Friday, March 18, 2016
Why and how our constitution can accommodate the real ethnopluralism of human nature
Jame Madison, one of our founding
intellectuals, said that government reflects how the people define
human nature. But what if the view of human nature is not complete?
The constitutional principle of the separation of powers and states
certainly (and brilliantly) reflects the drive for power in human
nature. But what happens when the Anglo-Saxon character, tone, guiding beliefs, and drive to power of the founders of America changes? Conservatism has
to effectively deal with change.
Group-selection remains the primary
unit of selection in real human nature, along with being
kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual
marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and
religious-making, among other traditional things---with
group-selection remaining the primary unit of the most successful
selection. As sociobiology has pointed out, within groups selfish
individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat
groups of selfish individuals.
To avoid the inevitable conflicts that
have come from trying to jam distinctly different people and
different ethnic cultures together in the same place, I think the
constitutional principle of the separation of powers and states needs
to naturally apply to different regions set aside for different ethnic cultures (and protected by federalism), which defines
ethnopluralism. And defining human nature as inherently sinful, or completely individualistic, or demanding
equality does not solve the social disruptions caused by naturally competing groups, because
these things do not reflect real human nature.
I see no real movement toward ethnopluralism in America---think of what the presidential candidates are now talking about---but there are certainly hints of it in the growing social disruptions of America and Europe, in spite of the Big Media imperial push toward globalism. We need to avoid the totalitarian movements of supremacy and imperialism that
tend to rise, only to eventually fall and break back down into natural
ethnostates. Our constitution can conservatively accommodate the real ethnopluralism of human nature, which can save America.
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