Toward evolutionary conservatism

Nietzsche thought the aim of education was not merely to “know” the past but to produce and cultivate individual greatness in the present culture, which is what the ancient Greeks did so well. But now we need also to be concerned with developing great individuals sociobiologically, not merely culturally. This sounds shocking to modern minds because we don't admit the modern perversities. For example, such things as demanding absolute equality of conditions for all people is now politically correct, a perverse twisting of the idea of the equality of opportunity. This is perverse when compared with real human nature in human history. The frustrating thing is, these modern perversities were often pursued not with real moral concern but as methods to power for those seeking to rise in more fixed cultures.

But history has a way of snapping back to what human nature actually is, as sociobiology and a few courageous historians have taught us. We need a revitalized conservatism, we need evolutionary conservatism, and we will probably get it, if we can survive that long. A nation and even a world of thousands of mostly independent small states or ethnostates protected by a light regional federalism is what humans form into, if natural human nature is allowed to come forward. And this time with the important addition of cooperative rather than uncooperative competition, which humans are capable of if we try. This will also better permit our continuing sociobiological and sacred evolution.