Fraternal Natalism

The Pathway to The Highest Good

Everyone in the breakaway space has a similar story of awakening; realizing how delusional and anti life the mainstream culture is and how this started their journey to find truth and a healthy alternative. The problem we have all encountered in this journey is a lack of guidance. while many things we are told in the mainstream are untrue and do not lead to a happy and healthy life, this does not make it clear what the right alternative is.

In fact, many people fall into traps of false solutions: only able to live their lives in opposition to their enemy, never on their own terms, or using the degradation of society as an excuse to pursue ephemeral and hedonistic vices. Some realize necessary steps such as the importance of self excellence, but fail to escape from the structures that will always limit them in the pursuit of higher goals.

In this article, I will lay out what I believe to be the fundamental elements of any successful ideology: natalism, community, and fraternity which I call Fraternal Natalism. To illustrate why Fraternal Natalism is necessary, I will walk through the common failed and incomplete solutions presented in the breakaway space and why they are insufficient. While I don’t believe that any of the ideas I will lay out here are revolutionary, they seem to be painfully absent and poorly articulated, especially at a more granular level. My hope is that by the end of this article, you will have a deeper understanding of why the ideas of Fraternal Natalism are necessary and fundamental to any successful solution and how you can integrate them into your own framework.

Failed Solutions

Living in Opposition to Evil

The most common reaction to waking up to the evils of the mainstream delusion is anger. Anger at being deceived, anger at those who push this deception, anger at those who so willingly go along with it. And while this anger can be righteous, and tearing down corrupt systems is a necessary battle that must be fought, it is far from sufficient. If we are successful in the destruction of the mainstream delusion, there is no victory without something healthy to replace it.

This is the danger of living solely in opposition to evil. We define ourselves by our enemy. We do not learn to create, only destroy. And while the destruction of evil may be necessary, it must be understood that the purpose of destroying evil is so that good may flourish. We must define a good to aspire to, to provide a healthy and positive alternative. If you wish to convince someone of the superiority of your ideology, you must become an inspiring example of what your ideology can produce. Anger, while justified and righteous, must be channeled beyond destruction, but towards the creation of the good.

Becoming a Shiney Cog in a Broken Machine

As we look beyond our frustrations at the mainstream delusion, we often realize that the correct response to a difficult world is not resigned nihilism, but optimistic pragmatism. That we can take control of our lives through self improvement and actualization. Jordan Peterson is probably the figure most associated with the advice of taking personal ownership of your life. And while I believe that Peterson is indeed correct that the correct path begins with self improvement, Peterson fails to understand that becoming a shiny cog means nothing if you are part of a broken machine.

The system around us is built to suppress competence and excellence. You can work your 9 to 5 job as diligently as you want, but you are still stuck serving a system that will never repay your hardwork as it should. In fact, your pursuit of personal excellence will often be vilified. Peterson fails to understand the importance of not simply changing yourself for the better, by finding and building alternative systems where healthy and positive pursuits are encouraged and rewarded.

Collapse as an Excuse for Hedonism

Another common trap offered as an alternative to the mainstream delusion is using the corruption and degradation of the world as an excuse for selfish and hedonistic pursuits. If you live in a world of mindless sheep what obligation do you have to play by the rules or make the world better? Strong men take what they want, consequences be damned, right? This hedonistic nihilism is best exemplified in the work of Bronze Age Pervert, a self proclaimed nudist body builder who advocates for joining roaming war bands and pillaging what you want from those who do not have the strength to take it themselves.

Satire or not, this mindset is nothing more than using the failings of others and society as an excuse for your own shortsighted and selfish behavior. Modern women are harlots who often exploit their husbands, so don’t bother trying to have a healthy marriage. The government taxes and oppresses you so leave behind modern society. Mainstream religious groups will indoctrinate and mislead you so don’t bother with spirituality. And while some find these ideas appealing as they justify abdication from responsibility, they are simply an excuse for hedonistic nihilism. Genetic suicide by another name.

