Category Archives: Literature

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 Adem Luz Rienspects

1960's, Adem Luz Rienspects, aesthetics, Arizona, Art, Bronze Age Pervert, Carl Jung, Colin Wilson, counterculture, Culture, Donald Trump, Drugs, High School, Hipsters, humor, Leftism, Literature, Marianne Williamson, Matthew Pegas, Morality, Music, Mythology, Neoplatonism, Occultism, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Race Relations, relationships, Religion, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Rudolf Steiner, Science, Sedona, Sexuality, social capital, Social Isolation, social status, social trust, spirituality, Surrealism, Theosophy, Vaporfornia

Robert “Starkattack” and Matt “Las” Pegas talk to Adem Luz Rienspects. Adem is the author of Mixtape Hyperborea and you can follow him on Twitter/X.

Topics:

-Intro song: Brian is the Most Beautiful by Memo Boy
Adem’s background as a former Marxist and Sam Harris Centrist Liberal, and how he is now politically homeless
-Was Trump surviving an act of God?
-The current online scene that is more open, decentralized, and culturally oriented
-Is Dime Square a cursed brand?
-Adem’s advocacy for a new Hippie movement
-How the Hippies failed to fulfill spiritual perennialism
-Adem’s unique theological view of God
-Our recent trip to Sedona and its spiritual significance
-“Starkattack’s” heroism in Sedona with the power of friendship
-Adem’s positive and mythical experience attending a Walford Steiner School
-How science and spirituality are fundamentally interlinked
–Our experience with and the spiritual attributes of magic mushrooms
-How shrooms transformed Adem into an Aryan
-The effects of using a soundtrack for Mixtape Hyperborea
-The book’s off the wall humor
-Why friends should call each other racial slurs
-The spiritual component of masculinity
-How male social hierarchies are formed
-Whether the tribal village-like environment of HS should be recreated for adults
-The esotericism of nostalgia

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Robert Stark talks to Matt Pegas about The Black Album

1980's, aesthetics, alienation, Alt Center, Art, Bronze Age Pervert, Buddhism, Carl Jung, conformity, Crime, Culture, Curtis Yarvin, David Lynch, Despair, Donald Trump, Dragon Day, education, Ellliot Rodger, Extroversion, Gnosticism, H.P. Lovecraft, Hipsters, Homosexuality, Incels, Introversion, James Nullick, Jeffrey Dahmer, Jordan Peterson, Journey to Vapor Island, Las Vegas, Literature, Los Angeles, Malls, Marianne Williamson, Matthew Pegas, meditation, Mental illness, Michel Houellebecq, Music, Neoliberalism, Neon, Nihilism, Occultism, Personality Types, Philosophy, Pilleater, Politics, Psychology, Radical Center, Religion, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Robert Lindsay, Rudolf Steiner, Serial Killers, Sexuality, spirituality, Spree Shootings, Tarot, The Perfume Nationalist, Traditionalism, Utopia, Vaporfornia, Vaporwave

Robert Stark talks to Matt Pegas about his book, The Black Album. The Black Album is a collection of essays and short stories, both fiction and non-fiction. The book deals with themes, including alienation, masculinity, incels, serial killers, spirituality, alchemy, philosophy and aesthetics.

Topics:
-the inspiration for the title from Joan Didion’s The White Album and the music trope of color-coded albums
-Mass shootings as a metaphysical attack against reality
-The context of Matt writing himself into fictional stories
-Adapting to writing with time limitations
-Matt’s struggles with serial killer OCD and POCD in adolescence
-the gnostic component to psychology and mental illness
-Jefferey Dahmer and the trope that the weird loner is the most dangerous
-the archetype of the Emo
-coping with malaise and dissatisfaction with life
-transcript of a disturbing correspondence involving an online follower
-Matt’s essay, Renaissance of The Ritual
-Foundational thinking over Traditionalism
-A painting of a failed alchemist and why alchemy is legit
-Matt’s experiences with Tarot, transcendental meditation, and esotericism
-Matt’s Essay, David Lynch, Bronze Age Pervert, and the possibility of inner freedom
-Matt’s thought experiment of a based Marianne Williamson or BAPist version of Steiner schools
-Matt’s essay, The Politics of Aesthetics Revisited
-The esoteric significance of Las Vegas
–Revisiting Alt-Centrism
-How Robert and Matt manifested Dime Square in 2018

