Monday, May 10, 2021

An evolving society that wants to maintain its boundaries and traditions would see the good sense in ethnopluralism

 Establishing an ethnopluralism of ethnostates certainly is a volatile idea, at least in these times when few even admit the biological origin of social behavior. A review by Gregory M. Collins (“The Princes of Prudence,” Modern Age, Spring 2020) comparing the prudence of Burke and Lincoln reminded me of how important the dance between change and tradition will be in establishing an ethnopluralism of ethnostates. As an evolutionary conservative I believe we eventually need to gradually and legally transform the constitutional separation of powers and states into an ethnopluralism of ethnostates.

Everyone likes to claim the brilliant conservative Edmund Burke as one of their own, and I do too if we can imagine Burke with an upgrading of his views on traditional human nature, having studied sociobiology.  Sociobiologist's could claim Burke too, if they absorb Burke's idea that we are to take things as they actually are. This leads to the truths which sociobiology has been coming up with since Darwin. In every human culture ever studied, human nature included kin-selection preferences, incest taboos, marriage, hierarchy, division of labor, gender differentiation, localism, and ethnocentrism, and most important to political considerations, group or ethnic selection remains the main unit of selection. If cultures propose to not include these things they don't last long, and they always return to these things. And these traits are at the core of conservatism and tradition.

An evolving society that wants to maintain its boundaries and traditions would see the good sense in ethnopluralism, which separates powers, regions, and states in an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, in accord with real human nature. Conservatively the U.S. constitutional principal of the separation of powers and states could accommodate ethnopluralism, protected by federalism.

Evolutionary sociobiology can be applied to the religious sacred goal of aiding evolution as it moves toward the zenith of truth, beauty and goodness in material/supermaterial evolution. Conservatism is seen in retaining the symbolic traditional peak religious experiences of the Inward Path, as affirmed by Christ, Buddha and others, transformed in the Outward Path of material evolution to ascending levels of real Godhood.

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