Allowing Ethnocentrism

The above title will seem outrageous to many people, but the way to combat racism is to allow it. Being against racism certainly has not stopped it. The solutions of both the liberals and conservatives have been mistaken: conservatives tend to deny racism and liberals want to outlaw it.

Modern western culture has created a vast field of ruin, to use a phrase of Nietzsche's. There has been an attempt to escape real human nature with hyperindivualism and solipsism, leading to self-indulgence, greed, sensual excess, addiction, and so on.

The day will one day come when one is not called a bigot for admitting ethnocentrism, because real human nature does eventually rise. According to the honest (and courageous) wing of the sociobiological sciences, human nature remains kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection. Human nature does not really atrophy but it can be shoved underground in society by fostering other emotional values.

This means that ethnopluralism with small ethnostates is the realistic way to create social and cultural order, protected by some sort of federalism---we cannot rely on our own virtues alone. The U. S Constitution could even legally affirm ethnopluralism in view of the separation of powers and states. Like school children fighting in the schoolyard, the way to create peace and order is to separate them, give them their own space.

And finally, the highest values are not merely preservation (survival) or enhancement (power), contrary to Nietzsche. Values are defined by evolution, ongoing material and supermaterial evolution toward Godhood, with Godhood reaching the highest value. Survival and power are secondary to this evolutionary valuation. Eventually we are evolving beyond our present ethnic groups.

The Aesthetics of How We Know

I don't reject the empirical way of knowledge or reject epistemology, but I give intellectual intuition, as seen in aesthetics and in religion, a central role. The human empirical restrictions or disciplines can come later to affirm what intellectual intuition finds.

I say “human” ways of thought because humans do seem confined to the limitations of their own minds, but I don't believe we are trapped there, as Kant thought, unable to find real truth or find the thing-in-itself. Like the latest “speculative realists” I don't see “epistemology having primacy over ontology,” as Steven Shaviro put it.

Epistemology can trap us in the human process, whereas the cosmos has more than the human process working. There are things in the world outside of the human perception of them. But we can think or intuit that all living things share an activating Spirit-Will-To-Godhood residing materially or supermaterially within life, which humans can grasp intuitively, and which other things or objects in the world may or may not grasp. There is, or was, even such a thing as intuitionist mathematics which relies on intuitive more than discursive reasoning.

We can grasp reality in nature because we are part of nature even if we are not the whole of nature. We are evolving along with nature toward Godhood. And this is not defined as philosophical idealism or spiritualism, the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood is a material or supermaterial activation and dependent on evolution.

This also does not reject traditional religion, it transforms the Inward God, or the Father Within, from only the inward symbolic experience of Godhood, to the Outward Path of material evolution to real Godhood within the cosmos. The beauty of real conservatism, or deep conservatism as I call it, is that it finely modifies past tradition but does not reject it. For example, we can arrive at the orthodox view of beauty, which is not merely in the eye of the beholder, and truth is not beyond the grounded values and morality of our material and supermaterial evolution toward Godhood.

We can intellectually intuit the activating forces within the life we are living, and we do that the way the artist uses intuition as the medium of knowledge, or the way the religious seer uses intellectual intuition as the criterion for awareness of reality, goodness, truth and beauty. This is the way the activating Spirit-Will is seen or understood. After this aesthetic and religious intuitive medium we can apply the more humanly restricted forms of empirical knowledge.

The post-moderns have trapped themselves in Kant's blockade of human knowledge, which has caused them to embrace nihilism as truth. The intellectual intuition affirmed here, and in theological materialism, allows us to break out of the Great Spiritual Blockade so that we may continue, consciously this time, evolving materially and supermaterially toward Godhood. This leads to the foundational values and morals of our lives... This helps explain the aesthetics of how we know.

Bruce Jenner's repugnant attempt to change himself from a man to a woman

To see the entire national media applauding former Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner's repugnant attempt to change himself from a man to a woman suggests that it won't be long before describing sexual perversions as “pathology” in the United States will send you to jail, which is now done in some European countries.

I have never given much attention to the Kardashians, not because they are debauched, but because they are boring and unoriginal. But now I understand how ill-fated it was for the Kardashian children to have had a father (and stepfather) who was so pathologically ill that he did not care what they did or who they did it with. The national media and the academic world probably can't believe how lucky they are to have found another way to defile and emasculate white males.

Well, real human nature, which sociobiologically remains 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, always rises to cultural power and puts these kind of deviations back in the closet in order to save itself.

Ethnopluralism shores up the weakness in two systems

In an essay in “Chronicles” a while back Andrei Navrozov speculated on the differences between the West and East as between Western “civilization” and Eastern “militarization.” Militarization is collective, external, sacrificial, civilization is individual, inward, pleasure-oriented.

Some general once said that a good leader never walks past a mistake or it will come back to hurt you later. It seems to me we need both the advantages of group-altruism and the creativity of individualism to shore up the weakness in both systems---but we need to add ethnopluralism to any long-term solution. Ethnopluralism can offer both group-selection and creative civilization in their most natural state.

Can this be done? The task of ethnopluralism in the West is to liberate the culture from the sorcery of cultural Marxism which defines political correctness---it is a lie which has covered up control by an imperialistic few.

Given the security implications of government forms, I consider this to be a security issue. Ethnopluralism can save America from eventual chaos and disorder. According to real human nature, people naturally prefer their own kind, living in their own territories. I am an American patriot, the U.S Constitution could accommodate ethnopluralism with its natural separation of powers and states, which tends to happen anyway following civil disruptions or war. But I certainly advocate doing things legally.

If other nations East or West see the wisdom of ethnopluralism, so much the better for them.

Future evolutionary values

The means have been misunderstood as the object, and definitions or symbols are also misunderstood as the object. This is a problem with religion and philosophy: God or Being are not seen as real, living, material or supermaterial objects, but as non-material definitions and symbols, or blissful inward experiences, or a means only of explaining life.

We require a scale of values constructed according to an order of values representing real evolution. That is, evolution toward a physiological, material/supermaterial Godhood at the zenith of evolution. The ascent in evolution represents an increase in value, the descent a diminution or decline in value. The central dynamic is not first an increase in consciousness, pleasure, survival or power, but is the advance of evolution toward supermaterial Godhood, which contains these characteristics as secondary to the central activation of evolution.

Contrary to Nietzsche and his postmodern followers, there is a goal to power, consciousness and evolution, life is evolving toward material/supermaterial Godhood. And this need not lead to exclusivity or old imperialism since the mission of the evolutionary values defines all groups as evolving toward Godhood in their own particular ways in their own territories, helped along by international research centers, ethnopluralism and various forms of federalism.

What values are big enough for the future? We have lost the value of living objects in religion and in philosophy. Theological materialism brings Godhood back to the reality of living objects and evolution, without rejecting the old symbols, but by putting them in their secondary and reactive place in the Inward Path, and by applying the Outward Path of evolution toward Godhood.

