A new article by @mulcahythebaronofurga.
“Christianity went through a process of modernization during the 20th century. As new norms replaced old ones. But churches are emptying because of the loss of authentic faith.
The left will come to realize that Islam is not going to tow the line of homosexual acceptance nor will it promote feminist values. They’re valiant defenders of Islam now. But they won’t be if they become 30-40% of the religious population in the United States of America.”
“The soft populist-nationalism of Donald Trump is bulldozing through the neo-liberal headquarters. Illegal immigration is down. He’s pushing for merit-based immigration. He’s questioning affirmative action. He’s laying the foundation for a larger movement that is currently in it’s adolescence.
Capitalism and mass immigration have destroyed traditional norms, faith, and proper birthrates. A rejection of modern capitalism would do plenty for societies around the world. In terms of reviving older cultural and political norms. I’m quite fond of distributism, capitalist protectionism, and a rightist variant of Kropotkinism as alternatives to the current system.”
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Hmm, interesting
I have various disagreements, but the real biting one is this:
It fails to account for Transhumanism.
For many years, opponents of Transhumanism have described it as techno-utopian fantasy that will never come to pass, and maybe the brain uploading part and the Singularity are, but they’ve been getting a lot quieter about the rest of it recently.
We have vat-grown organs in labs already.
We have nervous-system controlled robotic limbs.
We now have established, in a lab setting, some pretty serious genetic modification on human embryos, removing genes for a disease.
These aren’t science fiction. Only their economic viability is - for now.
Recently mouse lifespans were increased by 10-15% with stem cells in the brain, and studies on blood health with mice have also been promising (inspiring all those jokes about Vampire Peter Thiel).
There is a point where lifespan begins to increase more quickly and healthcare costs start to come back down again, where screening out genetic diseases and selecting for higher performance first hits the wealthy and then everyone else. This starts to undermine the effects of lowered fertility on more left-wing social configurations.
It undermines race, it undermines social darwinism, it undermines demand for religion.
You can ban it in Europe, you can ban it in America, but if you do, then the research will merely continue in Asia.
You might get a shift rightwards socially, but I don’t think it will look like what you expect. It will probably be in the form of a more holistic view of society where it is acknowledged that we can only afford to be kind if we’re careful not to increase the situations that required us to be kind in the first place. All the bitching about gays is a sideshow.
