Vaporfornia by Robert Stark: Reviews, Promos, & Podcasts

Vaporfornia is available for purchase on Lulu publishing.

Reviews:
Matt Pegas’ book review: Vaporfornia
RJ Smith: Dissident Reviews #6: Vaporfornia by Robert Stark
Rainer Chlodwig von K: Esoteric Brezhnevism: Commoditizing the Starkian
Pilleater: Max von Mueller meets Lilly Nguyen
a review of Robert Stark’s “Vaporfornia”

ANDROGENIC LITERATURE REVIEW Vol. 4: Vaporfornia
when incelcore doesn’t quite work

Promos:
Politics of Aesthetics revisited in Vaporfornia
Addendum to Vaporfornia
Fictional Presidential Debate in Vaporfornia
Roger Blackstone’s Fictional Campaign Promo in Vaporfornia
Vaporfornia: Three Campaign Promos about the Future of the American Dream

Podcasts:
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 409
Robert Stark on His New Novel Vaporfornia

New Write with Matt Pegas & Dan Baltic: Vaporfornication w/ Robert Stark

Journey to Vapor Island by Robert Stark: Reviews & Podcasts

Journey to Vapor Island by Robert Stark is available on Lulu.

Reviews:

Brandon Adamson reviews Journey to Vapor Island
Magical Miserablism: Robert Stark’s Myths of the Near Future by James O’Meara
Ben Arzate reviews Journey to Vapor Island
‘A Vaporwave Literary Genre? from the mind of Robert Stark” BY “Count Fosco”
Roger Blackstone: The Politics of Aesthetics by Ashley Messinger
Reading Robert Stark’s Novel Gave Me Aids by Rainer Chlodwig von K.
Giovanni Dannato Reviews Journey to Vapor Island

Podcasts:

Robert Stark talks about his new novel Journey to Vapor Island
Self Checkout – Review of “Journey to Vapor Island” by Brandon Adamson
Al Stankard aka HAarlem VEnison talks to Robert Stark about Journey to Vapor Island
Robert Stark talks to Ashley Messinger about Roger Blackstone & The Politics of AESTHETICS
Quiet Place Ep 39: Vapor Island Tourist Trap w/ Robert 

Robert Stark talks about his Personal & Political Transformation

Robert Stark is joined by Matt Pegas to discuss his article, Contrasting my Political Journey with that of Richard Hanania (How I became who I am, as a Woke Chad Centrist).

Topics:
-Whether Robert should write an auto-biography or insider history of the Alt-Right
-The Background of Richard Hanania, who transformed from an Alt-Rightest to a pro-immigration libertarian neoliberal 
-How both Robert and Richard are honest about their trajectories in a way that most people aren’t
-Meeting Richard Hanania in LA
-How Robert never explicitly identified as Alt-Right, and his earlier views weren’t actually that extreme
-How anti-intellectual Chuds have ruined the online dissident right discourse
-Matt’s political trajectory, voting for Hillary Clinton, and then coming across Robert’s podcast in 2018
-Robert and Matt’s Alt-Center project, after the collapse of the Alt-Right
How Robert and Matt manifested Dime Square
-How Robert’s views were shaped by class and demographic dynamics in LA
-How Robert felt pressure to signal to more reactionary viewpoints
-Robert’s promotion of enclavism and phase where he adopted the rhetoric of the multicultural left
-Why Robert now has contempt for conspiracy theorists, anti-Semites, and rightwing populists
-The quasi-religious notion of having to repent for bigoted views rather than evolving
-How people are unaware of how their subconscious, and factors like social status, shape their political views
-How American society places negative moral value on loserdom
-How Robert subconsciously had the same views he has now from an early age
-Narratives about populism vs elitism, and whether hating the rich is a cope
-Why Matt considers Robert’s philosophical views fundamentally rightwing
-Robert’s Aristocratic Radicalism
-Do we need technocracy to manage social status?
-Matt’s upcoming publishing project, New Ritual Press, which will republish Robert’s novel, Vaporfornia
-How Robert is not emotionally invested in the election

