While our modern world seems to be falling further into chaos and it might not always feel like we are making as much progress as we would like both personally and collectively, it is my experience that most people do not give themselves enough credit. So I want to begin this end of year reflection by encouraging you to take some time to acknowledge the challenges, but also what you have accomplished to get this far.
There is still much to be thankful for, and while success is still a long way off, there are many little victories to be proud of. From the aid efforts in North Carolina, to many successful networking events for like minded people, as well as small business projects, content collaborations, and the great discussions online, I have seen a lot of progress and hints of what is possible going forward.
The start of the new year serves not only as a time of celebration and appreciation, but as a time for reflection on the past and preparation for the future. While this is a practice that is hopefully routine in your life already, I want to take this opportunity to both encourage you to do so, and also lay out my own biggest takeaways from 2024 and my focus going into 2025.
Original Goals of The Meta Prime Project
When I started my content back in 2021, my goal was to create content that would be helpful for those who had realized how crazy the world really is and were looking for a healthy and practical path out and forward. We all know it is easy to get sucked down rabbit holes, stuck in rage spirals, or to feel hopeless in how insurmountable the problems of our modern age seem, but there was little practical, actionable, and positive advice out there to help newcomers avoid the traps and understand what really matters.
My approach was to orient people towards transcendent truths, the value of personal excellence, family, community, and prosperity. To encourage creative building of parallel systems to serve as an alternative to the broken and corrupted ones we are subjected to today. There are, however, a few things I didn’t really understand until I started trying to put these ideas into practice.
Network Before Projects
As I started to look for parallel projects to be involved in or champion, I noticed that many of these projects, while they might have been started with good intentions and desirable goals, quickly fell apart. This was not due to the viability of the goals, but the cohesion of the people who were undertaking them. Gathering a bunch of strangers together, no matter how likeminded, is doomed to go through intense growing pains as projects are already difficult enough undertakings without the added necessity of people getting to know each other and learning how to work together.
The solution I have found is to focus first on building high trust fraternal networks of like minded and competent men before jumping headlong into any large projects. This way, any larger project has a much higher chance of success as it will not be hindered by the additional work of men figuring out if they can work together, let alone trust each other.
My next article in 2025 will be on Work Parties, local fraternal groups who focus on small community service projects as a way to get to know people, add value to the community, and establish trust. The idea is that if people take on smaller local projects, they can get to know each other in a much lower stakes way that still provides enough experience to know if and how they can work together.
Community is The Keystone
The failure of everything from finding good partners and raising families to business and education can be traced back to the degradation of communities. Well connected communities are super organisms. The collective community can discover and solve problems far better than any individual and many of these problems are solved organically.
Someone loses a job and needs help, word will spread around the community and any opportunity that exists will be found and relayed accordingly. Someone swindles someone in a business deal and word will get around and that person will lose business. A good woman is looking for an eligible man and the community will know who the good men are and offer to set up introductions.
The problem is that our modern society has become fractured and rootless. Kids will go to college far away from home and then get a job somewhere else entirely. They have to start over new and rarely have the time or skills to plug into let alone help create a local community in their new area. Many of the third places like coffee shops and bars, churches, or community groups have gotten smaller with less and less younger members. The boomer generation has left many of their children to make their own way in the world while they use their own money, time, and resources for their personal entertainment.
So much of what is wrong is due to this lack of community and if we are to build something viable, we must understand the essential functions that communities provide and either find communities to be a part of or do the heavy work of rebuilding them where we are.
Natalism is The North Star
As I wrote in my recent article Fraternal Natalism, having children and setting them up for success is the most important goal and serves as the best metric of success for a society. Everything is for naught if we can’t pass on our knowledge, resources, and success on to our children, or don’t even have children in the first place. Establishing natalism as the north star not only informs everything that we should be doing, but everything that we do in service to natalism is also the most fulfilling and meaningful work. To that end, anything you are involved in should encourage and support healthy families and anything that isn’t should be looked on with the utmost suspicion.
Action is The Filter
There are many accounts online trying to sell you their ideas. And while they might even be selling you objectively good ideas, if you are serious about wanting to be a part of something that actually has a chance getting you and your family out the other side of the extinction event that is the mainstream anti-life delusion, you need to be around people who not only encourage self improvement, fraternal networking through positive local action, community, and natalism, but are taking real steps to manifest this offline.
It is also important to note that the best type of action is practical, local, and positive. If you want to attract mature people to your network and not alienate those who might not share all your views but are otherwise good people, focusing on positive, simple action is an extremely effective strategy.
Pro Human Over Trans Human
With the modern advances in science and technology has come a transhumanist philosophy that through biological and technological methods, we can transcend our bodies and become something better. However, this strictly materialist view of the body and mind (soul) as separate and independent things is objectively false and will result in disaster if implemented. Mind and body are inextricably linked and anything built without this understanding is highly likely to produce horrible results.
Not only are transhumanist ideas abhorrent in what they aim to achieve, but many of the promises of transhumanism are objectively impossible. Those who get cybernetic implants thinking it will increase their IQ, allow them to download or convey information, or give them a better quality of life are sorely mistaken and will only end up mutilating and twisting themselves into a hell of their own making.
Instead, we should be thinking about how to optimize humanity in a way that is still in line with our natural biology and utilizes technology in a way that enhances the human experience and not detract from it.
I believe the ideological battle between prohumanists and transhumanists will define the discourse for decades to come and those who are able to see this coming and resist it will be healthier, happier, and more successful than those who fall for the lies of transhumanism.
Going Forward
Considering these points about the importance of fraternal networks, community, family, local, practical action, and the importance of prohumanism my goal with my content will be to lay out in more detail what the necessary and ideal parts of these efforts should look like and the strategies for approaching them both on an individual and group level. My hope is that these insights might help others who are on a similar path have success with their own efforts and the rebuilding of fraternal networks, community, and family will be the foundation for a healthy, pro human future.
I am also working on projects myself to network and build so if you are looking for something to be involved in, feel free to reach out. I am happy to talk with people who are searching and see what guidance I might be able to provide.
Thank you to all who have supported my work this past year. I know it has been a bit of a roller coaster, but I can’t overstate how much it is appreciated. I look forward to seeing what we can create in 2025 and beyond.
Hail the Doers and remember, it was never over and we have never been more back
Community is the keynote is vitally important. Well said as well!!I try and emphasize this in real life to my family and friends.
Purity is the Deal Killer.
Join or create clubs which embody an aspect of your ideals. Use these to get to know individuals within these clubs. From this the meta club arises.
When I was active in a local Libertarian Party affiliate I did this. I networked with a wide array of other organizations. I did not try to convert members of said organizations to be libertarians. I did push where their already existing values overlapped with parts of the libertarian programme. Made some interesting friends and had fun arguments over beers. And when Ron Paul ran for President, both libertarians and peacenik progressives showed up for the Ron Paul meetups.