Friday, March 08, 2019
If we split the difference between nature and nurture we could come up with a reasonable political philosophy
Although
there is a gene-culture co-evolution or "dual inheritance"
that takes place between nature and nurture, if we split the
difference between nature and nurture, which some think is 70% nature
and 30% nurture, we could come up with a reasonable political
philosophy.
Modern liberalism is about
100 percent on the 30% side of nurture and conservatives are on are
that 70% nature side, although both sides approve of individualism.
Liberalism wants the government to insure a collective individual
freedom, which tends to move toward socialism/communism and ends up
taking away individual freedom, while conservatism want unchecked
individual freedom, especially for capitalism (libertarianism), which
tends to create societies ruled
or controlled by people of great wealth or
income that end up taking away individual freedom.
If we look a little deeper
at what that 70% nature side is telling us about human nature, the
science of sociobiology and common sense show us that human nature
has been affirmed throughout human history to this day as being
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.
Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson
has found that in successful survival and reproduction, "within
groups, selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups
of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals." And
“hereditary altruists form groups so cooperative and
well-organized as to out-compete non-altruists groups.” (“The
Social Conquest of the Earth.”) Wilson doesn't emphasize
enough that altruism was developed to enhance the survival success
of kin and ethnic group, but being-for-others almost disappears beyond
the related genetic pool.
Cultures can operate for a
time with behavior that goes against this basic 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.
This suggests to reason
and instinct that ethnostates and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates
are the best political configuration for humans beings to live
within. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions could even be
established legally in the United States with our constitutional
separation of powers and states, protected by federalism. It may
require a few constitutional amendments to give more power to the
states to move toward an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, but that is
far preferable to radical and marauding Marxism or Fascism, or the
political dissimulations of today based on flawed definitions of
human nature that have brought us radically destructive civil
disruptions, or even civil war, and which are now increasing across
the world within unworkable multicultural multi-ethnic societies.
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