Elite Fertility

Dynasties of Modern Power Brokers

For your average guy, the path to manhood and creating progeny to continue the family legacy is (theoretically) straightforward. He grows into manhood, finds a trade he can do to establish himself both financially and in his larger community, and then marries a woman who bears his offspring. He then spends his time in work gaining the resources for the family to survive while spending time with his children to impart his values. While this has eroded significantly in the last few generations, it's still the aspiration of most average men in the Western world.

When you deal with the major outliers, though, the story has become very different. Within the very poor, the breakdown of sexual mores has created an environment where you have lowlife bums having children with multiple women, none of whom he bothered to marry. More shockingly though, you're starting to see the very rich and powerful openly act out on their sexual proclivities without even bothering to keep it quiet. While it is easy to scoff at the behavior of these elites, it's also clear they live in a very different world. The average suburban dad doesn't have the opportunity or resources to sleep with countless women, and the times they even get sexual attention from women not their spouse is probably in the single digits.

For the rich and powerful, it's a far different story. How they handle this attention is a fascinating view into the inner workings of their mind, and how they view their station in life. For this exercise, I'll focus on the three most important figures of the last month, whose sexual philosophies differ widely even if their political views are largely in sync. I'm talking, of course, of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and JD Vance.

Trump: The Boomer King

President Donald Trump's first wife Ivana said he never changed diapers or played sports with his children while they were growing up.

Ivana, 68, was asked during a television interview with The Ray D'Arcy Show that aired Saturday night whether her former husband was the type of father who changed diapers. Ivana quickly shook her head with wide eyes and told the host, "No way. No no no, no way. Nope, never changed a diaper."

Ivana — who is the mother to Eric, Donald Jr. and Ivanka Trump — added that Trump "loved the kids, but he would not really be the dad who would take them for a stroll in the Central Park in the stroller or go and play soccer with them or do something like that. He was always on the phone making the business."

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"And he was always on the telephone," she told the host. "He was a good, loving dad, but he could not do... the kids' talk. He did not know how to do that until the kids were in university and he could talk business with them."

Donald Trump Never Changed Diapers or Played Sports With His Children, Says Ivana Trump - Newsweek

Donald Trump had little interest in domestic life. What he had a strong interest in was empire building. In his career as a real estate mogul, his relentless passion in making deals drove him to incredible heights in his profession. His dynamic personality made him a celebrity, and his unique understanding of the common man made him President. His near limitless energy culminated in reaching the highest threshold of power in the world.

While he wasn't much for basic household management and the monotony of family life, he did have a strong interest in his children, specifically ensuring that they entered elite society. In the boomer world, there was a stark delineation between professional and family life, meaning that most of Trump's investment occurred when they became old enough to understand matters of business. He had unique knowledge of elite circles, knowing the unsaid nuances of what made them tick, as well as knowing the pitfalls that have crushed many a lesser man. His father was successful in his own right, and a one-million-dollar loan to his son Trump allowed the young man to attain his own success. He understood the necessity of using status and massive resources to give one’s children an advantage.

Rest assured Trump had a strong hand in Ivanka marrying Jared Kushner, and it's no coincidence that Trump and Barron were constantly seen together when he was campaigning. In contrast to the average dad who throws the baseball with his kid, Trump focused his attention on building an empire for his children to inherit, networking them with elites and tutoring them on the nature of power in order to prepare them for the world. His success was mixed. On the plus side, his children are shockingly loyal. While in times past this would be a given, everyone understands how hard it is in this day and age to have five children with none of them estranged or in bad terms. On the more negative side, none of them were strong enough to become his true heir, and it is more likely Vance will take the mantle than one of his kids. Barron, of course, is a wild card, and we will wait and see if Emperor Barron can be meme magic'd into reality.

His sex life resembles that of a publicly Christian but privately Pagan King, the sort who will have concubines but is discrete about it, while keeping the family line within a monogamous (well, monogamish) structure. He understood the importance of making sure the next in his line is ready for the challenges of adulthood, even if he took little part in their day-to-day upbringing, largely offshoring that to caretakers, tutors, and their mother. When the time came, though, this sort of Father had the connection and power to give his children a strong leg-up on other climbers.

His interest is also in creating progeny that are beholden to a certain people and a certain way of life. In Trump's case until very recently, it was to maintain the post-war liberal consensus that allowed him to so much success. While an old man, the very real threat to both himself and his family spending the rest of their life behind bars has radicalized his thinking, and likely Barron's, turning his family from aristocrats maintaining the old order to the far more precarious mindset of a royal household beset by enemies on all sides, forced to be the incubators of the new order as the old one passes away.

Elon Musk: The Gex-X Warlord

It might be strange to compare a total sperg like Elon Musk to someone like Genghis Khan, but the shoe fits. Both were driven by a relentless will to conquer. It's no coincidence Elon Musk is pursuing Mars with the zeal of a religious fanatic, nor is it a coincidence how much fun he is having crushing his enemies, seeing them driven before him, and hearing the lamentation of their polycule. He is the modern steppe warrior, taking unbelievable risks both financially and personally in his will to power.

Elon Musk has continuously broken the crude but timeless adage "don't stick your dick in crazy." Though there's a modern twist, in that we don’t even know if Musk even bothers to have sex with these women or his they just insert his sperm and forego the sex act entirely. The recent amusing episode with Ashley St. Clair shows the pitfalls of such an r-strategy, but he's rich enough to absorb any financial blow. Musk has a long line of women impregnated with his DNA, with who knows how many kids he secretly has. Musk puts even less effort put into caring for his kids in their childhood than Trump.

