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Robert Stark interviews Mr. Omar King

aesthetics, Art, California, conformity, Culture, David Lynch, Depravity, dreams, Emotions, Hipsters, horror, humor, Literature, Los Angeles, Matthew Pegas, Narcissism, Omar King, Sexuality, Surrealism

Robert Stark and Matt Pegas talk with author Mr. Omar King about his debut book, An Odyssey Of Dingbats!: A collection of stories and other obscurities, which Omar calls his schizophrenic dime store novel. An Odyssey Of Dingbats is the first and only book published by Matt’s publishing venue, New Ritual Press. Follow Omar on X/Twitter and Instagram.

Topics:

-The launch of New Ritual Press and Robert’s review of its Spring Equinox Party
-The reception and success of An Odyssey Of Dingbats!
-How the book has multiple references to oral s-x, including some real-life incidents
-What is the proper way to pronounce fellatio?
-Omar’s dream about Matt going down on the actress Jessica Lange
–Omar’s interview on the Soft White Underbelly (Inside The Autistic Mind)
-Omar’s inspiration for An Odyssey Of Dingbats, including as a homage to A Confederacy of Dunces and Story of the Eye
–Omar’s cover feature in the literary magazine, Beyond The Last Estate
-How An Odyssey Of Dingbats is more than silly sex humor and has some deeply emotional moments, as well as surreal horror
-Omar’s artwork which is featured throughout the book
-Omar’s love of David Lynch
-The theme of the grotesque in both David  Lynch’s and Omar’s work
-The cliché of people trying to find meaning from Lynch’s work and why art does not need to be explained
-Omar’s hometown, Gardena California, and how places are characters with a life of their own
-The background of why Omar has a southern accent
-How a lot of young Latinos don’t speak Spanish
-The conformity and narcissism among many young people

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The State of The World as LA Burns

Adem Luz Rienspects, aesthetics, alienation, Architecture, Arizona, Art, California, Cape Town, Class, Culture, death, demographics, Ellliot Rodger, Eugenics, Filthy Armenian, France, gentrification, Incels, income inequality, Literature, Los Angeles, Matthew Pegas, Mel Gibson, Nature, Nudism, Omar King, Paris, Philosophy, Phoenix, Race Relations, Santa Barbara, Sexuality, South Africa, spirituality, Travel

Robert Stark casually chats with his friends and fellow authors, Matt Pegas, Omar King,  and Adem Luz Rienspects. Omar has his debut novel, An Odyssey of Dingbats! out in February, and Adem is the author of Mixtape Hyperborea and has a podcast, Static Blue. (Please excuse the background noise and interruptions as we recorded while eating dinner in a crowded restaurant, after a long day at the Hot Spring)

Topics:
-Matt and Adem’s observations of the LA fires from Encino
-How Matt and Robert used to hang out at the Pacific Palisades Starbucks that burnt down
-Whether the Palisades will lose its charm after it rebuilds
-Politicization and class warfare narratives about the fires
-Adem thinks we must have respect for the power of nature
-The philosophical debate about attachment to possessions
-How tragedies, including natural disasters and death, are great equalizers
-The bidding wars and soaring housing costs on Westside real estate
-Robert thinks Adem looks like Luigi Mangione
-How we saw a lot of nudity of both genders at the Hot Spring
-How the crowd at the Hot Spring was upper class coded
-Robert’s adolescent trauma regarding the Palisades
–Filthy Armenian’s podcast about Elliot Rodger and Isla Vista
-Why upper class coded areas like the Palisades and Montecito have a high concentration of attractive people
-Whether the fires will cause White flight out of SoCal
-Why Omar hopes they don’t gentrify his hometown Gardena
-Adem’s thoughts being from Phoenix that people there tend to be philistines about art and culture
-Adem’s description of Scottsdale, Arizona
-Omar tells Robert he needs to “check himself before he wrecks himself,” regarding his oral fixation
-How Adem likes living in LA
-Contrasting LA’s dark energy with the spiritual rejuvenation of the Hot Spring
-Omar tells Robert to strive for excellence
-Adem’s literary event in Paris, France
-Adem’s South African Jewish background and his recent trip to visit family in South Africa
-Adem’s observation that South Africa is as dangerous as people say, with terrible race relations
-Adem’s observation that South Africa’s White upper class has an exceptionally high amount of attractive women

