Friday, November 08, 2019

What defines the evolutionary conservatism that could save America and the West?


I believe the conservatives are right in affirming the traditional old ways, the natural customs, habits and ceremonies of the people, but there are flaws in conservatism that arise from ignoring or blocking the biological origin of social behavior and thereby misreading human nature and misreading the causes of the universe.

But changing traditional misreadings is not as easy as affirming them. Change doesn't usually happen until the flaws are seriously bringing the traditional system down. But the changes are often too radical and short term, which is why conservatives are usually right in affirming the traditional old ways. Changing a traditional system can also take time, often too much time in the face of decline and degeneration.

But then, we see how short a time it took Cultural Marxism to take over the culture of the United States and the West. It goes back only to the 1960s and the hippies and the peace movement, although it had ties to older classical Marxism.

Libertarianism among many businessmen shares much of the blame for the decline of America. Concentrating almost exclusively on making a god of individualism and exploiting the freedom to make money came back to bite the libertarians when the Hollywood moguls and leftist publishers and producers of New York, as well as the academic world, exploited the lavish American freedom and deformed a formerly conservative culture to fit their leftist cultural agendas. The Hollywood moguls and leftist publishers found that they could make big money while also changing culture in a culturally Marxist direction. They marched right through the institutions and they won the cultural war. It was brilliant. And it didn't take very long.

The success was made easier by the flaws in American conservatism, such as valuing the individual or individual selection over the group or group selection, and more deeply, from the flaw in religion that sees everyone as the same under God, thereby opening the door to egalitarian evaluations in social policies akin to socialism/communism.

The big flaw in Cultural Marxism, aside from ignoring or blocking the biological origin of social behavior, is that in same way that Satanism depends upon deriving their values from going opposite religious values, Cultural Marxism does the same with conservatism, both are negative systems which depend for their values on turning the values of another system upside down.

Human nature as empirically explained by sociobiology remains basically 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. Even the smallest change in human nature and our DNA structure, for example, in our immune system, took hundreds of thousands of years---although genetic engineering may speed that up.

Even in advanced modern societies where survival is easier, the dangers of Marxism (demanding biologically unnatural equality for the unequal), radical feminism (demanding biologically unnatural roles for women), homosexuality (demanding biologically unnatural sexual life styles) and postmodern relativism (demanding a biologically unnatural relativity of values) will eventually lead to biologically and culturally diseased societies.

I see sacredness and deep religion coming from seeking to understand how life can become best synchronized with the process of evolution, and help it along. Those who believe in the complete randomness of evolution, the majority of scientists, often make dismissive comments regarding any kind of direction to evolution, usually in footnotes to show its unimportance to the text, but then the footnote’s are often emotional and long, protesting too much. I find the arguments that evolution is “non-purposive” and random as closed as the religious arguments denying evolution, information is lacking in both arguments.

I see evolution moving inevitably in a pattern, even though it has its random elements, and the pattern has a discernible direction, in spite of instances of stagnation and retreat, toward “higher and higher more effective living forms.” The goal of evolving to Godhood need not deprive us of either science or religion. The internal activation of life moves life toward evolving toward higher and higher forms and eventually to Godhood, shaped by outside natural selection and inside evolution. This may be a bit further than these men want to go, but we need to go there. I think such a drive and direction will one day be acknowledged by science and religion.

This all suggests that 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. For example, in the U. S. this could be accomplished not by way of radical revolution but through conservatively adapting---not overturning---the U.S. constitutional separation of powers and states, with ethnostates protected from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and global money grubbers, by a light federalism.

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