Sunday, September 30, 2018
How universalism loses its utopianism in universal ethnostates
Liberals want a bottomless "universalism,"
but "universal ethnostates" are the most naturalistic and
realistic way to define universalism.
Kin-centeredness is almost an
individualistic kind of altruism or being-for-others, but one where
the self can know itself even as it knows others. This idea is
further extended in the sociobiological affirmation of the biological
origin of social behavior, as written about in this genetically-derived social
or group affirmation by sociobiologist E. O. Wilson: "Within
groups, selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups
of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals," leading to
success in survival and reproduction.
Ethnostatism
stands at the furthest reach of effective altruism or being-or others
without losing or alienating the self and kin. An ethnopluralism of
ethnostates represents the realistic extent of naturalistic social or
political universalism, where being-for-others need not alienate self
and kin.
The
universalism of liberalism expands beyond real altruism and moves
back to the self in the form of individualistic and selfish global
corporations or political Marxism, with no biological or genetic ties
to real altruism, so they soon socially fall apart.
Science
and reason have also often led to the withdrawal into individual
reasoning, which tends to take the place of bonding with others.
Religious asceticism does this too seeking individual enlightenment
that tends to downplay materialism and biology, ironically even as it
touts a grudging form of material universalism: "If you must
marry I suppose that is better than burning in hell," St. Paul
more or less said.
However,
science and reason move back to a realistic form of being-for-others
in the sociobiological affirmation of the biological origin of social
behavior, seen in genetically-derived social or group affirmation.
And religion moves back to real altruism and bonding when Godhood is
understood as evolved to in the material,
not spiritual, world. That is how universalism loses its utopianism in universal
ethnostates.
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