The two-headed monster destroying American culture

One head of the grotesque two-faced Janus is the Academic World, the other head is the Media. For many years the grotesque academic head has been subjecting our students from grade school to graduate school to an intensive indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old traditional beliefs and acceptance of cultural Marxism, or radical feminism, black extremism, radical environmentalists, gay rights groups, etc. And all of these groups pursue this radical agenda through the complex network of the other monstrous head: the Media.

Added to this, and often in league with the two-headed academic/media monster, is the hundred-headed dragon of Globalism, the two-headed monster breaks down natural borders for them.

Will we ever see a movie or read a book where the hero hunts the two-headed academic/media monster, or will we continue to see only the monster destroying us? We better hope the sleazy academic/media streets are eventually cleaned by a legal conservative shower and not by a radical storm.

Reality does not have to be more than natural especially if the evolution of the natural world leads to Godhood

Religion, politics, art, and even science have lived in varying degrees of intellectual servitude to ideologies that see reality as more than natural, usually beginning with ignorance or the denial of the biological origin of social behavior. Nothing exists outside of the natural world, even real Godhood is arrived at through natural material evolution.

Human identity is knowing who you are and what human nature is. Self, family, kin, ethnic group, city, region, nation, world, those are the legs of human identity. Human nature as empirically explained by sociobiology remains basically 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. “Biology is the hardware, culture is the software.”

An individual's ethical values can be ordered in a hierarchy of natural inherited behavior from self to family to kin to ethnic group to city to region to nation to world. A man's inherited ethical loyalty to his own group naturally exceeds that to members of "mankind" generally. Given our overcrowded and fiercely competitive world, and given the real biological origin of our social behavior, we all would be better off politicking for ethnostates and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates. How much healthier and happy people would be if they could celebrate who they really are in their own ethnostate, protected from marauding imperialists and supremacists with some form of limited federalism.

As Cattell said, evolution moves inevitably in a pattern, even though it has its random elements, and the pattern has a discernible direction, in spite of instances of stagnation and retreat, toward higher and higher more effective living forms, all the way to Godhood.  Reality does not have to be more than natural especially if the evolution of the natural world leads to Godhood.

Why the strong desire to be free of material determinism?

The dream of classical philosophers and traditional priests is to be free to think beyond material life and the purposes of natural life, because they believe the truth exists beyond material life, unconnected to mundane material life, the truth to them is spiritual. Why the strong desire to be free of material determinism when we are not free but only “free” to choose within determined material paths?

The desire to be free of material determinism may be related to the deepest biological origin of our social behavior: we unconsciously want to be free with no material limitations on our survival and reproductive success---but I'm not getting all Freudian on you, because I believe that beneath the drive to survival and reproductive success is the deeper purpose of survival and reproductive success, which is the sacred activation to evolve in the material world to supermaterial Godhood.

So the dream of classical philosophers and traditional priests of being free to think beyond material life, beyond the purposes of natural life, actually blocked the truth they claimed to be seeking. And theological materialism doesn't even take away Godhood or religion, it just transforms it and makes it real.

The deeper stage of populism

Populism is about people who love their country and their culture attempting to defend their county against globalist elites who do not. But many populist's only instinctively know that politics, like all culture, is essentially a cover for the biological origin of social behavior. Why the cover? Populism today is is not really ethnocentric or racist, which is both its strength and its weakness, but before you have a heart attack let me explain what I mean.

Advertising ones biological will to power has often not been as successful as disguising it or lying about it. Many people who are unaware of the biological origin of social and cultural practices are nevertheless fearful that they will lose their country and their culture to illegal migrants and to banks and big global businesses who have been increasingly wrecking their country and their culture.

Sociobiologist's point out that ethnocentric strategies triumph (group selection), while “universalist humanitarianism is ultimately a losing strategy, unable to sustain high levels of in-group cooperation.” (Ed Dutton) Humanitarian groups on the left invariably “waste their precious reproductive potential helping out free riders who give them nothing in return...” So both the so-called humanitarian left and globalism are destroying us, even though the left claims to hate the banks and global big business.

