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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