Monday, December 03, 2018
We were warned
Perhaps optimism about the future is
inherent in humans because being pessimistic dampens energy needed to
survive in a difficult world. Then too there are always those who
think they benefit culturally and genetically by blocking or
slandering warnings about coming social disorder.
We have been warned for years by people
who were deemed undesirable outsiders that as the people change the
culture changes, and that is happening in America and in Europe.
Europeans and Americans are becoming a minority in their own lands as
a result of open immigration and also due to the march through the
cultural institutions by minorities, who are soon to be majorities.
It's an unheeded rule of human nature
that cultures change, no matter what the environment, according to the genetic traits of those who
create or dominate the culture. And that bumps up against what seems
like another rule that people don't heed the warnings until social
disaster actually happens which causes them to change, due to both that
optimism mentioned above and due to the slandering by the Big Media,
etc. against those who warn us of the coming social disorder.
So why warn if the warnings aren't
heeded? Why not wait until the reaction inevitably takes place? I
suppose warnings help us be more prepared for how we might deal with
the future. For example, distinctly different ethnic groups create
distinctly different cultures wherever they settle, even in
multicultural societies, which usually break up into ethnic enclaves. So we can prepare for that by advocating and planning for
an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, for everyone. That can bring as
much social harmony as is possible for human beings, if the ethnostates are protected from marauding imperialists and globalists.
Sunday, December 02, 2018
What to do about racial discrimination
The great difficulty of figuring out
what to do about racial discrimination is that it does
take place but it does so as a result of human nature actually being
kin and ethnic-centered, and becoming so genetically because
ethnocentrism was the most successful way for individuals within
groups to survive and reproduce successfully in a very difficult and
competitive world. That same human nature is still solidly with us
in our gene pools today, and so we have racial discrimination,
although it has become politically incorrect to mention it.
Ironically ethnocentrism was at the
origin of the altruism (being for others) promoted in religion and
social philosophies, but that altruism was hypertrophied into a
universalism that is not in harmony with its genetic kin and
ethnic-centered origin, therefore the attempts to stop all racial
discrimination have not been successful.
It was the outcast historian Wilmot
Robertson who made the succinct suggestion that it was time to try to
turn the socially destructive forces of racial discrimination into
socially constructive forces, by forming ourselves into ethnostates. That is the realistic way to look at it: as solving the socially
destructive problem of racial discrimination, given that human nature
remains kin and ethnic-centered.
Look to who benefits most from
promoting an unworkable universalism which jam-packs distinctly
different people together in the same space and demands universal
equality from them, which does not take place and ends up causing
social disruptions, while blocking a natural ethnopluralism of
ethnostates from forming.
For the sake of social harmony, let's
have some courage and finally admit this reality.
Saturday, December 01, 2018
The term "great politics" has scared our thinkers since World War Two
The term "great politics" has
scared our thinkers since World War Two, although they do face the
damaging wrath of the guardians of political correctness if they
stray from the global party line. A great politics is not only
desirable it is rational, humane, and moral; but is opposite the
centralization of the fascists, communists, trendy leftists, and
global corporations.
We can have great politics when we
decentralize into an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, in harmony with
real kin-centered and ethnocentric human nature, and then guard and
protect the ethnostates from marauding imperial centralists---in the
U. S. the constitutional separation of powers and states could adjust
to it.
It is affirming the biological origin
of most of our social behavior that will lead to great politics. It
means going against the elite globalists who are the ones who benefit
most from promoting no borders and multiculturalism, which really
doesn't work because it has little or no resemblance to what human
beings are or how they actually behave; but of course the globalist's
could care less as long as they get theirs, or ours.
The difficulty is, great politics probably requires great leaders, and they are rare.
The George H. W. Bush creed of moral leadership
I
chose the politics of Pat Buchanan over George H. W. Bush's politics,
but the thing I liked about Bush was his personal conviction that
real leadership is moral
leadership. That applies to the leader of a Marine Corps
platoon to the president. President Trump, who affirms most of
Buchanan's political philosophy, could use the George H. W. Bush
creed of moral leadership...But
maybe it's inherent, or instilled early in life.
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Clearing away the presumptuousness and the weaseling of psychoanalytic philosophers
Psychoanalytic philosopher's do not
engage or explain the social as much as they should (Derrida,
Lacan, Butler), and their endless verbiage about "individuation"
does not correctly engage the
social either. So their work is not worth much to me, since
human nature is grounded primarily in social
group-selection; and the individual is advanced best through altruism
toward the group---even individual-selection is advanced within the
group with successful group-selection at its heart.
