The Two Enemies of Pronatalism
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the two enemies of pronatalism: the urban monoculture and the "urban cult" and how to deal with them. This episode is a bit of a follow-up to the previous one, but it's also a standalone episode, so you can watch both in either order.
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One, increases fertility on its own, like xenophobia increases fertility on its own.
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But in addition to that, it also lowers the economic potential of a group, further increasing
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its fertility in that direction, which means you're getting this cluster of strategies,
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low economic output, high xenophobia, high technophobia, which cluster together into
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one branch of winning cultural strategies, which by far today is the cultural strategy
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which is out-competing all others in terms of fertility.
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A lot of them believe that at the end of the day, there's just going to be one religion,
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And so essentially, the true enemy of the pronatalist cause, not the immediate enemy, the urban monoculture,
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which is serving as a very simplistic villain for us right now, a villain on easy mode that
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is meant to prepare us for the true danger which comes after us, which it is to a large
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extent protecting us from, which is a world full of technophobic, aggressive, ultra-religious
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extremists that want everyone who's not them dead.
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So this episode is going to be a bit of a follow-up from the last episode, but it's
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also going to be a standalone, so you can watch these likely in either order.
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And they're going to touch related to, but divergent concepts.
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And you'll include a link to the first one in case people want in the description?
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Yeah, I could actually do the thing in YouTube where I, like, tag the first one.
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And you push the button, and it will, like, open a thing where you can then click and,
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like, open it in a different tab to watch after you're done with this one.
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So with this episode, what we are going to discuss is the two enemies of pronatalism.
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So let's talk about sort of what pronatalism is more broadly.
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It is a movement dedicated to ensuring the preservation of a pluralistic and diverse human
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Because if we do nothing, what's going to happen is we're going to have a crash in human
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We're going to have a crash in the world's economy.
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Both of which are things that are still going to happen if we do something.
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But a few groups will come to power and basically erase everyone else.
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That's what it looks like is the path that we're going on.
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We're going on sort of a monoculture of a species where, like, one or two or maybe three,
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if we're lucky, if our group just completely fails, cultural and ethnic groups will be the
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only things left of our species and they will wipe out the rest.
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And that is absolutely terrifying to us because I think that one of our greatest strengths is
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And I also think that in this unengaged world, the groups that end up wiping out most of the
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other groups are going to be quite technophobic, i.e.
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we are moving back to a dark ages of extremist religious tribalism.
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And so what we are trying to do is build an alliance of the individuals that are high
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fertility and do want to exist in the future and the cultural groups that are high fertility
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If you are a culture that is high fertility, sort of axiomatically, you differentiate significantly
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from the dominant culture in our society right now.
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This is what we call the cult or the urban monoculture or the virus, whatever you want
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It is this large culture that exists in pretty much every major city in the world today.
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And when we say that, what I mean is if I look at the culture in London versus New York
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versus Boston, they're all going to be much more similar to each other.
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Or Paris, more similar to each other than they are to just like, I go a few hours to like
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the Amish or like the Hasidic population or something like that.
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These high fertility populations almost definitionally need to differentiate.
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And our culture, the culture, our family practice, it differentiates a lot from the urban monoculture.
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And what this means is that the first enemy that the pronatalist movement is facing is this urban monoculture.
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And that is because the urban monoculture, being very low fertility, can only replenish its ranks by converting
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the children of nearby demographically healthy cultural groups.
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So it is becoming increasingly aggressive in these convergent policies.
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And these convergent policies are a danger to every single high fertility cultural group,
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because those groups, you know, almost the more high fertility they are, the more they
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And the more they are producing something of value to that cultural group, which it wishes
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I mean, we often liken it to cultural genocide, but it's not really traditional cultural genocide.
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Yes, it is driven by a hatred and dehumanization of these cultural groups.
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You know, they see them as deplorable and savages, as most people do in committing cultural genocide.
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It is a parasitic by design cultural group that cannot survive without cannibalizing its neighbors.
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And so you can almost think of it like, you know, it's not that we hate this cultural group, right?
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But if you're going to save the fly, you kill the spider.
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If you save the flies without killing the spider, eventually the spider dies anyway, you know?
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And so all of us, all of the perinatalist communities are banding together right now to defend ourselves
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The important thing to note is, one, it is the lesser of the two enemies that the perinatalist
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It is the kinder of the two enemies we are bound to face.
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And it is an enemy that when it dies, and it will die, because if you look intergenerationally,
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things like Amish communities, you can look at their, like, deconversion rates.
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Communities that live next to it are getting better and better at defending themselves.