Pushing back neoconservatism and the struggle for survival

World domination for the neoconservatives? You have to admit, they have chutzpah. But the neoconservatives need to be repudiated. The problem is, Big Money/Big Business affirm the neos because the neos do not get in the way of their marauding globalism.

But if we want to live, prosper, and evolve, we have to promote the separation of powers, regions and states, as in the original U.S Constitution, and we need to support economic nationalism, and eventually an ethnopluralism of regions and states, protected by a light federalism.

Legal, economic and cultural relations arise largely from ethnic and biological ones, not the other way around---all these national foundations are disappearing in the face of multiculturalism, political correctness (cultural Marxism), and neoconservativism.

It seems that we have to admit that the West has been falling, in spite of the arrogant war-mongering of the neoconservatives. I don't see a better choice in the matter than the one mentioned above. And this kulturkampf, this struggle for culture, can be brought about through legal means. Wouldn't it be nice if the times were such that one of the presidential candidates now bloviating for the next election would take up this vital perspective? When will this happen?

What the “ecological economists” have right is the idea that nature is ultimately the source of wealth

What the “ecological economists” have right is the idea that nature is ultimately the source of wealth and if we destroy nature we destroy future wealth, along with destroying many other things. This suggests, or should suggest, that endless growth as an economic philosophy can be unhealthy.

This also relates to the unhealthy dominance of economic forces. Yes we can have market's free or fair, but we cannot be dominated by markets as we have been in the West, which has largely destroyed the cultures and the nations of the West. Yes, free enterprise has raised the standard of living higher than any time in human history, but it can become that old root of all evil when it dominates well-bonded communities, local governments, ethnic cultures, and everything else.

Can this be changed? We have no choice if we want to continue living. We will be more “free” the more we restrict the power of Big Money/Big Business which has become a marauding international global state. Big Business claimed to be against the communists but they have promoted an international “brotherhood” and a border-less world as the communist did, which is just as impossible.

I think the change can be done without radical revolution and without rejecting the vision of the Founding Fathers. Human nature remains kin-centered, ethnocentric, local, even xenophobic, and group selection is still the primary unit of selection, and this relates directly to the separation of powers and states in the U.S. Constitution.

Libertarians usually don't embrace economic nationalism, and that's a problem with them, their philosophy of hypertrophied individualism has not absorbed the importance of the primary unit of group selection in successful survival, which is deeply ingrained in human nature. This means that libertarian decentralization will not be enough, if open border, free trade globalism remains. We require tariffs on foreign products to save manufacturing, and save jobs, and save lives, and save cultures that have been destroyed by globalism. Economic nationalism is not isolationism, or anti-technology, or anti-trade, or anti-free enterprise, endless growth as an economic philosophy has been unhealthy, and we must admit this.

Memorial Day 2015

Why traditional Christians need not reject modern human progress

Paleoconservatives tend to look with scorn at the idea of human progress and believe history was at its zenith with the birth, life and death of Jesus and they believe humans can and should regress to that event and call that the only progress. Really?

Christian civilization grew on the misinterpretations of the ascetic religious philosophy of Jesus. Brilliant Christian philosophers adapted the completely Inward Path of Jesus to fit outward social behavior. The real Jesus simply had no time for the “city of man” other than to show people how to escape it. Jesus preached the Inward Path to the God or Father Within only, which required rejecting all material desires. The social ethics of Jesus were negatively related to that anti-materialism. That anti-materialism is what defined “progress” to Jesus.

This is where the later radical rejection of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment came from, which has been perhaps the greatest error of traditional Christianity. Why? Because science and the idea of evolutionary progress are aids in the evolution of material and supermaterial life toward real Godhood in the Outward Path, which was only symbolically experienced in the Inward Path of the traditional religions of Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and others---the Inward Path is retained but transformed in the Twofold Path.

Traditional Christians need not reject modern human progress, real Godhood lies ahead at the zenith of material evolution.

Ordered evolution and the middle-class

It seems that other than the middle-class, which tends to hold on to traditions that derive from real human nature, the other classes seem revolutionary or decadent. Decadent upper classes (often neoconservative) are increasingly creating only two classes, the rich and the poor, and this is accomplished at the expense of the middle-class. The middle-class is now being destroyed by global Big Money/Big Business and by unchecked immigration. And the lower class revolutionaries (often Marxist) rise by destroying middle-class conservative order. The weakness of the middle-class is their negative reaction to all change, but this seems somewhat easier to remedy than trying to turn decadents or revolutionaries into conservatives.

I believe conservatism needs to be understood as stagnating and harming the middle-class (and all groups) if it doesn't value evolutionary change within conservatism. Evolution not revolution needs to be thought of as slow but permanent. Ordered evolution rates higher than ordered liberty, which makes people too happy with the status quo. Ordered evolution affirms conservative order along with evolutionary change. There is a “maturational lag” involved in genetic improvements which requires time and order to adapt the changes. The fast pace of artificial intelligence should also slow down for the same adaptive reasons so that AI doesn't end up controlling us.

After all, it is the sacred evolution of material and supermaterial life toward Godhood which is the religious transformation required.

It cannot be all over for the West

The West is committing suicide. Is It all over?

Virtually all the vested interests are against the things that hold a nation together: Big Business/Big Money, the political class, the national Media, the academic world, and even the general public, all support the devices with which the West is committing suicide. They support lowering all barriers to national borders and immigrants, all barriers to national government and national identities, all of them support hyper-individualism, that is, the rights of individuals over community, language, ethnic differences, and common culture.

And so the West is committing suicide. Can anything be done?

We can't just die and do nothing. We can continue to speak the truth about real human nature, in which group-selection, which leads to group-altruism, and even to ethnocentrism, remains the primary unit of human selection, even if this has been buried by the suicidal devices mentioned above. We can group ourselves in the communities of people we want to live with, with common ties. Multicultural societies drowning in hyper-individualism do not create any real uniformity of purpose in the members of a large group---they don't share many traits, culturally or genetically, and they don't coordinate much at all.

But peaceful means, which sane people advocate, may not stop future clashes and even civil wars, as real human nature reasserts itself. Perhaps then, after the clashes, a natural ethnopluralism will form out of the dying suicidal empires. We need to try to bring this about through legal, evolutionary, peaceful means. For example, the U.S. Constitution, with its separation of powers and states, could accommodate an ethnopluralism of regions and states, protected by a light federalism.

Evolution and devolution naturally take place, but sacred life is on the side of evolution, as life evolves toward Godhood. Evolution is not so much a preservation of life as it is an increase and accumulation of intelligence, beauty, complexity, and power, leading toward the zenith of material/supermaterial evolution, which defines Godhood.

Why the radical Nietzschean and neopagan paths are not necessary

Christian tradition does not condemn the desire to affirm ones country and ones ethnic culture. Even St. Thomas Aquinas said we are to honor our kin and country, only in second place to God.

It is understandable that the neopagans and Nietzschean racialists see modern Christians as culturally Marxist modern liberals who have, along with postmodernism (and even neoconservatives), welcomed the destruction of national borders and ethnic identities.

