More realistic conservatives, the
paleoconservatives, will go only as deep as to predict a deep war
between theocratic religion and postmodern atheism. The courageous
Pat Buchanan will mention the pull of ethnicity but he too sees the
deepest war as between religion and atheism. This misses or
underplays the realism of real human nature which is deeply based in
the name no-one will speak: ethnocentrism. The biological origin of
our deepest social behavior includes both the movements of religion
and atheism.
In every human culture ever honestly studied
human nature included, among other conservative things, kin-selection
preferences, incest taboos, marriage, hierarchy, division of labor,
gender differentiation, localism, and most importantly
group-selection or ethnocentrism as the main unit of successful
selection and survival, even before individual selection. If a
culture proposes to not include these basic traits of human nature
the culture does not last long and it will always return to these
things. These biological traits also happen to be at the core of
conservatism, whereas many of these things are missing in, say,
communism, modern liberalism, and post-modernism.
This
strongly suggests that real human nature will lead naturally to the
cultural expression of regionalism, localism, and yes, the name no
one will speak: ethnocentrism, leading to an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, usually protected
by some sort of federalism. The constitutional separation of powers
and states in the U.S. could even be adapted to an ethnopluralism of
ethnostates.
Religion
will remain, and so will atheism, but the name no one will speak,
ethnocentrism, leading to an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, will remain. Both conservatives and
liberals would do better to affirm this realism as the social force of the future, and not totalitarianism on the left or the right, or some kind of lukewarm middle ground, although these things could prolong the inevitable social behavior of real human nature.
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