I suspect it is that old desperate fear
of the biological drives put forth by the fascists of World War Two
which wrongly featured imperialistic supremacy that biased and
obfuscated the minds of the postmodern psychoanalytic philosophers,
which to me means that they either lacked the courage to overcome
their fears, or they are part of the will to power of the globalist
elite whose mortal enemy is a completely natural populism,
nationalism, and ethnocentrism, which is at the core of human
nature---or maybe it's both with them.
So the
biological origin of social behavior as studied by sociobiology can
clear away the presumptuousness and the weaseling
of psychoanalytic philosophers and their chickenshit postmodern
followers in the U.S..
What comes then, at
least from my perspective, is theological
materialism and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, that is,
religious and political philosophy in harmony with real human nature
and evolution---psychology follows in its wake.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Political dragons to tame
Ethnopluralism is, of course, too far
ahead of its time, as populist America First was ahead of its time
with Pat Buchanan before Donald Trump trumpeted it--although America First is
still fighting for its existence against the Republicans, Globalists,
Neoconservatives, and the foolish Left.
Ethnopluralism, that is, adapting the
constitutional separation of powers and states to an ethnopluralism
of ethnostates will prove more difficult than Trump trying to
overcome the globalists---and he is a once in a million personalty.
But someone needs to cry out in the wilderness about the coming
ethnopluralism of ethnostates and I guess that's us, or me.
Then there is the problem with the far
right and far left who are marginal but still stronger than the
ethnopluralists. Many in the far right have gone over to the
traditionalist school of Guenon, Evola, and the Russian Dugin and
embraced a non-populist, religious, imperialist, hierarchy of rule,
and have downplayed or even rejected the idea of evolutionary
progress. Socialism and cultural Marxism on the left, although
complete nonsense, are far stronger than the far right and have
the corrupt Big Media on there side, so they are a big dragon to
tame.
Real human nature remains as it has
always been, kin-centered and ethnocentric, and in our crowded world
the closest we will ever come to social/political harmony is when we
provide each distinctive ethnic group or race its own ethnostate and
develop an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, protected from marauding
imperialists by some form of mainly protective federalism. And the more we can hang on
to and adapt conservative traditions the better, such as, in the U. S. adapting
the constitutional separation of powers and states to ethnostates.
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Why would anyone want to deny the reality of the body and the biological origin of social behavior?
It is not "the imposition of
culture on the body" (Eliot Jurist) it is the imposition of the
body on culture that takes place in reality, but the word "imposition"
is too negative since the biological origin of social behavior is the
actual natural pattern of human nature.
We are biologically and genetically
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 successful
selection, followed by individual
selection. Marxist or feminist fantasies can't change this human nature.
Why would anyone want
to deny the reality of the body and the biological origin of social
behavior? It must be that old will to power working by thinking or at
least feeling that if you pervert the idea of human gender and
destroy natural biological social behavior you will weaken the people so that
you and yours can conquer. And postmodernism which promotes this
perversion of reality has
conquered in our schools. There also seems to be some sort of revenge or gender hate involved with these Marxists and especially with the radical feminists, perhaps do to bad parenting.
We need to bring men and
women and social behavior back to health again after the destruction
caused by the Marxist and feminist fabrications; the biological origin
of social behavior intellectually and naturally invalidates these
perversions due to the fact that "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,"
as E.O. Wilson put it.
Monday, November 26, 2018
The Founders did not envision the destructive power and control of the Big Media by paranoids
Paranoid movers and shakers on the
left, among neoconservatives, and in the Big Media used
the civil rights movement and are now using illegal immigrants on our
Mexican border as expendable cannon fodder. These paranoid's feel,
but never say of course, that if they can secure the will to power of
blacks, illegal immigrants, transgenders, etc. etc. against
traditional American culture, or against the deplorable white
majority, then the majority will never threaten them or their power
structure. They will use photos of women and children facing tear gas
on our borders, or apply all manner of lies in the Big Media to
manipulate public opinion, and they do it mainly
so that they, the paranoids, will never again feel threatened. The
fake sympathy and the lies are a nasty treacherous business which is
in fact destroying traditional American culture. The Founders did
not envisioned the destructive power and control of the Big Media by
paranoids, if they had they would have found a way to limit their
power.
