Ayn Rand's philosophy was
an overreaction to communism, Rand's utopian individual selfishness tried to take the place of Lenin's utopian unselfishness. Both had it wrong.
Rand formed her philosophy
before neoDarwinist sociobiology empirically pointed out that
group-selection with its altruism, which Rand despised, was the
primary unit of successful selection, with individual selection
following group-selection in a co-evolution, which is genetically
inherent in human nature. But by that time Rand's ego was too
committed to change her emphasis.
Altruism grew directly out
of the competition between groups, with successful groups having more
social bonding and cohesion, which passed on those successful
altruistic genes and embedded them in basic human nature.
Rand tried to give the
bourgeoisie a tune-up but her materialism was not only missing the
biological origin of social behavior and altruism but missing a
sacred goal. Her philosophy of selfish individualism and her version
of materialism helped lead to the marauding globalism of the
neoconservatives, which in the end has wrecked her affirmation of the
bourgeoisie and materialism.
If
real kin and ethnic-centered human nature is allowed to be what it
is, it naturally leads to regionalism, localism, ethnostates, and
finally an ethnopluralism of ethnostates. All groups can naturally
evolve in their own unique ways. In the U. S. this could be
accomplished not by way of radical revolution but through
adapting---not overturning---the U.S. constitutional separation of
powers and states, with the ethnostates protected from marauding
imperialists, supremacists, and global money grubbers, by a light
federalism.
And
most importantly religion is not lost for materialism and the bourgeoisie: the
philosophy of theological materialism transforms the misguided
spiritualism of ascetics and gives materialism the sacred goal it has
been missing with the good news of the material
evolution of life to ascending levels of real supermaterial Godhood.
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