---this time with the help of synthesizing with the material sciences. That is what the philosophy of theological materialism offers.

Ethnostates and ethnopluralism, supremacism and imperialism

The supremacy or imperial dominance of one race over all others, whether noble, chosen or savage, it is a bad survival and reproductive strategy, especially in today's overcrowded world, the unincluded groups always gang up on and defeat the supremacy-claiming group, and on it goes.

In any case people don't bond with imperial empires, empires are too far removed from local people for natural altruism to work. But the exploiters and marauders of the earth prefer empires, which they selfishly dominate, and, irony of ironies, they often pursue for ethnocentric reasons. Empires always fall apart and reform into ethnostates, or an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, as an honest reading of history shows us. But any ethnopluralism needs to be strongly protected and defended from marauding empires.

Racial supremacism was a big problem for the fascists, they couldn't find a way other than to apply racial supremacism to deal with ethnocentric human nature in a world of diverse races. Humans have been ethnocentric and racialist since humans became humans because in the old tribal days ethnic or group-selection was the best 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 successful survival and reproduction. Those genes are still with us today.

We may gradually realize the reality that multicultural multi-ethnic societies just don't work. It would be better to talk of un-assimilating differences rather than about superiority/inferiority, and it would be better long-term strategy to promote an ethnopluralism of ethnostates. A true natural rights or civil rights movement would promote ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc.

Our upward evolution probably works better with a variety of ethnostates anyway, and they certainly fit well with real human nature.

The colossal arrogance of modern art (from the archive)

 The Renaissance tradition of art was considered “repugnant” and a “ghastly mistake” by Braque and Picasso. What colossal arrogance. Soon other artists were banishing color and form, and then art became purely abstract. These artists sensed an opportunity to advance themselves, and I emphasize themselves, and art dealers on the edge, various hucksters, and art critics were happy to follow them for the same largely selfish reasons, and sticking it to the “establishment” was part of the deal.

Society needs to be allowed to tell the difference between social and anti-social art, just as it needs to be able to judge anti-social criminals and non-criminals. It has been suggested that Chimpanzee's create “art” mainly out of the joy of disruption, they are not interested in the art later. Modern art is on that same continuum.

Creativity is of course good, invention is good, but human survival still greatly depends on the culture it possesses. The cross-cultural center for all cultures remains human nature, which remains essentially the same as when it was developed during the million or so years of the Pleistocene. Group selection remains the primary unit of selection and individual selection follows after. In general creativity and change need to be evolutionary not revolutionary.  It is the affirmation of what is held sacred by humans that has defined high art throughout human history, which advanced humans and human cultures, and it desperately needs to again.

The social tragedy of the denial of real human nature

The social tragedy of the denial of real human nature has left us all without a solution to our racial problems. What is missing or denied is knowledge of the biological origin of social behavior which came with Darwinian science, where real human nature could be seem as being genetically kin and ethnic centered, with group selection as the main unit of successful survival and reproduction.

Both the left and the right are involved in this tragedy as they continue to fall all over themselves in denying that they are “racist,” and racial problems continue on. Sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson pointed out,"the genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior . .is the circuitous technique by which human genetic material has been and will be kept intact.." Human nature developed many thousands of years ago and even the smallest change in human nature and our DNA structure, for example, in our immune system, takes hundreds of thousands of years. Our human nature remains genetically kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection, followed by individual selection.

Wilmot Robertson suggested that we could halt and reverse the decline of societies by transforming the socially destructive aspects of ethnic or racial competition into developing socially constructive ethnostates. We can counter Spengler's prediction of inevitable fall by solving the age old problem of union in America with ethnostates for all races, even established legally, adapted from our constitutional separation of powers and states, and protected from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and money grubbers, by federalism.

Without establishing ethnostates the social tragedy of the denial of real human nature will continue.

A good brief essay on the "History of Indo-Europeans, Migrations and Language"

 A good brief essay on the  "History of Indo-Europeans, Migrations and Language" by Edward Dawson.

Come on man, even Marx would not have approved of this cultural monster!

The culturally Marxist criminals of the 1960's lost control of their Frankenstein monster, it has become the raging Black Lives Matter movement, radical feminism, radical environmentalism, the destroyer of American flags, statues, and symbols, the #MeToo hate-men movement, the legitimizers of same-sex marriage, and finally they have established the fiend transgenderism. Everything healthy and normal in the world has been denatured. Come on man, even Marx would not have approved of this cultural monster!

