Tuesday, June 04, 2019

Naturalistically defining the long-term order that we ultimately require


Conservatives rightly tell us of the importance of order in human affairs, and they add that political order ultimately requires order in the soul. Before we talk of the mysterious order of the soul, which is nebulous, mysterious, impractical, and even at odds with down-to-earth conservatism, a better guide in human affairs is harmonizing with the order of real human nature. Human nature tells us of our natural intentions and the biological origin of our social behavior,

In the 50/50? mix of nature and nurture in forming human nature, nature leads. Someone said, “Biology is the hardware, culture is the software.” We have freedom to choose, but between determined paths, and basic human nature is determinedly 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.

This strongly suggests that order in human affairs is best found in ethnostates, and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates. Ethnostates harmonize and synchronize with our natural intentions and the biological origin of our social behavior. What more could we ask for? What would be better? What makes more common sense?

As to the mysterious order of the soul I think more of how we are governed and activated from within to live and successfully survive and reproduce in every cell of the body, reacting and adapting to the various environments we live in. I think of how material life evolves toward the zenith of survival and reproductive success, which is supermaterial Godhood. That naturalistically defines the long-term order that we ultimately require. That defines deep-conservatism. 

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