How we become what we are

Nietzsche's "becoming what one is," beyond the superficial view of this, involves knowing what human nature is. Individual differences are not superficial but they are secondary to group selection in successful survival and reproduction.

In our time, becoming what one is and knowing what human nature is means absorbing the science of sociobiology, which is the next stage of Darwinism. This counters surprisingly few religious edicts in defining human nature by affirming many of the conservative religious virtues and values. According to the general view of sociobiology, "within groups, selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals" in survival and reproductive success, according to E.O. Wilson---and we know how altruism, or being for others, is especially promoted in Christianity.

The present leftist but also border-free capitalist view of human nature sees virtually no biologically or genetically derived human nature and admits only environmentally or culturally derived human nature, which tends to fit their leftist and capitalist political agendas. This reflects the real will to power in human nature, but the will to power was overestimated even by someone as astute as Nietzsche. The will to power in human nature is/was evolved to enhance survival and reproductive success, and survival and reproductive success was evolved to enhance the drive of life to evolve all the way to Godhood.

So when we look at human nature related to "becoming what one is," the reality of human nature points toward the political/cultural solution examined in the ethnopluralism hypothesis. That defines the sociopolitical or political/cultural structure most in harmony with real human nature, which developed many thousands of years ago and remains today kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other conservative things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection.

An ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions could be established legally in the United States applying our present constitutional separation of powers and states, protected by federalism, but it may require a few constitutional amendments to give more power to the states. That is how we become what we are---and it can apply to Europe or China too.