Thursday, July 04, 2019
Why I celebrate this country on the Fourth of July
I celebrate this country
on the the Fourth of July, including the military, which helped the
United States become independent from England. This does not mean
that we have no flaws but I think the flaws can be conservatively
fixed without radically destroying everything else in the
process---and I take “fixing” the country to places where most
conservatives don't go. I think of changes as mirroring natural
evolution, building on what we have, retaining the best of the past
while advancing the best of the new for the future.
Americans like to
customize everything, to build or alter according to individual
specifications, creativity usually works that way, mirroring
evolution. And that is good, as long as American individualism
doesn't hypertrophy into rejecting the survival of the group, because
group-selection remains the primary unit of selection.
Altruism in real human
nature is mainly local and group-centered, as sociobiology has
affirmed, and not universally very workable. People naturally love
their kin and their group, their ethnic cultures, and beyond that
bonding becomes increasingly difficult.
Customizing or adjusting
the Constitutional separation of the powers and states to an
ethnopluralism of ethnostates seems radical, but it remains
conservative because it retains the Roman law and English precedence
that our Founders customized or adapted for America. Ethnostates can
bring our increasingly diverse culture, which is naturally not
getting along well together, back to real and workable human nature.
French and Russian
intellectuals, and their subordinates in Western academia, have been
attacking the West for some time now, blaming the West for the
modernity that in fact brought material comfort and prosperity, the
rule of law, freedom, etc, to large groups of people. The
intellectuals are right in attacking inflated individual greed and
the marauding crony capitalism of the West, but these are negative
deviations of the natural free enterprise system and should not alone
lead to condemning the whole of the West and modernity, or the people of the West.
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