Monthly Archives: January 2016

Robert Stark interviews Colin Liddell about David Bowie

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Topics include:

Colin’s background in music journalism
How he interviewed  Ian Astbury of the Cult, Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, Herbie Hancock, and Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa
Colin’s article Loving the Alien
The significance of the year 1947 of Bowie’s birth and the year 2016 of his death
How in the 70’s Bowie set the style while in the 80’s he was influenced by the sound of that era
The liberal concept of progress and how each decade from the 50’s to 80’s had a distinct culture
How culture has stagnated in the 21st Century
Bowie songs that told a story such as Space Oddity
Bowie obtuse and abstract lyrics
Bowie’s use of symbolism
How different people have their own interpretation of Bowie’s work
Bowie and British culture
How Bowie and British bands in general put a stronger emphasis on visual imagery
Bowie’s non musical artistic endeavors
Bowie as a precursor to troll culture
How Bowie and other counter-culture icons of the 70’s and 80’s such as the Clash, Sex Pistols, Joy Division, and New Order flirted with fascist symbolism
The Nietzschean aspects of Bowie
Peter Schilling’s Major Tom which was inspired by Space Oddity and Neue Deutsche Welle


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Robert Stark interviews Ann Sterzinger about In the Sky

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In the Sky(Dans le ciel) was written by Octave Mirbeau in France in the 1890’s. Ann Sterzinger translated the first English edition published by Hopeless Books. It’s available on Amazon.

Topics include:

How Ann discovered the book from Pierre Michel, a French literary scholar specializing in the writer Octave Mirbeau
How Mirbeau is best known for his book Diary of a chambermaid but In the Sky was little known outside of France
How Mirbeau was an anarchist and a Dreyfusard
How Mirbeau was a major influence on Louis-Ferdinand Céline who shared his misanthropic outlook
How Céline was marginalized for his support of the Vichy Regime however he influenced many writers such as Jack Kerouac, John Dolan, Charles Bukowski, and Michel Houellebecq
How the book reflects Mirbeau’s outlook towards life and society
The main character X who is a depressed, misanthropic, artist based on Vincent Van Gogh who Mirbeau knew
The Narrator who discovers X’s manifesto after his death
How X struggles to create his artistic vision
X’s mentor who looses his mind
The post Catholic concept of expressing spirituality through art
How X struggles with sexual and romantic frustration and when he finally meets a girl he dumps her because she did not live up to his romantic ideals
How the of meaning of the title In the Sky and both where X lives on top of a mountain where you can only see sky and  metaphor for being detached from society
Mirbeau’s view on the family and how neurosis is pasted down from parents to children
How the book combines tragedy and comedy
Matt Forney’s review Elliot Rodger Goes to Paris
The genre “Loser Lit”
Ann’s article Dead David Bowie, French Nationalists, Antinatalism, and the Meaning of Life
David Bowie’s art & legacy
Her article The Magical Bottomless Labor Pool which connects political themes to her book NVSQVAM
Why I’m Scared of Widows & Orphans
Applied Dysgenics
In Defense of Beta Females
Ann’s upcoming Science Fiction Dystopia novel Lyfe, which needs a publisher that specializes in Science Fiction


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Robert Stark interviews Andy Nowicki about Conspiracy, Compliance, Control, & Defiance

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Robert Stark talks to Andy Nowicki about his new book Conspiracy, Compliance, Control, and Defiance: a primer on what is, and what is to be done,  now available on Amazon.com

Topics include:

How the book is not a conventional conspiracy theory book but one that focuses on the human condition and ways in which a person’s integrity can be manipulated
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
How personal needs for affirmation, praise, and status are dependent on other people and allow one to be exploited by them
How Andy was motivated to write the book by the struggle to become independent from the need of affirmation from others
The concept of Pride in Christian theology
Envy, how people deal with it, and the Christian view that it’s the only sin that one does not derive pleasure from
How the book deals with a hypothetical alienated man who is struggling for his integrity
The role that sexuality plays in manipulation
Conspiracy theories and how they are based on how people in power manipulate things
How the book does not endorse specific conspiracy theories but uses them as examples to analyse human nature
David Icke’s reptilian theory which he presents literally
The Lizard theory as a metaphor for individuals in power who are ruthless, ambitious, and malevolent
9/11 and how it was exploited to control the masses
The Sandy Hook Massacre and how unlike 9/11 there was lack of visual imagery
How there is something terrifying about the unknown
Grief Porn
How the human psyche reacts to danger
Whether media exposure leads to desensification to violence
Empathy and why empathy requires understanding


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Robert Stark interviews Rabbit about the Alternative Left

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Robert Stark and Alt Left Blogger Robert Lindsay talks to Rabbit. His moniker is based on John Updike’s Rabbit, Run and he blogs at AltLeft.

