Tech oligarchs like Elon Musk are more warped than we can imagine. Among other things, they are actually involved in a type of eugenics.

Then there was the allegation last week by the Insider journalist Julia Black that Musk, along with other billionaires, appear to be engaged in their own personal eugenics programme via a movement called “pronatalism”. Black writes that pronatalism – an ideology centred on having children to reverse falling birthrates in European countries, and prevent a predicted population collapse – is “taking hold in wealthy tech and venture-capitalist circles”, with the aid of hi-tech genetic screening.

Musk has championed pronatalist ideas publicly. Privately the Tesla co-founder is, in his own words, “doing my part”; he has 10 children known to the public, two of whom are twins he fathered with an AI expert who serves as an executive for his Neuralink company. But the ideas go beyond Musk and into the canyons of Silicon Valley; the world’s richest and most powerful people see it as their duty, Black claims, to “replicate themselves as many times as possible”.

When some people become rich, they delude themselves into thinking they are more intelligent than the rest of us.

The bizarre obsession with “population collapse” by Musk and others is an example. What they fail to notice is that wealthier societies have better health and don’t need to reproduce as much because there is a greater likelihood their children will survive to adulthood. India, for example, has been transitioning to a middle income society. As its average income grows, the birth rate is becoming similar to that of Western countries.

As poverty disappears, the human population will level off to a sustainable level. It’s unlimited growth that is the true danger to our species – and the planet itself. As Edward Abbey put it, “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.“

The population won’t “collapse” unless we make it collapse through environmental degradation.

What these narcissistic billionaires, almost all of whom are white, really obsess about is the leveling off of population growth in predominately white countries.

Instead of wasting tons of money on “pronatalism” and genetic engineering, they should be working to eliminate poverty around the world which would equalize the birth rate everywhere. Investing in a better environment is another excellent way to protect the species.

Tech oligarch eugenics is not the only way they are trying to engineer society.

Silicon Valley and its missionary outposts are dominated not only by the pursuit of growth, which is a means to an end. The underlying raison d’etre tying these various tech titans together is their fervour for enacting their own personal theological outlooks in supposed service of the wider world. To do this, they must dominate and monopolise – remake society in their image, platform by integrated platform.

When we view these monoliths as businesses like any other, or allow them to claim global monopolies, we fail to realise that they are competing for more than our attention or our cash: they are competing for the right to dictate what our societies look like. So it matters a great deal when that vision falters, or fails altogether. It’s the stuff of myth and folktale played out via forums and Wall Street Journal tip lines; the emperors slowly shedding their clothes. We are watching would-be gods shrink back to being men once more.

By empowering these wannabe gods we become subject to their manipulation which is motivated by their bizarre fads.

Peter Thiel Wants to Inject Himself With Young People’s Blood

Imagine walking through a dense, quiet forest in France, just fifty kilometres north of Paris. Beneath the roots of towering trees and centuries of soil lies a silent testament to a forgotten tragedy. Five thousand years ago, this land was not a forest at all. It was a thriving agricultural hub. Communities of Neolithic farmers worked the soil under the open sky. They planted crops, raised…

Before colonization turned violent, before land was stolen, before forced labor systems were built — disease arrived first. And it changed everything.

European diseases like smallpox, measles, influenza, and typhus swept through Indigenous nations with a speed and brutality the world had never seen. These weren’t ordinary outbreaks. They were catastrophic epidemics that wiped out entire communities, destabilized nations, and reshaped the continent long before most Europeans ever set foot inland.

This wasn’t because Indigenous people were “weak” or “primitive.” It was because they had no biological immunity to diseases that had circulated in Europe for centuries. The result was the largest population collapse in human history — an estimated 90% decline in some regions.

Imagine losing nine out of every ten people you love. Imagine the grief, the chaos, the cultural rupture. Imagine trying to defend your homeland while your population is collapsing around you.

This chapter is about that truth — the epidemics that softened the ground for colonization, the devastation that textbooks gloss over, and the way disease became one of the most powerful weapons of empire, even without a single shot fired.

If you want to read the full chapter — the history, the evidence, the scale of the loss — it’s here: https://lifewithsevence7.blogspot.com/2026/01/chapter-3-epidemics-that-shaped-america.html