Wednesday, May 01, 2019
The renewal and transition needed in conservatism
Russell Kirk reminds us
that American conservatism needs to continue to defend our culture
which was substantially inherited from the British, our language,
rule of law, individualism, customs, etc.. Kirk, and his mentor
Edmund Burke, also saw
that conservatism needs to be always renewed with original art and
other political/cultural changes. I would call these changes
"imaginative affirmations."
What we really are, what
we choose as our social persona, what we culturally choose to
conserve, and how we define conservatism, work much more harmoniously
together the better we define real human nature. The vital renewal needed in
conservatism of original art and other political/cultural
changes---and even more desperately needed in modern liberalism---is
to affirm human nature as empirically
explained by sociobiology.
We
don't want a phony conservatism. It seems to me that "phonies"
are mainly bad actors who cannot make their social persona look
genuine, they are putting on a social face that obviously does not
reflect their true thoughts and feelings. Generally people who
present themselves socially as they really
are are only young children, acknowledged geniuses, or very old
people.
Whether
we all know it or not human nature is basical 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. When real human nature
as empirically explained by sociobiology is included in the
conservative renewal of original art and other political/cultural
changes, then our social personas, what we culturally choose to
conserve, and how we define conservatism, will work much more
harmoniously together.
Then
we will have a clearer picture of why we will need an
ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions established in the
United States, legally developed from our constitutional separation of powers
and states, to relate to the growing variety of ethnic groups in
America with different genetic pools and different agendas. It will
not be easy but it is far preferable to radical Marxism or Fascism,
or political dissimulations based on flawed definitions of human
nature that have brought us radically destructive civil disruptions,
and even civil war, and which are now increasing across the world
within unworkable multicultural (multi-ethnic) societies demanding
that "we all get along."
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