Topics include:

Rabbit’s political journey and involvement with the Alternative Right
How the Alternative Right tends to attract people who oppose political correctness and mass immigration but have left wing views on economic and social issues
How Rabbit discovered the Alternative Left from Anatoly Karlin who suggested he check out Robert Lindsay’s blog
Rabbit’s Alt Left Manifesto
How 60’s icons such as Brigitte BardotEric Clapton, and Art Garfunkel have criticized mass immigration
How the real divide is not between the Right vs. Left but between Nationalist vs. Internationalist
How the Alt Left exist in the space between Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan(Similar to Radical Centrism)
How the modern left embraces globalization and combines Neoliberal economics with political correctness
How the Alt Left opposes laissez-faire capitalism, excessive consumerism, and free trade
The Dysgenic effects of Corporate Capitalism
Why Rabbit supports soft socialism but thinks it can only work within a homogeneous society
Why Rabbit opposes “warm body democracy” and agree with Robert A. Heinlein that people must prove they are invested in the community to have a say in government
How the Alt Left is pro technology and sympathetic to Transhumanism
Why progressive values are best preserved under Western Civilization
How the Alt Left tends to be secular as well as tolerant or indifferent to abortion, birth control, homosexuality and prostitution
How Rabbit is interested in modern art and culture
How Rabbit is basically “purple pill” on gender issues, agreeing with certain manosphere concepts while rejecting the crude machismo and blaming western women for all the societies ills
The Northwest Secessionist movement
Rabbit’s interest in the Zodiac Killer


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Robert Stark talks to Charles Lincoln & Robert Lindsay about LA, the 1980’s, & Blade Runner

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This is a continuation of the discussion on True Stories

Topics include:

The demographic transformation of Southern California
Robert Lindsay’s experience as a substitute teacher
Beverly Hills
The Film Fast Times at Ridgemont High set in the San Fernando Valley in the early 80’s
The depiction of adolescent sexuality in the film
How in the 70’s and early 80’s hedonism existed with less materialism and higher social trust than today
How the rise in hyper materialism coincided with the popularity of Reagan
How Robert Lindsay was involved with the Punk scene in the 80’s
The Film Earth Girls Must be Easy
The Porn Industry in the San Fernando Valley
Southern California Mall Culture
How the decline of traditional Mall Culture symbolizes how all of society is becoming one giant mall
How strip malls in LA are being replaced by higher density development
The debate about density and Urbanism
Mexican Culture vs. Mexican American Culture in California
The Film Blade Runner which is set in LA in 2019
Whether Blade Runner is an accurate depiction of the future
The genre of Dystopian Future Films(ex.Hunger Games, V for Vendetta, Mad Max)
NEON SIGNS OF BLADE RUNNER
The Film “Her” which depicts the future of LA as an eco friendly SWPL utopia
The decline in the quality of products

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Robert Stark interviews Randall Burns

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Randall Burns is a graduate of the University of Chicago Department of Economics where his professors included Maynard Krueger and Arcadius Kahan. He worked for years in the tech industry and helped with an early database integration for what eventually became the world’s mostpopular credit card fraud detection system. He was the DBA supporting a team of auditors working on the investigation of convicted felon Bill Griffin, former CEO of a major insurance company. He was a volunteer for the 1976 Carter campaign. In 1990, he published “Rx for the Environment and the Economy” in the Oregon Peaceworker, which proposed a revenue neutral tax shift to pollution taxes. An initiativeadvocating similar policies will be on the ballot in 2016 in Washington State. In 2004, he helped write the Kucinich Campaign’s statement on Guest Worker Visas. Randall Burns – VDARE.com

Topics include:

The Tech Industry and impact of H1-B Visas
Ted Cruz on H1-B Visas
Donald Trump, his economic views, and why Randall preferres the old wealth-tax Trump
Will Trump Renounce His (Legal) Use Of Indentured Immigrant Cheap Labor?
Bernie Sanders, his stance on immigration, and Guest Worker Visas
The minimum wage, immigration, and why it should be adjusted for cost of living on a regional basis
The Guaranteed Minimum Income
The Pollution Tax and how to implement it without encouraging outsourcing
The progressive case against mass immigration and why it’s difficult to get the left on boad
Faux Corporate Progressives
The Georgist Economic Philosophy
The affects of immigration on real estate
Income Inequality
The European Migrant Crisis
How US foreign and economic policy contributes to mass immigration

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