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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