Gene Vehicle Means You
Doug: "VDH does a great job of illustrating the importance of maximizing cooperation and organization, but it seems to me that this has often meant a SMALLER number of greater cohesion/effectiveness = POWER."
I am constraining my analysis to simply mean survival, avoidance of massive and violent murder. I am not advocating a particular culture in the gene vehicle argument (though I do advocate American culture in general); I am advocating the adhesion of all viable cultures under a common ideological banner (as opposed to legalistic, that comes later). There must be some ideals that all rational people will embrace, a theme that speaks to the heart of us all. That is what we need to find. If it exists, or can exist, it will be simple, primal, and easily understood across all cultures that are viable.
What I am proposing, though it may sound fantasist, is not an increase of national power (though, again, I do propose that), but at minimum an elimination of organized, murderous intolerance. If we can bring the selective forum of ideology up from the barbaric, if we can eliminate the countenance of mass slaughter in the furtherance of belief, we will have made tremendous strides in the betterment of mankind, regardless of the power and political shifts that adhere to human interaction.
The bonus for America is that such a shift away from murderous intolerance will greatly improve her standing and her power. We are a nation of free peoples, and our fortunes reside in the direction of freedom and tolerance.
The winds of fortune themselves are ever changing, and who knows how long they will be at our back. The time for action is now, while we can exercise our enormous strength in the cause of life, without being constrained by a balancing force of tyranny and a truly existential threat of evil.
Therefore, we need to rally all available friends and allies, all likeminded men and women who want nothing more than to live well according to their own lights, without artificially limiting our strength by pushing away those who would join us but for a crass and irresponsible battle cry.
VDH is a bright guy, but he is arguing for the survival of a culture. I am arguing for the survival, and evolution, of its ecosystem.
I am constraining my analysis to simply mean survival, avoidance of massive and violent murder. I am not advocating a particular culture in the gene vehicle argument (though I do advocate American culture in general); I am advocating the adhesion of all viable cultures under a common ideological banner (as opposed to legalistic, that comes later). There must be some ideals that all rational people will embrace, a theme that speaks to the heart of us all. That is what we need to find. If it exists, or can exist, it will be simple, primal, and easily understood across all cultures that are viable.
What I am proposing, though it may sound fantasist, is not an increase of national power (though, again, I do propose that), but at minimum an elimination of organized, murderous intolerance. If we can bring the selective forum of ideology up from the barbaric, if we can eliminate the countenance of mass slaughter in the furtherance of belief, we will have made tremendous strides in the betterment of mankind, regardless of the power and political shifts that adhere to human interaction.
The bonus for America is that such a shift away from murderous intolerance will greatly improve her standing and her power. We are a nation of free peoples, and our fortunes reside in the direction of freedom and tolerance.
The winds of fortune themselves are ever changing, and who knows how long they will be at our back. The time for action is now, while we can exercise our enormous strength in the cause of life, without being constrained by a balancing force of tyranny and a truly existential threat of evil.
Therefore, we need to rally all available friends and allies, all likeminded men and women who want nothing more than to live well according to their own lights, without artificially limiting our strength by pushing away those who would join us but for a crass and irresponsible battle cry.
VDH is a bright guy, but he is arguing for the survival of a culture. I am arguing for the survival, and evolution, of its ecosystem.
posted by John Aristides at 6:56 PM
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