Philadelphia Husband and Wife Hated on Social Media Become Trump's Birth Rate Advisers
Simone and Malcolm Collins, techies from Silicon Valley, moved to the country and founded their own religion based on pronatalist ideas. The Collinses plan to have 14 children and are teaching the current White House administration how to increase the birth rate, writes Independent.
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Malcolm and Simone Collins are celebrating their own special occasions. Their three children - Octavian George, five, Thorsten Savage, three, and Titan Invictus, two - sleep in bunk beds in one room, while their youngest, Industry Americus, one, sleeps with her pregnant mother.
The Collins couple are hated on social media for their pronatalist lifestyle. They are a shining example of the pronatalist movement, a philosophy that sees the declining birth rate as a huge problem in modern society. The couple cites larger families as a solution.
The former Silicon Valley techies, disillusioned with the “urban monoculture,” moved to rural Pennsylvania. Having founded their own religion, called Techno-Puritanism, they plan to have 14 children and advise the Trump administration on fertility. Their podcast, Based Camp, has more than 35 subscribers, and the couple’s ideas resonate with the New Right but are controversial among progressives.
The Collinses are a polarizing couple. Few Stanford MBA venture capitalists are pronatalists, and few New Right wives have previously run a Peter Thiel-funded social club. Simone is aiming to break the record for most C-sections (11), hoping to reach 14.
Their 11-page prenuptial agreement includes a “boat clause” and a “weight clause,” which Simone once invoked on Malcolm when he gained a baby bump. They have drafted executive orders for Trump, including awarding medals for having six or more children, which has prompted accusations of “cartoon villain” style. Their goal is to create a cultural system that can survive the collapse of civilization they see as inevitable.
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Techno-Puritanism for Dummies
Malcolm, speaking as a philosopher and CEO, believes that Orthodox Jews and Appalachian rednecks (slang for white farmers living in rural America. — Ed.) inspire their religion.
"Both groups create conflict with the dominant culture by ensuring high birth rates," he says. "If a Jewish child is teased for his customs, he values his community. Same with MAGA culture (Make America Great Again, an American political slogan popularized by Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign. Red), who hates orders from above."
Techno-Puritanism is based on the idea that in millions of years, humans will become like gods. The Collinses do not seek to impose their faith, but propose to adapt its ideas to create personalized cultural practices.
The couple created their own holidays. On Future Day, children write letters about how to improve the future to return toys stolen by the "future police." On Lemon Week, everyone studies a concept they find offensive to broaden their worldview.
"Insults are signals to look closer and learn more," the Collinses say. Malcolm, for example, studied radical feminism and shared his findings with his family.
Their religion draws inspiration from Orthodox Judaism, redneck culture, and Sam Altman-style effective accelerationism to create a culture that is resilient to the "sterilizing" urban monoculture.
Malcolm criticizes progressives for their pessimism, which normalizes the idea of human extinction.
“They talk about diversity, but they deny the differences between people,” he says. “Diversity is strength if you acknowledge it.” Malcolm recalls how cynical suicidality became normalized at progressive dinners in New York City, which was a turning point in his worldview.
Simone views unimplanted embryos as "unborn children," considering their birth a matter of life and death, but rejects the idea of sacrificing herself for their birth.
"I won't put the baby at risk," she assures. "I had a difficult pregnancy, the baby was in intensive care. It's scary."
Her pragmatism contrasts with her religious strictness, but she suffers for the cause through Caesarean sections and maternal duties.
Malcolm admires Simone's "sacrifice" in giving birth via caesarean section despite the risks of scarring and complications.
“She is prepared to suffer physical harm for the sake of morality,” he states.
The husband compares choosing his partner to sacrificing himself for the sake of the child to a situation where a robber threatens the family: “I asked, ‘How bad would it have to get before you stopped?’ She said, ‘If it was between me and the child, you know who to choose.’”
Simone, however, is pragmatic: "If there is a risk to me or the baby, we will not give birth. I want to be with the children and I do not want to deprive them of two parents."
Malcolm mythologizes her as a martyr, when she is rational. Simone suffers for a cause: C-sections, breastfeeding, co-sleeping, cooking individual dinners for children with different preferences.
Engineering of Culture
The Collinses are using polygenic testing on the embryos to avoid the cancer genes that took Simone's mother, but plan to have all of the embryos born.
"We don't think we're genetically superior," Malcolm admits. "I'm flawed, so we take embryos."
Simone sees the analysis as an aid to parenting: “The risk of schizophrenia from cannabis is real.” Their daughters, Titan and Industry, showed low rates of anxiety and depression, which Simone sees as a positive, although she acknowledges the role of parenting.
“The data isn’t perfect,” she confirms. “Selection by intelligence is like astrology, it’s not reliable yet.”
Their parenting combines roughhousing and technology, scalable for 10+ kids. They embrace corporal punishment, inspired by watching a pride of lions. This caused a social media scandal when Malcolm hit his son for acting up during an interview.
"We vaccinate children, we don't isolate them," Simone explains. "Monoculture is a virus, antibodies are born in contact." Malcolm adds: "It sterilizes citizens by causing mental disorders."
The couple encourages individuality but wants their children to remain in their culture.
"A Jewish father is proud when his son argues with him about the Torah, not when he leaves the faith," Malcolm notes.
Family as a startup
The Collinses are creating a culture of minimal intervention because “high-effort parenting is not financially sustainable for families with many children.” They have had child protective services called twice, for sick children and for children playing in the yard unsupervised.
"Bureaucracy is a hindrance to families with many children," Malcolm assures. "By supporting the birth rate, we prevent collapse."
He compares his movement to a lifeboat on the sinking Titanic, with critics arguing about Nazism as the ship sinks.
Recommendations for Trump
The Collinses have proposed several executive orders for the Trump administration to increase the birth rate: awarding medals to mothers with six or more children, loosening regulations on daycare centers, and simplifying the visa process for foreign nannies. They cite the study “Car Seats as Contraception,” which shows that strict regulations reduce the birth rate, and propose easing the rules on car seat use. Their projects are supported by statistics on the falling birth rate in the United States and the threat to Social Security and the economy.
"Families with many children are a counterbalance to the ageing population," Malcolm argues. "They need to be supported through home schooling, relaxed parenting and reduced bureaucracy."
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Followers and critics
Their podcast, Based Camp, has 35 subscribers. Critics have called the Collinses "sociopaths" and accused them of eugenics due to polygenic testing of embryos.
"We're teasing the media," Malcolm admits. "The interested ones will dig deeper."
Followers see them as saviors from depopulation, critics see them as provocateurs who style themselves as antiheroes.
The Collinses identify with the "new right," although they were previously progressives.
"The left threw us out for disagreeing," Simone explains. "Progressives will be the first to die out, like pandas that don't reproduce in captivity."
Malcolm adds: "The left is losing competent people like Musk, Vance and Kennedy Jr. for breaking norms. Now they're with Trump."
The couple see themselves as part of a new alliance fighting a monoculture that demands denial of reality. “Progressives say: everyone is the same. We say: differences are good,” Malcolm sums up.
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