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And that's one of the reasons it's so pro-immigration right now, because the only way it can get new
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children is by importing them from cultural groups that aren't quite as wary.
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But even recent immigrant populations are becoming incredibly wary of it.
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Like, if you look at the perinatalist movement, many people are surprised at how heavy it is
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And it's like, yeah, because they are often the most perinatalist, because they are recent
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immigrants from high-fertility areas, and they understand the value of their own culture,
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And they like the idea, which is what America told them it was.
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You know, when America said, come over, it goes, oh, come here, you'll get riches.
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You know, many different cultures exist alongside each other.
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And then they get here, and they go, okay, well, now that you're here, your children are
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going to have to go to a school where their history and traditions will be erased.
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They will learn that they are allowed to identify however they want.
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They can identify as your ancestral culture, but they are not allowed to differ in their
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beliefs around sexuality, around gender, around morality, around what should be the future
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of our species, on how we should relate to the environment, on the way you should interact
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And they're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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I came here because I heard that we could, like, be different and all work together while
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And then they look at the peronatalist movement, and they're like, oh, you guys are what America
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So anyway, to the point here, this enemy is, to some extent, witless.
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When it takes over an organization or a community, it typically makes it very ineffective.
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We can look at the large companies that have been infected by it.
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One of the things we've pointed out on this show is that once a community adapts racist
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belief systems, economically, it tends to undercompete its neighbors and undercompete what it did
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And this is seen in the virus or the cult communities.
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Wokeism, and what they call anti-racism, it just labels everything the exact opposite of
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what it is, is, like, one of the most racist widespread philosophies in the world today.
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And we will see what we always see with racist communities, which is a collapse economically
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When people say, go woke, get broke, what they are saying is that when you become racist,
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you end up economically undercompeting your neighbors, whose minds are not blinded by this
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sort of systemic elitism and prejudice against this specific cultural group.
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What is the real enemy that we are terrified of?
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The real enemy we are terrified of comes from the fact that the two dominant cultural strategies
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right now for high fertility are disengaging with the economy, either preventing your members
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from working or doing something that lowers the economic potential, like preventing them
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And anything that decreases an individual's economic potential is going to increase the
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The other thing is to increase restrictions on how your community engages with technology.
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The more your community disengages with technology, the higher fertility.
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So you look at like Amish or Mennonite or the general Anabaptist sphere of communities,
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the ones that are the most disengaging of technology are the highest fertility rates.
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And the ones that are the most using of technology of fertility rates that are about the same as
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the English, i.e. people who are not Anabaptists.
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And this matters because it means that anyone who is trying even a lightened form of one of
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these cultural strategies, the iterations of their movement that try the most extreme forms
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of these cultural strategies will out-compete the lighter forms of these cultural strategies.
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Unless the lighter forms of these cultural strategies maintain complete cultural isolation from the
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more extreme forms of these strategies, which is unlikely because typically the groups practicing
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the lighter forms of these strategies are these softer cultural groups.
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Do you want to explain what I just said, Simone?
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Repeat your statement just so I make sure I talk about the right circle of things.
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What I was saying was, is that incrementally, any collection of groups, like related family
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of cultures that increases its fertility rate or protects its fertility rate by disengaging
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with technology or economically crippling its own members, the iterations of that culture
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that do that more extremely, fertility-wise, out-compete the ones that do it less extremely.
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The problem being is that you could have some intergenerationally stable, yes, lower fertility,
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but still isolated, less extreme version of one of these.
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The problem being is that the less extreme versions are often soft in cultures, which means that
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they either bleed out into the main culture or bleed into the more extreme versions.
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I just want to get you more engaged so people don't feel like I'm not giving you a chance
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I mean, do you have any comments on what I've said so far?
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I mean, this is just how we see things playing out.
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It seems really obviously true so far, I think.
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I mean, especially given the data that we've seen, both in terms of who we know is still experiencing
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high birth rates now, and plus who we've seen in the history of the human race having
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The other thing we've seen is a cultural strategy and likely even a genetic strategy
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because this does have a genetic link, which is the far-right authoritarian personality
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cluster, which has nothing to do with right-leaning politics.
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It's found in left-leaning individuals as well.
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It's what you would see in an Antifa member or something like that.
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It just means an extreme tendency to dehumanize people who aren't in your cultural group and
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an extreme tendency to prefer extremist hierarchical structures.
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So this strategy, like xenophobia basically, is a winning cultural strategy.
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And it's not necessarily like crazy evil xenophobia.
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We've noticed that in more diverse nations, birth rates seem to be higher than in really homogenous
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And these aren't diverse nations that necessarily have huge levels of intergroup, either culturally
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However, there could be some xenophobia that motivates groups to kind of subconsciously feel
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really excited about kind of representing themselves more.
