~*Selectionism*~

What it is: My theory of the world

What it proposes: An integral theory of the world of Relations (international, intranational, transnational, interpersonal, etc)

What it assumes: People are born to (a) love and (b) belong to a community (i.e. find their other half- whether that is in a couple, the church, family, university, capitalism...not important: they seek to belong to a community). They are independant only to a certain extent: for their goal of loving is twofold: love thyself, and love the community you belong to.

Other assumptions:

- Everything human stems from (a): hate, friendship, war, peace, etc ---why? because no baby is born to hate; the "evil" people amongst us too love something...one just needs to understand what it is

- Everything else is a product of the mix of (a) and (b): nationalism, social constructs

- Lack of understanding leads to seperation through fear, hatred.

-Man's fatal flaw: not understanding that one can belong to an unlimited number of "circles"; the lack of immediate understanding leads to fear/hatred; assumption that belonging to one circle must automatically exclude you from belonging to another

-The truth is that these circles overlap naturally, and it is only by understanding this, that peace can be maintained in the long term. Understanding that differences should open us up rather then create fear of the unknown, is essential in enlarging both our scope of circles and our cultural "heritige".

- Trade is beneficial to everyone because it (a) improves our living conditions and (b) facilitates socio-cultural exchange. Democracy may be the "fairest" form of government, but it needs to be naturally grown, rather then synthethically imposed.

--So much for now-- Will expand my theory as time permits.