Given our overcrowded and competitive world, I think the deeper stage of populism will be to eventually acknowledge the biological origin of our social and cultural practices by consciously, not unconsciously, politicking for ethnostates and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states. Europe too seems to be slowly moving in this direction.  Populism and the people could then actually celebrate who they really are in their own ethnostate, legally protected from marauding imperialists and supremacists by some form of limited federalism.  

What animates every organism, what constitutes its nature, is purpose

In his essay “The Drug of Ideology” Russell Kirk quotes Edmund Sinnot: “With Aristotle, Sinnott recognizes final causes: he is a teleologist. What animates every organism, what constitutes its nature, is purpose: “If it be accepted, the idea of purpose, of intention, of the motive power of a goal or ideal rather than of an organic 'drive', changes the orientation of our psychical lives.”

Sinnot almost got it right, except for the last part of that statement. The organic drive of material evolution does not change the orientation of our psychical lives away from Godhood when Godhood is understood as evolved to in the material and supermaterial world.

We can appeal to both the rational knowledge of science and to the inner activation of life to aid us in our evolution toward Godhood. Progress is inherent in the nature of things. Life is evolving toward Godhood one way or another. As Raymond Cattell and others have implied, evolution moves inevitably in a pattern, even though it has its random elements, and the pattern has a discernible direction, in spite of instances of stagnation and retreat, toward higher and higher more effective living forms, all the way to Godhood.

So Russell Kirk and other paleoconservatives were half right, science if seen with the idea of purpose, of intention, of the motive power of a goal, does not need to rebel against religion and Godhood, religion and science can work together to aid us in our inevitable evolution toward Godhood.

In “evolutionary conservatism” retaining the best that is evolved is no less important than ongoing evolution

Josef Pieper used the term “fashion poetry” in contrast to more timeless poetry. The term could be applied to fashion politics, fashion art, or even fashion philosophy---the modern term pop psychology is fashion psychology.

But before I get too smug about the shallowness of fashion when there should be timelessness, tradition can go too far in the other direction becoming static or fixed in one moldy place.

The term “evolution” indicatives both change and stability. In natural evolution the best of the past in retained without ruling out natural changes discovered by evolution to be worthy of change. So I prefer the term “evolutionary conservatism” even though it sounds incongruous and self-contradictory, like “make haste slowly.”

“Tradition” does not give enough attention to change mainly because it sees a timeless non-material Godhood as its highest value. But when we see ascending levels of Godhood reached only through material evolution then change or evolution becomes sacred, and retaining the best that is evolved is no less important than ongoing evolution. If Godhood finally evolves to a supermaterial timeless eternity then that is for Godhood to enjoy, meanwhile life in the cosmos must get on with the instinctive and sacred process of evolving toward Godhood within the ups and downs of natural selection---and modern science we may be able to help it along its way.

How religion and political philosophy do not relate to real human nature

I mainly study human nature and and how it relates to religion and political philosophy, and I have found that religion and political philosophy do not much relate to real human nature other than having natural biological wills to power behind their social behavior, which they often disguise or are not aware of. I know that is a deeply reductionist thing to say about our civilization and culture but other than a few sociobiologists and maverick ethnostatists who admit the biological origin of our social behavior I find it to be true.

Political problems are not at root economic problems (Capitalism, Marxism), and political problems are not at root cultural problems (customs, arts, social institutions), political problems are at root biological problems relating to the biological origin of our social behavior. People instinctively knows this to be true, although it has become politically incorrect to say it, and that taboo, ironically, is itself the result of biological competition consciously or unconsciously hiding real motives.

Cultures can operate for a time with behavior that goes against real human nature with such experiments as cultural Marxism but cultures are eventually pulled back by the biological and genetic leash of real human nature to cultures that better reflect human nature, and humans then work within and adapt to the environments they find themselves living.

