Rational sane culture depends on people accepting real human nature

It takes courage to find the truth and it often takes courage to express the truth publicly. The truths of life are often hard to accept because truths often don't harmonize with the prevailing culture, especially in the modern world. Defining real human nature has suffered this fate. Human nature is not as free as either traditional man or modern man think it is. We have a biology determined human nature even if modern man doesn’t think we do. Our real freedom is limited by various determined choices, but we have the flexibility to be mistaken about who we are and what we can do which helped us in making survival over non-survival choices in the various environments presented to us in nature.

The best and most recent sociobiological knowledge has been telling us that human nature, affirmed throughout human history, has been, and continues to be basically, kin-centered, gender defined, age-grading, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection. This is basic human nature.

If we include what we really are in our cultural schemes and programs we will admit our behavior, intelligence, and personalities are to a large extent heritable. Both liberals and paleoconservative's block or conceal the ethnic-centered and xenophobic parts of human nature. If real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to ethnostates, and finally, if we are wise, to 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. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

Rational utterly sane culture depends on people accepting real human nature. The great failure in defining real human nature threatens our very survival with wars between marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc.

History as the narrative of progress

A big philosophical and religious divide today is between those who see history as the narrative of progress (Hegel, Cattell? Wilber?) and those say the world lacks teleological design and purpose in the material world ( Schopenhauer, early Nietzsche, Postmodernism, Science?).

The hopeless relativity of values that is promoted by modern philosophy is untrue and unreal. There exists a biological teleology, a design and purpose in the material world, flowing through all life, which offers freedom but within a determined biological teleology.

I ask why does “life” “live?” Why is life animate rather than inanimate? Why does life have metabolism, growth, reproduction? Why doesn’t life just sit there doing nothing? Why has life persisted time and again in evolving from the simple to the complex under the most extreme conditions?

It is more than an outward action or reaction, there is an inward vitalism working within and shaped by outside evolution. This is the activation of the will to life, and when it is amplified it is seen as the will-to-evolve-toward-Godhood. I think it was Cattell who said 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.

This process of evolution is activated from within every cell of living bodies, which then react and adapt to the various outside environments that life lives in. This activation is the same activation that leads to the desire to successfully survive and reproduce. And this activation is a material/supermaterial activation, but not spiritual.

The goal of evolving to Godhood need not deprive us of either science or religion. When Godhood is seen as a naturalistic and theological goal, the goal of evolution, then biology and theology need not settle for empty spiritualism. Nature and philosophy can be seen as life materially evolving toward ascending levels of Godhood.

There exists a biological teleology

The hopeless relativity of values that is promoted by modern philosophy is untrue and unreal. There exists a biological teleology, a design and purpose in the material world, flowing through all life, which offers freedom but within a determined biological teleology.

I ask why does “life” “live?” Why is life animate rather than inanimate? Why does life have metabolism, growth, reproduction? Why doesn’t life just sit there doing nothing? Why has life persisted time and again in evolving from the simple to the complex under the most extreme conditions?

It is more than an outward action or reaction, there is an inward vitalism working within and shaped by outside evolution. This is the activation of the will to life, and when it is amplified it is seen as the will-to-evolve-toward-Godhood. 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.”

This process of evolution is activated from within every cell of living bodies, which then react and adapt to the various outside environments that life lives in. This activation is the same activation that leads to the desire to successfully survive and reproduce. And this activation is a material/supermaterial activation, not spiritual.

The goal of evolving to Godhood need not deprive us of either science or religion. When Godhood is seen as a naturalistic and theological goal, the goal of evolution, then biology and theology need not settle for the empty spiritualism that Nietzsche detested. Nature and philosophy can be seen as life materially evolving toward ascending levels of Godhood.