Sunday, November 25, 2018
Americans were not asked if they wished to sacrifice their lives to globalism
Americans were not asked if they wished
to sacrifice their lives to globalism, that is not the way the
nefarious globalists operate. The globalist's provided much of the money
to allow foreign producers to flood the American market with very
cheap products designed to ruin American producers.
Very slowly, too slowly, Americans woke
up to the great globalist scam and elected Donald Trump president
because he spoke the populist-nationalist language of America First
against globalism. And for doing that the entire controlled Media
declared that Trump and his populist followers were simply racist.
It's not at all over yet, socialism,
which is just another form of globalism, is rising again against
populist-nationalism, financed in part by one of the chief globalist
businessman, George Soros. The socialists we see around college
campuses present a loud mouth and even violent form of globalism,
which the populist-nationalist's weren't prepared for.
So globalism with its various nefarious
promoters rolls on, holding most of the money, endlessly seeking to
destroy Trump and populist-nationalism in America---and Europe
is also rising against the globalists. The Alt-Right in America
entered the fray for at time and were willing to organize demonstrations against the loud mouth and violent
globalists. But the Alt Right was soon more or less suppressed for joining
with the West-hating Russian nationalist/imperialist Aleksandr Dugin.
Who really knows where we will go from
here, but real human nature will have its way, and real human nature
is on the side of the
biological origin of our social behavior, which actually ends the
intellectual defense of globalism. Human
nature leads naturally to the cultural expression of decentralism, regionalism,
localism, and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all racial and ethnic groups, protected from imperial marauders by
some sort of lighter federalism. That will come I believe, one way or
another.
Saturday, November 24, 2018
Religion and the call for a new evolutionary therapy
The "id" of Freud not only
limits the definition of the "unconscious" it distorts it
and shrinks it down to the flow of the libido or sexuality. Sex is a
subsidiary or secondary drive beholden to a hierarchy of the drives
to survival and reproductive success, the will to power, the will to
pleasure or happiness, and finally the real source of all those
subsidiary drives: the will to Godhood, or Tirips, which is the
sacred goal of all those drives of the unconscious, and the zenith of
survival and reproductive success.
So when psychoanalytic treatment seeks
to help the patient gain access to the unconscious by unblocking or
understanding the "repression" of sexuality, that limits
and distorts the unconscious, and leaves the patient de-centered from
the deeper and more vital drives of the unconscious mentioned above;
it severs or uncouples people and cultures from the deeper needs of
real human nature.
The unconscious is grounded in every
cell and perception of body by the will to Godhood which drives and
gives purpose to survival and reproductive success, the will to
power, and the will to pleasure or happiness. It is all a material
process and ultimately a supermaterial process working within the ups
and downs and strictures of outside or environmental natural
selection and evolution.
This is how the deeper and more
vital drives of the unconscious are re-centered after being severed or uncoupled, and brought in harmony
with 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 successful
selection, followed by individual
selection. This brings us to the religious philosophy of theological materialism, and to the call for a new evolutionary therapy.
Friday, November 23, 2018
Toward a healthy psychic behavior and social reality
What we have now in the West in general
is the decline of morals and values, that is, the decline of
religion, the rise of amoral or non-moral science, the rise of global
imperial corporations, and the attempt to replace lost values and
morals with cultural Marxism. Is there a healthy way out of the decline and decadence which has attempted to run away from real
human nature and nature itself?
The cunning Freud tried to replace the
id with the ego, altering Nietzsche's will-to-power (which was a kind
of id) with Freud's ego and sexuality. Unconsciousness is not the evil "other,"
it is an auxiliary biological source, aiding (ideally) the activation
within life to evolve in the material world toward supermaterial
Godhood, which works along with and adapts to outside natural
selection and evolution. The "other" is simply someone or
something that is not you or your larger group. That re-centers the
individual after flying away on the wings of cultural hot air.
The psyche is unified by expanding
rather than changing or not accepting the will-to-power, which is
really the will to Godhood (or Tirips), adding a sacred goal to
Nietzsche's relativistic will that doesn't reject material life or
favor spiritual non-materialism. Tirips is the foundation and
purpose behind the drive to successful survival and reproduction and
is also deeper than happiness as the sole goal of life---happiness is
only the tricky reward for deeper needs satisfied.