The religious problem comes when only the Inward Path experience of the God or Father Within is affirmed, because the Inward Path requires rejecting and virtually abandoning the natural laws of material desire, which Jesus centrally advocated (and Buddha too). Universalism and equality are easier to swallow when you care little or nothing for the material desires of natural law and human nature, which is the necessary ascetic path to symbolically experience the Inward God.

The religious and political solution here comes when the Father Within of the Inward Path is seen as only the first glimpse, the symbolic experience of real Godhood which is reached in the Outward Path of material and supermaterial evolution. Material desires refined by conscious evolution are in fact necessary to reach Godhood in the Outward Path. But both Paths are retained in the Twofold Path of theological materialism. Conservatism can remain a viable philosophy.

This is why we do not require the radical Nietzschean or the neopagan path to restore natural law and real human nature. Real human nature remains as it has always been, ethnocentric and group-selecting, among other traditional things, and this naturally, and rationally, leads to a political ethnopluralism, which can counter the modern liberal version of Christianity and cultural Marxism, which have nearly destroyed the West.

One thing that can be done: the U. S. Constitution with its separation of powers and states and protecting federalism could accommodate ethnopluralism. Then with ethnopluralism affirmed culturally and territorially we can get on with the most sacred mission of conscious evolution toward real material/supermaterial Godhood for all ethnic cultures and groups, which is a legitimate universalism.

This is how we conserve our nations and identities, and restore and evolve Christianity, natural law, human nature and science, without radical Nietzschean goalless power drives, or neopagan reversals.

The attempt to detach biology from culture

The political correctness of cultural Marxism now prevalent in the West attempts to detach biology from culture.

This can't be done, it's a lie, a non-reality, and it leads to nihilism and anarchy. So much for postmodernism.

When you try to leave nature and biology out of culture you get such abnormal monstrosities as the attempts at gender sameness, universal equality, multiculturalism, and gay marriage.

For one example: although men and women do share many of the same qualities, women have a more natural capacity for nurturing and compassion, men are more territorial and protective, and these differences balance relationships within society. Without this balancing, national borders can become unprotected, the state can grow in power, children don't know who or what they are, and this all leads to decadence.

Political correctness and cultural Marxism are full of empty words with no substance, but they have been exploited, ironically, for biological purposes, the will to power of those who promote it, unconsciously or consciously.

To save ourselves we need to move past political correctness and cultural Marxism, and we need to consciously re-attach biology to culture.

Making the world a monastery?

"Making the world a monastery" is the foundation of Christianity. (For a different view see Chronicles, January 2015). Living the ascetic life was the main theme and meaning of the Sermon on the Mount and this was the root of the social (really antisocial) values of Jesus Christ. Poverty, celibacy, obedience was (and is) necessary in the Inward Path to experience the symbolic God or Father Within. Not unlike Gautama Buddha, Jesus did not care for material life. Practical life had nothing to do with the ascetic life of Jesus.

It was the later reasoning of Catholic philosophers who adapted the ascetic values of Jesus, probably to accommodate the real necessities of human life and Church growth---Saint Thomas Aquinas was brilliant in doing this. Even though the reasoning of the philosophers kept the monastic system for the true followers of Christ, the Christian philosophers actually rejected more than transformed the ascetic life, in the the spirit of Saint Paul who told the Corinthians that it's better to marry than to burn with lust---a reluctant affirmation at best. This forever altered the traditional inward philosophy of Jesus.

But the way to deal with the delegitimizing of life and living in the ascetic Inward Path is not to reject the Inward Path but transform it in the Outward Path. The Twofold Path described in the theological materialism of the Theoevolutionary Church does not reject Christ's inward teaching. The Father Within is seen as the first symbolic inward glimpse of Godhood which can be reached in the Outward Path of material and supermaterial evolution. We do not turn away from the normal discontents of the real instincts of life, indeed, evolving material life is the only vehicle by which we can evolve toward real supermaterial Godhood.

Real human nature separates and even discriminates

Conservative's (The American Conservative, Chronicles) speak truth to neoconservatives, but ethnopluralist's need to speak truth to conservatives. James O. Tate suggested that it is segregationist to demand that in black neighborhoods the police must be black. But real human nature remains kin-centered, ethnocentric and even xenophobic, and human nature helps define why white police don't get along all that well in black neighborhoods.

The answer to this increasing problem is not more multiculturalism, where no real identity is projected, but ethnopluralism, where real identity is allowed. Regions and states need to move in the direction of affirming ethnic localities, which the separation of powers and states in the U. S. Constitution could accommodate and protect.

The same principal applies to immigration. America is not merely an idea or an ideology, as both political parties now preach, distinct people create distinct cultures, not the other way around. Aaron Wolf said if you recognize that immigrants are different in any way (except “better”) you are called a racist. The reality is, you are not evil because you recognize and admit that people are different, or that the territories which people live in should reflect and even champion those differences. Any long-term peace and harmony possible between people will come from this.

How Nietzsche's foundation was deficient

I think that Nietzsche's will to accumulate force (the will to power), which he placed first in the phenomenon of life, in reality comes third behind survival and reproductive success, and the material activating Spirit-Will-To-Godhood within life comes first. This is where Nietzsche's philosophy is deficient at its activating foundation.

This does not take away form Nietzsche's great courage in philosophy and psychology and the brilliant patterns he saw in life and culture. But Nietzsche and his postmodern disciples were off in their philosophical foundation leading to the amorality and nihilism we see today.

The sacred aim of life is not merely self-preservation or the accumulation of strength but is the material and supermaterial evolution toward Godhood. “Decadence” is the opposite of evolution. Even “happiness” is basically related to always striving to evolve toward Godhood.

Religion, philosophy, science and art continue in this way, with the Inward Path to the symbolic Father Within retained but transformed in the Outward Path of material evolution to real Godhood---Godhood and morality are not dead.

The main source of power of the occult schools

Here is the main and perhaps sole source of power of the occult schools, and the arcane initiation practices such as the Hindu chart of correspondences, the Kabbalah, etc: they obtain power from their symbolic systems because they think and believe they do. Real materialism and supermaterialism, and the religious philosophy of theological materialism replaces magic devices. Godhood is evolved to in the material and supermaterial world---compared to this real and future evolution, symbolic games have limited utility.

Ethnopluralism Not Imperialism

The basic and powerful principle of self-determinism of individuals and groups rooted in biology makes the various forms of imperialism and colonialism always decline and fall. And so empires tend to be tyrannical.

We need to work with, not against, the self-determinism of different ethnic cultures and not try to force them into one motley multicultural cauldron of trouble, as we are now seeing in 2015 America.

The global business elite have been trying to destroy differences across the globe and trying to herd all groups into one lower class, while destroying the middle class, which has usually been the class to conservatively hold on to the best of the past.

Then increased numbers in the lower class tend to become more angry, and the upper class tends to become decadent, often leading to radical revolution, the opposite of the order needed for successful survival and evolution.