Yes, these very much are real problems, but just because the problems are hard does not mean the correct response is to reject the responsibility to solve them. Roaming warbands might provide immediate gratification and freedom from the mainstream delusion, but this will never be a long term solution. Any successful long term solution requires having children and setting those children up for success. Successful families require healthy community and healthy community requires strong fraternal networks of competent and virtuous men and hedonistic nihilism will never achieve this.

Fraternal Natalism

It is not sufficient to breakaway from what is evil, we must come to understand the transcendent good. In the pursuit of that transcendent good we will need to take lessons from the failed solutions, righteous anger and the necessity of the destruction of evil, ownership and self improvement, and an understanding of the failings of the system, but none of this matters if it is not in service to this higher goal.

The goal of life is to flourish, the perpetuation of healthy patterns. Patterns can be anything from ideas, businesses, social groups, and even people. Having children, raising them with the right ideas, and setting them up for success by passing on material wealth is the most pure form of this goal. Everything must be in service of this. Not only because it is the highest good, but for two other important reasons: that everything done in the pursuit of natalism is definitionally necessary for a successful life, and everything done in the pursuit of natalism is inherently the most fulfilling and meaningful aspects of life.

One cannot have a healthy and successful family without a healthy community and a strong fraternity. A community will either degrade the values you are trying to instill in your family or promote them. Your community will either be a negative current you will constantly have to swim against or a positive one that will propel you where you want to go. That community is a manifestation of the men, the fraternal network, that compose it. So if we wish to set ourselves and our families up for success, building a strong fraternal network is the necessary foundation.

Natalism

Natalism is the north star. Very simply, any ideology that does not focus on building healthy families, having children, and setting those children up for maximum success has no path to long term success. The beautiful thing about putting Natalism as the highest goal is that all other pursuits aligned with this are intrinsically healthy and meaningful.

To successfully build and raise a family, you must be able to attract a good woman. You must be able to protect and provide for your family, teach skills and values that will serve your children well in their lives, gather wealth that you can pass on, and build strong relationships for future collaboration. Once you set the goal of natalism as your highest good, it becomes clear what meaningful action you should be taking in your life.

It should be a self-evident element of the structure of reality that what we must do to pursue the highest good is inherently the most meaningful and fulfilling. This is no accident. As life evolves, it should reward patterns that are healthy with positive reinforcement. Material success, strong relationships, teaching and nurturing, and competent execution of responsibilities are deeply and intrinsically satisfying. And there is no greater manifestation of these things than the successful raising of children.

None I have said here should be anything less than obvious. As the primary goal of life is flourishing and the perpetuation of healthy patterns and raising children is the highest manifestation of that goal, it would make perfect sense that everything in service of this is both fundamental and meaningful. A reward for the correct alignment with Nature and The Divine.

Community

It is essential to highlight how fundamental a role community plays in the success of family building and child raising. In pursuit of the very real need to self actualize and build ourselves into the best version of what we can be, it can be easy to forget the important role the quality of the people around us play in our success. We can achieve personal perfection in our own lives, but we will always be empowered or undercut by the community around us. We are not the sole influence in our wives’ and our children’s lives and thus must choose and build the right community so that we are not battling against, but benefiting from those external influences.

Effects on Women

One of the most difficult problems brought on by the mainstream delusion is the undermining of the healthy female ideal. Fathers were told that love for their daughters and wives should be expressed by giving them agency to live life as they saw fit. However, we never seem to rectify this with the well understood detrimental effect of absent fathers on young women. Women naturally seek to push limits, it is their nature and a necessary force to keep men motivated. Abdicating this responsibility has resulted in unleashing the dark side of femininity.

Creating healthy boundaries for women is not the work of her husband alone. If a woman is constantly told by her friends and the media she consumes that men are inherently evil and seek to control and demean women, this will create a constant friction and resistance for her to accept and settle into a healthy feminine role as a wife and mother. If the men in the community around her offer her romantic attention and indulge her deviations from her responsibilities, this possibility might tempt her.