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Robert Stark is interviewed about Esotericism

aesthetics, Aleister Crowley, Alt Center, American Culture, Ancient Greece, Aristocratic Individualism, Art, Bronze Age Pervert, California, California Jesus, Calvinism, capitalism, Carl Jung, caste, Christianity, Class, Colin Wilson, conformity, Cults, Culture, Curtis Yarvin, David Bowie, democracy, demographics, Depravity, Donald Trump, dreams, Ernst Jünger, ethnopluralism, Ezra Pound, Fascism, Gavin Newsom, Gender, Gnosticism, H.P. Lovecraft, History, Human Bio Diversity, Incels, Journey to Vapor Island, June Lake, Literature, Malls, materialism, Matthew Pegas, meditation, Memes, Monotheism, Morality, Multiculturalism, Music, Mythology, Nature, neo-reaction, Neoplatonism, Occultism, parapsychology, Philosophy, Pilleater, Plato, Politics, Psychology, Radical Center, Religion, Roman Empire, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Sexuality, social status, spirituality, Surrealism, Tarot, Theosophy, Vaporfornia, Vaporwave, Xiu Xiu

Robert Stark is interviewed by Matt Pegas and his co-host Evan, as a simulcast for their Strange Flows podcast.

Topics:
–Colin Wilson’s study of consciousness
-Robert’s art, Substack writings, and novels
-Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism
–Robert’s case for Theosophy
-Robert’s mystical experience at June Lake
-contrasting Neoplatonism and Gnosticism, in their approach to theurgy, aesthetics and the natural world
-can ugly things be beautiful or divine?
-channeling the fire of youth
-revisiting Robert’s first podcast with Matt from 2018
-rediscovering the song, 9pm (Till I Come)
-occultist, genetic, political, and social dynamics to oral acts
-A critique of the moral authoritarianism and lack of pluralism of Abrahamic faiths
-how we should approach occultism
-prediction that America will have another religious revival
–California’s pan-enclavism
-thoughts on neo-reactionary critiques of democracy, the case for proportional inequality, and how to select elites
-the Art Fascist vs the Warrior Fascist

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Robert Stark talks to Constantin von Hoffmeister about Esoteric Trumpism

1950's, aesthetics, Alain de Benoist, Alexander Dugin, Alternative Right, American Culture, Architecture, Art, Beatniks, Brandon Adamson, California, censorship, Cinema, Cities, Class, conformity, Conservatives, Constantin von Hoffmeister, Culture, Daniel Friberg, demographics, Diversity, Donald Trump, Edgar Alan Poe, Elections, Ernst Jünger, Ethno Nationalism, ethnopluralism, Europe, European Nationalism, Germany, Globalization, Guillaume Faye, H.P. Lovecraft, Hipsters, History, Hollywood, horror, Immigration, Jack Kerouac, Joe Biden, Las Vegas, Liberalism, Literature, Los Angeles, Mass Transit, Matthew Pegas, Media, Middle Class, Millennials, Nationalism, Nietzsche, Occultism, Oswald Spengler, Political Correctness, Politics, Postmodernism, Race Relations, Republican Party, Retro Futurism, Russia, Suburbia, Surrealism, the New Right, The Perfume Nationalist, Urbanism, William S. Burroughs, Zoomers

Robert Stark and Matt Pegas speak with Constantin von Hoffmeister about his book Esoteric Trumpism. This is a simulcast with Matt’s New Write podcast. Originally from Germany, Constantin von Hoffmeister studied English Literature and Political Science in New Orleans. Constantin has worked as an author, journalist, translator, editor, and business trainer in the United States, India, Uzbekistan, and Russia, and is the editor in chief of Arktos publishing. Follow Constantin on Twitter and subscribe to his Substack.

