Wednesday, June 07, 2017
Toward the next tripartite conservative fusionist hierarchy
If Trump and his administration
fall I don't think the new Alt-right wing will go away as it did in
the 1950's when Buckley and others decided they wanted only two wings
to their fusion of conservatism, individual freedom plus the norms
and traditions. Norms and traditions have since been updated by the
evolutionary science of sociobiology, which affirms the biological
origin of much of our social behavior.
I think the next conservative fusionist
hierarchy should lead with sociobiology, followed by the norms and
traditions, and lastly individual freedom. Sociobiology has shown us
that group-selection is, and has been, the primary unit of successful
human life (see Wilson). Individualism is of course important, but it
takes place always monitored by the success of the group. At times I
have thought that the libertarian/individualism wing of conservatism
was a cunning way to undermine norms and traditions. The
latest conservatives policed themselves and ejected sociobiology from
the movement, as they did in the 1950's.
I think the tripartite structure of
conservatism, that is, sociobiology, followed by the norms and
traditions, and lastly individual freedom, is healthier than the
duality we have had, and is the best way to fulfill the next
fusionism of conservatism. This time the fusion needs to include an
ethnopluralism of ethnostates, affirmed by the constitutional
separation of powers and states, and protected by federalism and
subsidiarity. Will conservatives go there? If they do not the
conservative duality will break apart, opening the ground for
dictatorial cultural Marxism, or supremacist fascism, reminding us of pre-World War Two Germany.
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