Expanding Col. John Boyd's theories to modern political philosophy

If we expand the military theories of Col. John Boyd, as admired and explained by William Lind, and we apply them to modern political philosophy, we can see how liberal humanism, conservatism, communism and fascism have not orientated themselves fast enough to the changing world.

Boyd's nine grid levels of war: tactical, operational, strategic, physical, mental and moral, can be applied to political and cultural philosophy. We desperately need to  include the fact that our human nature evolved during hunter-gatherer times, when we had endless space and could afford to promote only one people as superior or noble or chosen above all others as a successful survival strategy. Although human nature has not changed in that we still feel most comfortable with our own kind and our own cultures, the world has changed from a low population with lots of space for separate and distinct people to rule themselves, even with deadly competition, to a world with a high population and little space for separate and distinct people to claim superiority and imperialism.

Attempts to orient ourselves to these big changes included liberal humanism and communism, which rejected actual human nature in demanding that all people are, or should be, the same in nurture and nature, or the conservatives and fascists who basically refused to change from the strategies and moralities of ancient hunter-gatherer times, even though there was no longer room in the world for such hypertrophied imperial exclusivity---in these times the world rises up and destroys such exclusive imperialism, or we now have the Fourth Generation Warfare of non-state groups. The hypertrophied strategists of the old closed systems, left and right, have become increasingly irrelevant and panicked, or they have given up when they still have intact power.

The healthy orientation now is certainly not to try to reject human nature, which can't be done short of genetically engineering a change in basic human nature, and it can't be done with the same old wildly impractical egalitarianism or racial supremacy. We need now to gradually set up, or allow naturally to happen, thousands of virtually independent regions, small states or ethnostates, where human nature can prefer its own kind, its own culture, but can be protected internally and externally by a light kind of federalism, perhaps not unlike what the Founders of the United States originally had in mind, with the Constitutional separation of powers and states. Cooperative competition between separate and distinct people is about as close to getting along with one another as is possible or practical, given human nature.

Then we can begin to move on to the truly important mission of evolving out into the cosmos, with the variety that evolution prefers. We can then even think in terms of evolving beyond the human species.