Even in advanced modern societies where survival is easier, Marxism (demanding equality for the unequal), radical feminism (demanding biologically unnatural roles for women), homosexuality (demanding biologically unnatural sexual life styles) and postmodern relativism (demanding a biologically unnatural relativity of values), are social behavior that goes against real human nature, which remains basically as it has always been, kin-centered, gender defined, heterosexual, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, among other traditional things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection.

Given who we are and given what human nature really is there should by now be politicians openly advocating ethnostates and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates in harmony with the growing variety of ethnic groups in America with different genetic pools and different competing agendas. Relating to the Constitutional separation of powers and states we could be advocating an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, protected with a light federalism from marauding imperialism and supremacism, which always appears.

Where are the politicians and intellectuals who should by now be trying to deal with political problems that are at root biological problems relating to the biological origin of our social behavior? They are not to be seen on Fox News and certainly not seen in the Big Media which pushes cultural Marxism. Even conservative intellectual journals won't affirm the biological origin of our social behavior, perhaps because they are afraid it will upend the idea that political problems are at root religious problems not biological problems. Or it could simply be the desire not to be crucified professionally and personally by the prevailing political correctness of the ruling cultural Marxism. 

As to political problems being at root religious problems, the material evolution to supermaterial Godhood as seen in the philosophy of theological materialism covers that gap without rejecting  the biological origin of our social behavior.

Trump's innovative oxymoronic approach

In dealing with China Trump should be an unabashed nationalist like Pat Buchanan but he oxymoronically plays both the nationalist and globalist. It has worked fairly well.

The globalist's want to block China's instinctive and sometimes nasty economic nationalism and drive them into their global deracialized money pit---easier to control. That's what they developed in the U.S. and Europe, by marauding over everyone.

The U.S. needs the economic nationalism of Pat Buchanan, at least, and so does China and Europe. Trump should think that way too.

Are we not now mature enough to stop the obvious political lies we use to disguise the biological origin of our social behavior?

Politics, like all culture, is essentially a cover for the biological origin of social behavior. Why? Advertising ones biological will to power hasn't been as successful as disguising it or lying about it---and many people are unaware of the biological origin of their social and cultural practices. But that worked better when the world was not as crowded as it has become.

Marx had it wrong when he said that the economic interest of social classes was the true origin of our social behavior and that a biologically blind and totally economically equal proletariat should rule. Human nature is ethnocentric and has been since humans became humans. Group-selection was the only way for individuals to successfully survive, so altruism, or being for others, was genetically derived and naturally limited mainly to kin and ethnic group because they shared the same genes which strive for survival.

Given our overcrowded and fiercely competitive world, and given the real biological origin of our social behavior, we all would have been better off politicking for ethnostates and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates. It is not pro-white to say that most conservatives in America are white and affirm white culture. It is not anti-Semitic to say that if Lenin and his friends had promoted a Jewish ethnostate in some part of Russia the middle-east might now be far more peaceful. It is not anti-Black to say that if blacks had their own ethnostate in America (perhaps in the South who enslaved them) our inner cities would not now be on the edge of disaster. These are not pro-white, anti-Semitic, or anti-black statements they are facts underlining how the biological origin of social behavior has been disguised to our own disadvantage.  How much healthier and happy people would be if they could celebrate who they really are in their own ethnostate, protected from marauding imperialists and supremacists by some form of limited federalism.

The activation of the cosmos and life, and accepting our sacred fate

Heidegger asked the question why there is something rather than nothing? He said it was the basic question of metaphysics.

I start with the centrality of the activation of the cosmos and of life. Why is something activated? I see the goal of the sacred activation as the evolution of material life in the cosmos to ever ascending levels of Godhood, culminating in the zenith of everlasting eternal life. That which does not reach the zenith of everlasting eternal life tries again, endlessly, in new cosmos. And so the universe transport itself, whether it always begins again with ongoing powerful big bangs or with powerful electrical currents.

