The American Founders and Sociobiology

I agree with Robert Kraynak that each generation needs to rediscover the American Founders. Here is how I do it.

I prefer the term ordered evolution to “ordered liberty,” based on the observed patterns of natural phenomena leading to natural law. After centuries of study human nature can now be seen as kin-centered, gender defined, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other mostly traditional things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection. And due mainly to basic human nature, America has become a melting pot which did not melt, and we are left with Native Americans, Afro-Americans, Latin Americans, Asian Americans, Jewish Americans, European Americans, and so on.

Deeper than this I believe that natural law also contains the material and supermaterial activation of life to materially evolve toward Godhood, which was first only symbolically experienced as the Father or God Within in the Inward Path of traditional religions. Ordered evolution mirrors this sacred goal more clearly than ordered liberty. Freedom is not the hyper-individualism of libertarianism, and not the state empowering (supposedly) people with a powerful centralized state.

The Founders wanted limited government with a separation of powers and states protected in their independence by federalism. This separation of powers and states can fit with having ethnic cultures living in virtual ethnostates and regions with an ordered ethnopluralism, protected by federalism. This can be done slowly---we might even have regions that want to try to remain multicultural in one territory.

The Founders did not support global imperialism even while thinking that America could remain a great power. Economic nationalism fits this best, with tariffs on foreign goods and with the protection of American manufacturing, which is now nearly lost to the enrichment of a global few, very few.

As to the cultural wars, “enlightened traditionalism” (Kraynak) fits with the biological origin of much of social behavior as discovered since the time of the Enlightenment, which has even affirmed human nature as perpetuating the traditional values, as mentioned above.

The balance to get right is the freedom to evolve in accord with human nature and natural law, which I think leads to ethnopluralism, while accommodating the rediscovery of the Founders ideas of America and their vision of limited government and the separation of powers and states. Rediscovering and transforming the ideas of the Founders into a workable ethnopluralism would cause far less human suffering than waiting for human nature to explode and split America apart in civil war, or in being overcome by a foreign power.