From the King Charles III Space Station, Tom and Calum welcome Louise Perry — reactionary feminist, space romantic, and descendant of Second Fleet convicts — to discuss Artemis II, the furthest humans have ever travelled from Earth.Louise makes the case that enthusiasm for space exploration is an overwhelmingly Anglo phenomenon, something between an anthropological pathology and a civilisational birthright. But the last great age of exploration coincided with an incredible cheapness of life, a tolerance for suffering and death that modern societies have entirely lost. Can you be expansionist with a 0.7 birth rate and no appetite for risk?This leads into Louise’s theory of the century: that birth rate collapse is not a policy failure but an evolutionary bottleneck. The people who make it through — more religious, more conservative, more willing to bear the costs — will inherit the Earth. Democracy probably can’t survive the gerontocracy that’s coming. The state pension certainly won’t. Your best hedge, she argues, is several children.The episode explores:* Why space exploration is an Anglo pathology — and why that’s glorious* The Moral Maze’s case against Artemis II, including the claim that astronauts are defiling Navajo ancestors on the moon* Whether modernity has made us too comfortable to be expansionist* Louise’s infant mortality theory of everything: low death rates cause low birth rates* The evolutionary bottleneck and why wokeness is demographically doomed* The techno-theocracy: orienting innovation towards the Christian good* Why your pension won’t exist and children are a better investment* The overview effect as a threat to chauvinistic adventure* Mars as tax haven, Noah’s Ark selection criteria, and the Bishop of MarsThank you for supporting Anglofuturism. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.anglofuturism.co/subscribe

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