The post-modernists tell us we can't have a meta-narrative but that is precisely what we need in this world gone mad. We need a new kind of Gesamtkunstwerk, a synthesis of the arts, religion and the sciences, we need a meta-narrative that makes use of all forms.
I know where I want to go: first we ground the humanities in sociobiology.This logically and instinctively leads to a natural definition of human nature, which logically and instinctively leads to ethnostates and ethnopluralism, where kin and ethnic groups feel most at home.Then we see that biology is evolving upward toward Godhood, with starts and stops along the way.Then we help evolution along the way toward Godhood.Then we have not just a work of art that makes use of all art forms, but a religious/philosophical/scientific/artistic work combining all the fields.
Does that scare you or give you hope? It gives me hope. It's a lasting foundation.
In the grand religious/philosophical metaphor of theological materialism the spiritual is seen as material or more precisely as the supermaterial, and arrived at through material evolution. Traditional religion and much of philosophy sees it the other way around, material things are considered grand illusions of the real spiritual world. That is a very deep “transvalution of values” which even Nietzsche seems to have believed, as his will to power seems to be a non-material force. Heidegger's Being also seems to be non-material and spiritual.
In private caves and
public monasteries the ascetics sought to block the material world
and material desires so as to experience the God within, and the
“truth” most philosophers sought was nonmaterial. But theological
materialism sees the God within as only the first glimpse or
experience of the real Godhood reached in various levels of the
Outward Path of material evolution.
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