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Like maybe there's something that kicks in when you feel like you're surrounded by others
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that makes you want to grow your own community.
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However, and I would ask you to just search your brain to see if you can think of any
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Outside of East Asian cultures, they are unique and they have different practices.
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The more xenophobic a cultural group is, the higher their fertility rates.
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So if you're talking about extremely xenophobic cultures, they're extremely high fertility.
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So that means it's a winning, like it will increase in the future, right?
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As we've mentioned again and again, it also lowers the economic potential of a community.
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Anyway, the point being is that in many ways, the reason why, so racism, one, increases fertility
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Like xenophobia increases fertility on its own.
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But in addition to that, it also lowers the economic potential of a group, further increasing
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its fertility in that direction, which means you're getting this cluster of strategies,
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low economic output, high xenophobia, high technophobia, which cluster together into like
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one branch of winning cultural strategies, which by far today is the cultural strategy,
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which is outcompeting all others in terms of fertility.
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This seems accurate on average, but actually like when I think about Japan, for example,
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We're going to talk about East Asian cultures in a separate video because a totally different
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It's going to be equally interesting and a bit harder for us to predict, but most of us have
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So we're going to be, I guess, better at predicting it than other people might be.
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So what this means, and a lot of people look at this and they go, oh, all of this is code
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And no, there are Jewish groups and there are Christian groups and there are even Buddhist
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groups that are highly xenophobic and technophobic and murdery.
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And that's another thing about this cultural cluster is they have a practice which makes
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them axiomatically impossible to ever integrate with the pronatalist agenda, which is that they
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believe often, this is very common within these cultural traditions, but it's not true
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Like it's not true amongst the Amish, which would be very good allies to the pronatalist
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But a lot of them believe that at the end of the day, there's just going to be one religion,
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often one ethnicity and one culture in the world.
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And some of them will just say one religion, one culture in the world.
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So in the short term, they work as allies with us because we have the same enemy, which
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But in the long term, they will be at odds with us and all of the other, we would call
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them symbiotic cultural groups, which do not believe it is their job to wipe out all
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And there are various levels of potential allegiance.
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There are some cultures which say they eventually want to wipe out all other cultures in the world,
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but they just don't ever seem to act on it or they don't seem to be able to motivate
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And so they are safe-ish to work with in the short term.
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There are cultures that will say, okay, but we can work with other groups because we are
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such a minority right now and we will only become dangerous when we become the majority.
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And so you need to keep an eye on those groups.
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You know, there are examples of Buddhist cultures, Jewish cultures, Christian cultures, Muslim cultures
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And there are iterations of all of those traditions which are able to be genuinely pluralistic
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or at least sort of detente pluralistic, meaning that-
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And this is important because a lot of people, they're not aware.
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Like they don't know about like the really bloody like Buddhist revolts in places like
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And like, they don't know, you know, if you look at the prenatalist movement, we actually
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have a lot, not a lot, but I'd say a number of Muslim cultural groups that are allied with
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Most of them are African immigrant populations that are not, and you might ask, well, why
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are they not as, because they have sort of more of a, I guess I call it a tribalistic
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mindset that is okay with intergenerational alliances with people who are different from
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them, which is not true, which of some other Muslim cultural groups, which are just, you
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know, like, like some Christian cultural groups, there can only be one.
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And, and one of the interesting things when we talk about the two enemies is some Christian
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cultural groups think that they're signaling, I especially see this with some groups of,
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of tradcasts and stuff like that, how like cool they are by saying there can only be
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one to like other pro natalists in like a multicultural pro natalist environment, like
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they'll, they'll be going to like the natalist conference that we're going to.
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And it's like, look, this is a conference being put together by Mormon separatists, the Desnat
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Mormons are the people who are putting it together.
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And we are, you know, technophilic, like secular Calvinists.
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You were saying to the two people who are like the most dominant individuals within this
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Hey, let's come together and all work out or deconvert your children or, you know, whatever
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these individuals are, obviously you're like that individual in a D and D group that is
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And they're like, obviously working with you in the short run, but in the long run, you
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are very obviously a threat and they are aware of that.
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And they are planning for that, which is, you know, I, I, I thank God that they are so witless
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I suspect that some of the individuals who claim to be interested in multicultural pluralism
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are just smarter iterations of them that know to not loudly broadcast it all the time and
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only talk about it privately behind closed doors.
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And at the very least I can appreciate their shrewdness.
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To me, there's something very gentlemanly about it.
