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America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’

Elon Musk (father of 11) supports their cause. Thousands follow their ideology. Malcolm and Simone Collins are on a mission to make it easie

TL;DR: these are kid-smacking low-key eugenicists who give their children names like “Industry Americus” and think that keeping a home warm is a pointless extravagance.

The Guardian profiles pronatalists Malcolm and Simone Collins, and boy, these people are so full of themselves. Their commitment to effective altruism (you know, the same movement championed by Sam Bankman-Fried, who’s now in prison) somehow leads them to … not heat their home in winter?

as effective altruists, they give everything they can spare to charity (their [personal] charities). “Any pointless indulgence, like heating the house in the winter, we try to avoid if we can find other solutions,” says Malcolm.

And, for a couple who wants to have lots of babies, they don’t seem to like children very much.

The Collinses believe in childcare, but not maternity leave: Simone has never taken any. She will have the day of her C-section off “because of the drugs,” but will take work calls from hospital the day after. She tells me it’s because she’s “bored out of my mind” when she’s stuck with a newborn. … Malcolm tells me how much he doesn’t like babies. “Objectively, they are trying and they are aggravating. They are gross. This little bomb that goes off crying in this big explosion of poo and mucus every 30, 40 minutes. And it doesn’t have a personality, really.”

As for what that childcare looks like? They learned it from watching wild animals. For real.

Malcolm tells me that he and Simone have developed a parenting style based on something she observed when she saw tigers in the wild: they react to bad behaviour from their cubs with a paw, a quick negative response in the moment, which they find very effective with their own kids.

Lovely couple, these two.

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The elevation of ‘life’ beyond all other phenomena; what both the natalist and anti-natalist positions presume is the division between the living and the non-living – itself a product of human knowledge and vested interests. But shouldn’t the real anti-natalist be against existence itself as well as life? A pessimism of this sort would not take sides in tepid debates among philosophers over survival and extinction, natalism and anti-natalism, life and death. Instead, it would highlight the arbitrariness of those very distinctions. At its limit would be a subharmonic ‘no’ without any object of negation. One would think that this would lead to silence…or at least to quiet.

Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation, pg. 70

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From the archives.

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#BLAThoughtOfTheDay: I never knew Asimov cared about overpopulation

#BLAThoughtOfTheDay: I never knew Asimov cared about overpopulation

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