Topics:

Literary references, including William S. Burroughs, HP Lovecraft, and Edgar Alan Poe
Misconceptions about the Beatniks as leftwing (eg Jack Kerouac’s admiration of Oswald Spengler)
How the Beats’ disillusionment shows problems with fetishizing 1950s America
Philistinism on the Right and the rise of a new creative culture-focused Right
How America has an underappreciated rich cultural heritage
America as an extension of European civilization
Rightwing Postmodernism
Trump as the great revealer of hidden Lovecraftian horrors
Why Trump’s political significance is primarily symbolic
Addressing criticisms and disappointments with Trump
Meme magic
Why Constantin rejects accelerationism
Why Rightwing multiculturalism or ethnopluralism is the future 
Constantin’s recent meet up with Robert and Matt in LA, and observation that LA is a model for ethnopluralism
Why Constantin is more optimistic about America’s future than Europe’s
Upcoming Arktos projects, including a new translation of Dominque  Venner on Ernst Junger, a rightwing critique of Nietzsche, and an art history book

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Robert Stark talks to Evee about Culture & Psycho-Social Dynamics

(((Supply))), 1980's, aesthetics, Alan Watts, Alex von Goldstein, alienation, Alpha Males, Alt Center, Alternative Left, Alternative Right, American Culture, Anarchism, Architecture, Art, Asian Aryanism, Brandon Adamson, Cinema, Class, conformity, Conservatives, Consumerism, Corporations, counterculture, Culture, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, demographics, Depravity, Despair, Economics, Eugenics, Evee, Feminism, Film, Francis Nally, Gender, Greg Johnson, Guillaume Faye, Hipsters, Incels, Jason Reza Jorjani, Journey to Vapor Island, Leftism, Liberalism, Literature, Luke Ford, Manosphere, Millennials, Morality, Music, Neoliberalism, New York, Nick Fuentes, Paul Schrader, Philosophy, Pilleater, Poetry, Political Correctness, Politics, Pornography, Postmodernism, Psychology, Race Relations, Radical Center, Rationalism, Redpill, relationships, Retro Futurism, Richard Spencer, Sexuality, Sigmund Freud, social capital, Social Isolation, social status, Socialism, spirituality, Surrealism, SWPL, technology, Vaporfornia, White Nationalism, Yukio Mishima

Robert Starks and Francis Nally (aka Pilleater) talk to Evee about culture and aesthetics, psychology, and sexuality. Evee, a long time fan of the podcast, is an underground artist and musician (formally signed to Eyeball Records) from New Jersey, and is of French and Italian descent. Evee is a soi-disant Avant Garde bohemian, and champagne socialist, with a French mentality in temperament and cultural sensibilities. Check him out on YouTube and Twitter.

Topics:
Evee’s satirical fan videos of Robert Stark, Luke Ford and Jason Reza Jorjani
The New Jersey scene as a more authentic precursor to Dime Square
Revisiting the scene known as the Alt-Left, Alt-Center, or leftwing of the Alt-Right
Aesthetic preferences in art and cinema
The politics and philosophy of aesthetics
Why economic elitism is the enemy of cultural elitism
Why sincere sexual and aesthetic-based racism is preferable to sublimating these preferences into reactionary politics
Why psychoanalysis could cure a lot of political and social problems
Why rightwing moralism is as bad as leftwing moralism
Evee’s intuitive view of human nature
Why Evee dislikes the Manosphere and Red Pill scene
The political symbolism of oral intimacy and fetish culture
The implosion of modern liberal society
Evee’s upcoming book of poetry

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Robert Stark talks to Francis Nally about Colin Wilson

Abraham Maslow, Adam Parfrey, aesthetics, Alan Watts, Alex Jones, Alex von Goldstein, alienation, Alt Center, Architecture, Aristocratic Individualism, Art, Asian Aryanism, capitalism, Christianity, Colin Wilson, comedy, conformity, Conspiracy Theories, Consumerism, counterculture, Crime, Culture, death, Dennis Cooper, Depravity, Despair, dreams, England, Eurobeat, Fascism, Feral House Books, Francis Nally, Greg Johnson, H.P. Lovecraft, Homosexuality, humor, James O'Meara, Jason Reza Jorjani, Jeffery Mishlove, Journey to Vapor Island, Liberalism, Literature, Marquis de Sade, Media, Mental illness, Morality, Music, My Little Pony, Nationalism, neo-tribalism, Neoliberalism, Neoplatonism, New Thought, Nietzsche, Nihilism, Occultism, Peter Sotos, Philadelphia, Philosophy, Pilleater, Political Correctness, Politics, Postmodernism, Psychology, Race Relations, Radical Center, Religion, Richard Spencer, Sadism, Science, Science Fiction, Serial Killers, Sexuality, Sigmund Freud, Sir Oswald Mosley, Social Media, spirituality, the New Right, Tim Biskup, Transgender, Transhumanism, Vaporfornia, White Nationalism

