We have blocked realistic and humane ways of dealing with the genetic determinism of human nature

Human nature is reducible to biology, which is at the origin of social behavior, and that includes religion and philosophy. Too often we act as if we are free from all material constraints. But it is a basic determinism that leaves room for free choice within a genetically determined human nature.

Human nature, as empirically explained by sociobiology, remains genetically kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection.

This loose genetic determinism with its drive for survival and reproductive success is often a zero sum game with people and groups surviving at the expense off other groups, which is not necessarily evil but is biological reality. If we admit this reality then we can realistically deal with it.

This suggests that if real human nature is allowed to be what it is, it will lead naturally to regionalism, localism, ethnostates, and finally an ethnopluralism of ethnostates. 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, and then protecting the ethnostates from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and money grubbers, with a light federalism.

In calling the biological reality of human nature “evil” or “fallen” we have blocked realistic and humane ways of dealing with the genetic determinism of human nature.