Friday, August 31, 2018
The manipulation of being-for-another
Being-for-another,
as the philosopher's like to call it, or altruism, has had a long
history of manipulation, from the ancient ascetics to the cultural
Marxists of today.
Even
Darwin had problems understanding altruism. Neo-Darwinist's like the
great E. O. Wilson cleared things up by explaining that: "Within
groups, selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups
of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals." Individuals in groups work together this way in a
co-evolution.
Ascetics
did not care at all about material life and actually sought to block
material life to reach the god within, therefore they could
conveniently call for universalism and egalitarianism because they
had no interest in natural material evolution and selection, they saw
natural competition as fruitless and only getting in the way of their
spiritualism.
Then
we had the manipulations of Being-for-another, or altruism, by
individuals and groups who promoted universalism and egalitarianism
for others for the purpose of weakening the natural ethnocentrism of
others so that their own ethnocentric group could prosper---a devious
way to operate.
Is
all fair in love and war? Not really, if you want to survive and
prosper over the long-term.
The biological origin
of most of our our social behavior actually ends the intellectual
defense of universalism and egalitarianism as well as ending
postmodern relativism. As long as we are alive every cell in our body
demands survival and reproductive success. This natural activation
can be blocked, subverted, or it can be unknown to us, but it can't
legitimately be intellectually or instinctively denied.
Existing realistic values come from the various social and
cultural methods we try (including postmodernism) to biologically and
genetically advance ourselves and our related ethnic group, locality
and nation. This affirms in general the populist nationalism now
trying to rise in the corrupted West, which needs to eventually
develop into an ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions. Ethnostates
could even be established legally in the United States with our
constitutional separation of powers and states.
Whatever
peace and harmony is possible between different and competing human
groups can be best accomplished in an ethnopluralism of ethnostates,
that is the political/cultural structure most in harmony with real
human nature, which remains
kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual,
marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic among
other conservative things, with group-selection as the primary unit
of successful
selection,
followed by individual selection.
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