Thursday, June 04, 2020

How the individual genetic self is fully realized

Maurice Barrès (1862-1923) believed that the self is realized in nationalism, but like most French intellectuals he undervalued the genes and overvalued culture in the forming of the self and the nation.

But there is an instinctive and rational way to bring together libertarians, conservatives, nationalists, ethnostatists, racialists, and even collectivists left and right: the individual genetic self is only fully realized and identified when connected to his/her related ethnic group out of which both the self and the culture were developed---the self doesn't become more selfish it becomes more fully realized with the group. 

You can't legitimately say that any one of these things creates the self, due to the connections between the biological origin of the self and the biological origin of social behavior. People, selves, with genetic traits which are ethnically related create unique cultures in a sort of co-evolution with the environment/culture.

As I quote here often, " 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..." Edward O. Wilson

Out of this comes the affirmation of ethnostates and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates as the realization of natural rights and the fulfillment of the biological self and culture.

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