Nietzsche said “ morality is
essentially the means of making something survive the individual.”
Today that is called altruism, interest in the welfare of others,
which Nietzsche was not fond of as a policy, to say the least.
Nietzsche thought altruism hampered great individuals and creators of
values. Ever the rebel, Nietzsche said that all great men have been
criminals, in the sense of creating their own values.
I think truly great men transform past errors without destroying traditions. The
science of sociobiology has found that within societies
selfish individuals beat altruists, but groups of altruists
beat groups of selfish individuals. And so group-selection became
the primary successful unit of human selection, although there is
always that uncomfortable dynamic between the individual and the
group.
Wise political structures need to
include the behavior of real human nature, which is the main reason
why I think ethnopluralism has become the best revived political
structure. That is, preferably small states for distinctive ethnic
cultures, with their natural ethnocentric altruism, and some sort of
protecting federalism between the states and other nations, perhaps
not unlike the one envisioned in the original U. S. Constitution,
with a few amendments.
Compare this political recommendation with the
damaging or useless rants of the presidential electioneering going on
right now, and you see how far we need to go.
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