Robert Stark talks to Francis Nally about the English author, Colin Wilson, his book The Outsider, and his esoteric ideas about consciousness, as well as revisiting Francis’s philosophy of Asian Aryanism. Francis’s website is Pilleater.com,  he has a YouTube Channel, and has a new book out, Suicidal, Asian, and Promiscious. The Muse We Neglect.

Topics:

Colin Wilson’s brief fame, and his relationship with the Angry Young Men literary genre
The archetype of the Outsider
The appeal of Colin Wilson to the New Right (eg. Counter-Currents)
Aspects of both populism (anti-credentialism) and Nietzschean elitism to Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson’s interview with Jeffrey Mishlove’s New Thinking Allowed
Wilson’s approach to mysticism, spiritual science, and the supernatural
Wilson’s theories on consciousness and the Peak Experience
Wilson’s book, The Occult: A History
Wilson’s book, The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders
Wilson’s correspondence with serial killer, Ian Brady, and Wilson’s intro to Brady’s book, The Gates of Janus
Francis’s essay on how Ethical Sadism can be used to disrupt liberalism and free our desires 
The need to embrace sincerity, identity and passion
How Transhumanism has potential to expand consciousness but also to turn man into “robots”
My Little Pony, Faustian aesthetics, and the Brony phenomenon
Planet of the Bass Nationalism

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Robert Stark talks to James O’Meara about Mysticism After Modernism

1960's, aesthetics, Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley, Aleister Crowley, Alfred Hitchcock, American Culture, Aristocratic Individualism, Art, automation, Basic Income, Bronze Age Pervert, Buddhism, California, capitalism, Carl Jung, Christianity, Cinema, Class, Colin Wilson, conformity, Conspiracy Theories, Consumerism, Corporations, counterculture, Culture, David Lynch, Donald Trump, dreams, Economics, England, Fascism, Franz Kafka, Gnosticism, Greg Johnson, H. P. Lovecraft, History, Hollywood, Homosexuality, Human Bio Diversity, Islam, James O'Meara, Jason Reza Jorjani, Jeffery Mishlove, Journey to Vapor Island, Judaism, Julius Evola, Liberalism, Literature, Managerialism, Marin County, Marquis de Sade, materialism, Media, meditation, Mitch Horowitz, Morality, Mythology, Neoplatonism, Neville Goddard, New Thought, Nietzsche, Occultism, Oscar Wilde, parapsychology, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Rudolf Steiner, Science, Sexuality, Socialism, spirituality, Stanley Kubrick, Sufism, Surrealism, Theosophy, Third Way Economics, Traditionalism, Transcendentalism, Transhumanism, Utopia, Vaporfornia, William S. Burroughs

Robert Stark speaks with James O’Meara about his book, Mysticism After Modernism: Crowley, Evola, Neville, Watts, Colin Wilson, & Other Populist Gurus. Mysticism After Modernism is published by Manticore Press, where it is available for purchase. You can also find it at Counter-Currents and on Amazon.