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Robert Stark interviews Deep Left about The Election & Political Trends

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Topics:

Why Deep Left is on the Left
-The growing left-right divide over the role of America’s institutions
-Why not all wars are the same, and liberal-led wars have been more successful
-Deep Left’s support for a North American Union and military integration with Mexico
-Trump as a product of a process that begun with Reagan allying with Evangelicals
-Contrasting Trump’s populist anti-globalist campaign of 2016 with his more conventionally conservative 2024 campaign
-Why Trump’s racist comments about Haitian migrants are crude and politically ineffective
-How Trump is harsh rhetorically but lacks effective policy action, while Biden is the opposite of that
-How the migrant crisis is Biden’s main shortcoming
-Trump’s failure to solve the opioid crisis which requires nationalized solutions
-The GOP transforming into a multi-racial male-dominated working class integralist party
-Why Mark Robinson should own his online comments
-How Silicon Valley has warmed up to the GOP, as an empty vessel that is malleable
-The growing Catholic influence on the Right
-Will the GOP embrace welfare nationalism?
-Why high skilled immigrants from India and East Asia are the future of the Democratic Party
-Deep Left’s ideal immigration policy to have open immigration with NATO nations with an annual 1k cap for all other nations
-How Trump is cozying up to oligarchs to escape Jail and build a future dynasty
-How Democrats are becoming more hierarchical and technocratic, and intolerant of any dissenters
-Whether BLM and wokeness were a color revolution?
-How conservatives complaining about double standards between the treatment of Jan 6th and BLM riots is ironically leftist thinking
Why Deep Left is not a centrist and Radical Centrism is not viable
-Deep Left’s proposal to create a greater Brahmin class via academia, independent of profit motives
-The study of human genetics and hereditability
-Why the pro-life cause is radically egalitarianism and impractical
-How the job market does not match up with the cognitive abilities of the populace
-Hypothetical proposal to push natalism on the wealthy
-Why Deep Left predicts Kamala will win

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Robert Stark’s Articles & Vanity Features

Reviews:
Joakim Andersen: Robert Stark and the Radical Center (in Swedish) English
Doxometrist: Alt-center pill: TL;DR of Robert Stark’s proposal
GiantArt Productions: The Fauvist Vaporwave Interiors of Robert Stark
Shane Eide: The Alt-Center, Starkianism and the Demystification of Social Capital

Unz Review:
The Denmark Plan Versus Right-Wing Multi-Culturalism
Pod-Living vs. the White Picket Fence: A False Dichotomy
You Can’t Take Back America But You Can Join the Tribe
Who Breeds in California
Exploring California’s Political Demographics Based On In-Depth 2020 Election Analysis
White Millennials: America’s Sacrificial Lamb
The Real Wealth Gap: The intergenerational wealth gap, the housing crisis, and how “BLM vs. MAGA” poisons the discussion on every issue

Stark Truth:
Alt-Urbanism: Building a Based Urban Middle Class SWPL Utopia
Alt Urbanism: Retrofitting The Aesthetically Pleasing Suburb
Scarcity of Positional Goods is the basis for Aesthetic Socialism
Aristocratic Aesthetic Socialism

Taki’s Magazine:
Andrew Yang and the Post-Nationalist Future

Substack:
Contrasting my Political Journey with that of Richard Hanania (How I became who I am, as a Woke Chad Centrist)
How California will reinvent itself after the Recession
In Praise of Jewish Architects
In-depth analysis of California’s many Immigrant Enclaves (Part II
White European Immigrant Enclaves in California)