Why happiness and even power, like desire, are secondary goals in theological materialism

Contrary to hedonistic philosophy and relativistic postmodern philosophy, "happiness," pleasure, and even power are only a reaction to deeper materially-rooted needs. The pleasure or happiness derived from eating food is driven by the deeper requirements of successful survival, and not mere pleasure. Before pleasure is experienced there is the materially-rooted desire for pleasure, before food gives pleasure there is the materially-rooted desire for food.

Going deeper, the drive to survival and reproductive success (the sole aim according to science) is driven by the deeper need of evolving toward ascending levels of Godhood as the zenith of success and purpose in evolution. So contrary to many philosophers and scientists survival and reproductive success, happiness, and even power, like desire, are secondary goals. Naturalism in evolution can therefore include the activation toward higher evolution leading to ascending levels of supermaterial Godhood.

Contrary to St Thomas the natural impulses or instincts toward pleasure etc. are not from God, like the other natural instincts they lead to Godhood---while pleasure and the natural instincts are secondary as an aid in the drive to successful survival and reproduction, they are more importantly also a natural aid in evolving toward the ultimate success of ascending levels of Godhood.

Naturalism is religious in theological materialism. Goodness, pleasure, and power, are aspired to for the same reason: they materially evolve toward Godhood. These things do not move from the material to the spiritual, they move from the material to the supermaterial. Defining God as “spiritual” not only defames the material world it defames and blocks the material evolution to ascending levels of real Godhood.

Why the political dissimulations of today are destroying us: nature and human nature as a ground or limit to human action need to be affirmed

The denial of nature and real human nature is the basis of Marxism and the political dissimulations of modern liberalism, which are based on flawed definitions of human nature. They have brought us destructive civil disruptions, and even civil war, which are now increasing across the world within unworkable multicultural multi-ethnic societies.

Is our identity “hardware” or “software”? Although there is a gene-culture co-evolution or "dual inheritance" that takes place between nature and nurture, if we split the difference between nature and nurture, which some think is 70% nature and 30% nurture, we could come up with a reasonable political philosophy.

Modern liberalism is about 100 percent on the 30% side of nurture and conservatives are more or less on that 70% nature side. Liberalism wants the government to insure a collective individual freedom, which tends to move toward socialism/communism and ends up taking away individual freedom, while conservatism want unchecked individual freedom, especially for capitalism (libertarianism), which tends to create societies ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income that end up taking away individual freedom.

If we look a little deeper at what that 70% nature side is telling us about human nature, the science of sociobiology and common sense show us that human nature has been affirmed throughout human history to this day as being basically kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, territorial, and even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection.

Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson has found that in successful survival and reproduction "within groups, selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals." And “hereditary altruists form groups so cooperative and well-organized as to out-compete non-altruists groups.” (“The Social Conquest of the Earth.”)  Wilson doesn't emphasize enough that altruism was developed to enhance the survival success of kin and ethnic group---being-for-others almost disappears beyond the related genetic pool.

Cultures can operate for a time with behavior that goes against this basic human nature, with such experiments as Marxism, but 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.

Real human nature suggests that ethnostates and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates are the best political configuration for humans beings to live within. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions could even be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states, protected by federalism. It may require a few constitutional amendments to give more power to the states to move toward an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, but that is far preferable to radical and marauding political dissimulations of today which are destroying us.

Nature and real human nature as a ground or limit to human action need to be affirmed.

The “innovation” in metaphysics comes from the Evolutionary Outward Path

Spirit” IS matter, but the highest epiphenomenal matter, it “dominates” matter in that it can also be defined as the Will To Godhood, or Tirips, activating within life---so there is no need for a duality here. And, again, evolution is not “blind and pointless.” The lesser CAN evolve into the higher, just as the child grows to be a man. The Logos is definition or principle only, which is less than the Object God which the Logos defines. It is time to affirm the real thing, not merely the definition of the real thing. Matter CAN create the Spirit and Soul and Godhood out of itself.

Who says “there is no innovation in metaphysics?” Perhaps not in the religions that stem from the Perennial Tradition, but they are all of the non-material spiritual Involutionary Inward Path. The “innovation” in metaphysics come from the Evolutionary Outward Path, which is really a recognition of the sacred direction of material evolution to ascending levels of Godhood.

