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Now, the most extreme version of this philosophy gaining a huge amount of power and influence resides in Silicon Valley, where upper middle class technologists believe it is their duty to repopulate the planet with more upper middle class white technologists. Simone and Michael Collins are leading the charge, out to have 10 children as quickly as possible, who they will indoctrinate to each have 10 of their own, and so on. They hope that, within 11 generations, their genetic legacy will outnumber the current human population.
Both Silicon Valley graduates, the Collins have created matchmaking service for wealthy elite looking to have huge families, and an education institute for these “gifted” children. They say it is vital the 0.1% have large families so that these gifted children can save humanity, pushing a dangerous rhetoric that we need a particular kind of people being born, people who are educated a certain way, with access to resources and decision-making spaces, and, of course, white.
Of course, the Collins don’t say outright that these people must be white, but why else propagate one’s own lineage rather than adopt 10 children, desperately in need of those same resources, who already exist?
The movement looks an awful lot like white supremacy dressed up as techno-utopian utilitarianism. And it’s garnering traction. Elon Musk may not be directly affiliated with the Collins’ particular brand, but the father of 10 is an ardent believer that our biggest danger is population collapse, and regularly tweets out the necessity for certain demographics to have more children. He, like many others, is what Nandita calls “ecologically blind.”
There are millions of children in need around the world, and billions of people living in sub-standard conditions who need access to more resources. Many of these people are attempting to enter the nations clamouring to figure out how to reverse this “population decline”. This desperate racism not only highlights yet more evidence of the pathology of inequality and oppression the West built its nations upon, but also draws into question the now vs then problem.
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