On becoming essentialist

I think “anti-essentialism” was wrong, it couldn't have developed without the nature/nurture debates which made the nurture side politically correct, dominating the nature side. This suggest that Marxism was at least one of the fathers of anti-essentialism.

Sociobiology is the “essentialist” science, backing up our essentialist nature. The sociobiological theory of human nature pokes holes in the idea that we only differ from one another (men/women/ethnic groups) as a consequence of social forces and not also, perhaps predominantly, do to heredity, or genetic differences.

Human nature is “essentially” kin-centered, gender defined, age-grading, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection.

The "freedom" that the existentialists dream that we are “condemned” to seems to be mainly built within in our brains to give us various choices between still-determined choices, restricted by our human nature and our outside environments. This is a kind of freedom which gave us a bit more flexibility in trying to survive, but not the freedom to create human nature all over again, other than in a bogus or artificial way.

We are not really free to be anti-essentialists, which seems to be mainly the will to power of the people who apply it. Essential, largely determined, human nature, and the natural will to power, motivates anti-essentialists as it does essentialists. The true “deconstruction” should be the deconstruction of anti-essentialism, universalism, equality, and free will.

Becoming who we are, becoming “authentic,” as the existentialists go on about, means to return to our essential human nature, even if it doesn’t fit well with the dreamy ideologies of anti-essentialism, deconstructionism and Marxism.  Essentialism points more naturally toward ethnopluralism that can work even in democratic Republics which give small states ample independence. It also points toward a revitalized and transformed evolutionary religion, which is the central theme of this blog.