The loss of natural altruism to unnatural universal altruism, and how to get it back

It is clear, although still not widely accepted, or understood only intuitively, that altruism (“action or behavior that benefits another or others at some cost to the performer”) as the central base of ethics arose out of group-selection, where individuals within groups who were more altruistic were more successful than groups that were internally less altruistic, and this became an inherited genetic trait in the successful groups.

Universalist religions and political creeds demanded both individualism and unnatural universal altruism toward all, as well as attempting to jam a diversity of ethnic groups within the same living space, and this led to much confusion and guilt over preferring ones own kin and ones own group. Think of the great trouble recently (and in the past as well) between races and religions in the world in spite of very heavy and ubiquitous propaganda demanding universal altruism. It also did not help when one group sought dominance over other groups by preaching universal altruism for all but their own group---how devious humans can be. Also, ease in survival for individuals with modern technology, and social welfare programs, perhaps made it easier to overlook the importance of ingrained group-selection---and the individual was still being protected by the local police and a national military. But people tend to live in neighborhoods with people of there own kind in any case.

Ethnopluralism is the way to bring real natural altruism back, with distinct regions and states for distinct ethnic cultures, where real altruism can better take root, protected by a light federalism, as in the U.S. Constitution. And a deeper base for this natural altruism is seen in the religious philosophy of theological materialism, where it is understood that a variety of groups evolve in their own ways in the material world toward Godhood, perhaps helped along by international sociobiology research centers, for all. If there is to ever be peace or cooperation in the world, this is the long-term, and natural, way to bring it about.