Hi -
I came across an article by Cody Wilson, the 3d-printed gun guy from
Defense Distributed, and he seems to personify a tech bro gone
christian. Not sure how much this is an outlier or actually a thing ...
In case anyone is interested.
> https://agorist.xyz/
II — PUNKS (CYPHERPUNK, SOLARPUNK, LUNARPUNK), 2023
Our second issue combines an exploration of crypto’s redemption through
solarpunk and lunarpunk praxis with two meditations on crypto’s
relationship with death.
Contributors
Cody Wilson, Wassim Z. Alsindi, Rachel-Rose O’Leary, Kevin Owocki, Pavol
Luptak, LunarDAO and anonymous authors.
jan
On 2/4/2025 06:05, Ryan Griffis via nettime-l wrote:
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.
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