I like the term “ordered evolution” better than the term “ordered liberty” preferred by the conservative middle-class. It is not enough to go back, reclaim, conserve, important as that is, we need to also evolve. That requres the deepest conservatism.

We want to improve ethnic groups and ethnic cultures by way of culture and genetics, not destroy them. This is how ethnopluralism rises affirming ethnic territories or ethnostates, and protected by some sort of federalism with shared sovereignty---with respect for ethnic differences. For example, I see no good reason why the separation of powers and states in the original U.S. Constitution could not eventually accommodate ethnic territories.

Given human nature which remains kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection, ethnopluralism is our best chance for ordered liberty and ordered evolution.

Colonel John Boyd and the ancient tripartite structure

Another way to look at the value of Colonel John Boyd's ideas on the different levels of war is to see them corresponding to the hypothesis of the ancient, tripartite, Proto-Indo-European (PIE), class structure: Boyd's physical, weakest level (PIE commoners, economic), the mental, middle level (PIE military, strategy, ) and the moral level of war, the most powerful (PIE the sacral, priests). Boyd's ideas on military strategy seem to have hooked into (probably unconsciously) a very old system, one that eventually conquered the ancient world.

God and Real Godhood

God is not an abstract definition of harmony in the cosmos, not the abstract laws of the cosmos, not the highest mathematical equations, and not high abstract unity, as some scientists (Einstein, Newton, Darwin) seemed to have almost reluctantly believed. What is missing is the literally living, highest evolved material or supermaterial being or beings in the cosmos specified as Godhood.

For what it's worth versions of this view are also seen in the philosophy of nominalism or conceptualism. The God of the scientists mentioned above defines “universals” and not real living highest evolved beings. Their God exists only in the material mind and has no material/supermaterial extra-mental existence. This view of real Godhood also tends to degrade traditionalist “mystery schools” of “initiation," freemasonry etc., whose God usually resembles various forms of abstract, non-existent universals.

Then also the God or Father Within of the ascetic Inward Path of most religions is not real Godhood but is a symbolic glimpse of Godhood experienced in the material mind and arrived at only after the ascetic discipline of ridding the the body of material desires. Although the Inward Path is or can be retained in the Twofold Path, it is not real Godhood which is arrived at in the Outward Path of material/supermaterial evolution.

How Wendell Berry Avoids Deep-Conservatism

He may be a Jeffersonian liberal or he may be a Burkean conservative, either way Wendell Berry is a national treasure. That said, I find his view of human nature incomplete.

Localism, which Wendell Berry rightly affirms, rises naturally out of the altruism of group-selection, and group-selection naturally leads to ethnic cultures and to ethnocentrism, and even to xenophobia. Ethnocentrism evolved as a basic part of human nature due to the advantages it brought to survival success and social harmony---call it deep-conservatism.

If localism is to be successful it needs to include an affirmation of ethnic cultures, with ethnic territories, and in a multi-ethnic nation this suggests ethnopluralism. American federalism could then protect the different regions, states, localities, and ethnic cultures, which could be affirmed by the separation of powers and states in the original U.S. Constitution. Whatever human peace is possible needs to include this deep-conservatism.

Although Berry is not the typical Christian, like most Christians he misses the central motive behind the ascetic sermons of Jesus. Jesus rejected all material desires, as Buddha also did, so as to experience the God or Father Within, which could only be fully experienced by ridding the body of material desires. One could love ones enemies and be peaceful and forgiving mainly because one was not concerned primarily with the material desires or outward actions of the flesh. This was not really a social or political philosophy.

Real human nature remains kin-centered, ethnocentric and even xenophobic, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection. Jesus, Buddha, and the Hindus before them would probably agree with this definition of human nature (they might even occasionally call it evil), as their ascetic philosophy ran contrary to it. We can retain the inward ascetic experience of the Father Within as the first symbolic glimpse of real Godhood, which is reached not by blocking human nature but by the guided outward evolution of material and supermaterial life toward real Godhood.

Long-term conscious evolution requires peace and order, and peace and order require local, ethnic cultures and ethnocentrism. Contrary to political correctness (cultural Marxism), we would probably not have the territorial racial battles we see happening today in West Baltimore if a protected ethnopluralism had been affirmed and established.

The problem with modern hipsters

Someone called the modern hipsters the “spent force” of postmodernism, but the hipsters are more like the culmination of postmodernism, Nietzsche's children who were taught by the academic world to see no real foundation for values and morality, other than a pseudo-creative and goalless will-to-power. So we have their identifying pose of irony.

Here is the problem with the hipsters: the things they champion, androgyny--the rejection of male and female ideals--, feminism, multiculturalism, and the general dismissal of cultural norms, does not harmonize or relate to real human nature---and that defines phoniness.

Actual human nature remains as it has always been, kin-centered, gender defined, age-grading, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, among other mostly traditional things, with group-selection (not hyperindivualism) as the primary unit of selection.

A fool is more comical when he does not know he is a fool. If they weren't arrogant you might feel sorry for the modern hipsters who are trying to find identity in a world that has taken away any real identity.

The difference between the Will to Power and the Spirit-Will-to-Godhood

Nietzsche's Will to Power is a primitive motive force with no real end goal other than endlessly and amorally seeking power, whereas the Spirit-Will-to-Godhood is the sacred activation of life toward evolving to the highest evolution of Godhood, which is a material/supermaterial activation. The Spirit-Will is not a primitive “Id” but is a sacred Super-Id, of which all other motives are derived.

The Spirit-Will-to-Godhood is a deeper motive than individual happiness, and even deeper than successful survival and reproduction, which are secondary results or symptoms which heed the needs and goals of the Spirit-Will. Nietzsche had it right when he said “happiness is an accompanying, not an activating factor.”

Science continues to deny a motive or internal activating force, it mainly looks at the results of forces. Living things seek to become greater and more than they are, and more than only self preservation. Adapting to the environment does bring changes to life forms but this is only one more obstacle to overcome in the sacred activation of life toward more beauty, intelligence, and power, on the path toward Godhood.

The “unaquisitive soul” of the Inward Path, seen in all traditional religions, means that the soul does not seek material things, but the reality of the Outward Path is precisely the opposite. The Spirit-Will-To-Godhood seeks Godhood by way of intelligent and guided material and supermaterial evolution. But we can conservatively retain the Inward Path as the first symbolic inward glimpse or Godhood, brought about by blocking the desires of the flesh, but then we can move on to the evolutionary Outward Path toward real Godhood.

The deepest difference between Nietzsche's Will to Power and the Spirit-Will to Godhood is that the Will to Power leads to the death of God and religion, and the Spirit-Will-to-Godhood leads to new life for religion and Godhood.

Response to the White House correspondents' dinner: the dangerous deceit of multiculturalism

While president Obama was amusing everyone with his “anger translator” at the correspondents' dinner, real anger was exploding in a West Baltimore neighborhood, with black mobs breaking windows, rioting, etc. which is lately becoming almost commonplace. Recently Somali immigrants in Minnesota (of all places) are angry and protesting against the police because the police are holding Islamic terrorist recruits from their community.

