Friday, December 04, 2020

Is there one real and true single narrative of history and morality?

 Is there one real and true single narrative of history and morality? The postmodernist's find none. Nietzsche found two languages of morality running through varied narratives of history, the aristocratic morality of good and bad and the slavish morality of good and evil. Other thinkers thought that what is older is closer to the primordial truth. Others thought classes and nations which have reached their highest development are classical in their culture, still striving cultures are romantic, and fallen cultures show art forms of decay and a relativity of values. Some thought that cultures were highest when they were most religious, others thought cultures were best when they were racially homogeneous and fell apart when they were not. There is some truth in all of these narratives.

I believe a true single narrative of history and morality is mapped out in the following quote from the great sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson: "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. Morality has no other demonstrable ultimate function."

Applying the biological origin of social behavior in defining real human nature we find that human nature is genetically ethnocentric, racial, and 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, followed by individual selection.

That human nature suggests that 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 may see that diversity within the same state is not our greatest strength but is a 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.

Then when we can get people to take a serious look at activating purpose in evolution, along with random selection, toward higher and higher consciousness and intelligence, and toward ascending levels of Godhood, the duality between religion and science can be made whole. Then one real and true single narrative of history and morality may come into view.

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