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Robert Stark interviews Mr. Raven 

aesthetics, Alternative Right, American Culture, Architecture, Art, California, capitalism, caste, Cities, Class, conformity, Conservatives, Culture, Curtis Yarvin, decentralization, democracy, demographics, Distributism, Donald Trump, Economics, ethnopluralism, Europe, Ezra Pound, Fascism, Generation X, History, Immigration, Italian Futurism, Managerialism, Mass Democracy, Middle Class, Mr. Raven, Multiculturalism, neo-reaction, neo-tribalism, Politics, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Socialism, technology, Urbanism, Wealth, Wyndham Lewis

 

Mr. Raven is a late GenXer who lives in a wilderness area and makes laser cut paper art.  Subscribe to his Substack, Whisper from the Trees.

Topics include:
-How rural areas are treated like internal colonies
-How the rural vs urban divide plays out in dissident politics
–Sam Francis’ Leviathan and Its Enemies and James’ Burnham’s Managerial Revolution
-The class divide in dissident politics
–The smart but poor demographic who don’t fit in with proles
-How both Robert and Mr. Raven share a downwardly mobile upper class and bohemian background
-Whether America has any aristocratic attributes as a mercantile nation
–The formation of ethnic and cultural enclavism
-How an economic downturn could accelerate enclavism
-Whether enclavism would lead to neo-feudalism
-Why Mr. Raven is skeptical of Curtis Yarvin’s idea of corporate run enclaves
-Why distributism and mutualism are superior economic systems to capitalism and socialism
-Mr. Raven’s essay on Medieval Craft Guilds
-How guilds can address problems of jobs, education, and credentialism
-The need for a tripartite system where different social castes share power
-Misconceptions about the High Middle Ages
-Hans Hermann Hoppe’s, Democracy: The God That Failed, a defense of decentralized aristocracy over centralized democracy
-How resource scarcity could breakdown mass society in the future
–Whether technology will continue to be a force for centralization in the future
–Mr. Raven’s essay on beauty and the role of aesthetics in politics and society
-How America undervalues aesthetics as a hustler society
-Why old money people are superior to new money strivers
-How old money vs new money struggles play out in politics
-The class dynamics in California
-Mr. Raven’s observations on living in San Francisco in 1991
-Why neither Robert nor Mr. Raven voted for Trump
-The case for Trump as a placeholder for preventing the other side from doing bad things
-The economics of the arts
-The problem of conservatives and populists being philistines on art and culture
-Art fascists, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and the Italian Futurists
-The segment of the dissident right that is more culturally sophisticated
-Why Enclavism needs a pluralist dualism of diverse downtowns with homogenous bedroom communities

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Meta Ronin Returns

aesthetics, Alternative Right, Art, automation, Basic Income, California, Carl Jung, censorship, Cities, Class, conformity, Culture, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Elections, Eugenics, Gender, Generation X, Human Bio Diversity, Human Centipede, Incels, income inequality, Kamala Harris, Kashif Vikaas, Meta Ronin, Middle Class, Morality, Nature, Occultism, Oligarchy, Oregon, Personality Types, Politics, Pornography, Portland, Rachel Haywire, relationships, San Francisco, Sex Robots, Sexuality, Silicon Valley, social status, spirituality, technology, Terence Mckenna, Twin Peaks, Urbanism, Walt Bismarck, Wealth

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Topics include:

-Whether the AI/tech bubble is overhyped
-Competing narratives about accelerating innovation in AI vs technological stagnation
-Robert’s initial prediction that Kamala will win and why Meta Ronin thinks Trump will win (Note: this was recorded about a month ago. Robert’s current prediction is about 55% Trump win/45% Kamala win)
-Whether Substack is turning into Twitter
-Whether AI/automation will select for people who are more charismatic Chads rather than nerds
-Mark Zuckerberg’s archetype and his recent rebrand to humanize his image
-How the view that elites are evil is a cope but has some partial truth
-Why streamlining bureaucracy into UBI makes more sense than mass wealth redistribution
-The argument that UBI could be exploited as a State mechanism of control
-Whether taxing the wealthy more is dysgenic
-The genetic traits selected for by wealth from sociopathy to beauty
–What would the Great Class Swap look like if implemented? 
-The film series, Zeitgeist and Fully Automated Luxury Communism
-How the poor are used to scare the middle class into compliance
-How the high cost of living in California selects for conformity
-The pros and cons of both YIMBY and NIMBY policies in California
-How both Meta Ronin and Robert have been exposed to a wide range of class backgrounds, which is the case for artists
-Why middle class people are often boring
-Why bottom up populism rarely succeeds
-How sexuality is often transactional and commodified
-The hypothetical scenario of incels orally servicing high status women
-The intersection of mysticism and sexuality
-The debate about the ethics of letting sexual deviants carry out their fantasies with AI
-How mate selection can often have negative evolutionary outcomes
-How men and women are different spiritually
-How both AI and natural beauty can alchemize the Jungian anima
-Meta Ronin’s life in very scenic Lake Chelan, Washington
-How aesthetics are a great way to win people, especially women, over to your political cause
–Kashif Vikaas’s Meta Right/Meta Modernism project
-Terrence McKenna’s prediction that AI will become a planetary nervous system
-How feasible is it to become financially successful on Substack?

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Robert Stark’s Articles & Vanity Features

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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:
White Upper Class Enclavism vs the Middle Class Melting Pot in California (Demographic observations from visiting Suburban SoCal Malls)
My Second Magic Mushroom Trip Report
Speculating Immigration Trends depending on whether Trump or Harris is Elected
Final Thoughts on the 2024 Election (Why I am not emotionally invested in this Election)
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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Walt Bismarck interviews me about Oral Sex & Power Dynamics

Class, Culture, demographics, Depravity, Gender, Human Bio Diversity, Incels, Redpill, relationships, Sexuality, Walt Bismarck

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

Topics include:

  • Changing attitudes towards the relative intimacy of oral sex vs. vaginal sex
  • The symbolic significance of oral sex in esoteric mysticism
  • Did cunnilingus happen historically or is it mostly a modern practice?
  • Does oral inherently have a power dynamic? If so is this less the case nowadays?
  • Compared to liberal girls it seems conservatives don’t like to be eaten out
  • Do Jewish women enjoy giving and receiving oral more?
  • Does Bill Clinton eat pussy? What about Trump? Bernie Sanders? RFK?
  • The normalization of cunnilingus and swallowing in the 90s and early 00s.
  • Rainbow parties—were they real?
  • Women usually don’t perceive the power dynamics inherent in their varying levels of kinkiness with different men
  • Selection effects of people who sleep across ethnic lines
  • Are Jewish girls who sleep with gentiles motivated by a similar impulse as white girls who sleep with black guys?
  • Does Robert seem Jewish?
  • Do upper middle class people engage in oral more?
  • Rich people navigate more easily in alternative sexual subcultures like polyamory
  • Due to the Victorian cult of innocence feminism elevates the psychological comfort of UMC women over the physical safety of working class women
  • Working class fathers aren’t as protective of their daughters’ innocence
  • The UMC is the most androgynous (see Paul Fussel’s Class)
  • Performative androgyny of the UMC (“my partner”)
  • Is it liberal-coded to eat pussy?
  • Why is there still a stigma about talking about sex publicly?
  • Everyone turns their fetish into a political orientation
  • Liberals have daddy issues; conservatives have mommy issues
  • Incels are detested for talking about power dynamics that need to be kept hidden
  • Female participation in power dynamics is usually unconscious
  • Most guys won’t benefit from hearing redpill truths
  • An essential part of game is pretending it doesn’t exist because it’s extremely low status to discuss these things openly
  • Rob’s proposal that high status women should be orally serviced by incels
  • Normies hate hearing about oblique / asymmetrical sexual tactics because it disrupts and needlessly complicates conventional sexual heuristics
  • Are “shamanic” man more inclined to enjoy cunnilingus?
  • Does eating pussy have to be submissive?
  • Do submissive men enjoy when the girl tastes bad due to the humiliation aspect?
  • Does taste predictably vary along racial lines?
  • Pretty affluent white girls are less hygienic than fat / ethnic / working class girls
  • How dating a Jewess influenced both Rob and Walt’s youthful antisemitism
  • Rob’s suggestion that groyper incels should service women of the IDF
  • Do artsy guys like cunnilingus more?
  • Walt’s resentment for pretentious artsy girls who look down on AI art
  • pilleater’s Asian-Aryanism
  • Why do Gen X / Elder Millennial guys love Asian broads so much?
  • Jews as “hyper-white”
  • Jews are becoming Italian and assimilated Chinese/Indian girls are becoming Jews
  • The Iranian Jewish community of LA and the downward mobility of modern Jews
  • Differences between the Jews of New York vs. California vs. Florida
  • The guido culture of the northeast vs. the North Italian culture of San Fran
  • Florida and Arizona are both Nouveau Riche, but FL is self aware and AZ deluded
  • Phoenix’s inferiority complex toward LA
  • San Diego’s relationship with LA
  • Implication of a relationship’s looks differential in oral sex
  • Where does the opposition to age gap relationships come from?
  • In their youth millennial women would downplay age gaps with Gen X guys, whereas Gen Z girls either are opposed to age gaps or fetishize them (“daddy”)
  • Walt’s ambivalence toward monogamy vs. continuing his alternative lifestyle
  • Potential alchemical / HBD implications of oral sex
  • Edward Dutton’s argument that k-selected people are more into oral
  • Is receiving fellatio more or less vulnerable as a man than PIV sex?

