Monday, March 03, 2014

The Ethnopluralism Hypothesis


We still have the innate dispositions of our ancient ancestors, as Denis Dutton points out, we still universally prefer savanna landscapes innately (the Savanna Hypothesis) with trees and a river running through it, because this was the landscape that gave us the best chance of survival during the 80 thousand generations or so of the Pleistocene when our human nature developed (Socrates only goes back 120 generations). This leads to what I might call the Ethnopluralism Hypothesis: ethnopluralism is the universally preferred social configuration we innately prefer---if we are honest---in accord with human nature, because human nature remains universally 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.

Political correctness, cultural Marxism, and modernism in general go directly against these natural traits of human nature, which is why they don't last long or work well. These distortions are promoted by individuals or groups who seek to dominate by promoting these counterfeit views. Some people genuinely make what they believe is a rational decisions based on the idea that we may survive best by promoting egalitarianism, but this inevitably ends up being like forcing two fighting children together in the school yard rather than separating them to create a more lasting peace. The best we can hope for, given human nature, is cooperative competition, and this is possible, because it does not go against who we actually are as instinctive human beings, yet allows for rational cooperation.

The Ethnopluralism Hypotheses suggests that cultural Marxism wont last for long and we will go back to cultural and political behavior in accord with human nature, which is ingrained emotionally and even aesthetically, and it also happens to be the best rational choice for the future survival and evolution of all groups, not just one group. Empires always break back down into regional small states, which are virtually ethnostates, where ethnopluralism naturally develops, protected by some form of federalism.

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