It may be that since human life has a beginning and an end humans are biased to demand an end and beginning to the cosmos when there is no end or beginning. Arrived evolved Godhood doesn't have an ending but has eternal life.

In the theological materialism just described the ancient prescription of “accepting ones fate” means first and foremost getting in harmony with the sacred activation to evolve material life in the cosmos to ever ascending levels of Godhood. “Faith” in that natural goal, in the zenith of that sacred process, would come from the natural evolving process, which includes instances of stagnation and retreat and the ups and downs of natural selection, with the pattern moving toward higher and higher more effective living forms, without having to invent a non-material spiritual world in order to surpass the endings and beginnings of human life.

If you ask where did this activation come from, we probably won't know until we evolve intelligence high enough to know, perhaps not until we evolve to Godhood. It seem likely to me that when life evolves to eternal Godhood it will have absolute answers to these questions. Meanwhile we accept our sacred fate.

Is there a way out of our social mess?

Is there a way out of our social mess? Yes there is, but we rarely hear about it because it takes courage to even talk about it, yet alone do it. The controllers of some countries have even made it virtually illegal to talk about!

Racism does exist and it held back blacks and other minorities. But now, for example, black racism propels blacks forward. Racism or ethnocentrism defines a big part of genetically-instigated-group-selecting human nature, propelled by the biological origin of our social behavior. But the reality is that blacks sought more than equality, they sought superiority, helped along by clueless modern liberals, even though it sets up big clashes between the races. But real human nature says that this genetically-instigated-group-selecting is perfectly natural behavior, and calling it “evil” in no way stops it.

Political philosophy needs look at and accommodate the reality of the biological origin of our social behavior. Instincts and reason both suggest a general separation of powers and ethnic groups, something like the Founding Fathers advocated in the original U. S. Constitution with states as independent as possible, but now independent to the degree of being ethnostates or ethnic regions, where distinctly different ethnic groups can be who and what they are, while being protected from imperialists, supremacists, and foreign harassers.

If a state or region wants to be foolish enough to be a multiracial-multi-cultural state again, let them deal with the results, as long they don't try to be imperialist harassers of others states. Let the main job of the federal government be to protect the states and the whole country.

So yes, there is a way out of our social mess. Will we begin to bring this political configuration about before or after we fall apart? All the big schools and the big media will strongly oppose it, in any case, I think we should begin now, legally, and within the system. 

We can base conservatism on human nature and religion but let us define human nature and religion accurately

Conservative's say that “religion promises to believe in a realm beyond space and time” (Russell Kirk) and conservative's believe that this realm exists in the soul of human nature. I do not believe there is a realm beyond space and time. I see Godhood as reached through material, not spiritual, evolution, and I also see human nature as the product of material, not spiritual, evolution.

All the conservative things, such as traditions, customs, conventions, prescriptions, old constitutions, human nature itself, and even religious foundations, were evolved through material evolution, not spiritual evolution. Human nature genetically evolved such conservative things as being kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection, followed by individual selection, because those traits were the best means to successful survival and reproduction. That basic human nature is still very much with us today but it has been buried beneath the wills to power of those who lie about or deny the biological origin of social behavior.

Indeed we can base our conservatism on human nature and religion but let us define human nature and religion accurately. The philosophy of theological materialism endeavors to do just that in defining human nature and the deepest religious roots of culture as affirming the evolution of the material world to always ascending levels of real supermaterial Godhood.  We can heal the rift between religion and science.

What is the deepest root of culture?

Clear thinking and clear writing religious philosopher Joseph Pieper wrote about an era where the world of work and moneyed business is the whole field of human experience, in contrast to living in an era where the deepest root of culture is in concord with and validated by undisputed festivals, celebrations, or masses of the gods as the deepest root of culture.

