The way back from the suicide of the West

As Chilton Williamson put it writing about James Burnham (Chronicles Feb 2014), postmodern liberalism has established multiculturalism, inclusivism, unitarianism, (or cultural Marxism), in the belief that people, races, cultures, nations are all the same, which is causing the suicide of the West.

This is accurate, but to replace it with neoconservativism (not Williamson's choice), and so-called free trade---which is the exploitation of everyone by the international, one percent, global corporations, who include the same values of multiculturalism, inclusivism, unitarianism, (or cultural Marxism), and the belief that all people are the same---is not the answer to the suicide of the West. The main neoconservative difference from postmodern liberalism is in backing the global corporations with the U.S. military, and a preference for Zionism.

Pat Buchanan has most of the solutions to the suicide of the West, beginning with the return to economic nationalism, bringing manufacturing home again, and putting tariffs on foreign imports---trade with the world, yes, but fair trade more than free trade. But Buchanan has not as yet promoted ethnopluralism, although he has acknowledged the growing separatist movements in the world. Perhaps the Christian belief in us all being the same spiritually is behind the hope of assimilation.

Ethnic cultures with distinct ethnic traits always end up forming into their own units, formally or informally, and the Constitutional separation of powers and states in America, protected by a light federalism, is the workable conservative format for a future American ethnopluralism. Human history has always moved this way, empires always decline into ethnopluralistic regions and states, which are the most natural political configuration given human nature. Human nature remains as it has been since it developed in the Pleistocene many thousands of years ago. We remain 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.