Defining cultures by creed or ideas alone is not enough

Liberals as well as conservatives have not understood or lack the courage to say that the melting pot didn't melt, which led to multiculturalism,  but that hasn't worked either, because real human nature is genetically ethnocentric, even xenophobic, as well as being kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection.

Multiculturalism would have worked if the various cultures had linked their race to their own territory or ethnostate; defining cultures by creed or ideas alone with such unreal ideas as egalitarianism is not enough to offset the reality that multicultural multi-ethnic societies are a zero sum game where the gain of one ethnic group is offset by the loss of another ethnic group, with much cruel social discord in the process. Ethnostates are in harmony with the biological origin of social behavior and in accord with real human nature.

Although now just rising again, identity politics will continue to ascend, identifying with ethnicity, nationality, race, culture and faith is the world's future. People will see that diversity within the same state is not our greatest strength but is our greatest 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., with a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

How art can imitate and expand life (from the archive)

 Is “existence suspended,” in the experience of beauty, and do we become “detached” from immediate desires, is “disinterestedness” the central idea, all of which Kant suggests regarding art?

There is adaptive value to beauty which can be see n in both art and religion. One of the primary attributes of Godhood in theological materialism is to attain the zenith of beauty, along with the zenith of intelligence and the zenith of noble character. These higher values are here understood as evolved to in material and supermaterial evolution, which is where their adaptive value resides.

Contrary to Kant the “imaginative experience” of art is not detached from real biological life, it intensities, enhances, and expands life. Works of art do happen in the mind but they are not removed from biological drives and instincts. The fiction-drive relates to the beauty-instinct in the biological ways of desire. Beauty in human beings is related to good health and good health has survival and reproductive value.

Only when we trans-value and remove the definition of God from material and supermaterial life do we define beauty in art as suspended from life, after which art can only be seen in disinterestedness, which it is to many gurus. When Godhood is seen as a non-material, spiritual-only construction in the mind or soul, that is when art and religion depart from the real world.

We drifted away from didactic and moral art as we became more literate, but as evolutionary psychologists point out, story-telling had survival benefits in the Pleistocene. It still does, when we relate beauty to real biological life, evolution, and religion. There is no need to use a hammer to didactically or morally inspire us, art is usually best when it is subtle. Imagining Godhood attained in future material and supermaterial evolution has religious and artistic value, but it also has survival and reproductive value.

Realistic peace

In his essay “Two Concepts of Peace,” (Modern Age, Winter 2020), Jared Morgan McKinney examined “peace is the result of pacification. It occurs when the strong forces the inferior to submit and offer supplication. It is the peace of hierarchy and command.” And peace as “mutual identification, mutual flourishing, mutual submission, and mutual supplication. It is the peace of equality and cooperation.” After examining the history of war and peace McKinney ends by saying “as Hobbes himself understood, it is the face of death that can tame man’s desire for the peace of dominance, making possible the peace of equality—at least for a time.”

That seems realistic to me as far as it goes, but when we are talking concepts of peace and war the biological origin of social behavior needs to be included as vital in defining human nature and human history because the biological origin of social behavior ends up determining peace and war. The science of sociobiology has shown us that 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 followed by individual selection.

Surely the biological origin of social behavior needs to be included when discussing concepts of peace and war. Although now just rising, identity politics and 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. For example, an ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

Will we face and accept the reality of the humaneness of ethnostates in harmony with the biological origin of social behavior or will we fall into the constant chaos of civil strife and open racial civil war? An ethnopluralism of ethnostates is the best we can do to create whatever peace is possible given the biological origin of social behavior and real human nature.

Metaphysical hypochondria

Postmodern novelist Michel Houellebecq and other postmodernists seem to be suffering from metaphysical hypochondria concerning the so-called meaninglessness of life. After having rejected the “metanarratives” of religion, science, and everything else, they spend their time moaning about the post-Christian, postindustrial world and a Western nothingness that does not in reality exist.

The biological origin of our social behavior as empirically explained by sociobiology actually ends the intellectual defense of postmodern relativism. As long as we are alive every cell in our body demands survival and reproductive success. This natural activation can be blocked, subverted, or it can be unknown to us, but it can't legitimately be intellectually or instinctively denied. The idea of a "relativity" of values often comes from the various social and cultural methods we try (including postmodernism) to biologically and genetically advance our kin, related ethnic group, locality and nation.