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Like, it reminds me of some, you know, historical action novels where, you know, you have two
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enemies who respect each other as rivals that are like, well, I'm going to try to destroy
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And, you know, like for a moment they may come together to fight some impediment to their
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Well, and I think where this question is going to become more interesting to us is what happens
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when one of these dominating cultural groups is also attempting a technophilic strategy.
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I mean, we'd hardly be dominant, but we are very technophilic.
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But yeah, we're not dominating, but we're technophilic.
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If you look at the other technophilic cultural groups, they typically are not dominating as
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Well, I mean, you, the, the, the cult, essentially the, the woke virus riddled cult that runs society
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now is both dominating and technophilic, but because it's low fertility.
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It is an example of a dominating technophilic cultural group.
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And the only reason we don't take it very seriously is we, we understand that most other
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cultures that it uses to get fodder, to get human capital will eventually become resistant
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And so essentially the true enemy of the pronatalist cause, not the immediate enemy, which is the
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urban monoculture, which we sort of see like the God Emperor of Dune, the, the threat that
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Or if you've seen Code Geass, the emperor that, that acts fascist at the end to bring everyone
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together of different, different cultural groups to finally put aside their, their differences
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is that they can intergenerationally work together.
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It is serving as a very simplistic villain for us right now, a villain on easy mode that
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is meant to prepare us for the true danger, which comes after us, which it is to a large
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extent protecting us from, which is a world full of technophobic, aggressive, ultra religious
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extremists that want everyone who's not them dead.
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And in the other video, similar to this, we talked about sort of a network of haven states.
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These are small technophilic cultural groups, which are communicating with each other, trading
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with each other, and that work together and that respect their, their cultural differences
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and are working to bring back civilization after we enter this next dark age.
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And that is sort of the, now we can try to predict what that network is going to look
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like, who are going to be the important players in it, but it's difficult right now.
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If I, as an outsider was going to say, who is obviously going to be the biggest player
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in it, Israel, Israel is just obviously going to be the bigger Israel, maybe some of the
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So Israel would be, and that it is already a city.
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Well, I guess, but the highest growing populations within Israel are not technophilic, right?
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And so Israel might be, if it can develop a technophilic iteration of the traditions,
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And I believe it can, and I believe the key to doing that is going to be a variety group
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I think that's really going to be the thing that throws some of them over the edge, but
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And you can look at our video on, we have a video where we explain Jewish sort of cultural
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It's very different than other cultural groups.
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It's very bottom up, i.e., well, it's better than the video that we talk about it.
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And I don't want to go deep into it in this one.
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So it's possible that something evolves, but it won't look exactly like any of the dominant
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But I do think it is the biggest likelihood to be sort of the beating heart of the nexus
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It could fall to technophobic extremists just as much as anyone else.
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But to your point, if a variety group did get super technophilic, at least when it came
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And they're already, as a sort of center for haven states, have the industrial capability
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to produce advanced weaponry, which will be one of the things that is most necessary
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Things like Iron Dome technology and stuff like that would be very, very relevant wherever
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So it would already, like it's already culturally specializing in the types of exports that are
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most relevant in this future that we're heading into, which a lot of people are like, oh, why
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do you guys simp for Jewish cultural groups so much on your show?
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It's not just because like we think they're doing the right thing.
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And anyone who is sort of declaring war on them right now in their, in their, what's
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In their broadcasts is just being incredibly stupid because then who, who do you ally with
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Who are you going to turn to for protection and solutions?
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Now what could happen, and this is actually really possible is some of the Muslim cultural
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groups that have a ton of money right now could set themselves up like the UAE or Saudi
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And they are very intentional and very specific about how they do this as technophilic elite
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organizations that oversee a non, a larger non-technophilic population that could happen.
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And those could become really useful groups to buy technology from.
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I could see that happening, but they have to play their cards very, very intelligently.
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And in truth of all of the Muslim populations, those are the least directly anti-Semitic, the
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high technology ones, like the ones in the UAE or the ones in Qatar or the ones in Saudi
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So even then, you know, you're likely not really shooting yourself in the foot by allying with
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Well, but I also, I don't think people are expressing anti-Semitic views because they,
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you know, don't expect to ally with, no one's thinking long-term like this.
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I mean, it's not like they're like, oh, well, the Saudis are going to be the ones I'm going
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to need to partner with in the long-term future.
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You're like one of the few things, like people in the, in the world who's thinking about
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Well, I'm trying to think other cultural groups.
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As you said, I think the Mormons, I do not think the Mormon transhumanists will be a
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I think the Mormon separatists would be a relevant group.
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So like the whole point of why I think desert nationalists have a lot of potential is they
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represent an attempt to return to hard Mormon religion.
