"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." Edward O. Wilson
“Hereditary altruists form groups so cooperative and well-organized as to out-compete non-altruists groups.” (E.O. Wilson “The Social Conquest of the Earth.”)
The answers to the real origin of morality move from philosophy to sociobiology. The genealogy of morals follows from the biological origin of social behavior. We have been programmed by nature. Biology and the genes are the hardware and culture is the software: true religion and politics simply follow the program occasionally improvising and adapting the program.
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long as we are alive every cell in our body demands survival and
reproductive success. This natural activation can be blocked,
subverted, or it can be unknown to us, but it can't legitimately be
intellectually or instinctively denied.
Although now just rising again, identity politics will continue to ascend, identifying with ethnicity, nationality, race, culture and faith is the world's future. Multiculturalism would have worked if the various cultures had linked their ethnic group and race to their own territory or ethnostate.
People will see that diversity within the same state is not our greatest strength but is our weakness. A true natural rights or civil rights movement would promote an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc., with a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.
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