Countering the Spenglerian pessimism of many conservatives

Rod Dreher points out in “The American Conservative” how the West is now dominated by left-liberals in the news, the entertainment media, the universities, the professions, law, and medicine, education, sports, and the military, and woke (cultural Marxist) businesses. If you want to be part of these institutions, you must conform.

Dreher says at the root of all these problems is the collapse of Christianity as a binding source of values for the West and that without a religious rebirth, we are not going to make it. He suggests that American conservatives of the near future may face “a battle to conserve truth, faith, and moral sanity while the ignorant armies of the radical left and post-Christian right clash in the long night ahead.” 

Dreher likes the idea of applying the “Benedict Option,” his general term to describe the movement of Christians towards forming small communities within which faith and virtue can thrive and be passed on to the young, based on St. Benedict of Nursia, the founder of Western monasticism, who left the chaos of Rome to found monastic communities in the countryside.

The philosopher Oswald Spengler thought 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. Spengler speaks of a “mysterious cosmic force” that influences man, but he does not at all tie it to biology.

I believe that we have to decentralize the world to save the world. 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. 

The age old problem of union in America could be helped 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 best counters ominous Spenglerian pessimism.