Technopuritanism for the Next New World with Malcolm Collins

About this episode

Malcolm Collins discusses his views on technopuritanism and the future amidst cultural chaos.

Malcolm Collins is an unclassifiable frontiersman for the coming century of chaos, a hardened fighter from the trenches of the culture wars, and a pronatalist who put his own blood line on the line by having a gaggle of embryo selected children with his lovely wife Simone, who cohosts their Based Camp podcast. You can watch their diverse discussions at Based Camp: https://www.youtube.com/@SimoneandMalcolm And also check out their Pragmatists Guide book series: https://www.goodreads.com/series/365119-the-pragmatist-s-guide Sign up to Recombination Nation on Substack for free weekly articles: https://recombinationnation.substack.com Read Shane's book, Taming the Apocalypse, about the future of post industrial biological technology: https://www.amazon.com/Taming-Apocalypse-Shane-Simonsen-ebook/dp/B0D2XCLJ85/

People in this episode

Host: Shane Simonsen

Guest: Malcolm Collins

Topics covered

• technopuritanism
• culture wars
• pronatalism
• future technology
• embryo selection

Keywords

• technopuritanism
• Malcolm Collins
• culture wars
• pronatalism
• embryo selection
• Based Camp
• Taming the Apocalypse

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Based Camp, Pragmatists Guide

Books & works: Taming the Apocalypse

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