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Entry: A Neocon By Any Other Name... Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/a_neocon_by_any_other_name#17091 Post contents: Red: 1. "</i>As one example, you can not possibly believe that race is not a real biological entity.<i>" “Race” is a fiction invited in he 19th C. I have never denied that <i>skin color</i> is a biological category; so is eye color, and is just as about as important (i.e. of no importance as all except to vendors of eye glasses and suntan oil.) 2. Kinship groups in a pre-civilized, pre-political society are four-fold: i. the household ii. the clan (gens) – an extended family living in a village. iii. the curia (a collection of neighboring villages) iv. the tribe (ethnos): about 3000 people Note that ## 3-4 exist only because of the incest taboo. Intermarriage does not take place in ## 1-2 Note that with the coming of the polis – that grouping not based blood – ##3 and 4 are no longer needed and become, as in the Roman Republic, at best vestigial. Red, if you wish to go back to a tribal society, move to an already existing one: Say in the Near East or parts of Africa. Or go live in the woods. The rest of us prefer the polis. 3. An ethnic group in the modern understanding isn’t based on blood, but rather is a people with a common history. I’m Borderer/Backcountry (misnamed “Scots Irish [we are neither]). In our history we are made of of these blood groups a. Bernician Angles b. West Briton Celts c. Lowland Scotish Celts In the course of our migrations, we mixed with d. Irish in Ulster e. in American: with southwest English Saxons f. American Indians g. Highland Scots (our ancient enemy) h. and others Go to places where we are the overwhelming majority: – Appalachia, the SCV (ever heard of them, Red?), the League of the South – and you will see that we are vast variety of physiological types, attesting to our mulatto genes. So much for “race”! What unites us Borderers is our common history, a history that produced common folkways. None of this is Cultural Marxist -- except to the extent, as I have argued before, that Cultural Marxism is itself becoming racialist and nationalist. Get with the program. Sent at: 2008 11 22