White Dudes for Kamala: Wokeness Normalizing White Identity
Thoughts on The UK Riots, Elite Theory, & anti-outgroup-based Civic Nationalism
Alt-Center Values Contrasted
Text Interview with Kaiser Basileus about Libertarian Fascist Socialism
Bleak Post-2020 Demographic Data for California (California lost almost One Million Whites from 2020 to 2023)
J.D. Vance and The Future of MAGA (J.D. Vance is the best heir to MAGA out of numerous uninspiring choices) 
Prediction for the best case scenario for Trump on Immigration (Will Trump Brain Drain the First World and change the composition of immigrants?)
Is Castizo Futurism compatible with White Tribalism?
My First Magic Mushroom Experience
Immigrants and the Wealthy are saving the White Race in America, not the Middle Class
In-depth analysis of California’s Immigrant Enclaves (Latin American/Latino Enclaves)
A Proposal for a New Caste System
Sacramento: A Portrait of California’s Mid-Size City
Intro: Dualism as the Philosophical Foundation of the Radical Center
Sacramento: A Portrait of California’s Mid-Size City
Distributism Needs a Techno Upgrade for The 21st Century
Lead us not into Tuckoldry (A constructive critique of Tucker Carlson)
Radical Centrist Platform to resolve the Gender Wars
Why I don’t have an ethical problem with Welfare
Curtis Yarvin’s Neoreactionary case for a Biden Monarchy
Conservatives’ response to anti-Israel Protests in contrast with anti-White Riots
South Africa as a Template for a Slow-Motion Collapse
Libertarianism does not Guarantee Freedom
Hereditarianism is by far the Greatest Taboo in America
The Philosophy of Radical Egalitarian Capitalism
The problems with Rightwing Third Worldism
2024 Election: Acceleration vs. Consolidation of Power
Does Liberal Zionist “Double Standard” Justify Rightwing Anti-Zionist Stance?
Review of Costin Alamariu’s Selective Breeding And The Birth Of Philosophy
Can Americanism be sustained without Whiteness?
Can Near-Death Experiences be Legit but Theologically Contradictory?
White Lives Matter California’s terrible optics in Walnut Creek
The state of California Real Estate with the incoming Recession
Dark Brandon’s Open Borders Scheme and the Open Borders for Hotties Meme

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Robert Stark interviews Ross Calvin about his American Colossus Project

Robert Stark speaks with Ross Calvin about his American Colossus Project, a proposal to construct a statue of the Greek Titan, Prometheus, on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Ross Calvin is from New Mexico, has a finance background, running an Austrian economics-focused investment fund in global macro, frontier markets, and volatility for 10 years. He transitioned to become a bitcoin miner, and developed a blockchain platform for oil and gas. Subscribe to Ross Calvin on Substack, and check out the American Colossus project on Substack, X/Twitter, and Instagram.

Topics:
-The tie in between the Mythos of Prometheus and Sound Money
-Prometheus as a symbol of triumph, beauty, the power of technology, and the regenerative spirit of man
-Ross’s inspiration from Jason Jorjani’s Prometheism, who is no longer involved with the project
-The hope that the Prometheus Statue can usher in a new renaissance for America and California
-The enormous reasons for optimism to counter pessimism and demoralization
-The significance and meaning of “The Pursuit of Happiness”
-How the Prometheus Statue will be a bookend to the Statue of Liberty, but much larger
-San Francisco’s natural and architectural beauty, and significance as the Manifest Destiny City
-The negative publicity about San Francisco’s decay and the drug crisis
-The oppressive symbolism of the Alcatraz prison and why Calvin does not think it has any historic preservation value
-The Statue’s designer and sculptor, Fen de Villiers
-The contrast between the archeo-futurist symbolism of Art Deco vs “the staidness of institutions” of Neo-Classicalism
-The plan to appeal to Trump, as presidents have the authority to create National Monuments
-Trump’s persona as a builder, his proposal to create a statue memorial garden, and his neoclassical executive order
-The project countering the iconoclasm and spirit of deconstruction
-Why artists should have a greater role in the economy and technological innovation
-How Silicon Valley has become monolithic, State oriented, and less creative
-How Prometheus stands against censorship
-Plans for a documentary and a museum that will be a temple to the Promethean spirit

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Robert Stark interviews Anti-Racism Advocate, Alexander Ohnemus

Alexander Ohnemus is an anti-racism/critical race theory advocate from Sacramento, California. He is a follower of the philosopher, Karl Popper, believing in negative utilitarianism (minimizing suffering), open society, and critical rationalism. Check out Alexander’s articles on Substack and Research Gate.