This doesn't mean he lacks parental instincts, with his declaration of war against woke largely driven by a bunch of freaks convincing his son to cut his dick off. He is a classic case of a rich man figuring his status makes standard sexual norms unapplicable to him, allowing him to have a whole lot of progeny with little effort. While it's a given his children will be fine, being the recipients of an incredible financial inheritance, it's unlikely they will follow in the steps of his father or share his spiritual outlook.

All in all, a man like Musk is going to win the crude genetic wars by a wide margin. What he is unlikely to win is the battle for his children's minds, who, because of his miniscule attention, will likely grow up to despise much of what Musk lived for. Like his son who got trooned out, many of his children will become like the Janissaries of old, brainwashed to fight against their own blood. Some of his children will likely be just like him though, if only by inheriting his unique personality traits.

Outside of his seed, there is little that keeps him bounded to what happens after he dies. He is a cosmopolitan through and through, and only sees America as the vehicle for his ambitions, specifically to conquer Mars. There is no noblesse oblige to the millions of Americans or South Africans where he comes from. While his Twitter populism gives him an ego boost, we’re all just a means to an end. To his defense though, to most people on the right Musk is only a means to an end also, and will be discarded when no longer useful. There are no irretractable bonds, only friends and enemies based on how they facilitate his thirst for conquest. It's clear from his talks that he fully expects to fulfill his destiny of reaching Mars within his lifetime, his sole drive to see his efforts come to fruition before his last breath.

JD Vance: The Millennial Wifeguy

One of the harshest criticisms by children of the boomer generation is the total lack of time commitment from their parents. This was the generation of the turnkey kids who went home to an empty house while their parents worked and often felt more like tenants than children with real parental attachments.

Millennial dads have followed a very different philosophy, being heavily involved in their children to the point many accuse them of being smothering. This largely has to do with social norms. Now many see fathers with heavy working hours as failing their parental obligations as opposed to selflessly sacrificing to earn the family bread.

It is also seen as unfair to leave an inheritance and narcissistic to prime one’s children to take over the family business, giving less incentive to work long hours. Add this to the increasingly common of two-income households and it's become a new normal. On the plus side, they are very loyal, more likely to be around the house helping with day-to-day chores, and have a more active hand in their children's young education. With the dawn of more work-from-home, a lot of situations have been normalized that would make a father die of embarrassment in a previous age. Take what Vance said when Trump asked him to be Vice President.

In the hotel room, when JD finally had a chance to talk to Trump, Trump mentioned, "JD, you missed a crucial phone call, and now I’ll need to choose someone else." JD explained that his son was incessantly talking about Pikachu at that moment. "I told him, 'Son, be quiet for 30 seconds... I have the most important call of my life...'" JD added that Trump overheard the conversation and asked him to put the phone on speaker so his son could hear the news. Trump read the statement and asked JD’s son for his opinion. The boy thought it was "pretty cool," and JD said that moment changed his life.

This would have never happened twenty years ago, as the separation of professional and family life was far starker. Some of this is positive, in that it teaches children what the fathers do, but can also be negative in that the extra responsibilities can encumber a father from building a dynasty for his children to inherit. While it worked okay for Vance, every dad has to deal with limited time in a day, and only so much time to build up one's portfolio and connections for your children to eventually benefit from.

While his children are too young to see whether the commitment he has shown will pay off in terms of values, especially with the stark cultural differences between him and his wife, this sort of time commitment makes it easier to instill one's philosophy on the children. It was once taken for granted that general society, specifically schools, would inoculate the children in the same worldview as the parents, and it took a couple of generations to realize how disastrously wrong they were. It used to be your kids could run around the neighborhood after school, play sports at school, and generally shift the burden of raising children on the wider community. As the world has changed, families have had to become more insular to ensure their spiritual survival, and the Millennial dad knows this, though maybe only instinctively.

This type of dad doesn’t have the tightly-knit larger community to introduce his children into, especially with Vance who eschewed his dysfunctional hometown and his wife who left her ancestral homeland. This makes the children of such homes lacking a broader, distinctive identity outside of their immediate family. This will make family formation harder when they get of age, and entering adulthood they will lack a broader society to integrate into. They will be elites without an immutable people to latch on to, though they will have old memories of loving parents who would do anything for them.

The Dual Obligations

In order for a father to be loved by his children, he needs to both be strong and respected in the wider community and show a unique personal interest in his offspring. The dad who plays with his kids constantly but has a meaningless job filed with people who don't respect him won’t be loved. The dad with an empty personal life consisting of no friends won't be loved. A father who is always out doing philanthropic work but never bothers to include his children will also die unloved.

One of the most tragic stories I’ve heard was a friend of mine recounting a funeral he attended of a high-powered man. He was loved for all his charity and professional work and most of the funeral was spent proclaiming his grand works. Then it was the adult son’s turn to speak, and he spent the entire speech telling everyone how his father was never available and how he didn’t feel like he ever knew him, giving a far grimmer picture of the philanthropist. The dad, in his quest for status, never bothered to include his son even when he was of a ripe age to start transmitting these connections to the next generation.

Every father has to learn to balance these two fundamental obligations, with the stern understanding that he can do everything right and still end up hated. It’s a wild ride, whether one is an elite or an average joe. While I am unabashedly of the Millennial Dad variety for both moral reasons and my station in life, I have seen countless good outcomes from fathers who spent their years building an empire their son inherited, whether it be a humble family farm or a large manufacturing business. Every father needs to find where their balance lies and pursue it with fanatical zeal.

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