This adds the realization that the
material biological origin of social behavior was
evolved to link with or bond to related genetic pools and reveals the impossibility of a unified or universal humanity loving
everyone equally. The best we can do is affirm real human nature as being kin and
ethnic-centered, gender
defined, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical,
ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other
things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful
selection followed by individual selection. Then all of us universally---ideally
globally---can develop an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, protected from marauding imperialism by a light federalism, or some version of it.
That better defines a healthy psychic behavior and social reality,
and adds a real material sacredness to life.
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Envy
Anthony Esolen had an excellent piece
in Chronicles (Oct 2018) about envy saying "only abasement will
satisfy the envious." Esolen is too civilized to also suggest
that minorities often envy or hate majorities for their talents and
their physical looks and that can often be seen beneath the surface
of civil rights movements and such social engineering as Affirmative
Action, which throw merit out the window replacing it with racial
quotas---and overall quality therefore declines.
Esolen reminds us that Nietzsche saw
envious "ressentiment" behind the valuations of the Old and
New Testament, but being a traditional Christian Esolen doesn't quite
agree with that. But the religious (and Marxists), having the same
will to power as every other living thing, disguise envy by promoting ideas that go against
the evils of power to weaken others (often not aware they are doing it) and thereby gain power for their
own cause.
I don't know what can stop envy, it
seems to be inherent, especially in weaker people, and could even be
explained as a part of the natural ongoing competition between
individuals and groups. But I believe that some of the worst kind of
envy happens between distinctively different ethnic groups and could
be largely remedied by the healthy separations of an ethnopluralism
of ethnostates.
With the holidays on us I am hoping I
can somehow overlook the envy, resentment, etc. that happens even in the best families---but visiting may be reduced a bit.
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Mapping a grand synthesis
The transformation of the spirit, the
id, and the ego, by Tirips, which is the activation within material
life to evolve toward supermaterial Godhood in the material world
while adjusting or adapting to natural selection and the outside
environment, defines the foundation of a transformed psychology,
religion and philosophy.
This centers the decentered "agency"
of postmodern philosophy which has been biased regarding biology and
the biological origin of social behavior. An evolutionary psychology
derives from that centering of the decentered, and sees a balancing of determinism and freedom.
Biology answers the
philosophical/religious confusion about being-for-self and
being-for-others, and defines the real origin of the altruism or
being-for-others contained in most social philosophies as the
preference for group-selection in successful societies, which is only
secondarily aided by individual selection within groups.
This brings psychology, religion (theological materialism) and
philosophy and even science back to biology, if science can ever
affirm internal direction within evolution working along with natural selection and the outside
environment, without affirming or
advocating a much feared marauding imperial fascism. This recentering can politically affirm an ethnopluralism of
ethnostates for all distinctive groups, in harmony with real
kin-centered and ethnocentric human nature...Art then follows this
mapping of a grand synthesis.
Monday, November 19, 2018
The mix of feelings about president Trump by caste or class
The mix of feelings about president
Trump by caste or class, assuming that caste or class can still be
more or less defined: the lowest classes and uppermost classes don't
seem to be as much bothered by president Trump's personality style as
the middle-class is, they are even amused by his antics, and they
like what Trump has accomplished politically and economically, while
the middle-class (and suburban women) being punctilious and rather
snobby simply reject Trump for being vulgar. Conservative's can be
concerned with virtuous behavior like the middles (someone has
to be concerned) but for the most part conservative's approve of
Trump for what he is accomplishing politically and economically.
Neoconservative's are only concerned with their own special interests
(globalism and Zionism) and judge everyone and everything according
to that standard. The business class, especially the globalists,
care only about money and how best to secure it and, like the
neoconservatives, judge Trump and everyone and everything according
to that standard. The cultural Marxists (or modern liberals) learned
or were brainwashed in Marxism and radical feminism in college, so
for the most part the college educated
of all classes hate president Trump who is obviously no
Marxist or feminist. The ethnic minorities, who soon won't be a
minority, judge everything by race (whites do too but less so), even
though they constantly hurl the charge of racism at whites, and they
vote only by race with few exceptions......What a harmonious culture we have!
Sunday, November 18, 2018
The biological origin of our social behavior includes or should include philosophy, but philosopher's seem afraid of it
We can't reject rationalism any more
than we can reject empiricism or experience in finding the truth, we
need all the help we can get. And both religion and science are
useful in the quest for truth.
The biological origin of our social
behavior includes or should include philosophy, but philosopher's
seem afraid of it. Even the courageous Nietzsche ended up affirming
individualism and even narcissism because he did not seem to see the
biological origin of altruism or being-for-others which he hated.