Theological materialism presents an all-inclusive total religion

 Politics, economics, and religion were one in the embedded religions of ancient times, like the Greek and Roman religion or Mesopotamian and Northern European religions, and even in the middle ages with Catholic scholasticism. Then came the specialties which split the total world view and made the renaissance man and the total world view obsolete.

Theological materialism presents an all-inclusive total religion more or less placed in the worldview of philosophical naturalism with the difference being that philosophical naturalism is generally irreligious, and theological materialism is religious in seeing Godhood as the goal of material evolution, first mirrored in the Father-Within of traditional religion.

God or Godhood can also be defined by physics and philosophical naturalism. Causality is part of science, but causality is also part of religion in that physical events have prior causes that can be explained by the same thing in religion or science. An organism obeys the laws of physics. Life, consciousnesses, motivations, etc. can be explained both scientifically and religiously as caused by the same activation of the material/supermaterial drive within life, which I have called Tirips, which works along with outside natural selection and evolution---religion can join science and science can join religion.

The deepest reading of the Revealed Religions centers on an Inward God not an Outward God, which is limiting. The Inward God is the image or blissful experience of the Outward God (opposite Plato), and outward Godhood can exist as a supreme supermaterial living object, or objects, evolved to in material nature. Both Paths are contained within the Twofold Path of theological materialism.  Godhood is not an immaterial entity, as it is with Aristotle, Aquinas and even Darwin.

This means that nature encompasses the activity of Tirips and Godhood, as well as everything that exists in space and time, and all of this consists of natural elements, including ideas and mathematics---and they all operate by the laws of physics, discovered and yet to be discovered. Ascending levels of Godhood are in nature, Godhood can be evolved to at the zenith of evolved nature. Godhood is not immaterial but is supermaterial.

We may gradually realize the reality that multicultural multi-ethnic societies just don't work. The coming century could be the century of the rise of ethnostatism. The kindness, mercy, compassion, or humaneness of ethnostates will be understood as being in harmony with the biological origin of social behavior, and in accord with human nature, which is biologically kin-centered and ethnic-centered, even xenophobic, as well as being genetically gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, and religious-making, with group-selection and ethnic selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection.

Although now just rising, identity politics will continue to ascend, re-identifying with ethnicity, nationality, race, culture and faith is the world's future. People will see that racial and ethnic diversity within the same state is not our greatest strength but is our weakness. A true natural rights or civil rights movement would promote an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc., and defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

Then we can all get on with evolving toward Godhood.

The sacred instinct of art and religion (archive)

I agree with the evolutionary psychologists in seeing art as a special element of our instincts, with the survival value of art provided by not a single genetic impulse but, as Denis Dutton pointed out it is a complicated ensemble of impulses involving response to the environment, appeals to color and sound, social status, puzzles, erotic interests, etc. It is almost impossible to make a rational system out of it.

But some evolutionary thinkers then go on to say that the greatest art sets us above the instincts that make the art possible, and that art transcends our animal selves. They would probably say the same about religion. But this is where the ideal of the instincts, the Will, or Tirips enters the picture. The activation of life inwardly by Tirips (the Will-To-Godhood) is the zenith of the material instincts, virtually a supermaterial instinct, shaped by outside evolution and natural selection, which seeks ascending levels of Godhood as the greatest possible success in survival and reproduction. This is how both art and religion are activated by a sacred instinct, the zenith of the material instincts, which can affirm and define the greatest art and religion as an affirmation of the sacred.

Unchivalrous American men must now count on a gracious mother of seven to save them from the mess they have made of American culture

American men should be shamefaced about placing the burden of saving America on the slender shoulders of Trump's brilliant Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. This all comes from having abandoned belief in real human nature and the rejection of the biological origin of social behavior, which allowed such abominations as cultural Marxism to control our culture. Unchivalrous American men must now count on a gracious mother of seven to save them from the mess they have made of American culture.

Future evolution (from the archive)

 Obviously the future evolution of life and specifically human life is a complicated synthesis of human nature, the environment, and the biological origin of social behavior, but first we have to survive, and surviving depends on correctly defining real human nature so we can know which social structures will work best with human nature, that is, which social structures will lead to survival and reproductive success for distinctly different ethnic groups and races now competing on earth.

Raymond Cattell remarked that we seem genetically unadapted to large altruistic societies, yet man has a natural tendency toward tenderness and protectiveness and altruism toward kith and kin. This is one of the biological pillars of the political argument for localism and small ethnostates over large multicultural states: localism and regionalism are the most natural way to hold civilization together with natural altruistic group behavior, and better keep us from the selfish anti-social behavior which happens in large groups.