Topics:

-Alexander’s stance on genetic hereditarianism and how it relates to Racial Equity/CRT
-How colorblind meritocratic arguments are insufficient in explaining social stratification and inequalities
-The concept of Implicit Bias
-Why White people are better off in an Open Society
-How CRT/racial equity relates to a declining White population
-Whether Whites will become more ethnocentric and reactionary as a minority
Alexander’s proposal to use Transhumanism (eg. artificial wombs) to increase the NW Euro White population to pay for reparations
-Whether this proposal could bridge the Left/Right divide
-Why a more progressive society requires progressive White people to reproduce more
-Whether the Left will allow for positive White Identity Politics (eg. White Guys for Kamala)
-Examples of policies where the Left is better for Whites (eg. work from home boosted White fertility)
-Enclavism/balkanization vs. racial integration in California
-Why reciprocity and harm avoidance are the key foundations for good race relations
-Why the Left is overall better for neurodiversity (eg. disability benefits and autistic people getting more lenient sentences from liberal judges)
-How autistic people are disproportionately harmed by speech codes
-How asexuality is part of LGBTQI and different from the incel issue
-Why incels should stop blaming people who reject them and join LGBTQ
-How artificial wombs could help both asexuals and incels in the future
-How dysgenics leads to Social Darwinism and reactionary societies
-Alexander’s universalist theological views and his book Highly Theoretical Differential Equations of the Afterlife
-How belief in reincarnation enforces social stratification (eg. Hindu Caste system and Plato’s Republic)
-Neville Goddard, New Thought, and the potential risks of manifesting

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Robert Stark interviews Kitemporal

Robert Stark and Francis Nally (aka Pilleater) talk to Kitemporal about philosophy, class, eugenics, sexuality, and gender roles. Kitemporal describes himself as a Radical Leftist, individualist, and eugenicist. Subscribe to his Substack and follow him on Twitter/X.

Topics include:

-Why Kitemporal calls himself a leftist, even though the left and right are arbitrary terms
-How managerial liberalism stifles human potential and is dysgenic
The backrooms as a metaphor for managerialism
-Why deconstruction is a valuable tool and can have anti-liberal results
-Why the Right has more respect for Bolsheviks than liberals
-How eugenics can be used for egalitarian aims (eg. breeding out toxic masculinity)
-Why Kitemporal calls himself a natalist nihilist
-The pros and cons of eugenics based on class
-Fertility trends by class
-Do libertarians, nerds, and artists have the lowest fertility?
-Beauty dysgenics
-Eurasians as a distinctly upper middle class ethnogenesis
-Why Kitemporal disagrees with the Ancient Problemz show that guys getting oral is upper class coded but rather macho coded
-How the normalization of fetishes makes them less transgressive
-The Ahegao face meme
-Whether low status men going down on high status women can ease the incel issue and  perhaps class warfare
-How anything can be normalized as high status to NPCs
-The latent bisexual undercurrents in rightwing politics
-Kitemporal’s new money redneck background
-Kitemporal’s esoteric proposals for gender roles
-How granting women the option of taking on full male gender roles discredits feminism
-Kitemporal’s religion of Dynostiscism

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Robert Stark interviews Ancient Problemz about the Peculiar Practices of The Upper Class

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Topics include:

-Robert’s article on the Politics of Oral
-Ancient Problemz’s upper middle class Jewish background and exposure to wealth
-The mass suburban affluence of the 1990s
-The late 90s/00s raunch culture with movies like American Pie, Wild Things, and Cruel Intensions
-American Beauty’s portrayal of upper middle class suburbia
-The 00s moral panic about oral
-Why oral is upper middle class and White coded
-Ancient Problemz hearing from gentile men in college that Jewish women are orally gifted
-How elites and proles are more degenerate while the middle class are prudes
-How the upper middle class and wealthy are discrete about their sexuality
-How people signal about politics and sexuality
-How natural-looking understated cosmetic surgery is a status signal for the wealthy
-The degree of validity to various anti-Semitic tropes
-Why rich high status women won’t let low status men go down on them for the same reason that BLM fizzled out
-Neo puritanism about sexuality
-Why zoomers are screwed up psychologically and sexually
-Why natalists should live by example
-Why physiognomy, the science of physical appearance, is legit

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Robert Stark interviews Meta Ronin about Esoteric AI

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Topics include:

-How the moniker means a nomad like Ronin and Meta means transcending the greater truth
-Robert’s article on Techno Distributism
-The ineptitude of luddites and why we should embrace automation
-The case for UBI and the value of leisure
-The role of status and competition in a post-scarcity society
-The mentality of “I had to suffer so now you have to suffer too”
Ray Kurzweil’s Moore’s Law
-Meta Ronin’s advocacy of Robot Waifus
-How AI GFs can serve as the Jungian anima, or inner feminine
-The Gamma male archetype
-How AI can be used for Jungian Shadow Work
-AI as a tool for Parapsychology/Spiritual Science to point to cosmic truths
-Creating a new Brahmin caste by brain-scanning people for spiritual responses
A dystopian proposal to use magnets to rewire brains to make people less racist and religious
-Uploading consciousness to AI
-Meta Ronin’s interest in Daoism and Shintoism
-How religion is shaped by genetics
-Whether AI will become conscious/sentient
-Why AI will be good for offering everyone a specialized path
-Meta’s Ronin’s ideal urban model
-Beauty aesthetics as a value and hierarchy: order to sensory input on instinctual level
-Automation creating Darwinian bottlenecks
-Ethnogenesis forming between Whites and Asians
-The eugenic implications of artificial wombs
-The Silicon Valley neo-reactionaries
-Aristocratic reasons for opposing consumer capitalism and mass democracy
-Meta Ronin’s upcoming sci-fi novel
-Dystopian scenarios, such as a Chinese-style social credit system
The Stellar Engine
-Kurzweil’s Age of Spiritual Machines
-Terrance McKenna’s Transcendental Object at the End of Time

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I chat with Walt Bismarck about White Dudes for Kamala & Job Stacking

This is a simulcast with Walt Bismarck’s Radio Tortuga podcast.

On today’s episode of Radio Tortuga Walt Bismarck speaks with yet another WRP alumnus: everyone’s favorite eclectic Californian, Robert Stark.

In this call we catch up on the latest developments surrounding Kamala and JD Vance, California NIMBYism, Walt’s job stacking project, the value of usury, and much more.

Topics Include: 

