Friday, October 19, 2018

The realistic way to bring back altruism and being-for-others (but it's politically incorrect)


"Within groups, selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals." E.O. Wilson

The political and philosophical Left is an inconsistent-intellectualized-abstract-mess when in comes to promoting being-for-others, or altruism---but religion was also devoted to this. They preach universal love which ends up driving people back to narcissistic individualism because they cannot bond with abstract universalism. And so we have more social problems today than we have ever had.

In this crowded world a better way to accommodate altruism or interest in the welfare of others is needed, and this can be better understood sociobiologically in the real hierarchy of altruism that begins with ones kin and moves out to altruism within ones own genetically-related ethnic group, and then from there gradually moves toward "universal" humanity with a far less workable altruism. Raymond Cattell's thinking is helpful on this subject, for example, when the world is threatened then universal altruism more naturally influences human beings, but daily/yearly existence naturally keeps altruism at home where it originated in the first place and works best.

When ethnicity, localism, and the nation are taken out of the social process in the interest of abstract universalist or Enlightenment values (modern liberalism and cultural Marxism) then assimilation and altruism are slowly lost, since the deepest, most real, and most workable altruism comes from local, ethnic, and national connections, and not from a universalism that is usually nothing but airy abstractions, and is mostly used to advance one group over the others by weakening their social bonds.

So if we really want all people to "just get along with one another" we will allow the world and nations to separate into ethnostates and then protect them all from marauding globalists and imperialists. Far from being "evil," ethnostates and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates are the realistic way to bring back real workable altruism and being-for-others.

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