The latest fashion of machine technology seems to proceed in direct proportion to the devaluation of human biological evolution. I am not against technology but the evolution of biological man needs to be valued higher than the evolution of machines. Technology is only an aid in the evolution of life, even if the restrictions of political correctness (cultural Marxism) make it difficult to say so. Life and evolution need defending. The Great Spiritual Blockade to real Godhood needs to be unblocked.

There is something fishy about “singularity” or machines evolving to be as intelligent as humans. It makes it look like humanity is too scared to advance intelligent humans and beyond, rather than (or as well as) advancing machines. It seems like a cunning bypass of the subject of future genetics because it is a politically incorrect subject and doesn't fit various agendas. We have to get over the abuse of genetics and eugenics of World War II, truly healthy people don't dwell on such negative things as a way of life.

We can use technology to help advance humans, but to become machines and possibly therefore lose future human evolution sounds a bit sick. We seem to be allowing deceitful nerds with media power to determine our future. Let's have a little courage and begin to at least talk about the great evolution of real life toward Godhood, only aided by intelligent machines. It's actually a religious mission.

The future superstructure of genetics and bio-engineering need to rest on the evolutionary base of biology, and not become a new artificial structure without a natural base, arrogantly overlooking the biological origin of social behavior. We can enhance our genetic and biological capabilities endlessly as we evolve toward Godhood, but if we upload ourselves into silicone chips we could end natural evolutionary life, which is a diabolical end.

There seems to be something almost paranoid about those who see racism behind any talk of the improvement of hereditary qualities, which is taken to the point of preferring artificial evolution to biological evolution. A very cynical reading could also see those who wish to stop the evolutionary biological improvement of hereditary qualities as an underhanded way to enhance their own genes, consciously or unconsciously, by stopping the advancement of others.

Ethics can be inferred from evolutionary history (what else?) otherwise we attempt to go beyond nature itself. As Cattell said, this does not mean we will not move beyond the human species---ethnocentrism, for example, is a conservative stopping off place to secure beneficial mutations before moving on to the next stage, the next pause, the next species.

Is there a direction to evolution? The evolutionary process has shown a direction toward higher, more complex, more intelligent, more conscious forms, in spite of occasional backward going and stagnation. Evolution gives us hints of direction so we may aid evolution in the direction it is going, applying the sciences of sociobiology and genetics.

Cattell's “ Beyondism" seems to suggest that progress is blind, and he thought we can therefore only speak of “going beyond” what we are. I believe that life and evolution show a religious goal of attaining the supreme survival success of ascending levels of Godhood by way of evolving in the material and supermaterial world, activated from within, and shaped by by natural selection and evolution from without.

 

This means ascending levels of Godhood from man to superman to supermaterial Gods and not a transcendence from material life to non-material ''spiritual" life.

We can learn to prevent the decline and early death of a variety of people, ethnic groups, and societies by understanding the social and biological patterns that bring collapse, and by applying voluntary population control and genetics. We can help prevent negative ends, but we can also civilize the beast and seek positive ends, even as we recognize that competition, separation, and distinctiveness are a good thing on the evolutionary path to Godhood.

Why I have a problem with the libertarian stand on individualism

The neo-Darwinist science of sociobiology has reiterated the reality that human nature has favored group selection, or ethnic altruism, as the best way for individuals to be successful in survival and reproduction. So human nature became genetically kin-centered and ethnic-centered, even xenophobic, as well as being genetically gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, and religious-making, with group-selection and ethnic selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection.

Individual rights are important but they should not be inflated over group rights, both biology and common sense tell us that the individual cannot survive without the group. Group selection is the basic creator of altruistic ethics within groups competing with other groups, where the most internally cohesive groups are more successful than those that are not.

Human nature lines up well with biological or evolutionary conservatism, not with the overemphasized Romantic individualism of Rousseau. When Tucker Carlson attacks “identity politics” by overemphasizing individualism, that encourages the same selfish narcissism in American culture and in the business world that has been ruining us.

The melting pot didn't melt and when that didn't work the American mosaic, or pluralist society, took its place, but that didn't work either and caused much social disorder, because human nature is biological kin and ethnic centered and tends to want every group to assimilate away its uniqueness except its own. Clueless modern liberals still promote both pluralist societies and universal equality. Libertarians and Conservatives do the same but try to bring in a neutered nationalism of creedal individualism rather than solid conservative biological bonds. Conservatives instead center on the family in contrast to individualism, which is of course important, but family values are not enough to hold society together.

