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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