What I have called “evolutionary conservatism” affirms the biological origin of social behavior and the sociobiological view of human nature. "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)
Change is reality, but so is retaining the best of the past. That is also the way evolution works. The human body and brain evolved by retaining the fish, reptilian and mammalian brain. That is conservatism in action. Human nature has been and remains genetically ethnocentric, even xenophobic, as well as being kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection, followed by individual-selection.
Both
the black power and white power movements have it wrong: the blacks
think only whites can be racist when their Black Lives Matter
movement is racist, and the white power movement can't move beyond the
supremacism that has plagued it. The real challenge of ethnocentric
and xenophobic human nature is to move beyond supremacism. This
suggest that if noble statesman of the future see the duty of the
state as trying to avoid sedition, discord, and civil war, they will
honor the biological origin of social behavior by taking on the
damaging racial competitions disguised as calls for equality etc.,
and advocate the creation of an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for
all.
Conservatism has found that retaining what was long developed is important to humans and to human survival. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established in America largely within the traditional American cultural framework. We need to honor the biological origin of social behavior and advocate the creation of an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, in harmony with real human nature. Then we will need to protect each ethnostate from the inevitable marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, chosenists, Marxists, etc. The good news of evolutionary conservatism is that an ethnopluralism of ethnostates could and should be established, legally, in the United States with our existing constitutional separation of powers and states. This is the way we can avoid radical revolution and yet adapt to the increasingly combative racial and cultural differences in America.
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