The Pragmatosphere

The Pragmatosphere is a growing network of blogs with a shared interest in some far-right topics, such as racialism, hereditarianism, and a little bit of white genocide rhetoric. They call themselves "The Pragmatosphere" after one of the chapters in Blithering Genius's book On the Edge.On the Edge by T. K. Van Allen (2023). ISBN 9798386656836. The chapter, titled "pragmatopia", attempts to provide a positive vision of the future by describing a more stable form of modernity, including a world government, a more sparing use of natural resources, and eugenic population control (a parental license system to prevent dysgenics and overpopulation). These measures are the main political goals of The Pragmatosphere, sometimes brought together under the euphemistically-tinged umbrella term rational humanism.https://thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com/2020/04/toward-rational-humanism.html
Most of these bloggers are atheists, and much of their worldview is based on Blithering Genius's ideas regarding evolution. Other major influences are the HBD movement, Malthusianism and Richard Dawkins.Debunking the Selfish Gene: The Phenocentric Theory of Biological Purpose by T. K. Van Allen (2023). ISBN 9798379316754. 
Besides the blogs described below, they have primarily spread their ideas on Youtube.Liberal / SJW Debate Tactics w/ Blithering Genius (Jul 28, 2018) YouTube.Is Morality An Evolved Delusion? An Impromptu Debate with Brittonic Antics (Aug 13, 2021) YouTube. The amount of content creators involved could be in the dozens. 
== Bloggers ==
=== Blithering Genius ===
Blithering Genius is by far the most prominent member of The Pragmatosphere. His blogs include TheWaywardAxolotlThe Wayward Axolotl Blogspot. which he started in 2013 and Expanding RationalityExpanding Rationality Substack. which has some of the same essays. He is also a YouTuber.https://www.youtube.com/@BlitheringGenius While he doesn't appear to be the creator of the term, he is likely to have (possibly inadvertently) founded it, as other Pragmatospherians started their blogs after being influenced by him. 
He has an article titled "Why Most Academic Research is Fake", in which he argues that mainstream academia is plagued by ideological bias and perverse incentives to the point of most research papers being either wrong or otherwise useless. His final point is not that the process should be improved, but that academic research and the opinions of scientists should not be trusted.The Wayward Axolotl This article has been very influential to other members of The Pragmatosphere, which has predictably lead to crank magnetism as they instead turn to much worse ideologically-driven sources.
Another influential article (within The Pragmatosphere) is called "It's Probably Mostly Genetic", in which he argues that differences in averages between white Americans and black Americans regarding income, crime, welfare use, and single parenthood are caused mostly by genetic differences. This is a different claim than the typical hereditarian claim that IQ differences between these two groups are 50-75% caused by genetic differences, as some of these things only exist in relation to one's environment.
=== Zero Contradictions ===
Zero Contradictions is a blogger who has been strongly influenced by Blithering Genius. His blog's homepage includes many links to articles on other blogs, with the lion's share being from Blithering Genius.Zero Contradictions Philosophy Home Page He is a big crank magnet.
He appears to defend the (alleged) legitimacy of race more strongly than Blithering Genius, going as far as to call those who reject the construct "race denialists".https://zerocontradictions.net/faqs/race 
He seems to have learned a very bad lesson from the article "Why Most Academic Research is Fake"https://zerocontradictions.net/epistemology/academia-critique, as he frequently cites racialist and white supremacist blogs for claims regarding human genetics. His more extreme claims regarding race are mostly attributed to Thuletide, a white supremacist blogger. Metapedia is also cited. This is despite Zero Contradictions claiming to be against white supremacy and racism.
In a FAQ page, he has a section on the so-called Great Replacement, in which he fearmongers about white people disappearing.https://zerocontradictions.net/faqs/race#great-replacement He then cites "evidence" from Thuletide of "Anti-White Ideology And Propaganda In The West", none of which is convincing. Finally, he has a section called "Ideas For Boosting Western Fertility"https://zerocontradictions.net/faqs/eugenics#boosting-western-fertility, which is ironic given his claim that overpopulation will be "basically game over for civilization", and that population control will be required to prevent it.https://zerocontradictions.net/faqs/overpopulation#if-no-pop-regulation
The website also links to articles on other topics, such as game theory, not all of which is crankery.
=== Brittonic Memetics ===
Felix of the blog Brittonic Memetics appears to have a more accurate and complex social understanding of human behaviour than both Blithering Genius and Zero Contradictions.Copes by Felix (October 13, 2023) Brittonic Memetics, WordPress. However, he is rather gullible to some forms of biological crankery. He has said that he used to argue with racialists online, but they managed to change his worldview in the end.Fallout by Felix (December 30, 2022) Brittonic Memetics, WordPress. He mentions them linking him to "studies". Given that he has linked to Emil O. W. Kirkegaard, it is likely that these were merely studies conducted by random racialists.
Felix has his own "Racial differences" article. This one is milder than the one from Zero Contradictions. He acknowledges the socially-constructed nature of race.Racial differences by Felix (June 7, 2022) Brittonic Memetics, WordPress. Though the reasons he gives here are not all logically sound.
Felix has an article on the "gay germ theory", which is the hypothesis that male homosexuality is caused by a mind-altering pathogen. This hypothesis originated from pseudoscientist Gregory Cochran. Felix said he doesn't have complete confidence, but that he believes it's "likely to be true".Bugs and rainbows by Felix (August 1, 2023) Brittonic Memetics, WordPress. The article cites Emil O. W. Kirkegaard.
=== Eternal Anglo ===
This is a much smaller blog than the others. It has interactive maps showing fertility rates by race in various western countries by region,Fertility by Race by Region, New Zealand (May 13, 2020) Eternal Anglo weblog. as well as a blog post about where different countries should source their immigrants based on their purported IQs.Click on a Country; I'll Tell You Where That Country Should Source Its Immigrants (Dec 29, 2023) Eternal Anglo weblog. Why would anyone want that?
They link to Emil Kirkegaard's blog in the sidebar.
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