Wednesday, February 17, 2021

The realistic single narrative of human history and morality

 Of the various approaches to the philosophy of history, such as historicism, where the moral standards relatively depend on the context of history, empiricism, where historical experience comes primarily from examining sensory experience as the guide to understanding reality, or enlightenment rationalists, who mostly ignore the biological origin of social behavior and the ethnic and cultural preconditions for the creation of political orders because the subject has been culturally and politically taboo since World War Two.

This quote by the great sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson sums up a realistic approach to human history and morality : "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.."

Human nature has been and remains 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, followed by individual-selection. The real challenge of ethnocentric and xenophobic human nature is to move beyond the supremacism that has plagued it. This suggest that if the noble statesman of the future see guardianship of the state as trying to avoid sedition, discord, and civil war, they will honor the biological origin of social behavior by taking on the damaging racial competitions disguised as calls for equality etc., and advocate the creation of an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, in harmony with real human nature. Then they will protect each ethnostate from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, chosenists, Marxists, etc. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established, legally, in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

I believe the activating purpose in evolution---along with random selection—is to evolve toward higher and higher consciousness and intelligence and finally toward the survival and reproductive supreme success of ascending levels of Godhood; but that's a moral function and an end or purpose in nature that Wilson probably doesn't affirm because he probably believes in the complete randomness of evolution. When we can take a serious look at the activating purpose in evolution then the duality between religion and science can be made whole with a real single narrative of history and morality.

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