The real danger in advanced modern societies comes from the Marxism (demanding equality for the unequal), radical feminism (demanding biologically unnatural roles for women), homosexuality (demanding unnatural sexual life styles) and postmodern relativism (demanding an unnatural relativity of values) which have led to biologically and culturally diseased societies. Cultures can operate for a time with behavior that goes against human nature with such experiments as these but the cultures are eventually pulled back by the biological and genetic leash of real human nature to cultures that better reflect real human nature, and humans then work within and adapt to the environments they find themselves living in.

Human nature has been affirmed throughout human history as being kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection. If a culture proposes to not include these things the culture does not last long and it will always return to these things.

This suggests that real human nature leads naturally to the cultural expression of regionalism, localism, and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, protected by some sort of federalism. Given who we are this appears to be the best way we can optimize the gene expression we inherited from our ancestors, which drives us.

As to a lost God, 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 ascending levels of non-spiritual, supermaterial, Godhood.

Beyond Spengler (from the archive)

Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) was brilliant in finding cyclic patterns and similarities between the rise and fall of various civilizations, but I don't admire Spengler's complete rejection of the “Idea of Progress.” I think there can be both cycles and progress, like a winding path up a mountain which sometimes descends before it rises again.  Evolution is the basis for accepting the idea of progress, life has evolved from the simple to the complex, and although modern human advances in saving lives has slowed harsh natural selection, progress in evolution continues.

Spengler speaks of a “mysterious cosmic force” that influences man, but he does not at all tie it to biology. I define the activation within life of material Tirips or the Will, which is tied to biology, and is later shaped by evolution. This is the force that is universal within life and is therefore within distinct civilizations and cultures. Universal evolution does not suggest only one people or one civilization, which could be destroyed by one disease or one disaster. Human evolution has always worked within a variety of people and cultures, each evolving in there own fashion---we would hope that their independence could be protected by a defensive federalism, while cooperating with one another in the overall evolution of human beings, even evolving into new species out into the cosmos, as Raymond Cattell suggested. 

Evolution also answers Spengler's attempt to define the “Prime Symbol” of each distinct civilization, eg. Faustian-Western, Apollinian-Greco-Roman, Magian-Arabian, etc. The real prime symbol is the universal symbol of evolving life, the activation within life of material Tirips to ascending levels of supermaterial Godhood which activates all life forms, even when each culture and civilization is uniquely shaped by evolution in its own environment and by its own genetic traits. Spengler thinks real unity is more cultural than biological, when the reality is the other way around, there is a biological origin behind cultural creations which basically enhances survival and reproduction, and ultimately enhances success in the sacred drive to evolve toward Godhood. As Wilmot Robertson suggested we could continue to counter Spengler's prediction of inevitable fall in solving the age old problem of union in America by forming an ethnopluralism of ethnostates perhaps adapted from our Constitutional separation of powers and states, for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, and then protect the ethnostates from marauding imperialists, supremacists, global money grubbers, and social justice warriors, with a defensive federalism.

We can pay attention to the signs and cycles of the rise and decline of civilizations, which Spengler was brilliant in finding, such as the deterioration of the roots and traditions of the founders, the fall in birthrates, the rise of dictatorships, etc. but it is the ongoing evolution of  life and in various group selections on the sacred path to Godhood which counters the ominous pessimism of Spengler.

Both diversity and equality have been misdefined

 Diversity is a good thing in natural evolution, it gives the population a buffer against change so a population is better able to adapt to new environments, a higher variability of alleles can better adapt and evolve in a new environment. But in the postmodern world diversity is just another word for equality. And diversity and equality don't work in multicultural multiracial societies where the gain of one ethnic group is offset by the loss of another ethnic group, with much cruel social discord in the process.

The aristocratic ideal had the realistic common sense idea that some things, places, people, and ideas are better at some things than others. That should be a big part of defining both diversity and equality.

Real 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.

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., with a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

Although now just rising, identity politics will continue to ascend, identifying with ethnicity, nationality, race, culture and faith is the world's future. People will see that diversity and equality within the same state is unrealistic, but a diversity of ethnostates is a great strength.

