Sunday, March 04, 2018

Tucker Carlson is almost right on conspiracy theories


In a recent interview in "Chronicles (March 2018) Tucker Carlson had some interesting things to say about conspiracy theories.

He talked about how older people, not young people, tend to think conspiracies exist..."not just conspiracies where people meet off-site to subvert the system, but conspiracies of like-mindedness, of similar temperament, of instinct...maybe all the people in charge are from pretty much the same world and have the same preconceptions, maybe they, maybe they unknowingly, act together to produce a certain result..."

I waited for Carlson to then say: "and maybe they are of the same ethnic group, maybe they are ethnocentric," but he did not. I don't think Carlson was trying to be politically correct, I think, like most conservatives, he is largely missing the knowledge of real human nature that comes from the science of sociobiology, or at least is too cavalierly dismissing that knowledge.

Conservatives seem to have a hard time admitting the biological origin of social behavior (and of course liberals won't go anywhere near it), they don't want to admit that ethnocentrism is a deep part of natural human nature and it affects politics, and even religion---that sounds too much like "racism." The religion side of it is especially the line they can't cross probably because of the universalism running through religion.

But conservatives can still be conservative if they admit that distinctly different ethnic groups and races need to be allowed their own natural agendas, but not all living within the same space. which leads to negative things like racial supremacy and bigotry.

The U. S. constitutional separation of powers and states could be legally adapted to an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, which would end, or at least slow, the main conspiracies that are tearing our country apart. Radical revolution could be avoided.

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