The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion

A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing

De: Simone Collins, Malcolm Collins

Narrado por: Malcolm Collins

Humanity consists of coevolving software (our religion and culture), firmware (our hardcoded proclivities, such as language acquisition), and hardware (our brains). Ripping out a third of the equation has led to innumerous unintended—and typically negative—consequences. This book offers a guide to rebuilding or fortifying this increasingly neglected aspect of the human condition.

Specifically, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion serves as a playbook for those looking to strengthen traditional cultures in the face of collapsing birth rates or craft entirely new cultures designed to impart strategic advantages to adherents.

Should you listen to this book?

• If you were raised in the absence of a cohesive culture—or don’t like your given culture—but see the value of cultural and religious traditions, this book is for you.
• If you worry your culture or religion will go extinct and would like to see it endure across generations, this book is for you.
• If you have ever thought about inventing a religion or starting a cult, this book is for you.

This book will neither be pleasant nor useful to those who don’t want large families as it defines a successful culture as one that sustainably spreads over the long term—which, outside of a few niche exceptions, requires high birth rates.

©2023 Malcolm Collins (P)2023 Malcolm Collins

Very Prescient

Must read book. If you want to predict the un-winding of western civilization there's no better book. If you want to orientate yourself in the world, cultural group co-evolution is the world view you need.

However, the author's own religion is doomed. They admit that religious reform (i.e. belief in God) is the only thing in history that has raised fertility. They are perusing progressive ideals even though they admit that female education is significantly correlated with below replacement fertility. They have a sci-fi "star-trek" religion, when they admit only Christianity and Judaism are immune to fertility collapse. If the authors were sensible their religion would more closely resemble Christianity than pop-culture.

The best reading in the game

thank you for putting the book together it's helps me out a lot me and my wife love where you doing having our 2nd kid otw and more on the way I 5 star this fing book all day

Well written and thought out

Engaging and thought provoking. I’d recommend book to anyone interested in expanding their understanding of culture and how it’s produced over time. As a newly married Modern Orthodox Jew of 27 who met their wife in medical school. I enjoyed this book very much and feel the writer has an intuitive understanding of Judaism and my culture. I plan to have our technophilic descendants see yours in the future.

Very thought provoking

This was a very interesting listen to a worldview and value system that I was quite unfamiliar with. Throughout I found many interesting concepts and while I don't fully agree with their conclusions and solutions the Collinses have certainly identified some important problems that mankind will face in the near and distant future.

I don't know which is more disturbing, the future they wish to create or disasterous one they are trying to avoid. I think they are overly optimistic with regards to technology and are likely setting their future descendants up to be the Eloi rather than the Mentats or Bene Gesserit.

While their concept of "houses" initially comes across as having read too much Game of Thrones and Dune, there is a quite detailed look at how cultures form, grow, prosper, and eventually die.

It's been a fun ride and I enjoyed every minute of it. Hopefully the "future police" will agree that my time was well spent.

Manufacture your Verile Cultivar

This book is a highly engaging look at creating intergenerationally successful cultivar (combination of religion\culture). This book covers almost all aspects of culture and critically and elegantly weaves a narrative about how cultures darwanisticly compete against each other. The authors are also transparent about their cultivar's worldview, and expects you to be intelligent enough to decipher its truth for yourself. The authors encourage you to join them in creating intergenerationally successful culture for yourself. Within the modern environment of degeneration this book is supremely valuable to those seeking to create a generative culture on the other side of modern cultural degeneracy. However, keep in mind that this book will offend many people, especially those not accustom to engaging with novel ideas. I'm personally a Pentecostal Christian, and this book is actively against many things that my cultivar does, this doesn't mean that this book isn't valuable. If you read this book you need to think for yourself, if you don't, you'll hate it for sure.