The individual was and is best advanced
in group-selection, which is the origin of altruism. As
sociobiologist E.O. Wilson wrote, “Hereditary altruists form groups
so cooperative and well-organized as to out-compete non-altruists
groups.” Then individual selection usually moves toward excellence within the bonded group. I suppose World War Two
scared many postmodern philosophers away from the genetic base of
social behavior, but it need not have.
Rationality, empiricism, religion, and
science, can bring us to the theological materialism written about
here, as well as a few other odds and ends, including intuition and
art.
The kin-centered and ethnocentric
universal nature of basic human nature grounded in the biological
origin of our social behavior suggests an ethnopluralism of
ethnostates, where distinctively different ethnic groups can survive
and flourish being who they are, in their own skin. Who would object
to that, unless you want total imperial dominance of one group over
all the others, which in our crowded world usually ends up bonding all
groups together for a time to destroy the arrogant marauding group. It gets more complicated when the imperial-minded group takes over the social institutions from within, but the same biological
origin of their social behavior applies.
Saturday, November 17, 2018
This corruption of democracy
In the midterm election Beto O’Rourke and Andrew Gillum were defeated, Stacey Abrams was also defeated but so far has not conceded, claiming corruption on the part of her opponent, and Gillum hasn't fully conceded either. That is not the way democracy is supposed to work.
As
politically incorrect as it is to say, democracy now does not
function well in the U. S. largely do to the U.S. being a
multicultural-multi-ethnic society derived from both the Northern and
Southern Hemispheres, meaning that people are not the same and not at
all "equal" in the ways that they operate within a
democracy. It
seems that the Northern Hemisphere was able to make democracy
work, at least for a time, but not so much the Southern Hemisphere.
But hemisphere's
don't rule, people do, and not all people are the same, which means
that not all people are equal. For democracy to function fairly,
equality must be present in the individual vote, and also, as
Socrates said, perhaps only those who had thought about issues
rationally and deeply should be let near a vote.
The ancient Greeks feared above all
that democracy turns into demagoguery, gaining power and popularity
by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people, and
demagoguery, aided by the Big Media, is what democracy has turned
into in the U. S.
This corruption of democracy only
underlines what I say here all the time, to save the U.S. we will
eventually need to create an ethnopluralism of ethnostates adapted
from the existing Constitutional separation of powers and states.
Then people can be what they are, emotionally or rationally, in their
own ethnostates and regions, protected by a light federalism.
Friday, November 16, 2018
Separating the battlers
Normal, sane, people in the U.S. have
been way too tolerant of the agitator's on the left, given that the
worldview or political philosophy of the left it total bullshit. The
fact that this flim flam is taught in our schools from kindergarten
to grad school and is promoted by the corrupt media doesn't change
the fact that it is total bull. Much of the fear of doing anything to
stop the arrogant leftists comes from the fear of being labeled a
bigot or a racist and therefore socially destroyed.
Human beings and human nature is not
any of the things that the cultural Marxists, the politically
correct, or the radical feminists tell us it is. Human beings and
human nature are 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 followed by
individual selection, and that is about the exact opposite of what
the fools on the left tell us it is. But they wont listen, they
won't learn, which shows you how successful the schools and the media
have been with their propaganda.
The supporters of President Trump are
called ignorant fools by virtually the entire media and by people
like the arrogant fool Hillary Clinton, but it is the Trumper's who
have the simple, rational, and true view of human nature, listed
above, which harmonizes well with the political philosophy of
conservatism. Most of us would like to see the leftist fools and
agitators simply told to "shut the f---- up," since they
won't listen to reason. The hopelessness of changing the brainwashed
fools is compounded by the racial/ethnic competition going on beneath
the surface of the agitations. So what does this mean, civil war?!
In a school yard fight wiser teachers
don't stand there and and try to reason with the battlers, they
separate them, which is the only way to cool things down, and that in
a nutshell is what needs to be done politically. Wiser conservatives
know that the way to have long-term peace and harmony, given
the hopelessness of changing brainwashed fools, and given the largely
ethnic nature of the battles, is to separate the battlers and create
an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, which in the U.S. could be adapted
from the existing Constitutional separation of powers and states.
Thursday, November 15, 2018
The establishment, rising populism, and where to go from here
The establishment or elite in the U.
