Saturday, March 23, 2019
Ethnostates as the default social force in world history
In his excellent journal
"Chronicles" (Feb 2019) Chilton Williamson suggests that
populism is more or less the default social force in world history,
from the right or the left, which rises against dominant classes that
have taken over and who disfavor the normal natural behavior of the
classes below them. I think of the default social force as
the return of real human nature rising again and projecting its
traits on our social behavior and cultures.
What are the traits of
human nature which always rise and influence the shape of our
cultures? You hear it here often, human nature is basically
kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual,
marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, territorial, and even
xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with
group-selection as the primary unit of successful
selection, followed by individual selection. Cultures can
operate for a time with behavior that goes against this human nature,
with such experiments as Marxism, but cultures are eventually pulled
back by the biological and genetic leash of real human nature to
cultures that better reflect real human nature, and humans then work
within and adapt to the environments they find themselves living in.
We could think of human
nature as the structure upon which cultures, governments, etc. rise
as a superstructure. The superstructure then becomes so gross and
oversized (think empires) that it falls apart. But the foundation
structure grounded in real human nature remains intact because even
the smallest change in human nature and our DNA structure, for
example, in our immune system, takes hundreds of thousands of years
to change (although now we have genetic engineering which may be more
rapid),
I think a clear-eyed and
courageous view of human nature and the biological origin of our
social behavior suggests that the default social force, driven by
real human nature, is a return to ethnostates and an ethnopluralism
of ethnostates. In the U. S. that could work in sync with federalism
and the Constitutional separation of powers and states. This return
to ethnostates would best be done legally,
constitutional, and not by radical or revolutionary means which
almost never work and cause great biological and cultural disruptions
and convulsions.
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