Thursday, February 27, 2020

The increasingly obvious solution to the diversity of bio-cultural identities in the world


Traditional conservatives point out the sequence in which economic problems run into the political problems which run into philosophical problems which then run into religious and moral problems. But they leave out the first and last biological origin of social behavior from which economic, political, philosophical and religious problems arise. Naturalism has scared conservatives at least since the time Francis Bacon, but it should not.

The supreme naturalist of today, Edward O. Wilson has said: "The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior. . .is the circuitous technique by which human genetic material has been and will be kept intact. Morality has no other demonstrable ultimate function." (comment--I believe the activation of the genes do seek the survival and reproductive supreme success of evolving to ascending levels of Godhood but that's a moral function and end that Wilson probably doesn't affirm because he probably believes in the complete randomness of evolution regarding any kind of direction to evolution.)   

This might doom modern liberalism, which is really cultural Marxism, but it does not doom conservatism because the process of the biological origin of social behavior evolved a human nature that in many ways affirms conservatism. Human nature remains genetically and biologically 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. So race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation tend to eventually conform to the human nature reflected in conservatism and identity politics.

The increasingly obvious solution to the diversity of bio-cultural identities in the world, each with its own natural urge to perpetuate itself and establish its own culture, is not to try to jam everyone together in the same territory or to demand a creed of equality or multiculturalism, but to establish ethnostates for all distinctive groups and then protect them from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and global money grubbers, with a defensive federalism. For example, an ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions could be established, legally, conservatively, in the United States adapted from our constitutional separation of powers and states.

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