Thursday, November 08, 2018
Can we advance politically beyond resentment and revenge?
Middlemen, merchants etc, often don't
like warriors because they think warrior societies tend to create
masters/slave relationships, but then middlemen and merchants go on
to create master/slave relationships between creditors and debtors,
often with feelings of resentment and revenge, as Nietzsche pointed out.
But it seems that those feelings of
resentment and revenge in both warriors and merchants gradually fade
the more powerful they become, then mercy and philanthropy enter
their world. Power doesn't corrupt everything.
It seems to me that the same sort of mercy and
philanthropy happens when we move from marauding imperialism and
selfish racial supremacy to affirming ethnostates and ethnopluralism,
where credence is given to the deep ethnocentric and nationalist
instincts of all distinctive groups, based on the biological or
genetic origin of these things in real human nature.
I believe that ethnostates and
ethnopluralism are the most realistic way to obtain the most peace
and social harmony for human beings with the most possible mercy and
philanthropy, and with the least resentment and revenge, given that
human nature remains kin-centered, gender defined,
age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical,
ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other
things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful
selection, followed by individual
selection.
I think of Billy
Holiday singing "God bless the child that's got its own."
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