tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post1321985425766270156..comments2024-03-17T00:23:24.896-07:00Comments on Social Democracy for the 21st Century: A Realist Alternative to the Modern Left: The Catastrophic Failure of MulticulturalismLord Keyneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06556863604205200159noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-80524881604817505982018-04-06T01:05:58.539-07:002018-04-06T01:05:58.539-07:00Tribal socialism is the basis of genuine Australia...Tribal socialism is the basis of genuine Australian Socialism, as identified by Alec Saunders in the 1980’s.<br /><br />https://nativistherald.com.au/2017/07/31/the-social-nature-of-australian-nationalism/<br /><br />.jingelichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09998585247772423235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-53308046341925016702018-03-24T23:28:09.822-07:002018-03-24T23:28:09.822-07:00Johnathon Haidt says humans evolved to circle arou...Johnathon Haidt says humans evolved to circle around sacred symbols and ideas. So that seems to explain a national group?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15607028751724602829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-77556948961621064342018-03-04T09:06:51.464-08:002018-03-04T09:06:51.464-08:00Isn't that explanation a little a-historical t...Isn't that explanation a little a-historical though? People used to fight for money and paternalist obligations, not nationalist fervor, until the 19th century.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-69665317346253816712018-02-23T20:40:53.390-08:002018-02-23T20:40:53.390-08:00In reality, human beings evolved to have ethnic id...<i> In reality, human beings evolved to have ethnic identity and ethnocentric cooperation. This is the real basis of socialism as a political or economic form of political organisation within a modern nation state. </i><br /><br />That can't be the basis because at the level of the nation state, the kinship coefficients drop off significantly:<br /><br />https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/your-countrys-not-your-blood/<br /><br />"Over time, this misfiring of altruism should decrease. Patriotism burns itself out. Dying for Assyria doesn’t do your close relatives any good at all. Some people will be more prone to this, some less, and that tendency will be heritable. Those with a tendency to volunteer (in the service of anything other than close relatives) should dwindle away over time. But states are older in some places than others, and some have made greater demands than others. Imagine a region where states have been around longer, a place in which the locals have lived through empire after empire after empire. They should have had the patriotism bred clean out of them. They should feel altruistic about their families, maybe their clan – and nothing else."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com