Most people know but can't say out loud that "multiculturalism" has meant open ethnic pride for minorities but not for whites. Speaking the truth openly today means hurting yourself. For example, the latest figures I know of from the New Century Foundation in 2005 (which may be changed somewhat by now) found that: “Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against other blacks. Forty-five percent of the victims of violent crime by blacks are white folks, 43 percent are black, 10 percent are Hispanic. Blacks are seven times as likely as people of other races to commit murder, eight times more likely to commit robbery and three times more likely to use a gun in a crime. Blacks are an estimated 39 times more likely to commit violent crime against a white person than vice versa, and 136 times more likely to commit robbery. Black-on-white rape is 115 times more common than the reverse. (If decent black folks have trouble being racially profiled these numbers may help explain it.)”

This is not to say that there is no unfair racial bias, of course there is. But why don't blacks police themselves?

Speaking of deeper but related things, by rejecting real human nature our educational system and the media in general have doomed the nation to constant civil disturbances and even eventual civil war. Why? Human nature remains as it has always been, kin-centered, ethnocentric, and even xenophobic, and no amount of forced “multiculturalism” within the same living space will lead to homogeneity and peace. That is the reality of human nature.

The separation of powers and states in the original U. S. Constitution could accommodate, if we wanted it to, a realistic ethnopluralism with separate regions and states for distinct ethnic cultures within our federation, which might then help bring whatever peace and harmony is possible for human beings. Otherwise civil war will probably create these things---The same ethnic social dynamics applies to Europe and the rest of the world...I could support only a legal movement of ethnopluralism, but I can't predict its chances of taking place very soon.

The main test of value of a political system

The main test of value of a political system is whether the political system helps the majority---and not just a minority---evolve upward toward more intelligence, beauty and good character, on the path toward Godhood.

A republican form of government can do this, but so can other forms of government. It is usually best to prefer the government you have, mainly because slower conservative change usually works better and does less harm than radical change.

We could use more scientists, and not only lawyers, in government. Once the people decide where they want to go, the direction can be enhanced by consulting with experts in the field, which is needed in our increasingly complex world, as Raymond Cattell pointed out. National research centers in sociobiology, economics etc. need to be supported by the public too. And it wouldn't bother me a bit to see more requirements and qualifications to vote, rather than fewer and fewer as we have been seeing.

Ultimately all social questions are ethical ones, and therefore religious. All long-lasting cultures and civilizations were founded in religions. After all, the sacred goal of life is to evolve toward Godhood.

Religious Transformation in the Twofold Path

Ascetic freedom from material and bodily desires which the Hindus, Buddhists, Christians and others feature, is in reality limited to the Inward Path symbolic experience of the God or Father Within, but total religion requires the Outward Path of evolution, which can channel material desires toward evolving to real Godhood, and not destroying that sacred activation.

In general, the Great Spiritual Blockade of the Inward Path of traditional religion says, in reality, as Schopenhauer said, it is better not to be born than to be. Think of that! But even so, the Twofold Path does not reject the traditional Inward Path, which was our early, inward, ascetic glimpse of Godhood, it transforms it into the Outward Path of material/supermaterial evolution to real Godhood.

This is conservative evolution rather than radical revolution. One of the basics of conservatism is that you don't abolish your culture, you change it or reconstitute it on a new basis. This is the opposite of the Marxists who openly admit that they act contrary to all historical experience.

The material world, science, culture, can legitimately re-enter religion again with the Twofold Path. Present man and present religion are only the beginning of the man and woman of the future, as we all reach toward Godhood. This means also that politically we have to find a way to keep life and the world going, which leads to the ethnopluralism written about here.

The political coalition of the future

The left and right can get together against marauding globalism, because the left hates big-corporation global capitalism, and the right hates border-marauding, sovereign-killing, so-called free-market capitalism. But I would like to see it go even deeper than this natural populism. I would like to see ethnopluralism affirmed by both the left and the right: ethnopluralism could gain from the division between the failing parties---although they have become more alike in their political correctness.

Unlike multiculturalism which causes the loss of identity by attempting to affirm everything and everyone equally, ethnopluralism affirms ethnic groups and cultures living mainly in their own regions and states, which could even be accommodated by the separation of powers and states of the original U.S. Constitution. This could appeal to the left in that it supports not one but all ethnic cultures, and to the right because it protects the traditional distinctness of existing groups. Libertarians will like the devolution of Big Government back to the regions and states.

But the great natural advantage of ethnopluralism is that it affirms real human nature, which has remained kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection. The refusal to acknowledge territorial ethnic differences always leads to social disruption and even to civil war.

Even democracy or a Republican form of government can fit better with ethnopluralism. Any marauding minority will have more difficulty subjecting society to their conditions because with ethnopluralism it is the group, the majority, which sets the patterns in the states and regions---protected by an overall light federalism.

Nietzsche's wild man as a misreading of nature

“Everything returns to its natural condition, man cannot denature nature.” (Nietzsche)

But man can aid in the evolution of man in nature, which means harmonizing with the deepest sacred nature. Nietzsche claims (the Will To Power) to love nature and the return to nature, but he sees the undomesticated “wild” man as a correction, a cure, a recovery for man, and he does not give much value to the group or to human altruism.

This was a misreading of human nature. In every human culture ever studied, human nature included, among other things, kin-selection preferences, incest taboos, marriage, hierarchy, division of labor, gender differentiation, religion making, localism, ethnocentrism, even xenophobic, and with group-selection as the primary unit of selection, which means altruism as well. If the culture proposes to not include these things, the culture does not last long and it always returns to these things. These values also happen to be at the core of conservatism and tradition, whereas many of these traits are missing in, say, the cultural Marxism of modern liberalism, and missing in Nietzsche-influenced post-modernism, and missing even in the hyper-individualism of modern libertarianism.

The “domestication” most vital is to aid in the inward-activated evolution of man toward Godhood, affirmed by culture, which means far more than the unleashing of the wild man, which fascinated Nietzsche. The evolution of man toward Godhood is the most sacred element in the return to real nature and it requires long-term selection as well as harmony between the individual and the group, which includes the altruism that Nietzsche finds “degenerate.” Our evolution toward Godhood is the real civilizing of the beast, the real return to nature, the real and sacred return to human nature.

Harmonizing with the activation beneath the surface of our lives

Sensations, thoughts, pleasure, pain, even our consciousness are less important than what is happening beneath the surface in our bodies. And the things beneath the surface are largely outside our consciousness. What I call the Super-Id, or the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, pursues its material/supermaterial goals, activating life inwardly as life adapts to the environment outwardly with evolution. The whole of culture, the whole of our consciousness is probably developed from this activation. We create the culture that we are.