The problem is in how the beast is civilized (from the archive)

Nietzsche didn't want to “tame” man with morality, but rejecting morality is a form of taming man, and this is Nietzsche's form of “improvement” which he otherwise condemns in priests. Nietzsche's preferred “immorality” mostly applies to individuals, especial genius individuals, it overlooks natural group selection, which is the prime unit of selection, and group selection requires group morality and the natural “taming” of man.

The problem is in how the beast is civilized. Rousseau and Thomas Paine saw primitive and natural man as a wild, free, and innocent, individual, as if group morality were not just as primitive and naturally evolved over the tens of thousands of years when man became man. Edmund Burke had a better grasp of the naturalness of group behavior (before sociobiology) and the civilization that naturally grows up around it.

Our instincts, passions and reason can be enlisted in service to our higher evolution, and higher evolution does not merely “tame” us, it makes us healthier as we move toward the zenith of truth, goodness and beauty, or Godhood. As with artists, geniuses in various fields can be as free as they need to be during the creation of their work, (they probably actually need to be free during the creation process), but then it is most natural for their work to be judged by the cultural needs of the group or by group morality, which is more impotant than individual morality.

 
What happened when the Nietzschean geniuses of modern art (or philosophy for that matter) had no group or social concerns? By any sane standards we received mostly garbage. For example, with psychometrics today we can almost easily distinguish the social geniuses from the anti-social criminal geniuses, and our grants and work awards to individuals would follow after this lead---but always leaving room for those few who fall between the psychometric cracks.

Are women unhappier since the rise of feminism?

Equal pay for equal work everyone agrees with, but feminism, and especially radical feminism, is contrary to the reality of real human nature. I haven't seen any empirical studies comparing the happiness level of women since the rise of feminism---it's probably politically incorrect to even try such a study---but my non-empirical observation is that women are unhappier since the rise of feminism.

I watched the first episode of new Netflix series “The Duchess” created by Katherine Ryan, about a single mother trying to raise her daughter in London while wondering if she should have another kid. Ryan plays a super-bitch hostile to everyone in her life except, supposedly, her daughter. Ryan creates what used to be called a slut who insists on sleeping with anyone she chooses on her own obscene bitchy terms, which might have been more believable and more charming with a younger woman, but Ryan looks like a woman near the age of menopause.

Sociobiology needs to be taught in our schools because feminism has no idea what real human nature actually is. Feminism demands biologically unnatural roles for women. Modern technology has not changed the basic biology of gender differences which remain as they have been for tens of thousands of years. There are obvious genetic and hormonal differences between men and women which certainly influence both gender and cultural behavior.

The founders of radical feminism were mostly cultural Marxists which biased them toward the genetically-derived differences between men and women. 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.

Will we ever return to real human nature? I quote 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...”

Paying attention to IQ scores is vital to the rise and fall of human civilizations

Courageous and unbiased studies by Prof Richard Lynn and others of the IQ's of various human groups: East Asians (Chinese, Koreans, Japanese) – average IQ 105 : Europeans – average IQ 100 : American Indians, Mestizos, American Blacks, Arabs, Turks, Iranians, Indians, South East Asians – average IQ 85 : African Negroes – average IQ 70 : Australian Aborigines – average IQ 62 : Bushmen and Pygmies – average IQ 54 ---: Ashkenazi Jews have an average IQ of 110-117 : High-caste Indians IQs in the 115-120 range : If 120 is a reasonable estimate for white South African engineering students, the average IQ of the overall population should be 97.

Professor Raymond Cattell courageously found that new cultural creations tend to be the work of genetically/culturally superior intelligences and are developed in two main ways: cultural creations as outlets for frustrations, such as poetry, music, drama (p-culture), and cultural creations that are more adaptive to fit us to the environment, engineering, medicine, science (r-culture), not “merely” an “outlet.” These cultural inventions from superior intelligences tend to require more complex adjustments for the general population than the general population tend to be genetically suited for---Cattell calls this “genetic lag.”

