Saturday, February 17, 2018

If we can survive the Marxist and Randian false ideas of freedom


To Marxian fascists on the left (also modern liberals) and Randian libertarians on the right (?) (also neoconservatives) who believe we have complete freedom to create any Utopia we can think of, I reply that I have the freedom to say: grow up, or if I'm not feeling tolerant: go to hell.

Sociobiology isn't merely "deterministic," as its enemies like to call it, but there is a loop between biology and culture initiated by biology. We follow the determination of our genes which can adapt to whatever environment we are living in. Our cells take internal and external signals, analyze them, and then decide if a gene product is needed. "Gene expression" is the regulation of the process of a heritable trait in an individual carrying the gene or genes that determine it.

In every human culture ever studied real human nature in general included, among other things, kin-selection preferences, incest taboos, marriage, hierarchy, division of labor, gender differentiation, localism, group-selection, even ethnocentrism and xenophobia. If a culture proposes to not include these things (which by the way resemble traditional conservative values) the culture does not last long and it will always return to these things because they are largely biologically determined.

We have freedom within several determined paths. We don't have to freedom to grow wings and fly like a bird (although transhumanism might want to try) but we do have the freedom to invent supersonic airplanes (assuming we are genetically/culturally smart enough). We can't create unworkable Randian or Marxist Utopias but we can create a workable ethnopluralism of ethnostates, in harmony with what we really are---assuming we can survive the Marxist and Randian false ideas of freedom.

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