Economic nationalism and ethnopluralism can curb anti-social marauding global corporations, which have been destroying American jobs and manufacturing to enrich a tiny one-percent of greedy individuals. Capitalism always ends up in league with government power, if you let it, creating monopolies and hurting innovation and competition. Certainly capitalism achieved in a very short time in the United States the highest standard of living ever achieved in human history, but human beings remain kin-centered, ethnocentric, and even xenophobic, with group-selection as the main unit of selection. With this in mind unchecked individualism can be seen as almost always damaging to both individuals and groups. I affirm capitalism, but we have to tell the difference between social and anti-social capitalism.
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Saving capitalism from hyper-indivualism
Randian libertarian's think that
capitalism and altruism are incompatible, which is a major mistake in
their philosophy. They place the highest value in the individual and
not the group, thereby devaluing or even ignoring group-morality and
group-selection, which has been and remains the central unit of human
selection. Ayn Rand seems to have been unknowingly blocked by
experiences of violent collectivism in early life. Her hatred of
altruism seems to stem from this block, as well as from her dislike of religion, and her apparent
ignorance of the science of sociobiology
It is not a “constraint” or
“unnatural” to obstruct hyper-greed in individual capitalists, it
is the unchecked individual who is doing the constraining and
obstructing of natural group-morality and altruism. When the
capitalist wants all the property for himself he is as much an enemy
of property as the state, which also tends to want all property, as Chesterton pointed out. The
individual who is in harmony with real human nature will see that
group-morality and group-selection are vital in the survival and
reproductive success of both the individual and the group.
Economic nationalism and ethnopluralism can curb anti-social marauding global corporations, which have been destroying American jobs and manufacturing to enrich a tiny one-percent of greedy individuals. Capitalism always ends up in league with government power, if you let it, creating monopolies and hurting innovation and competition. Certainly capitalism achieved in a very short time in the United States the highest standard of living ever achieved in human history, but human beings remain kin-centered, ethnocentric, and even xenophobic, with group-selection as the main unit of selection. With this in mind unchecked individualism can be seen as almost always damaging to both individuals and groups. I affirm capitalism, but we have to tell the difference between social and anti-social capitalism.
Economic nationalism and ethnopluralism can curb anti-social marauding global corporations, which have been destroying American jobs and manufacturing to enrich a tiny one-percent of greedy individuals. Capitalism always ends up in league with government power, if you let it, creating monopolies and hurting innovation and competition. Certainly capitalism achieved in a very short time in the United States the highest standard of living ever achieved in human history, but human beings remain kin-centered, ethnocentric, and even xenophobic, with group-selection as the main unit of selection. With this in mind unchecked individualism can be seen as almost always damaging to both individuals and groups. I affirm capitalism, but we have to tell the difference between social and anti-social capitalism.
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