THAT WE’VE FULLY DISMANTLED THE PROGRESSIVE FANTASY, MAYBE WE CAN CREATE POLICY

http://www.amazon.com/Troublesome-Inheritance-Genes-Human-History/dp/1594204462NOW THAT WE’VE FULLY DISMANTLED THE PROGRESSIVE FANTASY, MAYBE WE CAN CREATE POLICY RELEVANT TO REAL HUMAN NEEDS.

When, I dunno how many years ago it was, but the Economist and Science came out with the uncomfortable truth that the human genome project was producing quite different results than had been promised. We started speciating rapidly upon exiting Africa, and we evolve much more quickly than we though. And we’re different. Meaningfully different. And while the law must treat us equally in matters of dispute, to be just in any sense of the word, policy in any collective must be of necessity tailored to the ‘tribe’ that it is intended to support. Why do we put all our children through school at the same ages despite their different rates of maturity (control of impulse)? Why do we treat humans as industrial products? They’re not.

My position is that I would rather deal with the aristocracy of each tribe on behalf of his tribe, than some assumed proxy that portents to possess the wisdom necessary to discover what is best for ALL tribes. I mean, you can’t really know that, and we’ve proven we can’t know that now. What we can do is facilitate cooperatoin between tribes.

I view it as my moral obligation to help members of other tribes. But I view the state as our common enemy – an interference between aristocratic classes. An obstacle to our mutual cooperation. The state was invented to finance war. Any tribe with a nuclear weapon can defend its territory. And any tribe with a trained militia can defend its people. I prefer to live in a world where we cooperate, because non-cooperation is suicidal, than one in which we are in competition with a conflict-generating state.

A world of families, tribes and nations is a beautiful thing. a world of predatory parasitic states is not.