  • Robert’s article White Dudes for Kamala: Wokeness Normalizing White Identity
  • Is White Dudes for Kamala pro-White or anti-White?
  • Kamala isn’t nearly as scary as Hillary
  • High IQ right wingers go into business, not government institutions
  • Democrats can talk explicitly about white people in a way Republicans can’t
  • The Woke are more correct than the mainstream
  • Multiculturalism that includes whiteness is better than civic nationalism
  • Walt’s Pro-White Case for Reparations
  • Implicit Soft WN is in the mainstream GOP Overton Window
  • Walt’s resentment towards victim mindset of many white nationalists
  • Why Walt is opposed to BAPism
  • Is JD Vance “weird?”
  • The pain associated with being in between white trash and elites
  • How “weird” plays into the Democrats increasingly becoming the party of bourgeois middle class suburban values
  • The move of white male nerds from Left to Right
  • The GOP is now the party of open displays of sexuality (Hawk Tuah)
  • The extreme dearth of elite human capital in academia / bureaucracy
  • Brahmins vs. Vaishyas is an antiquated way of looking at the world because the asymmetric symbol manipulation economy advantages Brahmins
  • How Walt is adding an ethical / aesthetic substance to job stacking
  • Zoomers want to be exuberant more than they let on
  • Can significant numbers of existing elites be won over?
  • Is Walt “Grey Tribe”?
  • The Silicon Valley Right—why is tech no longer coded as Left?
  • The morality behind Walt’s job stacking project
  • At will employment, the declining value of reputation, and the existence of HR mean you have a moral obligation to plunder Corporate America
  • Every other ethnic group practices overt or covert ethnic nepotism
  • Job stacking is proof of the inefficiency and waste of the modern economy
  • Con artists are necessary to test the limits of the system
  • People who call others ‘grifters’ are usually poor and untalented
  • Walt thinks people shouldn’t be ashamed to talk about money or be proud of having a high personal income
  • Job stacking as a means of facilitating patronage networks of sophisticated midsize investors
  • AI allows artists to produce high quality content on an industrial scale
  • Mass automation will favor people who are volatile and good at exploiting asymmetric situations
  • Walt’s rejection of pluralism as a consequence of coming face to face with jihad
  • The demographic characteristics of Walt’s fanbase
  • Having money lets you define the rules within your own bubble
  • Walt’s objection to Vance’s comments on “childless cat ladies” and the associated status jockeying between parents and DINKs
  • The U-Shaped class distribution in many characteristics
  • The right wing puts too much emphasis on procreation
  • The civilizational threat of dopamine traps
  • Creativity is the best escape from addictive Skinner Boxes
  • Will conservative Christians take over given differential fertility rates?
  • America’s lack of real downward mobility contributes to the crisis of competence
  • If California seriously embraced YIMBY LA would drain the Midwest of people
  • Why Walt maintains that usury is a fantastic thing for class mobility
  • Financial derivatives help stabilize the economy and the Federal Reserve is good
  • Debt facilitates harder work and social vitality
  • Proles and Donald Trump don’t pay their debts but the middle class does
  • Walt’s plan to drain Russia of its population

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Robert Stark talks to Ed Dutton about Woke Eugenics

Robert Stark and co-host Francis Nally speak with the Jolly Heretic, Ed Dutton, about his new book Woke Eugenics: How Social Justice is a Mask for Social Darwinism. Ed Dutton co-wrote Woke Eugenics with J. O. A Rayner-Hilles and you can purchase it from the publisher,
Imperium Press. Dr. Edward Dutton is an English Anthropologist based in Finland and is the host of the Jolly Heretic on YouTube and BitChute. You can follow him on Twitter and check out his books on Amazon.

Topics:

-Woke Eugenics’ thesis that wokeness is a Darwinian selection mechanism that will bring mankind back to being genetically healthy
-How wokeness fast-tracks the civilization collapse in which genetically maladaptive people won’t survive to pass down their genes
-How wokeness is exacerbating the fertility disparity between liberals and conservatives
-How anti-White discrimination selects for Whites who are exceptional, as well as provoking a rightwing backlash
-Why ethnocentric and religious people will survive the battle of group selection
-Why interracial mixing means that remaining Whites will be more K-Selected
-How anti-natalism selects positively for heritable fertility traits (eg. Whites may end up with higher fertility in the long run)
-The ethnogenesis between Whites and Asians among the higher strata
-How immigration and anarcho-tyranny will break down liberal society into tribalism
-The meme “The woke are more correct than the mainstream”
-How AI will keep civilization afloat while hastening genetic selection pressures
-Transhumanism and gene editing
-Why wokeness not existing in Japan may lead to Japan’s demise
-The recent pivoting of elites and the establishment away from wokeness back toward the Center
-How Gen Z are extremely politically polarized

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