But traditional religions introduced into the “deepest root of culture” festivals and masses celebrating a non-material spiritual world not of this material world. How can a world whose religious founders reject the material world and affirm a non-material spiritual world be the deepest field of human experience and the root of all culture? In reality the world has faded away from religion that way.

Yes, we need a world where religion is the root of culture, but a religious philosophy that affirms the evolution of the material world as the path to Godhood, which can heal the rift between religion and science, not by considering them two different ways of looking at the world but as allies in affirming the deepest root of culture as being the evolution of the material world to always ascending levels of supermaterial Godhood.

Masses celebrating the sacrificing of the material world to the spiritual world need to be transformed, not rejected, with Masses celebrating and validating the evolution of the material world to supermaterial Godhood. With the Twofold Path the Inward Path saints can be transformed by Outward Path heroes. That is the goal of theological materialism and the projected Theoevolutionary Church.

Where does the blame lie for the degradation of Western art and culture? (from 2010)

Beyond the Conservative critique 

Blame can go all around yet those who see the degradation of Western art and culture as a “disease of faith” (T.S.Eliot etc.) are more right than they knew. Why? Because they blamed our degradation on the loss of faith without seeing that the faith itself played a big part in the degradation. 

Perennial Tradition from prehistory to the Revealed Religions began with the Great Spiritual Blockade of the material world, and it was this great error in the perennial foundation of spiritualism that gradually led to the degradation and virtual downfall of art and culture. 

By the time Nietzsche declared that God was dead, which greatly influenced all modern philosophers, religious influence was all but over. The fact that this great error of hating or at least blocking the material world was exploited by the enemies of Western culture was a secondary--although very damaging--occurrence. Non-Christian's followed their own natural wills to power in helping to kick down the rotting door. And the only alternative other intellectuals felt they had was atheism and Godless forms of materialism.

To bring back Western art and culture conservative's advocate going back to traditional values and images. They say: “True art is an appeal to our higher nature, an attempt to affirm that other kingdom in which moral and spiritual order prevails.” (Roger Scruton, “Beauty”) But it is that “other kingdom” that essentially hates the world, no matter how clever and pedantic the religious philosophers parse their arguments. The world they seek is beyond the material world. 

What I believe is needed to revive art and culture—and religion---is the theological materialism of the projected Theoevolutionary Church, which retains the Gods of our Fathers in the Twofold Path but transforms true Godhood into the Zenith of Material Evolution. With the Theoevolutionary Church, science can join religion, art can affirm biology, and materialism can strongly support religion. Affirming this may come slowly, one hopes not too slowly to save us.

Why the left is in reality, cruel, inhumane, hypocritical, and suicidal

The taboo prohibiting and forbidding discussion of the biological origin of social behavior prevails mainly because it reveals that leftist ideology is in reality suicidal for white leftists and hypocritical for nonwhite leftists; the present leftist program is mainly the will to power of nonwhites and those who benefit from taking power away from whites and white culture.

Conservative's are either intimidated from revealing the biological origin of social behavior for fear of the consequences of being called a racist, or disagree with it, or are simply ignorant of it, so the increasingly aggressive and censorious left gains power, especially since the suicidal white leftists and hypocritical nonwhite leftists are totally supported by the Big Media and the Big Schools.

Suicidal means liable to kill oneself and it doesn't exactly define white leftists if they are ignorant of the consequences of their behavior, but the will to power of hypocritical nonwhite leftists is at least in harmony with the biological origin of human social behavior, which is genetically kin and ethnic-centered (or "racialist") and has been since humans became humans.

Group-selection was the best way for individuals to successfully survive, so altruism, or being for others, was naturally and genetically evolved and limited mainly to kin and ethnic group because they shared the same genes which deeply strive for survival. Trying to rid human nature and culture of the the deep-seated preference for kin and ethnic group, which is attempted by Marxists, leftists, and even some conservatives, is like trying to rid human beings of being human, and that is inhumane, cruel, hypocritical, and suicidal.

