Thursday, April 12, 2018
Adding evolutionary science to conservative tradition
The conservative tradition of America
came from common law, the Bible, and classical tradition, but
conservatives also need to keep open to new wisdom and knowledge even
as they affirm the old sources of tradition.
St. Thomas Aquinas was open to the new
although in his case the "new" was the discovery of old
Aristotle, who was synthesized by Aquinas into Christianity, which
helped save Christianity intellectually.
I think conservatives need to
synthesize Darwin and the evolutionary sciences into the conservative
tradition to save conservatism from obsolescence.
Real human nature leads naturally to the cultural expression of
regionalism, localism, and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates,
protected by some sort of federalism. Given who we are this appears
to be the best way we can optimize the gene expression we inherited
from our human ancestors.
Beneath the various definitions of
America as a business for profit, a mandate for everyone to be equal
in all things, or a place where Christians can be Christians, is the
the real biological origin of social behavior.
Darwin and the evolutionary sciences
could be brought into conservatism by adapting the Constitutional
separation of powers and states toward an ethnopluralism of
ethnostates and regions, which would allow real kin-centered
and ethnocentric human nature to flourish rather than compete in the
same space often with fatal social disruptions.
The addition of the evolutionary
sciences into conservatism could even bring a few liberals and
scientists into the conservative fold, even though many of them still
object to the biological origin of social behavior preferring the
fantasies of cultural Marxism, just as many conservatives still think of evolution as evil.
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