Sunday, December 31, 2017

Cook, Zuckerberg, Globalism, and the limits of altruism


The globalism and universalism promoted by the techie-turned-billionaires Tim Cook of Apple and Zuckerberg of Facebook, who are the new effete version of robber barons, is based on a fusion of libertarianism and cultural Marxism, which means their globalism is based on a faulty view of human nature.

Altruism, supposedly the selfless concern for the well-being of others, is in reality based on a hierarchical genetic scale of caring for others, beginning strongest with kin, and moving out to ethnic group, region, state, nation, and at the weakest end of altruism: globalism. That is why the various attempts at empire building and universalism don't last long and do not bring harmony or peace---even universal religions couldn't bring harmony or peace for the same reason.

Global harmony and peace will not come from Cook/Apple/Zuckerberg/Facebook because their bonding "goals" are at the weakest and virtually unworkable end of the hierarchy of altruism. Cook and Zuckerberg push the global "human rights" of libertarian/cultural Marxism because they benefit most from them, which is why they promote their faulty altruism, although the dissolute Cook at least seems naively unconscious of this.

What will bring the best chance for peace and harmony in the world is a political/cultural solution based in a realistic understanding of altruism and the hierarchy of altruism, and its limits. That is, large empires, large nations, and now global corporations eventually devolve back to localism and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, in line with real human nature.  That is the direction we need to go in.

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