Paying attention to IQ scores is therefore vital to the rise and fall of human civilizations. Cattell suggests that we deal with these frustrating discrepancies with eugenic measures ( improving the genetic composition of a population) to help reduce the frustrations, which can spill over into many social problems, including revolutions. It's like having foresight that can lesson the morbidity rate of the group...Sounds more humane to me than what we see today where people and cultures just painfully die.

Eugenics is already shaping where the next generation wants to go in education, and parents are already using testing and screening, genetic counseling, birth control, in vitro fertilization, and genetic engineering, and we can move on from there, as the deceitful paralyzing of eugenics begins to wind down.

The deeper more serious problem for me that comes from blocking eugenics is that it blocks the sacred mission of life evolving toward Godhood. We do not launch ourselves out on a goalless adventure of evolution, our goal is to materially evolve to ascending levels of  Godhood, which is the goal of theological materialism.

An ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, could deal best with racial defamation and discrimination; ethnostates could allow the deep natural love of ones own group and culture to continue evolving and improving, protected by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states. 

Cattell suggested setting up international research centers of sociobiology for studying the causes of the decline or rise of nations, which could advise the ethnostates. The research centers would be only advisory, we are not talking about world power here. .. Then we can all get on with evolving toward Godhood.

The sacred activation and the goal of life

The biggest sticking point for most scientists comes in believing in the complete randomness of evolution, denying any kind of direction to evolution, which when asked what is the purpose of existence tends to put them in that camp of quiet desperation. 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,” as Cattell put it.

The separation between the material and the spiritual in the revealed religions was a big metaphysical error, which set up a great spiritual blockade against the material and supermaterial evolution of life to ascending levels of real supermaterial Godhood. The exclusively Inward Path of most religions claim that the Soul (and also their version of the Spirit) is the only reality. But Spirit is better defined as Tirips, which is the symbol for the activation within life, within every cell of the body, demanding things like metabolism and reproduction. I also define the “will” as Tirips.

The zenith of the material mind, which is what the Soul is, and the physical body, follow after Tirips and are activated by Tirips. The closest thing to Godhood we have is Tirips which activates the reality of the body to materially evolve within nature and natural selection toward ascending levels of Godhood. The will, spirit, spirit-will, or material Tirips, ultimately mean the activation of the material world to evolve all the way to ascending levels Godhood while working within the outside ups and downs of nature, evolution and natural selection...We need to end the great mystic war and unite science and religion.

Saving religion and conservatism from rootless consumerism and rootless religion

Unlike Conservative Inc., paleoconservative's rightly believe that without religious tradition, individualism, the free enterprise economy, and democratic capitalist ideology become what we have today in the West: rootless consumerism open to leftist degeneration. But the religious tradition grounded in spiritualism, in its monastic esoteric essence, is as rootless as rootless consumerism. Given Christ's edict to reject the desires of the flesh in a bid to experience the God Within, traditional religions at their essence barely tolerate materialism in any form. But without material evolution, which is the real religious vehicle of our material evolution toward Godhood, religion becomes as rootless as rootless consumerism.

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. In theological materialism, religion and science can legitimately unite with the deepest roots needed to save religion and conservatism from rootless consumerism and rootless religion.

The separation between the material and the spiritual was a big metaphysical error

 Russell Kirk (The Conservative Mind):

“A Purpose, a Will, emanates from God; this Will has created our humanity and guides us now in ways beyond our understanding, toward ends which even our reason cannot make out clearly. Providence acts through the instincts and intuitions of our feeble flesh. This being so, the man who takes the materialist, the mechanist, and the Utilitarian for his preceptors in the ends of life is a forlorn fool” – who facilitates rule by demagogues, I would ad.”