Life ascends in evolution toward Godhood and our consciousness and our cultures are healthiest, and most real, the closer they can harmonize with this activation beneath the surface of our lives. The sexual instinct is one of the highest expressions of this activation toward Godhood, as both Nietzsche and Freud pointed toward.  (Without Nietzschean philosophy there would have been no Freudian psychology)  That is, the sexual instinct is not primarily the expression of power (Nietzsche) or the selfish libido (Freud) but is primarily the expression of the activation of life toward Godhood.

This points toward a new religious psychology grounded in theological materialism. We are not only individuals and groups, we are part of the evolution of life toward higher life and eventually to Godhood. That is good news for life and for consciousness, and good news for religion.

The Advantages of Ethnopluralism

The quixotic dream of complete equality between different ethnic groups is not realistic because real human nature remains very much ethnocentric and even xenophobic, with group selection as the primary unit of selection. This is a realism that must gradually arrive in the U.S. and in Europe---it has all but happened in the breakup of the Soviet Union into ethnostates, if Putin allows it to continue. The traditionalist's who moan and just bare it believing all this is human all too human, and the modern liberals who continue their multicultural fantasies, offer no real long-term solutions.

“Multiculturalism” has brought us a serious identity crisis in that we no-longer have a clear national identity, and ethnopluralism is the realistic way out of this crisis. With ethnic cultures celebrated in different regions and states, affirmed by the separation of powers and states inherent in the original U.S. Constitution, most of the battles now and in the future coming from unmelting and unassimilating ethnic groups---African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans, Native-Americans, Muslim-Americans and White-Americans---can be largely avoided.  Federalism, with as light a touch as possible, can protect the whole.

The retreat into narcissism, survivalism, etc., as a reaction to the loss of identity inherent in multiculturalism is not the healthy way to go. For example, ironically, it is that very ethnocentrism and xenophobia inherent in human nature---if it is acknowledged---which can help avoid such things as the constant antisemitism we see, because when ethnopluralism and ethnostates are affirmed, than chosenness, supremacism, and imperialism, which naturally create so much angry rebellion against them, recede. Islam too needs the same reformation against imperialism and the real affirmation of largely independent ethnic states and regions. Without constantly meddling in the affairs of other people, internationally and imperialistically, and with ethnopluralism affirmed, antisemitism and anti-other groups can gradually diminish.

Thoughts on the activation of life, and the sacred goal of life

Life seeks something, life does not seek nothing, and the point here is that life seeks more even than success in survival and reproduction. What is ultimate success in survival and reproduction? Virtually eternal success in survival, defined here as the zenith of beauty, truth and goodness, among other things, which is Godhood. Life itself can be defined as the activation toward this goal. To say there is no goal to life is to say there is no life, since the goal ultimately defines life itself.

Science has been mainly concerned with the events of phenomenon and not so much with deepest causes leading to those events---causes are not easy to measure. Most causes are assumed to come from the outside environment, but there is also “energy” enclosed in matter which activates matter. The form is matter and the activation is the function.

This suggest that hedonism is a sophistical argument since pain and pleasure are not end goals but means, or rewards along the way for doing the bidding of the biological and superbiological causes of life. The same can be said of Nietzsche's power for power's sake, power is only a means to an end. Passion and emotion and even the attempt to be objective tend to take a back seat to the activation of the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, which is defined as the sacred material or supermaterial activation of life.

Organic functions, material functions, are thus the forms and result of the essential activating Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, which helps explain causality for both religion and science.

Procreation can be looked at, ultimately, as the result of the desire of life to evolve successfully all the way to the zenith of success, which is Godhood. Procreation is ultimately a seeking hunger for Godhood, in which beauty, truth, power, goodness, etc. are guides along the way.

America's future is misunderstood by Harvard academic

Joseph Nye of Harvard University, “Dean of American political scientists,” thinks that it is open immigration that has made the U. S. greater than the closed immigration of China, which will keep China from being great. “China can draw on the talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the U.S. can draw on the world's 7 billion.” (Time, March 23, 2015) This is probably just the standard lack of knowledge of sociobiology among Western academics, or perhaps it is the refusal to accept knowledge of sociobiology.

The reality is that the melting pot of America did not melt for Latin Americans, Native Americans, African Americans, etc. and it won't melt for the millions of new immigrants---for example, Islamic Somalis are not melting, on the contrary, they are agitating against the establishment on behalf of their own people and religion, which is only natural. Human nature remains ethnocentric, even xenophobic, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection.

Then there are the clear IQ differences among people: Asian intelligence is the highest in the world, so China's closed pool of 1. 3 billion people will do just fine against the open immigration of the U.S.  I am not saying China doesn't have problems, but for Professor Nye to crow about U.S. future geopolitical dominance over China is at least a misunderstanding of reality.

But China is now making the same mistakes that the U.S made in becoming a global empire (and Great Britain before us), and this will be the main negative challenge for China in the future. The United States military needs to come home, and so do America's international companies, then we can begin to think again of U.S. dominance. Millions of American jobs have been lost to globalism, the middle class has been gutted, and disparities of income are ever greater, which is a sure scenario for social problems.

The U.S. can move ahead of future trends by re-embracing economic nationalism and fair trade with the world, and by largely dismantling the America empire, which has made us inferior, not superior. As to open immigration, we need to do more than stop immigration to assimilate the millions of new immigrant we now have, because they won't assimilate any better than the past immigrants---other than those who more or less came from the same countries of the nation's founders.

As a consequence of the non-assimilation of the various ethnic cultures in America, I believe we will need to boldly look at the structure of ethnopluralism, applying the Constitutional separation of powers and states and regions to ethnic cultures, virtual ethnic states, held together and protected by federalism. That is a future which can give real social and cultural hope for our long-term existence. And China would do well to apply its own form of ethnopluralism if it wants to avoid future social disruptions and decline, which may be more difficult for communist China than the United States.

Both faith and reason can distort reality

In traditional religions, faith and reason can distort or manipulate reality so as to affirm their particular worldviews. But both faith and reason are subordinate to the essential life-activation of the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood. Faith and reason can affirm or deny life's sacred activation with their particular procedures, but they are not superior to it. However, since the Spirit-Will is seen here as a material and supermaterial living substance or living object activating material life to evolve toward Godhood, it seems that reason and science can one day discover and affirm it.

The human mind can govern the passions but the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood actives both the human mind and the passions with a sacred goal, if we can see it. “Freedom from the passions”? It is more the direction of the passions, the freeing of the passions, toward evolving to Godhood, which is the sacred goal of life and religion, as described by theological materialism. Traditional religion sought to rid the body of all material desires so as to experience the God or Father Within, which can certainly be retained in the Inward Path, but that is a preliminary glimpse of the Outward Path of material/supermaterial evolution to real Godhood.

The Alternate Reality of the Western Media

The United States has two main sources of news information, the politically correct and culturally Marxist liberal media (eg. CNN), and the neoconservative media of the global empire (eg. Fox News), and both spin and manipulate public opinion, and they have a monopoly on media outlets which follow their lines of propaganda. No one in the Western media is objective or reality-based, but a few, like the tiny paleoconservatives and the foreign policy realists come closer to reality, with little influence on the public, whose feelings and emotions are widely exploited by the Big Media. Both CNN and Fox News support rampaging globalism, open immigration, multiculturalism, egalitarianism, etc. etc., and they both advocate war on behalf of huge global corporations, and especially advocate war against the enemies of Israel.

