Thursday, April 02, 2020
Where did conservatism go wrong?
Pat
Buchanan, Taki Theodoracopulos, and Russell Kirk are probably my
favorite paleoconservative writers, they have the courage not to be
silenced by the dragon of politically correctness and cultural
Marxism. Taki is Pat Buchanan with humor, but Buchanan seems more
willing to mention the importance of ethnic bonds. However, when
writing of human nature or human behavior these men stay away from
the biological origin of social behavior. Why?
It
could be because they know they will be professionally destroyed if
they affirm the biological origin of social behavior---but these are
tough guys and its probably their religious philosophy that keeps
them from affirming the biological origin of social behavior.
Conservatism
has not gotten past its dislike and even hatred of the evolutionary
sciences, perhaps due mainly to the religious demand for universal
altruism, which is based in non-materialism or spiritualism. But
altruism has always been based in kin and group-selection and
ethnocentrism, leading to localism and ethnopluralism, and not
leading to religious or political forms of universalism.
Where
did conservatism go wrong? Way back around the 1950's, at the
beginning of the modern conservative movement, the foundation of real
conservatism was purged from "conservatism" by people like
William Buckley. That is, the largely biological origin of much of
human social behavior, from which real conservatism rises, was
defined as politically incorrect, bigoted, and even evil. Modern
conservatism began to die even as it was beginning. But the
conservative biologically or genetic origin of human nature remains
kin-centered, gender-defined, ethnocentric, even xenophobic,
group-selecting,
heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, among other conservative
things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful
selection followed by individual selection---and as
nationalistic as it has always been. But the sociobiological
way to justify and save conservatism was not and is not mentioned by
conservatives or by liberals, other than as something evil.
The
consequences of drumming the modern sociobiological sciences out of
the conservative movement has been damaging and has given
conservatism a bias against our deep history, and against science,
which has kept so many good people away from the conservative
movement; this could be the one thing that eventually dooms the
conservative movement in the West.
The
reality of real human nature points toward a deeply
conservative political/cultural solution which could bring about an
ethnopluralism of ethnostates within our democratic republic, perhaps
with only a few amendments to the constitutional separation of
powers and states. Different ethnic groups can then politically and
culturally conduct themselves the way they want to in their own
regions and ethnostates. We would retain federalism and subsidiarity
to balance the states together, because we need the geopolitical heft
of a large nation to defend ourselves in the big world.
That is the authentically conservative, evolutionary conservative, way to live healthy lives.
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