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Albert Einstein said “My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”

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Those statements affirm the Great Spiritual Blockade of the revealed religions which has enshrouded the material evolution of life to ascending levels of real Godhood for thousands of years. This has not stopped evolution, which moves inevitably in a pattern, even though it has its random elements---it is a pattern with 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.

The separation between the material and the spiritual was a big metaphysical error. There need not be that tension between the material and the spiritual just as there need not be tension between religion, science, and the political.

The evolutionary Outward Path to Godhood brings back the ideals of life and living, heroism, cultivating wisdom, strength, beauty, health, kinship and ethnic bonds, and harmony with life and nature; natural instincts can then be religiously appreciated and seen as vital because we evolve to Godhood by way of material evolution and successful survival and reproduction.

Theological materialism affirms an ordered, rational, material, evolution to supermaterial Godhood. We can attain real Godhood and affirm real religion, but it is a supermaterial Godhood evolved to in the material world---and religion, science, and the political, can aid us in that sacred goal.

Religious, political, and artistic health are defined in the evolution of life, in nature, to Godhood

There is a hierarchy of values beginning with the sacred drive or will (Tirips) to materially evolve toward ascending levels of Godhood. Survival and reproduction follow this beginning material drive. Everything follows this natural hierarchy.

Those who believe in the complete randomness of evolution, the vast majority of scientists, often make dismissive comments regarding any kind of direction to evolution, usually in footnotes to show its unimportance to the text, but then the footnote’s are often emotional and long, protesting too much. I find the arguments that evolution is “non-purposive” and random as closed as the religious arguments denying evolution, information is lacking in both arguments.

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. This does not mean a transcendence from material life to non-material spiritual life, or replacing man with more intelligent machines. I see this great process of evolution toward Godhood as activated from within every atom and within every cell of living bodies, which then react and adapt to the various outside environments that life lives in. This activation is the same activation that leads to the desire to successfully survive and reproduce.

The good news is we can aid in this evolution. We are already shaping where the next generation wants to go, parents are already using testing and screening, genetic counseling, birth control, in vitro fertilization, and genetic engineering, and we can move on from there, as the deceitful paralyzing of eugenics begins to wind down.

Religious, moral, and artistic health are defined in the evolution of life, in nature, to Godhood. Art follows religion, as art can perform the task of affirming the sacred.

Taking away the traditional gender roles of women and men

The biological origin of social behavior has been overlooked, blocked really, in all fields, but especially in defining gender, by the cultural Marxism which has invaded all are schools as well as by the vile media.

Sane and rational people know that “men and women have different body structures, sexual systems and biological responses and processes”---only fools and demagogues deny it. There are obvious genetic and hormonal differences between men and women which certainly influence both gender and cultural behavior.

The challenge is to get the balance right between masculine and feminine traits, most of which are genetically determined. The overall attempt to denaturalize the genders does not work any better than the attempts to denaturalize politics, and a lot of damage can be done in the process.

Being a champion of evolution I am not against new technology but a-moral modern technology didn't predict how it would gradually take away the traditional gender roles of women and men, making it possible for either gender to push the button on missiles, or robot vacuum cleaners. Meanwhile modern technology has not changed the basic biology of gender differences which remain as they have been for tens of thousands of years.

Equal pay for equal work everyone agrees with, but things get serious when gender equality in the infantry units of the military is promoted, which becomes a real threat to protecting the lives of either gender. It has been made clear from the data gathered that the only way to have women in infantry units is to lower standards. Mixed sex-units were slower at accomplishing tasks than all male units, and musculature-skeletal differences created many more injuries in women than men.

We have allowed the scrambling of the brains of both men and women with cultural Marxism (demanding equality for the unequal), radical feminism (demanding biologically unnatural roles for women), homosexuality (demanding biologically unnatural sexual life styles) and postmodern relativism (demanding a biologically unnatural relativity of values).