Evolution beyond nature-nurture (from the archive)

Adapting a clue from Denis Dutton's writing on art, I'm thinking that it might make sense to drop the nature/nurture arguments of evolutionary theory and say this: culture is an enhancement or codification of natural ancient genetic traits, influenced by the environment. Not a duality but a whole. Culture can then in turn influence genetic traits. Biology leads this dynamic. So the Wilsonian definition of sociobiology as the study of the biological origin of social behavior still stands.....Now if we can get people to take a serious look at activating purpose along with random selection in evolution, toward higher and higher consciousness and intelligence, all the way to Godhood, then the duality between religion and science can also be made whole.

How theological materialism unites religion, art, science, and politics

Theological materialism brings back the lost religious, ethical, conservative, view of civilization without placing the spiritual world over the material world. Theological materialism denies the non-material spiritual God and affirms ascending levels of a material Godhood evolved to in the material and supermaterial world. Theological materialism includes the sociobiological view of human nature which affirms the biological origin of social behavior. Human nature developed many thousands of years ago and remains in general 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.

In theological materialism religion, art, science , and politics can legitimately unite, 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 toward ascending levels of Godhood. A true natural rights or civil rights movement would harmonize with real human nature and the Godhood pattern of evolution and 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., defended by a defensive federalism.

Artists can express more of real genetically derived human nature. This expression might actually exhume a more classic kind of evolutionary realism, poetic realism, not unlike ancient idealistic classical realism yet steeped in naturalism as studied by sociobiology, that is, real nature, real human nature, but with the subjects infused with the upward climb of evolution toward Godhood, and with Godhood portrayed as the beautiful supermaterial zenith of material evolution. This way religious art, ultimately the highest form of art, can remain as it has always been, an affirmation of the sacred.  

Transforming the socially destructive aspects of ethnic or racial competition

In replacing worn-out American ideologies the indications point toward ethnostatism and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates. To do this we will have to accept that real human nature is ethnocentric, racial, and even xenophobic. As Wilmot Robertson put it in "The Ethnostate,” we could halt and reverse the decline of America by transforming the socially destructive aspects of ethnic or racial competition into developing socially constructive ethnostates. It is like stimulating immune response by use of the so called infectious agent of “racism.”

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.

I believe an ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states. Can we soon face and accept the reality of the humaneness of ethnostates, in harmony with the biological origin of social behavior, and in accord with human nature, or will we continue to fall into the chaos of civil strife and open racial civil war? Will we use the so called infectious agent of “racism” and transform the socially destructive aspects of ethnic or racial competition into developing socially constructive ethnostates? Yes we can.

Art and Identity (from the archive)

Art may not always be created to affirm the identity of the culture the artist lives within, but in art history the best art did this. It's true that Shakespeare was interested in theatrical entertainment, but he was also affirming Elizabethan culture. Great art affirms the sacred elements within the culture, and low art does this too in a less sophisticated way, or art used to do this, before globalism and internationalism made people and cultures less isolated.

It is mainly that old cultural Marxism behind the modern Western denial of differences in people and the rejection of any biological or ethnic connection with the creation of cultures, even as it demands no comparison with “evil' Western culture in the art of non-Western people, which contradicts the idea of there being no differences between people. This leads to a jumble of art, at least in the West, with no discernible cultural identity and it certainly does not reflect what is sacred in the culture---modern art reflects the chaos of the relativity of modern culture, and that is not even art.

Modern art philosophers want to leave biology out of art philosophy (and everything else) and say that culture alone creates the differences in identities. Art is a universal instinct and contains many of the same elements in all cultures, even so, the genetic traits of the artist, and his ethnic group, affect the kind of art the artist creates.

Every person and every culture at least unconsciously seems to want to claim what works for them to be good for everyone---this is the natural will to power working.  The way to deal with it is not to deny it, or call it evil ethnocentrism, but to allow the natural separations of people and cultures, where each people can affirm their own people, culture, and art.  This is what developed the best art overall in human history.

The great deceptions of Biden

 Four forces of deception control the Biden political agenda, the Globalist business deception, the Black Lives Matter deception, the green new deal deception, and the deception concerning real human nature. Many of the individuals involved do not see the deception.

The Globalist business deception finances Biden and the democrats and uses the Black Lives Matter movement as a front line racial battering ram against the populist economic nationalism of men like Trump.