The transformation from the material to the spiritual took us away from sacred harmony with the real world

The conquering of old religions was accomplished by transforming them not destroying them, which relates to the better conservative attitude toward change. The strategy of "Christian reinterpretation" during the Christianization of pagan peoples included building churches on pagan temple sites.

Christianity and the other revealed religions believed that their sacred Masses and festivals involved getting in harmony with the real world by celebrating the non-material spiritual world, whereas although there was a spiritual strain in paganism the pagan's celebrated the real material world, the seasons, the trees, the rivers, the sun. The pagan-to-Christian transformation was a transformation from the material to a spiritual world, influenced by non-material asceticism.

Theological materialism believes that the transformation from the material to the spiritual was a transformation that took us away from sacred religious harmony with the real world---it was the opposite of getting in harmony with the real world---and therefore a transformation back to a sacred view of materialism is needed—not by destroying the spiritual inward path to God, which is really a symbolic peak material experience, but transforming it with sacred evolutionary materialism and seeing that it is the outward path of material evolution that leads to real supermaterial Godhood.

Western science affirmed materialism but in effect destroyed religion and the sacred, but theological materialism transforms, not destroys, the non-material spiritual God by affirming ascending levels of material Godhood and sees the spiritual God, as well as the pagan Gods, as preliminary glimpses of the ascending levels of real Godhood reached through material and supermaterial evolution.

The deceitful usurpation of America from the civil war to cultural Marxism

The traditional American identity has changed for the worse over time mainly due to the tendency of the brainy human species to be deceitful and duplicitous in their wills to power.

Perhaps the big change began, as Donald Livingston pointed out in a review in Chronicles (May 2019), when the Republican Party formed in 1854 with the goal of consolidating the states into a centralized regime of crony capitalism ruled by the New York-Chicago northern industrial axis, and they duplicitously used southern slavery, which we all agree was evil, to hide their main motives against southern Jeffersonian America.

Prior to the resulting civil war the South was America, electing the first 72 presidents and with the north electing only five. Jeffersonian America favored small government, supported the farmer, did not trust bankers or merchants, disliked urban life, and wanted power for the states over centralization.  That Jeffersonian America fell apart after the civil war was won by the northern industrial axis.

The same sort of deceitful usurpation happened in the 1980's-2018 takeover of America by the cultural Marxists, the result of the “march through the institutions” from the 1960's, which again duplicitously used the charge of racism in America to hide their Marxist motives and to rally nonwhite races and the brainwashed youth to their cause.

So can the traditional American identity and its people recover?

I believe that deceitful people have continued to change America beyond any real Jeffersonian recovery with suicidal nonwhite immigration policies, etc., so that now a sort of Neo-Jeffersonian ethnopluralism of ethnostates has become the best political configuration to live within, in harmony with real kin and ethnic centered human nature.

An ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states, protected from marauding imperialists and supremacists by some sort of federalism. It may require a few constitutional amendments to give more power to the states to move toward an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, and it will not be easy at all, but it is far preferable to radical Marxism or Fascism, or the political dissimulations based on deceitful and duplicitous flawed definitions of human nature which have brought us radically destructive civil disruptions, even civil war, which are now increasing across the world within unworkable multicultural (multi-ethnic) societies demanding that we all get along in one big global state.

The tragic error in traditional metaphysics

The essence of metaphysics in Theological Materialism can be summarized by the following statement: The world is not illusory but real, the sacred material activation within life (Tirips) is not less real than Godhood, its main task is to help activate itself and us to evolve in the changing evolutionary material world to ascending levels of supermaterial Godhood.

Ibn Arabi, Meister Eckhart, and Plotinus all say that “Brahman is real, the world is illusory, the self is not different from Brahman.” As Frithjof Schuon has said, that doctrine is the “eternal religion” of Hindu Vedantists and has been formulated and expressed implicitly and explicitly in the teachings of all traditional civilizations including in ancient Greece, the Christian world, in India, and within the Muslim world. But it contains a tragic metaphysical error.

