Western
political philosophy has wrongly placed the individual as the most basic metaphysical and political unit, and now
its coming back to bite us. The neo-Darwinist science of
sociobiology was not around when the great political philosophers did
their thinking.
Here
are some quotes from sociobiologists:
"Within
groups, selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups
of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals." (David Sloan
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
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
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As
I repeat here often: Human nature evolved to prefer kin and ethnic
group because those traits were more successful in survival and
reproduction for individuals and groups. Even altruism, being for
others, was created as the preference for kin and ethnic group;
altruism weakens as we move out toward universalism, which is the
main reason why communism, socialism, and globalism don't work well.
Evolutionary
conservatism adds to and deepens basic paleoconservatism by
affirming the biological origin of social behavior as defined mainly
by the science of sociobiology. Human
nature is biologically
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. Alas, like the liberals and neoconservatives
even the
paleoconservatives block or conceal the ethnic-centered
and xenophobic parts of human nature.
Evolutionary
conservatism believes that if real kin and ethnic-centered human
nature was allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to
regionalism, localism, general conservative values, eventually
ethnostates, and finally 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., and defended by a defensive federalism.
An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the
United States with our constitutional separation of powers and
states.