Toward a deeper and more realistic conservatism

Real human nature is the real “wisdom of the species,” it is a wisdom deeper than the abstractions of religion, philosophy, or science, it is the wisdom that evolved the biological origin of our social behavior over many thousands of years.

Edmund Burke, T.S. Eliot, and Russell Kirk were superlative conservative intellectuals but they could have deepened, not rejected, conservatism if they could have affirmed the science of sociobiology.

The Darwinist science of sociobiology has basically found that throughout human history to this day human nature has been basically 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. 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. “The genes are like the keyboard on which the song of life is played, but the pianist is the social environment,” John Cacioppo said. “It helps determine which genes are turned on or off.”

Not long ago the great sociobiologist E.O. Wilson affirmed group-selection over individual selection---as the "Boston Globe" put it: “Wilson is not arguing that members of certain species don't sacrifice themselves for the benefit of their relatives. They do. But it's his position that kinship and relatedness aren't essential in causing the development of advanced social behaviors like altruism---that the reason such behaviors catch on is that they're evolutionarily advantageous on a group level. That socially advanced organisms end up favoring their kin, Wilson argues, is a byproduct of their group membership, not the cause.” Research backs up this position. I would agree with this as long as it is also understood that group-selection, altruism, and conservatism have favored ethnically related groups over more distant unrelated groups, social harmony and survival success  come from ethnic homogeneity, and not without it---there is a natural continuum of altruism, concern for the world comes well after concern for ones own people and ones own land.

The idea on the left of a "living Constitution" leans toward the evolutionary side of human nature, toward evolutionary rights---but not revolutionary rights which some on the left and the right encourage. And the left today, in contrast to the apotheosis of the individual rights by conservatives, tracks the rights of various groups or ethnic groups, which is in harmony with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection in human nature. But the left then goes on to champion multiculturalism and the rights of almost every kind of social perversion, like a gender-free world, which are not at all in harmony with real human nature, and many on the left don't even think there is a biological human nature believing human nature springs only from ones environmental upbringing.

The reality derived from the wisdom of real human nature points toward the political/cultural solution of the ethnopluralism hypothesis, often written about here. It is a conservative transformation---not revolution---which will bring about an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, the political/cultural structure most in harmony with the wisdom of real human nature. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions could 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, and the ethnostates would have to be defended from marauding imperialists, globalists and supremacists, but an ethnopluralism of ethnostates will bring a deeper and more realistic conservatism for all groups.