The greatest influence dealers in Washington are the Wall Street lobby, the fossil fuel lobby, and the Israeli and Saudi lobbyists, who often pay off and threaten corrupt government officials and representatives to get them to take actions that are completely against the interests of our nation. Reality-based news will require much larger news and entertainment organizations than it now has, which is no small task since these hugely wealthy influence dealers control, or own, the Media in the West---and they play dirty.  But all this has to be curbed if we are to save ourselves.

Do we try to out-spin the spinners? No, I think reality will do. This mainly requires helping the public to understand real human nature. In every human culture ever studied, human nature included kin selection-preferences, incest taboos, traditional marriage, hierarchy, division of labor, gender differentiation, localism, ethnocentrism, even xenophobia, and group-selection as the main unit of selection. If the Big Western Media proposes to not include these things, and it certainly does not, the culture will not last long---it will always return to these things, and not always peacefully.

The Big Media in America and the West is actually dangerous to your family and your life, and it will help destroy the United States if we cannot counter it.

Basic difference between the Traditionalist School and Theological Materialism

The Traditionalist School, which the New Right has become so enamored with, seeks to return to a “golden age” which it believes is vastly superior to the present age, with a “purer” teaching from a purer age, whereas the conservatism of Theological Materialism includes a place for religious change, that is, evolutionary change. A motto might be: some things need to change so that important things can remain the same.

Theological Materialism retains but transforms the preliminary experience of the Inward God, found in the Inward Path of the Traditional School, to the Outward Path of material evolution, moving toward attaining real supermaterial Godhood in the cosmos.

The God of the Traditionalist school is reached through the involution or devolution of material life to the “non-material” God Within or Father Within, preached by both Jesus Christ and Buddha, and the Hindus before them. The God Within was experienced by ridding the body of all material desires. Buddha lived much longer than Jesus and had refined this ascetic technique, which could actually be used by Christians.

Survival makes gradual change in evolution necessary, and the sacred evolution to Godhood should not be blocked by the Great Spiritual Blockade attempting to go back to a desire free body and "purer age," which is really involution or devolution. Traditionalist's often don't even believe in material evolution, or at least greatly downplay it, which is a serious religious error since it is through material evolution that we can attain real supermaterial Godhood.

Satan is not material life. The symbolic occult is a mind-game only, with power only if believed. Gnosticism is no longer necessary, there is no separation or war between the material and the spiritual, there is only the primal material evolving, or not evolving, to the supermaterial.

High and Low Art

If high art is the refined affirmation of the sacred, and low art is the unrefined affirmation of the sacred, profane art would not affirm the sacred or could even actively deny the sacred. This seems to be seen in traditional cultures.

Does this imply a “universal” art and a universal sacred? Not necessarily. Each culture, each people tend to have their own version of the sacred---which can however show universal similarities. This is another argument in favor of ethnopluralism which best allows separate ethnic cultures to affirm their own ideas of the sacred.

This also allows cultures to exist in harmony with our existing human nature, which remains ethnocentric and group-selecting. Some sort of cooperative yet competitive federalism can then protect the whole.

What politicians of courage eventually need to affirm and promote

What needs to be repudiated is collectivist statism, rampaging global corporations, feminism, open immigration, egalitarianism, and multiculturalism---none of these things relate to real human nature. We need to affirm ethnopluralism, the separation of powers, regions and states for ethnic cultures, (which the U. S. Constitution could accommodate), and the affirmation of the continued evolution of life in the material and supermaterial world toward Godhood.

This requires politicians with the real courage to commit electoral and social suicide, with the hope that men of courage eventually impress their people with the real needs of survival and evolution. The “great man” view of history applies here, but great men need groups as much as groups need great men, as group-selection remains the main unit of selection.

As Western social order falls, ethnopluralism could naturally rise, but there is a risk of strong despotism first, which is not the separation of powers and states we require, given real human nature. Human nature will change as we evolve beyond the human species, but for now we remain very much kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection, which social and political structures need to harmonize with for long term survival.

In whose service morality?

Nietzsche asked the question, in whose service does morality, virtue, culture, work, and he answered: in service to the will-to-power, which he thought was goalless. I think otherwise, morality serves the fundamental animal-yet-sacred function of the activation of life to evolve toward the goal of Godhood.

The zenith and perfection of material/supermaterial evolution is Godhood, which is the ultimate of successful survival, the Godhood only seen in its preliminary stage of understanding in the Inward Path by experiencing the God or Father Within of traditional religion.

Flesh and blood, the objects of life are far more important than the means of culture, virtue, morality, and more important than definitions and symbols which are actually worshiped in much of religion and philosophy.

There is one action, one material/supermaterial Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, inherent in all phenomena, although it has been the most concealed.

Nietzsche was almost right, but he missed the sacred goal of life and evolution, and he killed God instead. The sacred path is to continue the evolution of life to Godhood. The old preliminary Inward God can be retained---conservative change is more realistic---but transformed in the Outward Path of evolution to Godhood, which is the Twofold Path.

Reason, the Senses, and the Super-Id

Unlike Burke I don't think that a man left to his passions will necessarily be a savage beast. Even Nietzsche made the same mistake in seeing the instincts more as a Dionysian beast, but unlike Burke, Nietzsche did not want to mediate the beast with reason (which to Burke seems to have been morality). Nietzsche claimed to like the beast, which had no goal other than power itself.

I define and present a Super-Id as the the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, and define Godhood as the material or supermaterial sacred goal of the Super-Id, the instincts combined, and the evolutionary goal of life itself. Godhood is the evolutionary zenith of intelligence, beauty, truth, goodness etc, and of course, is not a savage beast.

Reason and morality too often overcompensate or repress the creative imagination that comes from our senses (Burke's moral imagination), and also can obfuscate the data from our senses, which can become a Great Spiritual Blockade. I see reason more like the rider of a valiant steed called the Super-Id or Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, which the rider/reason can help harmonize with, or even guide, but the rider is not the steed itself---and the rider would be arrogant in thinking that he alone sets the sacred goal.

 

The main strength of conservatism

Conservatism at its best fits youth into maturity, which is like fitting meritocracy into aristocracy. Time and experience allow cultural maturity to accumulate, but we need to avoid aristocracies where merit has slipped and become effete snobbery. But meritocracies alone can bring unethical, uncultured, bright monsters. We need both youth and maturity, both meritocracy and aristocracy. I think conservatism can do this, which is the main strength of conservatism, when it's working at its best. This applies to politics as well as religion. Even science can benefit from the conservative approach. This is also mainly the way evolution works---radical revolution usually harms more than it helps.