Not unlike the other religious founders and gurus Meister Eckhart said in the Theologia Germanica, “...For if the left eye be fulfilling its office toward outward things, that is holding converse with time and the creatures; then must the right eye be hindered in its working; that is, in its contemplation. Therefore, whosoever will have the one must let the other go; for ‘no man can serve two masters.’

But the “god within” is really the material activation within life to evolve to Godhood, which does not hinder our attaining Godhood but activates us toward evolving to Godhood; the hindrance comes from seeking only the God within and thinking of it as spiritual and non-material, as Eckhart and the others did. The way of Vedanta and traditional religions in reality becomes a great spiritual blockade against evolving in this material world to real supermaterial Godhood.

Even so, we need not reject the inward path religions but conservatively view them in the Twofold Path as the first primitive glimpses of Godhood now transformed in the outward path of material evolution to supermaterial Godhood.

What is evaluated as “good and bad,” and why?

The main engine of successful human selection so far has been ethics in a feedback loop with biological selection, as understood by brilliant scientists like Edward Wilson and Raymond Cattell. Cynical as it sounds, mutual love and self-sacrifice were the theme of ethics because they led to the successful survival and reproduction of genetic pools and cultures, which is why those ethics prevailed---even in religion.

In daily life and in our evolution toward Godhood, selecting the character traits of hard work and honesty are just as important as selecting intelligence. Selecting brilliant minds only without selecting the traits of hard work and honesty or the ability to control crude impulses or self indulgence, could bring us moral monsters---Silicone Valley autistics and genius Wall Streeters are not an exception to the prospective guideline.

Progress need not be irreligious or blind, it can be directed toward ascending levels of Godhood. It is not only human genetic and cultural progress that determines what is evaluated as “good and bad,” the primary sacred evaluation of good and bad is the progress of the evolution of life toward ascending levels of Godhood.

I think this is the next path of religious ethics.

The future politics of ethnostatism will need to first lawfully march through the institutions

Italian communist Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) described how the state and ruling capitalist class – the bourgeoisie – “use cultural institutions to maintain power in capitalist societies. The bourgeoisie, in Gramsci's view, develops a hegemonic culture using ideology rather than violence, economic force, or coercion. Hegemonic culture propagates its own values and norms so that they become the "common sense” values of all and thus maintain the status quo. Hegemonic power is therefore used to maintain consent to the capitalist order, rather than coercive power using force to maintain order. This cultural hegemony is produced and reproduced by the dominant class through the institutions that form the superstructure.” (Wikipedia)

This was summarized by the phrase “a march through the institutions” (schools, the media, government, etc.) which was brilliantly accomplished in the 1960's by the counter-cultural left, which has now successfully replaced traditional culture in America and the West with various versions of cultural Marxism.

The New Right in France saw the sense of using this strategy for the Right, and I affirm this commom sense strategy for the task of rationally and instinctively channeling education and human cultures to move in the natural and integrated direction of the evolutionary sciences. The biological origin of our social behavior actually ends the intellectual defense of postmodern relativism and the cultural Marxist ideologues. But it also takes some of the virtue-signaling away from conservatives. 

The science of sociobiology has shown us that the natural order evolved a human nature that is genetically kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other conservative things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection, followed by individual selection. That is almost the opposite of cultural Marxism and modern liberalism. It shows us that given real human nature an ethnopluralism of ethnostates is instinctively and rationally the best political configuration for humans beings to live within. 

But any future effective politics which affirms ethnostatism and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates will need to first legally march through the institutions. This calls for enormous almost inhuman patience, but if the cultural institutions and the people have not affirmed the political and social philosophy, radical, unlawful, or violent action usually leads nowhere or brings only more destructive violence.