It is also mad because Nazi-ism was predicated upon a nonsense racism, which itself was based on an almost total ignorance of genetics; and then, with the growth of understanding about genetics, it was repurposed as a cultural/linguistic tribalism for the new Alt-right. Which evidently won't do for the, er, um, "Ethnopluralists"; who seem to require a return to earlier, discredited certainties.
Travel is one of those things that I think will have to diminish. That's just because climate change stuff is changing the patterns of our behaviour. But I think the internet means that there will be a greater spread of polarised cultures as this sort of internet divisiveness infects a lot of our thinking. As a species, we don't need to travel and migrate much more to have increased the genetic diversity of our local populations by a significant amount. (This is good for the survival of the species as a general principle; but unless we get off-planet it ain't going to matter much.) So I wonder if there are large-number population evolutionary reasons for such forms of "ethnopluralist" thinking.
There has to be an ætiology of the insanity. I can't help but speculate wildly, because some of these folk aren't consciously evil, merely astonishingly wrong.
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Date: 2019-07-10 06:37 am (UTC)Travel is one of those things that I think will have to diminish. That's just because climate change stuff is changing the patterns of our behaviour. But I think the internet means that there will be a greater spread of polarised cultures as this sort of internet divisiveness infects a lot of our thinking. As a species, we don't need to travel and migrate much more to have increased the genetic diversity of our local populations by a significant amount. (This is good for the survival of the species as a general principle; but unless we get off-planet it ain't going to matter much.) So I wonder if there are large-number population evolutionary reasons for such forms of "ethnopluralist" thinking.
There has to be an ætiology of the insanity. I can't help but speculate wildly, because some of these folk aren't consciously evil, merely astonishingly wrong.