The green new deal is the deception of man-made global warming to advance a socialist agenda. The rise in temperatures is mainly part of a larger a saw-tooth shape macro cycle seen with samples taken from ice cores over 450,000 years. Human activity has in fact increased greenhouse gases and warming but the rise in temperatures is mainly part of that larger macro cycle.

The fourth deception is the deception against real human nature. Real human nature contains not only big gender differences, but is kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection. For example, the fourth deception against real human nature hides the racial will to power of the Black Lives Matter movement masqueraded as only a movement toward equality. Multicultural multi-ethnic societies are really a zero sum game where the gain of one ethnic group is offset by the loss of another ethnic group, with much cruel social discord in the process.

I worry that a Biden presidency with all its deceptions and with its open borders and globalism will overwhelm and destroy white Americans and white American culture. Reality suggests that the biological origin of our social behavior and real human nature will once again naturally lead to the cultural expression of localism, regionalism, ethnostates, and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all races, protected from marauding imperialists and supremacists by some sort of federalism---that is hope based on real human nature, which can't be blocked forever.

The deepest existential problem underlying the present presidential election anxiety

 White liberals are suicidal, destructive to their own interests, dangerous to life, because they were not taught about the biological origin of their social behavior. But non-white liberals have felt that modern liberalism (which is really cultural Marxism) is in effect the will to power of nonwhites, so they are not suicidal, at least not in the short term, although cultural Marxism is suicidal in the long term.

It was a grave mistake to think that shared principles, physical space, or a common national bond formed by the story of a melting pot would work, but only a marginalized few have faced up to this reality. America has not successfully united different races and ethnic groups because the biological origin of social behavior creates distinctly different assimilable and unassimilable races and ethnic groups. 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 coming century could be the century of the rise of ethnostatism. 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., with a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

The biological origin of social behavior is the narrative that gives the lie to postmodernism

The biological origin of social behavior is the narrative that gives the lie to postmodernism and brings forward the supernarrative of theological materialism.

Postmodernism rejects “metanarratives” saying that something is always left out to in order to make an integrative total narrative, therefore all integrated narratives are criticized and rejected by postmodernism---the metanarrative of postmodernism is the exception to their rule.

As William Lind put it postmodern “critical theory” (including “critical race theory”) is basically the theory to criticize, to “submit every aspect of Western culture to constant, unremitting criticism, so it would be discredited to the point where people would abandon the ways of thinking and living it embodied.”

The biological origin of our social behavior as empirically explained by sociobiology actually ends the intellectual defense of postmodern relativism. As long as we are alive every cell in our body demands survival and reproductive success. This natural activation can be blocked, subverted, or it can be unknown to us, but it can't legitimately be intellectually or instinctively denied. Any existing "relativity" of values can come only from the various social and cultural methods we try (including postmodernism) to biologically and genetically advance our kin, related ethnic group, locality and nation.

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 does not mask the biological origin of social behavior.

“Physicalism” does not have to lead to the loss of religion when ascending levels of Godhood are seen as evolved to in the material and supermaterial world. Consciousness is derived from material experiences. 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 toward ascending levels of Godhood---science can help it along the way.

In theological materialism religion, faith, art, and science can legitimately unite.

When we look at the fences, barriers, and boarding going up

When we look at the fences, barriers, and boarding going up bracing for the violence and unrest should the president win the election, we see the undemocratic nature of the Antifa /Black Lives Matter movement as the instigators of this violence and unrest. Is this the inevitable foul fate of open democracies? The ancient Greeks thought so.

We have the big problem of a growing disparity between distinctly different and expanding ethnic groups who are bitterly competing with one another at the expense of national harmony. It makes me wonder the Ancient Greeks knew something we don't know when they disliked democracies; but then I remember that a better way to judge democracy is to evaluate how well democracy accords with real human nature as defined by the science of sociobiology.

Human nature was, is, and remains, genetically kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other conservative things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection and survival.

The most humane way I can see to fix the foul condition of American representative democracy is to eventually develop an ethnopluralism of ethnostates from out of our existing constitutional separation of powers and states, where real and natural human nature can be affirmed. I do believe that this will happen anyway as it happens with all empires when they inevitably fall apart and revert back to smaller ethnostates. Wouldn't it be great if this could be accomplished rationally, legally, and we could avoid the violence and unrest caused by radicals of the Black Lives Matter movement and Antifa?