When we talk about intelligence, it is primarily the ability and inheritance of the individual, race, species that is able to deny short term sensuality and aim toward achieving a goal, to sacrifice pleasure in the present to achieve a greater reward in the future. The way nature configures this is through the promise of a reward, either [...]
Posts Tagged ‘transcendentalism’
Iron Will, Faith & Discipline
Long neglected, the west continues its miserable decline into absolute failure. Will we ever rise to rule ourselves again? What is our ability to organize ourselves and form a collective force, a social force, an Iron Will able to conquest back our nations from the disorientated weakness of convenience? What is needed is organization, strict [...]
In veneration of the artisans
Artisans are the creators of civilization, they are the driving force for the sustaining of culture and shaping the civil environment and community from a reflective expression of artistry. Artisans are not elites in whole but are elites in particular specializations. If there is any job you need, the artisans are those who know what [...]
A Guide to Cosmic Evolution – Part 1
Modern civilization and socialization, despite their glamour, are mortal; their death is assured in that they deny everything ‘absolutely’. People who are infected with social diseases refuse to internalize the natural world around them, and at that price, nature has a special place for them - Death by technology! If our democratic elections are anything to go by, the majority [...]
Whole behaviors strengthen families
I talk a lot here about the organic society and the idea of whole logic. Modern logic, or rationalism, takes a single factor of many and lets it stand for the whole situation. It’s derived from the populist religious/consumer tendency to assign good or a dollar value to any item in an absolute, universal context. [...]
Nihilism: in search of a working definition
Nihilism I’ve always defined nihilism not as “believing in nothing” but “not believing in the value of anything.” Subtle difference. You can’t not believe in reality and exist for long. You can however claim, like the Russian nihilists did, that nothing has any meaning and you might as well just do whatever. Then there’s the [...]
The Universe recognized its emptiness, and created somethingness And From That, Life
Astronomers have detected a building block of RNA floating within the hot, compact core of a massive star-forming region in the Milky Way. The molecule appears to have formed with all of the other stuff that makes up planets, suggesting that many other worlds are seeded with some of life’s ingredients right from birth. { [...]
Transcendental Christians versus symbolist Christians
Scanning around the web for death metal-related information (a favorite passtime) I found some Christian folks who seemed rather irate about death metal. Although I started life as a radical Christian hater, I now view Christianity as one means through which philosophies can be expressed. Specifically, if we express Romanticism — transcendental naturalistic idealism with [...]