Monday, October 05, 2020

Why I have a problem with the libertarian stand on individualism

The neo-Darwinist science of sociobiology has reiterated the reality that human nature has favored group selection, or ethnic altruism, as the best way for individuals to be successful in survival and reproduction. So human nature became genetically kin-centered and ethnic-centered, even xenophobic, as well as being genetically gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, and religious-making, with group-selection and ethnic selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection.

Individual rights are important but they should not be inflated over group rights, both biology and common sense tell us that the individual cannot survive without the group. Group selection is the basic creator of altruistic ethics within groups competing with other groups, where the most internally cohesive groups are more successful than those that are not.

Human nature lines up well with biological or evolutionary conservatism, not with the overemphasized Romantic individualism of Rousseau. When Tucker Carlson attacks “identity politics” by overemphasizing individualism, that encourages the same selfish narcissism in American culture and in the business world that has been ruining us.

The melting pot didn't melt and when that didn't work the American mosaic, or pluralist society, took its place, but that didn't work either and caused much social disorder, because human nature is biological kin and ethnic centered and tends to want every group to assimilate away its uniqueness except its own. Clueless modern liberals still promote both pluralist societies and universal equality. Libertarians and Conservatives do the same but try to bring in a neutered nationalism of creedal individualism rather than solid conservative biological bonds. Conservatives instead center on the family in contrast to individualism, which is of course important, but family values are not enough to hold society together.

Since group-selection---which usually means ethnic selection---is the primary unit of successful selection, group-selection is a serious omission within conservatism which has driven too many energetic natural conservatives away from conservatism and down radical paths that feature ethnicity and race but overlook or downplay other basic parts of conservative human nature, like maintaining long established customs and habits, and not radical formats.

Given that human nature evolved to be genetically kin-centered and ethnic-centered, even xenophobic, we need to legally develop ethnostates for all ethnic groups or races in America, adapted from our Constitutional separation of powers and states, and then protect the ethnostates from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and global money grubbers, with a defensive federalism---in line with both biology and common sense.

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