If she instead is surrounded by a healthy community, where the friends and family around her encourage her role as a mother, where the men act respectively and platonically, and she feels protected and cared for, she will settle into her natural role. Women test limits of her man and the community a man surrounds himself with is an extension of himself. That community must also provide her healthy boundaries and positive reinforcement of health values.

Effects on Children

Similarly, children can be heavily influenced by the world around them. Children are learning to socialize and will react to what the community around them deems valuable. In an unhealthy community, it will be hard for children to accept the values taught at home if they do not produce positive results in their own social interactions. Having a community that also supports the same healthy values means you will not have to force your children to choose between their family and acceptance by broader society. Instead, a healthy community will facilitate their positive development as these values will be reinforced and serve them well.

Swim With The Current Not Against It

The community around your family will fundamentally influence their development and no one man can overcome the detrimental effects of a bad community alone. I stress this because so many of us are hesitant to move, especially when we already have jobs or families that are rooted. Uprooting a family is a large cost to pay and so, if people are to take this action, it must be understood how big the payoff is. Natalism, the successful raising of children by healthy families, is the single most fundamental element to long term success. The single biggest factor outside ourselves is the community and the difference between a bad community and a good one will determine if we are constantly battling negative influence or empowered by the encouragement and reinforcement of healthy values.

Your Community is One Generation Away from Becoming Family

While we might not think of our community as being as important as family, realize that your children will probably marry the children of the other families in your community and assuming they have children, you will have shared grandchildren. So if we extend our consideration even a single generation forward, we realize that the members of our community are likely to become extended family. If we truly want to set our future generations up for long term success, this means surrounding ourselves with a community we want to be close with. That values the future of their children as much as we do.

Fraternity

We have established that Natalism, the successful raising of children, is dependent on not just a healthy family, but a healthy community. We might then ask, what is necessary for a healthy community. A healthy community is a manifestation of the strength of men and the bonds between them. And so if we wish to have healthy families and healthy communities, we must first start by building strong fraternal networks with like minded, competent, and disciplined men.

The ideology of the mainstream delusion is built, among many things, to undermine the ability of men to form these networks. Male only spaces have been invaded and dismantled. The concepts of strong male relationships have been attacked by being framed as either a sign of weakness, a goal of tyrannical, greedy men, or simply homosexual desire masquerading as brotherhood. We are told the only path of a strong man is as a lone wolf. That any reliance on a fraternal network is a sign of weakness. The pursuit of wealth, power, and success is also vilified as the sole ambition of only evil and greedy people. Anything to poison the creation of the primary source of strength for men, communities, and families: fraternal networks.

Call to Action

As I pointed out at the beginning, nothing I have said here is revolutionary, but in a time of such aggressive psyoping against what is healthy and natural, we must reiterate what was once considered obvious. The goal of life is to flourish and the highest manifestation of flourishing is natalism, raising children and setting them up for maximal success. The success of families are dependent not only on the quality of the father and husband leading them, but also the quality of the community surrounding them. A community’s quality is the result of the quality of the men and the strength of the relationships between them.

It would then make sense that our call to action should be to find like minded, competent men and build fraternal networks. If we look back on all the failed solutions offered in the breakaway space, hating evil, self improvement, and awareness of the problems, while necessary, are far from sufficient. By defining the highest good as natalism and understanding the necessity of healthy communities and fraternities, we can align the actions we take and ignore the distractions.

So if you are reading this, I encourage you to refocus your efforts accordingly. Not only are we constantly bombarded by anti-life, anit-male propaganda from the mainstream delusion, we must also contend with the distraction and noise from immature and/or subversive elements in the breakaway space. Most of the news, especially at the national level is a distraction, and while entertaining, should never divert us from taking action towards the most important pursuits. My hope is that now that you have heard the full and comprehensive case for Fraternal Natalism, you will find it easier to stay committed to this path and find your place in this parallel movement.

We are just getting started.