The radical feminist slogans “Smash the patriarchy” and “nasty women make history” are completely contrary to the largely determined (yes determined ) path of human nature and too far away from the biological origin of our social behavior. Human nature has been affirmed throughout human history to this day as being genetically and universally gender defined as traditional, as well as being kin-centered and ethnocentric. This has been ignored by the radical feminists and by modern liberals.

The present trend of hypertrophied feminism will prevail as long as America and the West don't need territorial defending. When we do, our excellent Special Forces will not be nearly enough in number to defend the West against assertive and aggressive males who hate the West---the Islamic terrorists aren't much bemused by feminism and neither are the Chinese and Russians.

The true base of conservatism

Paleoconservative's say that they are neither racists or xenophobes defining the term “racist” as a person who believes that one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others. But the true definition of racism and ethnocentrism sees the races as distinct from one another, not equal, but with different talents, while being universally the same in being bio-culturally oriented toward family, ethnic group, and locality. To survive and reproduce successfully races evolved to be compelled by their genes and by the nature of their environment to be internally cooperative but externally xenophobic. That defines real human nature and suggests the true base of conservatism, and real human nature should not be left out of or denied by political philosophy.

E.O. Wilson writes in “The Social Conquest of the Earth”: “Hereditary altruists form groups so cooperative and well-organized as to out-compete non-altruists groups...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.”

Ed Dutton points out that computer modeling demonstrates that ethnocentric strategies usually triumph and universalist humanitarianism is ultimately a losing strategy “unable to sustain high levels of in-group cooperation.” Humanitarian groups invariably “waste their precious reproductive potential helping out free riders who give them nothing in return...”

That defines real human nature and suggests the true base of conservatism, and real human nature should not be left out of or denied by political philosophy. 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.

On the film version of “On the Road” (from the archive)

 I  finally saw the film version of Jack Kerouac's “On the Road,” (2012,Walter Salles directed) which relied more on the original manuscript than the published book, which might have made the reception of the published book different since the level of thrill-seeking hedonism is much darker in the original manuscript than the book. And this relates to the main thoughts I had from the film.

Thrill-seeking hedonism can be more easily justified if one agrees with Carl Jung's Spirits=Spiritual idea that seeking alcohol/drugs is a disguised desire for the Spiritual and many of the Beat Generation, and their Hippie followers, did eventually seek spirituality in Eastern religions, although Kerouac became trapped in alcoholism.

Hedonism and recklessness in literature and the arts often ties in with the natural rebellion of young people trying to make their way in a society they did not create. But seeking the bliss of the God Within or the Father Within can be seen as another concentrated form of hedonism, a spiritual substitute for alcohol/drugs. The way out of the dead end of  hedonism is not another form of hedonism, a way out comes from transforming the blissful God Within of the Inward Path to the Outward Path and the material evolution of life to ascending levels of Godhood.

The Outward Path---which needs to be seen as the fulfillment of the Inward Path, and the real attainment of the God first seen inwardly---does not lack in thrill-seeking and adventure, since materially evolving to Godhood requires classical courage, heroism and intelligence, even beyond what is required in wild poetic car trips across the country.

Evolution is also teleological and theological (from the archive)

"The Romantic conception of the transformation and morphogenesis of molecules, plants, and animals, was already fully evolutionary. Schelling spoke of evolution of plants and animals out of the earth by way of a chemical process (see, e.g., p. 168, The Romantic Conception of Life by Robert Richards). Goethe and Coleridge agreed...The reason Darwin is supposed to have discovered the “real” evolution is that his version is a-teleological, based on a conception of nature driven exclusively by efficient causes, while the Romantic theory of evolution is not only teleological, but theological. It breaks the rules of scientific explanation by attributing animation/agency to that which it theorizes. Modern science takes it as a matter of course that nature is without intelligence or intrinsic value...” (“Footnotes to Plato”)

The romantic Naturphilosophen of Goethe, Coleridge and Schelling conceived of nature as a creative archetypal process of generation. They thought “Nature is God and God is Nature” which is not the same Godhood as defined in theological materialism. Theological materialism attributes an inward material agency activating life (Tirips) to continually evolve toward ascending levels of material/supermaterial Godhood, while working along with natural selection and evolution, and this is considered a rational not irrational process which science will one day acknowledge.