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And basically, you know, if you're going to look at hard versus soft, hard is going to
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It's going to be less subject to the harms of soft culture.
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That's to say like failing mental health, failing physical health, et cetera.
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So like, I don't know, it seems pretty straightforward to me unless they go off the rails with a bunch
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And I think that the tradcasts are also likely, there is some iteration of tradcasts that will
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stay intergenerationally like alliable with, but of all the cultural groups, they are the
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one to most likely go around and being like, we plan to kill all our allies one day.
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Even if you believe it, you probably want to be at least, I guess I'm just, I like that
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you see it as like a gentlemanly thing, but yeah, it's, it's not a, a great long-term
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strategy, but there are iterations of that movement because of all the movements is one
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of the most likely to be intergenerationally a liable with.
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And then there's other cultural groups that just like, I guess the, like theologically
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and culturally seem like they should be dominating cultural groups.
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It just aren't like we recently got back from being around British individuals and they
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are very clearly, I think a Hindi cultural group is definitely going to be one of the major
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They, they are a non-dominating, very likely to take technophilic strategies, higher fertility
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Now they are lower fertility than groups that take technophobic strategies.
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But among the technophilic cultural groups, they're one of the highest fertility and they
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are a very good group to signal alliances with.
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So I'm trying to think what other groups do I know?
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I guess the next thing to talk about is what ends up happening to East Asia.
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I mean, I would, I would wonder if there, like when I was in Japan, there were some cult.
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We're going to do a different video in East Asia.
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Like what happens during the collapse cycle in East Asia.
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Because it's not worth talking about in this, this video, but yeah, so this is what the
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It is about taking this period of safety to build intercommunity and intercultural connections
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in ways of working with each other to protect our descendants from the, basically the religious
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The xenophobic, technophobic, economically unproductive religious extremists who will make up the majority
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And they won't be from any one religious group.
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There will be factions of them from all cultural groups because it is a successful strategy,
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And there are potentials for technophilic strategies, no matter what cultural group you're from.
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And it is worth it for the technophilic pluralistic groups to ally together to attempt to preserve
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what we think of as sort of pluralistic human civilization.
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People probably may hear this and think that it sounds outlandish and sci-fi and weird,
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but just look at how things have played out in history and look at the trends.
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And we challenge you to come up with some other theory that seems more reasonable and predictive.
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So just because something sounds weird and just because something sounds very, very different
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doesn't mean that that's never going to happen or it's relegated to fiction.
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And a lot of people think that they're like, oh, well, all of your predictions are requisite
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on demographic collapse causing an economic collapse of our current economic system, but AI could save us.
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And as we've mentioned before, no, AI frees the bourgeoisie from the proletariat permanently.
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And it is not worth it for them, as we have seen in places where collapse has already started, like South Africa.
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The wealthy are not like giving their money out to the masses to placate them anymore.
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That made sense in a past global system where there was a large middle class.
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When the middle class begins to dissolve, it is more economically efficient for the wealthy
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to not pay for things like UBI, but instead put all of their money into defending their
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And that is going to lead to an economic collapse, even if we are dealing with, for the vast majority
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And I don't think that's through any lack of attempt to first try to make UBI work.
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But you also have to look at how right now non-billionaires regard the philanthropic work
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Whenever billionaires basically try to fix things or try to make things better, it's always
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You know, the nerve of you're trying to come and intervene or, you know, affect our lives.
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Basically, every time a billionaire tries to make things better, especially for people in
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a more developed society, they get they get completely demonized for it.
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So I think after a while, and especially when it comes to like sort of will billionaires
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survive or not, surviving billionaires and billionaires who actually get more out of life
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are going to be the ones who fortify their own defenses, partially because the very people
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that could really benefit from their patronage are going to basically, you know, alienate
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Well, I also think that billionaires, there's sort of two paths for billionaires, and we've
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One is they will try to ingratiate themselves with the current cult or virus or whatever
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you want to say, and they end up just getting disregarded by the public and hated.
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Examples of this would be like Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates.
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Two is they end up just indolently living their lives as wealthy as possible and sort of
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gated compounds, and they won't end up mattering in the future.
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And three is they, with this, they might like create compounds that matter for a generation
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or two, but they're really personality cults, and these will ultimately collapse.
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And then the final one is to ally themselves with an intergenerationally durable cultural
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group, whether it's like ours or tradcasts or something else, and they will exist in the
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And I think that that is going to be the winning strategy for billionaires going forwards, is
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what it was historically, which is to ally yourself with one of the religious and cultural
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And obviously, if you want to have the biggest outside impact, you typically want to focus
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Just saying, if anyone in their world is thinking here.