That thing of black conservatism

Black conservative differs from the white in that it is neither political nor economic, but existential; although it manifests as political, because it’s based on the existential precariousness of black people. All this manifests as political, but because politics has displaced the cultural determinations of reality; but this political nature is just functional en that case of black people, as related to the conservation of resources; which —like morals, religion, family, etc.—  are what provides existential support through that social precariousness.

This cannot be understood by white people, who relate to black people in function of their own political interests; like in their dialectical contradiction between socialism and capitalism, and everything in between. First at all, this is a false contradiction, related to the contradictions of western culture development; since the early capitalism, when Phoenician commercial expansion rescued their culture, after the Minoan disaster. That’s when Capitalism was born, as opposed to religious supremacy on the determinations of culture, with politics; and while it gave society its best tool with Democracy, it also deregulated the growth of economy in politics.

This is how dialectic became the way to understand reality, through the parallel development of philosophy; which with formal reason (dialectic) was the hermeneutical reference in the understanding of reality. As with Democracy, Dialectic is an useful tool to organize culture as a reality with a human sense; but as Democracy too, it’s unable to fully understand reality in its universal scope, since it’s part of that same reality.

That’s a natural contradiction, since as real itself, humanity is overwhelmed by reality, in this universal scope; but also, and as a principle, the need of humanity is to exist in this reality as its own, not to understand it. Here, what religious provided was the formal determinations of reality, reflected in its magical manipulations; not even objective but as a residual of that practices, that served as the hermeneutical references for the existential reflection. That’s why the reason provided by religion was not formal or abstract but practical, related to immediate needs; regulating culture with this, keeping it in a manageable dimensions, without that exponential growth of formal reason.

Is for all this functionality that it doesn’t exist such a thing as black liberalism, but just its conservatism; because —formal as politic— that contradiction is privative of western culture, and even related to Christianity. As a principle too, it looks like liberalism was born as late as the French revolution and the first ideas of socialism; but even that French revolution was an artificial crisis, produced by the development Christian Humanism as ideology; just when Christianity became a political (official) religion, to manage the crumbling of Western Roman empire. This is even when dialectic became that absolute way of reasoning, and so the first hermeneutical reference; which centered in society as its main object, cut the ability of the individual to get its references from reality.

As seen, this is even a distortion of Christianity in its own nature, by the overgrowth of formal reason in western philosophy; explaining the value of black American Christianity, putting back the magic in religion, with an existential function; providing reason that practical nature it lost to with the contraction of Christianity to ideological function, as political.