Since group-selection---which usually means ethnic selection---is the primary unit of successful selection, group-selection is a serious omission within conservatism which has driven too many energetic natural conservatives away from conservatism and down radical paths that feature ethnicity and race but overlook or downplay other basic parts of conservative human nature, like maintaining long established customs and habits, and not radical formats.

Given that human nature evolved to be genetically kin-centered and ethnic-centered, even xenophobic, we need to legally develop ethnostates for all ethnic groups or races in America, adapted from our Constitutional separation of powers and states, and then protect the ethnostates from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and global money grubbers, with a defensive federalism---in line with both biology and common sense.

Camille Paglia's crooked strait-shooting (from the archive)

I tend to like Camille Paglia's straight-shooting kind of feminism which respects gender differences, although she is public lesbian.  Paglia believes, like Freud, that the pagan exists beneath our repressed Judeo-Christian culture and she champions art which celebrates the pagan, or her interpretation of paganism, as she praised Madonna a few decades ago. Our culture does repress many of the drives and instincts of basic human nature and one can almost see why white Eminem would choose black rap as a means of more open expression.

Although I don't really like to reach into the private sexual preferences of anyone, homosexuality actually represses real human nature.  Homosexuality is, in essence, the sexual preference for achieving orgasm with the same-gender, which is a sexual activity distant from the central survival and reproductive drives that monopolize real human nature; orgasm was evolved as an incentive for reproduction. When the same-gender sexual preference is elevated and promoted as a whole life style it blocks or subverts the larger basic elements of human nature, reducing their importance and corrupting human nature and human behavior.

Human nature developed many thousands of years ago and even the smallest change in human nature and our DNA structure, for example, in our immune system, takes hundreds of thousands of years. We remain genetically kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, among other things,with group-selection as the primary unit of selection. Exclusively promoting sexuality or violence or androgyny or homosexuality actually represses much of real human nature, pagan or otherwise.  Let's have artists---and critics--- who express and don't repress more of real genetically derived human nature. This more real expression might actually exhume a more classic kind of evolutionary realism in art related to more traditional human nature and culture.

 

A better way to look at the cultural life of man than through the artistic dualities of rational Apollo and wild Dionysus

In early Nietzsche's “The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music” the Apollonian gives form to the formless Dionysian and both were needed to create a whole man in a whole culture. Later Nietzsche more or less rejected the rational Apollonian in favor of the wild Dionysian, which was a mistake. But the duality was unclear to begin with.

Sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson told us that "the genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool...” Human nature is biologically kin-centered and ethnic-centered, even xenophobic, as well as being genetically gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, and religious-making, with group-selection and ethnic selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection.

Professor Raymond Cattell found that new cultural creations tend to be the work of genetically/culturally superior intelligences and are developed in two main ways: cultural creations as outlets for frustrations, such as poetry, music, drama (p-culture), and cultural creations that are more adaptive to fit us to the environment, engineering, medicine, science (r-culture), not “merely” an “outlet.” These cultural inventions from superior intelligences tend to require more complex adjustments for the general population than the general population tend to be genetically suited for---Cattell calls this “genetic lag.”

Cattell suggests that we deal with these frustrating discrepancies by improving the genetic composition of a population to help reduce the frustrations, which can spill over into many social problems, including revolutions. It's like having foresight that can lesson the morbidity rate of the group rather than as we see today where people and cultures just painfully die.

I think that is a better way to look at the cultural life of man than through the artistic dualities of rational Apollo and wild Dionysus. Then we can add religion featuring the material evolution of life to ascending levels of Godhood as the sacred goal of all life and create cultures even superior to the ancient Greeks.

My religious philosophy simply stated

Simply stated, Tirips or the will, which is material and within every cell of the body, is reborn in the physical body in procreation and reproduction, with its primary task of activating the body to evolve to ascending levels of Godhood while being shaped outwardly by natural selection and evolutionary mutations. Then Tirips is born in new bodies, and so on. This has happened since the beginning of the unending cosmos, leading ultimately to the evolution of life to ascending levels of Godhood, which is the sacred goal of all life. A civilizational and cultural totality derives from this religious philosophy of aiding the evolution of life to Godhood, which brings religion and science together. The biological origin of social behavior then suggests that ethnostatism, with an ethnopluralism of protected ethnostates, is the most humane and rational way for humans to live and evolve, given kin and ethnic centered human nature.