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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