I had not heard of the Collins family… whoa. Thanks for that… I think :) For anyone else who hadn’t heard of them: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/03/simone-collins-pronatalist-pennsylvania-candidate
Ryan > > www.natalism.org<http://www.natalism.org/> > Ryan, you are absolutely right. The natalist movement is points for Felix. > The venn diagram is at full intersect, and these folks are curious (at least > among the so-called intellectuals in the movement). You have Catholic > integralists, CNs from the Claremont Institute, Trad Wives (lots of feminist > apostates come to testify), and the TBs. They just had their big conference > in Austin, so you can get a helpful list of the players at the site given > above. I especially want to draw your attention to Malcom and Simone Collins. > They are from the Techno-Puritan faction. They want to be CNs, but without > the spiritual stuff. Peter Thiel acolytes. They also are big believers in > technological intervention to enhance the reproduction of leaders and > innovators. > > In case we are getting way too obscure: For all attendees of the conference > the underlying concern is that the leadership class (white people) is not > reproducing fast enough for economic growth and innovation to continue at > ever increasing rates. Essentially, it is a conference on positive eugenics. > At this point natalism is not in the mainstream of conservatism, but it's on > its way. -- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: https://www.nettime.org # contact: [email protected]
