The Two Enemies of Pronatalism

In this video, we discuss the two enemies of the pronatalist movement - the urban monoculture and the xenophobic, technophobic religious extremists. We talk about how the urban monoculture acts as an "easy mode" villain, uniting high fertility groups, while the real threat is the aggressive, ultra-religious groups who want to eliminate all other cultures. We explore which groups may act as allies in creating pluralistic, technophilic haven states in the future.

Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] One increases fertility on its own, like xenophobia increases fertility on its own, but in addition to that, it also lowers the economic potential of a group, further increasing its fertility in that direction, which means you're getting this cluster of strategies,, low economic output, high xenophobia.

High technophobia, which cluster together into like one branch of winning cultural strategies, which by far today is the cultural strategy, which is outcompeting all others in terms of fertility, a lot of them believe that at the end of the day there's just going to be one religion, one culture in the world. That's it. There can only be one as we say, they are highlandering it. And so, essentially, the true enemy of the pronatalist cause, not the immediate enemy, the urban monoculture, which is serving as a very simplistic villain for us right now, a villain on easy mode that is meant to prepare us for the true danger, which comes [00:01:00] after us, which it is to a large extent protecting us from, which is a world full of. technophobic, aggressive, ultra religious extremists that want everyone who's not them dead.

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Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone! Hi, gorgeous.

Simone Collins: Too much energy?

Malcolm Collins: Never. So this episode is going to be a bit of a follow up from the last episode, but it's also going to be a standalone. So you can watch these likely in either order. And they're going to touch related to, but divergent concepts.

Simone Collins: And you'll include a link to the first one in case people want in the

Malcolm Collins: description.

Yeah, I could actually do the thing in YouTube where I like tag the first one. Do that, you

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Malcolm Collins: a little button here right here. This is where it appears and you push the button and it will like open a thing where you can then click and like open it in a different tab to watch after you're done with this one.

[00:02:00] Okay, great. So, with this episode, what we are going to discuss is the two enemies of pronatalism. And so let's talk about sort of what pronatalism is more broadly. It is a movement dedicated to ensuring the preservation of a pluralistic and diverse human species. And people would be like, well, why that?

Why not? Just like increasing birth rates? Because if we do nothing, what's going to happen is we're going to have a crash in human fertility rates. We're going to have a crash in the world economy. Both of which are things that are still going to happen if we do something, but to me, A few groups will come to power and basically erase everyone else.

That's what it looks like is the path that we're going on. We're going on sort of a monoculture of a species where like one or two or maybe three, if we're lucky, if our group That's just completely fails cultural and ethnic groups will be the only things [00:03:00] left of our species and they will wipe out the rest.

And that is absolutely terrifying to us. Because I think that 1 of our greatest strengths is our diversity. And I also think that in this unengaged world. The groups that end up wiping out most of the other groups are going to be quite technophobic, i. e. we are moving back to a dark ages of extremist religious tribalism.

Yep. And that is not great. Not, not, not great at all. And so what we are trying to do is build an alliance of the individuals that are high fertility and do want to exist in the future, and the cultural groups that are high fertility and do want to exist in the future. And this alliance means something.

If you are a culture that is high fertility, Sort of axiomatically, you differentiate significantly from the dominant culture in our society right now. It is a very low fertility cultural group. This is what we call the cult, or the urban monoculture, or the [00:04:00] virus, whatever you want to call it. It is this large culture that exists in pretty much every major city in the world today.

And when we say that, what I mean is, is if I look at the culture in, You know, London versus you know, London versus New York versus Boston, you know, they're all going to be much more similar to each other or Paris more similar to each other than they are to just like, I go a few hours to like, the Amish or like the Hasidic population or something like that.

These high fertility populations, uh, almost definitionally need to differentiate in our culture, the culture, our family practice, it differentiates a lot from the urban monoculture. And what this means is that the first enemy that the pronatalist movement is facing is this urban monoculture. And that is because the urban monoculture being very low fertility can only replenish its ranks by converting the children of nearby demographically healthy cultural groups.

[00:05:00] And those are becoming increasingly rare. So it is becoming increasingly aggressive in these conversion. Policies, um, and these conversion policies are a danger to every single a high fertility cultural group, because those groups, you know, almost the more high fertility they are, the more they differentiate from the cultural group, and the more they are producing something of value to that cultural group, which it wishes to mine in a way that destroys, I mean, we often liken it to cultural genocide, but it's not really traditional cultural genocide, yes, it is driven by a hatred and dehumanization of these cultural groups.

You know, they see them as deplorable and savages as most people do in committing cultural genocide, but it's also a necessary. Genocide. It is a parasitic by design cultural group that cannot survive without, um, cannibalizing its neighbors. And so you can almost think of it like, you [00:06:00] know, it's not that we hate this cultural group, right?

But if you're going to save the fly, you kill the spider. If you save the flies without killing the spider, eventually the spider dies anyway. You know, and so all of us, all of the pronatalist communities are banning together right now to defend ourselves against this one cultural group. And we frame it very much as the enemy important thing to note is 1.

it is the lesser of the 2 enemies that. The perinatalist movement is bound to face it is the kinder of the two enemies we are bound to face. And it is an enemy that when it dies and it will die, because if you look intergenerationally, things like Amish communities, you can look at their like deconversion rates, they've gone down over and over again.

Communities that live next to it are getting better and better at defending themselves. And that's one of the reasons it's so pro immigration right now, because the only way it can get new children is by importing them. From, from cultural groups that aren't quite as wary, but even recent immigrant populations are becoming [00:07:00] incredibly wary of it.

Like, if you look at the prenatalist movement, many people are surprised at how heavy it is in first generation immigrant families. And it's like, yeah, because they are often the most pronatalist because they are recent immigrants from high fertility areas and they understand the value of their own cultur