Future religion depends on changing the scientific taboo that evolving life has no teleological or theological goal. Evolution also 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 Godhood. True religion and science become an aid in that sacred goal.

Why money-loving and class-loving libertarians won't save us

Greg Gutfeld said on Fox that he would rather be with a winner black than a loser white, which describes the specious philosophy of libertarians. The idea apparently looks good or right but it lacks real merit; it is superficially pleasing or plausible to the ear but is deceptive.

The individualistic Libertarian's usually define “winning” in terms of money, which eventually leads to a moneyed elite class and to the neoconservatism which brought us the globalism and border-less world that has all but destroyed America. A nation can't be bonded together by a globalist and border-less moneyed elite, as we see today with the racial riots continuing in our cities.

Whether Gutfeld and his tribe admit it or not the poor white and the poor black bond better with the rich of their own race or ethnic group than with another race or ethnic group because groups of related genes such as ethnic groups have numerous reasons for cooperating more successfully and harmoniously than with other ethnic groups.

Biology is the hardware, culture is only the software. The reality of multicultural multi-ethnic societies is that they are a zero sum game where the gain of one ethnic group is offset by the loss of another ethnic group. Real human nature is ethnocentric, not with one group overall superior or inferior but with different talents, never equal, because for many thousands of years right up to our present time group selection, or ethnic altruism, was the best way to be successful in survival and reproduction, so we became genetically kin-centered and ethnic-centered, even xenophobic.

I believe that one day in the future humans will realize that 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. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

Money-loving and class-loving libertarians won't save us.

Evolution is also not only teleological but theological

“The Romantic conception of the transformation and morphogenesis of molecules, plants, and animals, was already fully evolutionary. Schelling spoke of evolution of plants and animals out of the earth by way of a chemical process (see, e.g., p. 168, The Romantic Conception of Life by Robert Richards). Goethe and Coleridge agreed...The reason Darwin is supposed to have discovered the “real” evolution is that his version is a-teleological, based on a conception of nature driven exclusively by efficient causes, while the Romantic theory of evolution is not only teleological, but theological. It breaks the rules of scientific explanation by attributing animation/agency to that which it theorizes. Modern science takes it as a matter of course that nature is without intelligence or intrinsic value...” (“Footnotes to Plato”)

Romantic Naturphilosophen like Goethe, Coleridge and Schelling conceived of nature as a creative archetypal process of generation. They thought “Nature is God and God is Nature” which is not exactly the same Godhood as theological materialism. Theological materialism attributes an inward material agency activating life (Tirips) to continually evolve toward ascending levels of Godhood, while working along with natural selection and evolution.

I think future religion depends on breaking the taboo that evolving life has no teleological or theological goal. Evolution also 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 Godhood. Religion becomes an aid in that sacred goal.

The condition of American democracy today

If we look at the condition of American democracy today with the ongoing protests and riots across the country, with four congresswomen known as 'The Squad' loudly calling for defunding or abolishing the police during the rioting, it makes me wonder if Ancient Greek democracy knew something we don't know when they excluded women, slaves, and foreigners from voting; 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.

Real human nature doesn't harmonize well the Squad, who are affirmed by the leftist mainstream Media along with the cultural Marxism they espouse. It is the dwindling silent majority of mostly white Christians whose votes of restraint and common sense are keeping the country from utterly falling apart.

Human nature is is genetically 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. The reality of multicultural multi-ethnic societies is that they are a zero sum game where the gain of one ethnic group is offset by the loss of another ethnic group.

Given real human nature, a true civil rights or natural 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., defended by a defensive federalism.  An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states. That is the most humane solution to our deepening identity crisis.

Then democracy and representative government might have a chance to work, at least in some of the ethnostates.