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California Redwoods Photo Album

California, Nature, Oregon, Photography, Redwoods, Travel, Wilderness

The album includes Trinidad California, Lady Bird Johnson Grove, Klamath River, Jedidiah Smith Redwoods State Park, Winchuck River Oregon, Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, and Avenue of the Giants. The photos were taken over Memorial Day Weekend.

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Robert Stark talks about his Personal & Political Transformation

aesthetics, Alan Watts, Aleister Crowley, Alex Jones, alienation, Alt Center, Alternative Right, American Culture, anti-semitism, Aristocratic Individualism, Art, California, capitalism, Carl Jung, Class, conformity, Conspiracy Theories, Culture, Curtis Yarvin, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Emotions, ethnopluralism, Gnosticism, Greg Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Immigration, Incels, Jamie Stewart, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Literature, Los Angeles, Loserdom, Matthew Pegas, Mexico, Morality, Multiculturalism, Narcissism, Neoliberalism, New Thought, Nietzsche, Philosophy, Pilleater, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Race Relations, Radical Center, Rationalism, Religion, Richard Hanania, Richard Spencer, Ron Paul, Sigmund Freud, social capital, Social Darwinism, Social Isolation, Taxi Driver, Urbanism, Vaporfornia, Wealth, Xiu Xiu

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

Academia, automation, Barack Obama, Black Lives Matter, capitalism, caste, Catholicism, Christianity, Class, colonialism, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, coronavirus, Deep Left, democracy, demographics, Donald Trump, Drugs, Economics, Elections, Environment, Eugenics, Feminism, Gender, George Bush, Globalization, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, India, IQ, Iran, Iraq, Israel, JD Vance, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Leftism, Liberalism, Managerialism, Media, Mexico, Middle East, Mormonism, Nationalism, NATO, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Race Relations, Radical Center, Religion, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, Transgender, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, Ukraine, Wall Street, War, Wealth, welfare state

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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 interviews Ross Calvin about his American Colossus Project

aesthetics, American Culture, Ancient Greece, Archeofuturism, Architecture, Art, Art Deco, California, censorship, China, Cities, cryptocurrency, Culture, Donald Trump, Drugs, Economics, Historic Preservation, History, Jason Reza Jorjani, Jeffery Mishlove, Kamala Harris, Mythology, Philosophy, Prison, Retro Futurism, Ross Calvin, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, technology, Urbanism

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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