Tuesday, August 07, 2018
The enemies of the biologicalization of culture and politics
The enemies of the biologicalization of
culture and politics are mainly driven by their own biological drives
for survival and reproductive success, although more or less unaware
of it.
This does not mean there are no
problems in affirming the biological origin of most of our social
behavior, even if the evolutionary science of sociobiology affirms
it. The world is now crowded with distinctly different ethnic groups
and cultures, and all groups will make war against any group like the
Nazis or the imperialistic communists who claim supremacy over all
other groups.
Hegel's rational dialectical world
leading toward a spiritual world, or Nietzsche's aristocratic
geniuses creating cultures but also ruling slaves, does not work in
our modern world, as we have seen with the fall of the Nazis and the
communists, and the continuing decline of present imperialist-minded
powers.
I believe the modern world can best
deal with the natural competitive kin-centeredness and ethnocentrism
of human nature by developing an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, which
can then be whatever they can be, protected in their relative
independence by some version of federalism, with no supremacy or
imperialism allowed to disturb the natural homogeneity of the
ethnostates.
This need not be as radical as it
sounds. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions
could be conservatively established legally in the United States with
our existing constitutional separation of powers and states, although
it may require a few constitutional amendments to give even more
power to the states.
I say again, the enemies
of the biologicalization of culture and politics are mainly driven by
their own biological drives for survival and reproductive success;
they are the ones preventing natural ethnostates from developing realistic long-term peace and order in the modern world.
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