Friday, July 05, 2019

Anxiety, disorder, and ethnotherapy


Russell Kirk talked about how anxiety in the modern world has to do with disorder in private existence and disorder in social existence---renewing ourselves may have more to do with renewing order in our societies than it does with psychotherapy.

Usually societies don't renew themselves or bring order because a few intellectuals tell them to. Only at “the hour of their destruction” do societies renew themselves---Kirk had in mind the renewal of the fall of Rome by the Christian faith.

I remember awhile back a new therapy called “ethnotherapy” which seems to have been buried, even though, of course, it had more to do with the special needs and concerns of particular ethnic minorities fitting in with our multicultural societies.

My suggestion regarding private and social anxiety and disorder is that we stand in need of an “ethnotherapy” that sees the need for ethnostates, or an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, and admits the reality that multicultural societies don't work in protecting minority or majority ethnic/racial groups, and so multicultural societies create anxiety and disorder---and natural competition and even civil war can tear us apart. Real human nature is genetically kin and ethnic centered because that was, and remains, most successful in survival and reproduction, and successful in creating longer lasting societies.

The question is will this renewal happen only at the hour of our destruction? How much of the old order can we retain in the process? I believe 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. That's the classical conservative way to alleviate much of our private and social anxieties and disorders.

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