Friday, October 25, 2019

Humans get too far ahead of themselves regarding how free they actually are


Humans are a remarkable species free enough to invent and create, but tending to get too far ahead of themselves regarding how free they actually are. That arrogance may be stimulating in reaching for the stars but it can also be damaging and unfunctional in religious and political philosophy.

Modern liberalism and of course Marxism ignore or overlook the natural genetic and biological talents and restraints of human nature which has caused much suffering in the world. To them the world is divided into classes where the workers are exploited by the capitalists, resulting in class conflicts that ultimately result in socialism/communism with workers owning the means of production, bringing (often violently) a stateless, classless society, with all people being equal.

Modern liberalism and Marxism do not conform to or harmonize with the biological origin of social behavior, or with real human nature, which is genetically and biologically kin and ethnic-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things. Group-selection developed altruism, compassion for others, largely from competing with outside groups which required altruism within groups to be successful against other groups, so group-selection became the central unit of selection, as sociobiologist E. O. Wilson has affirmed.

These natural genetic and biological talents and restraints, if allowed, naturally tend to lead to regionalism, localism, ethnostates, and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates. In the U. S. this could be accomplished not by way of radical revolution but through evolutionary conservatism, by adapting, not overturning, the existing constitutional separation of powers and states, and then protected from marauding imperialists and supremacists by a light federalism.

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