Sunday, May 18, 2014

Political resentments and overreactions in the world


The French New Right, who I like in general, seem to make the mistake of accepting any challenger to the West, no matter how imperialistic---for example, Russia or China---brought on by big resentment and overreaction to the damaging imperialism of the West. The French seem to forget that they are very much a part of the West, which for years has given its people a higher standard of living than the rest of the world.  Fundamentalist Islam shows even more of this same sort of anger and resentment against the West. History is a hierarchy of competing peoples more than ideas, but intellectuals often get lost in the conflict of ideas and ideology and they tend to bypass the biological dynamics behind ideas. Look at the way sociobiology still has little effect in the Humanities.

All imperialism needs to devolve back to regional ethnostates (and will eventually), protected with some sort of federalism, and that includes the United States, whose Constitution with its separation of powers and states could accommodate ethnopluralism. This best relates to the real human nature that I keep repeating in this blog, and the sociopolitical structures most in harmony with real human nature which developed many thousands of years ago, and are still with us: we remain kin-centered, gender-defined, heterosexual marriage-making, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection.

If Eurasia devolves away from imperialism and toward ethnopluralism we can affirm them, but the West needs to do likewise. Given human nature and history, this is the future that holds the most promise for us all. People create cultures more than cultures create people, which is why cultures are shaped by the various traits of the people who create the cultures, adapting to various environments.

The religious philosophy of theological materialism, and the ethnopluralism hypothesis, are an attempt to bring culture back to real people, real life, real evolution, rather than increasing the ideological resentments and overreactions.

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