S. consists of Congress, the Judiciary, the Civil Service, Academia,
the Big Media, etc. but holding power over the elite are the Global
Corporations and their lobbies. 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. Populism has
been rising in America and in Europe to oppose this corrupt elite who
have become so arrogant in their power that they no longer even try
to help or advance the people.
Within this configuration of
differences is the ethnic and racial competition which the elite do
not allow to be named, they have deemed it politically incorrect to
even mention it. But the biological origin of social behavior is the
real driver of both the elite and the populists. The real task is to
find a realistic way to accommodate these competing forces that
doesn't involve civil war.
The rising populism must not become a
communist dictatorship on the left or a fascist dictatorship on
the right as it sometimes appears to be doing; the time of having
only one imperial power and only one noble or chosen people has past,
we are too crowded and ethnically diverse for that to work.
Decentralization in general is the way to simplify the cultural
swamp, and in particular, developing an ethnopluralism of ethnostates
from out if our only nominal constitutional separation of powers and
states.
Human nature remains the same. Even the
smallest change in our DNA structure, for example, in our immune
system, took hundreds of thousands of years (now we have genetic
engineering which may be more rapid), but we all
remain 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 followed by individual selection. Rational,
instinctive and humane channeling of human nature and human
drives, and education in general, need to move in the direction of
developing an ethnopluralism of ethnostates---we want to avoid going
there chaotically and violently as we have often done in human
history when empires fall.
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Better harmonizing and sublimating real human nature and nature itself
A limitation of religious and
philosophical traditions has included the near absence of the
biological origin of social behavior. Psychology has done better
with the sociobiological advent of evolutionary psychology, although
EP has usually avoided (or the Media has ignored) the more
controversial political implications of the biological origin of
ethnocentrism and nationalism within real human nature.
We need to honestly affirm our
biological and genetic instincts if we wish to be whole and happy.
Sublimation of the instincts is desirable but our sublimation's have
tended to block them. Nietzsche's will to power and Freud's will to
sex needed to better affirm the group over the narcissistic
individual; group selection has been the primary unit of selection in
successful survival and reproductive and is at the real biological
origin of the altruism (being-for-others) seen in religion and politics.
Individual selection takes place within
groups and is important in attaining excellence, but groups of
altruists are successful over groups of individualists, as E. O.
Wilson has pointed out. So those who attack altruism and affirm
selfish individualism (Nietzsche more or less, Ayn Rand, etc,) have
blocked more than sublimated the biological instincts. Nietzsche
didn't "anticipate" Freud's sex drive, Freud adapted
Nietzsche's will to power---but then Nietzsche adapted Schopenhauer.
Beneath the power and sex drives is the
survival drive, however, beneath the survival drive is the material
will within life to evolve in the material world all the way to
supermaterial Godhood, which must work within the ebb and flow of
outside or environmental natural selection, and it is that activation
which needs to be sublimated over all the others.
Sublimating the material activation to
Godhood (Tirips)---which also leads to the zenith of survival and
reproductive success---engenders a new religious/philosophical
("theological materialism"), psychological ("evolutionary
therapy") and political (an "ethnopluralism of
ethnostates") perspective that better harmonizes with and
sublimates real human nature and nature itself.
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Altruism grew directly out of the competition between groups, and what to do about it now (from 2014)
Altruism grew directly out of the competition between groups, with successful groups having more social bonding and cohesion, which passed on those altruistic genes. When the Inward Path to the God Within of the revealed religions affirmed universal altruism it was largely based on not caring much about material things, while seeking the non-material universal Father Within. But this actually discouraged the competitive conditions necessary for altruism. The new “enemy” was the personal but universal desires of the flesh.
A religious way to accommodate natural in-group altruism is needed, and this can be understood in the hierarchy of group values, beginning with ones own group and moving out gradually with lesser altruism to the world and universal humanity. Raymond Cattell's work is helpful on this subject. For example, when the world is threatened then universal altruism more naturally influences human beings, but daily existence naturally keeps altruism at home where it originated and works best.
This suggests “cooperative competition” as an important value, rather than trying to make strangers love one another universally, especially when this call for equality is done in a second hand way, since the call comes from the ascetic religious base of traditional religions which doesn’t really care much about material life. The “universal”can enter in with objective international sociobiological research centers, working along with evolutionary religion, to help guide our evolution toward Godhood. All groups can naturally evolve in their own unique ways, while residing in their own ethnic cultures and states, with real altruism, without trying daily to impose a quixotic universal equality, leading to a global imperialist perspective that doesn’t really work.
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