War is the mother of our specialization.
Aldous Huxley’s naturalist heritage offered an obvious path forward in Brave New World’s recapitulation of the hive. This is obviously something Musk’s TFR advocacy is broaching with IVF and surrogacy.
On the other hand, who needs organic agents when you can manufacture robots? Sterile workers are, after all, merely “exosomatic extensions of their mother” in the words of E. O. Wilson.
That China hasn’t already started manufacturing females with artificial wombs may, perhaps, be chalked up to the foresight of the CCP’s leadership in recognizing the power of manufacturing specialized machine-cells in the womb war called “technological civilization”.
The weird thing – the thing that is continually there “like a splinter in your mind” – is why Elon Musk’s pro-humanity stance, evident in his concern about TFR, doesn’t force him to recognize that he could not only be 4 times wealthier under a wealth tax, but that it would manufacture many more entrepreneurs like Elon Musk who would be doing all the things he can’t get around to doing in the short time technological civilization has to remove to space.
This is one of the steps toward instituting Militia.Money – which would correct the fundamental conflict between civil society and masculinity evident in Gavin’s question – and thereby preserve human sexuality as well as provide humans for the space diaspora.