Don't replace biological evolution with intelligent-machine evolution

I don't worry about the development of intelligent machines as much as I worry about those who control the machines as their will to power. Nietzsche rightly said that science is usually the transformation of nature into concepts for the purpose of governing nature, and I see this being done among the brilliant transhumanists and singularity people. They may not look or act like it but they have the will to power of military generals.

Awhile back I wrote: “In the process of our materiel/supermaterial evolution, machine intelligence has the potential to evolve considerably faster than biological life can evolve, but this does not mean that we should abandon the sacred goal of biological life evolving to Godhood. This could no doubt bring a contention between advocates of machine enhancement and advocates of biological enhancement. Intelligent machines can certainly serve slower evolving biological intelligence, but it is simply suicidal to be centered only on super-intelligent machines. Some of our brightest minds have been intimidated by a devious political correctness (cultural Marxism) into replacing biological evolution with machine evolution---courage here is needed, the sacred purpose of real life evolving to Godhood depends on it.”

The old enemies of ethnopluralism and social harmony: looking the hard truths of ethnicity in the face

We have to look the hard truths of ethnicity in the face. The problem with one-race supremacy and empire is that all ethnic groups feel that they are supreme, at least instinctively, which is why one-race supremacy and empire have been defeated time and again throughout human history.

A juxtaposition of ancient and modern knowledge is seen in ethnocentrism. Human nature is in fact ethnocentric and xenophobic (as well as being gender-defined, heterosexual marriage-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection) and human nature has been this way at least since hunter-gatherer times, which has been reflected in both ancient and modern worldviews, from traditionalism to sociobiology.

While it is not perfect comparison, the one-race supremacist ethos of Chosen Jew, Aryan German, Black Power, Asian Power, or Hispanic power, all roughly feel that their own ethnic group and culture is superior to all others. The way to civilize this ancient yet modern beast is to affirm ethnopluralism, with separate, small, largely ethnic states, which is in social harmony with real human nature, protected by some sort of cooperative federalism.

This is the closest we can come to social harmony between distinctive ethnic groups and cultures, and it needs to not be swept under the carpet of political correctness as it has been. Ethnic supremacy and empire are the enemies of ethnopluralism. The long-term material and supermaterial evolution of human beings toward Godhood, which is our sacred destiny, requires long-term social and technical harmony, which ethnic wars destroy, along with the natural life on earth.

Counter-Abstraction in religion and philosophy

“Ultimate happiness” is not in the contemplation of God, as Aristotle and the Catholic philosophers tell us---important as that is in the Inward Path---it comes in attaining physical and supermaterial Godhood in ongoing material evolution in the Outward Path. This view takes religion and philosophy out of the dead world of abstraction, while retaining the experience of the God Within, and into the real world of the objects of life. It is not the definition of God, truth, beauty or virtue that comes first, it is actually becoming and being or embodying these things as physical living objects. This counter-abstraction counters the Great Spiritual Blockade, and affirms theological materialism.

How the United States could last another several hundred years, at least

Sometimes it's disheartening to realize that even as “Affirmative Action” is slowly being understood to really be reverse discrimination---for example, giving 20 points to underrepresented minorities for admission to various universities, or one fifth of those points needed, regardless of their test scores---we do still nevertheless apply the concept of “discrimination” even in the face of many years of evolutionary science, from Darwin to Edward Wilson's sociobiology, showing that human nature is kin-centered, and is ethnocentric, even xenophobic, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection.

Rather than trying to force assimilation, which rational people can see is not working in the United States (and elsewhere), we should by now be gradually protecting unique ethnic cultures living within their own geographical localities and states. This would seem to mean a gradual acceptance of Black states in the South, Hispanic states in the West, White states in the Midwest, and even mixed states in the East, if they insist on trying to make assimilation work.

But with cultural Marxism now largely---and uncomfortably---in place in the United States, a natural geographical ethnopluralism does seem difficult to bring about. But if we could put this natural political behavior in place, over time, legally, in the United States---which already has a separation of powers and states on paper---we could perhaps last another several hundred years, at least.

Transforming Both the City of Man and the City of Godhood

If we go along with the Thomist idea—adapted from Aristotle—that the purpose of the city is to have a place where people can live virtuous lives, with social design forms in harmony with real human nature, and then if we upgrade Aristotle's definition of human nature to include human nature defined by modern sociobiology (human nature as being kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection), and then if we transform the old Greek concept of God from a God as mainly supremely rational to also--and more importantly--a Godhood attained by way of the evolution of material and supermaterial life, then we can more practically affirm ethnopluralism as containing both cities of man and cities of Godhood, that is, cities and small states containing mainly ethnic cultures involved in the highest value of citizens evolving toward Godhood in their own unique ways, with variety, living in the natural ethnic configurations which human nature has always preferred.

We would then have material cities of man evolving toward supermaterial cities of Godhood. On the one hand ethnopluralism would be very much involved in the particular, the local, the place, while ethnopluralism would also transform the local to the universal with its sacred goal of all life evolving toward Godhood. The transformation need not even be a radical transformation since, for example, it can conservatively go along with the separation of powers and states and the federalism of the original United States Constitution.

The material primal plot and the sacred path

What someone called the “primal plot” usually does not include the evolution of life to Godhood, which is the real primal plot. It does not begin in Eden and end in Golgotha, or Nepal, or Mecca, that is only part of the plot. It begins at the various primal origins of various universes, all of which appear to be evolving material life toward Godhood. Some make it, some do not. That is the material primal plot as well as the sacred path. The ultimate purpose of life, which includes art and culture, is not merely to confirm a “maker” but to affirm the sacred path to Godhood of material and supermaterial evolution, guided by the activating Spirit-Will-To-Godhood within life.

Beyond the Will-to-Power

Going beyond Nietzsche, it is not reducing all the intentions of life to the increase in goal-less power, power is an adaptation to the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, which is the sacred goal of evolving material and supermaterial life, as well as the secondary goal of having the greatest success in survival and reproduction. This exhumes Godhood, religion and morality after their murder attempt by Nietzsche.

The purpose of the sun is not alone to warm the earth for us, the energy that reaches the earth is only a small part of the sun's output. Even at the most basic level, the sun's energy has that inner activating Spirit-Will-To-Godhood seeking Godhood in its basic level of action, as it helps engender life where it can, as other stars do.

Model of causation and activation in theological materialism

The Spirit-Will-To-Godhood within life activates energy and matter to evolve in the material/supermaterial world toward Godhood; even at the most basic level, the concept of energy has this inner Spirit-Will-To-Godhood. Then comes the power drive, then the hunger drive, then the molding of the evolutionary drive to survival and reproductive success, and then the intellectual function and shaping of the social/cultural/political drive. All these things interact with the environment and the outside forces of selection and evolution. All action is this process of evolution. All these sequences are adaptations to the fundamental Spirit-Will-To-Godhood, which have been mostly unconscious to life, including human life. The evolution of man is this way on the path to higher evolution, bringing forward higher evolved individuals and groups, all moving, with starts and stops and devolution, on the sacred path toward highest evolved Godhood.