“Our spirituality has gotten too tame today. James J. O’Meara has a solution [in Mysticism After Modernism]
–Mitch Horowitz, PEN Award-winning author of Occult America and The Miracle Club

-The intersection of mysticism with politics and culture, and how mysticism is available to any political persuasion
-Countering the Hippie-dippy liberal  stereotype about New Age gurus
-Critiquing the reactionary who passively accepts cycles of decay, and the need to embrace infinite possibilities
-A practical take on magic/mysticism, in regards to enacting real world change
-Aleister Crowley’s definition of magic as transforming the World in accordance with one’s will
-Examples of opinions and attributes of Alan Watts and William Burroughs that come across as anti-liberal
-Greg Johnson’s article, “The Spiritual Materialism of Alan Watts: A Review of Does It Matter?”
-Watts’ ties to quasi-fascist Serbian mystic, Dimitrije Mitrinović
–New Thought, and an explanation for how Neville Goddard’s Law of Assumption works
-New Thought as a vehicle for political change, by removing all mental constraints
-Why Theosophy is the theology best adapted to hereditarianism (eg. illiberal pluralism)
-William Burroughs’ obsession with rejecting control in a metaphysical sense
–The Greek Qabalah, hidden esoteric traditions in Abrahamic faiths
-Colin Wilson’s practical mysticism, focused on expanding consciousness
-Parapsychology and Spiritual Science
-The need for spiritual elitism and Aristocratic Radicalism
-Robert’s novel, Vaporfornia, which has themes relating to New Thought
-James’ book, Passing the Buck: Coleman Francis and Other Cinematic Metaphysicians

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Robert Stark interviews Montgomery Markland about his movie Malibu Road

1960's, 1970's, 1990's, acting, aesthetics, Aldous Huxley, Alfred Hitchcock, Alice in Wonderland, American Culture, Ancient Greece, Architecture, Art, Banking, Beatniks, Beverly Hills, Buddhism, California, capitalism, Carl Jung, censorship, Cinema, conformity, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, Consumerism, coronavirus, Corporations, counterculture, Culture, David Lynch, Despair, dreams, Drugs, Economics, Enter The Void, Film, Film Noire, Gaspar Noe, Hinduism, History, Hollywood, horror films, Hunter S. Thompson , Literature, Los Angeles, Malibu, Malibu Road, Matthew Pegas, Media, Mid-Century Modern, Montgomery Markland, Mulholland Drive, Mythology, Philip K. Dick, Philosophy, Photography, Political Correctness, Politics, Prostitution, Psychology, relationships, Religion, Sexuality, spirituality, Surrealism, Terence Mckenna, Texas, Tiki, Timothy Leary, Travel, Twin Peaks, Vice, Video Games, William S. Burroughs, Zoomers

Robert Stark and Matt Pegas speak with filmmaker, Montgomery Markland, about his film Malibu Road, which he both directed and starred in. Malibu Road is available to watch for free on Tubi, and for purchase on Apple TV and Amazon. While the pandemic delayed Malibu Road’s theatrical release, Montgomery has further plans for multipicture deals.

“Fast living Los Angelenos are targeted by the Central Intelligence Agency during Operation Midnight Climax, part of MKUltra. The experience takes a turn for the deadly during New Year’s Eve 1960 and now a professor, a starlet and the workers at a hotel with a questionable reputation must rediscover reality or be trapped in an endless cycle of sex, drugs and murder in ‘paradise.'”

–Malibu Road (2021) IMDb 

Montgomery Markland has an idiosyncratic resume. Originally from Dallas, Montgomery was a state and local reporter in Austin, worked in the Texas state legislature on policy, was  then a producer, president, and CCO at a number of video game companies, before working in Hollywood. Follow Montgomery on Twitter.

Topics:

Applying videogame design principles to Cinema
The Meisner acting technique
MKUltra connections to university professors and Hollywood (eg. Irvin Keshner)
Timothy Leary’s prediction that video games had the potential to recreate psychedelic trips
The History of the Albatross Hotel in Malibu and connections to Old Hollywood
Cinemaphotographic techniques used to capture the psychedelic aesthetic
Distorting reality in stories as representations of dreams (eg. traumnovelle), and influences from David Lynch
Influence from soap operas, telenovelas, and 90s Cinemax
The set design, recreating the aesthetics of the 60s and 70s
Influences from Jungian archetypes, as well as Ancient Greek, Hindu, and Buddhist mythology (eg. Timothy Leary on the Tibetan Book of the Dead)
Hunter S. Thompson
Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo
Malibu Road’s filming locations, including Malibu State Park and Will Rogers State Historic Park
The politicization of entertainment, and why overtly political conservative media fails
Reasons to be optimistic about opportunities in entertainment via niche markets
The Banking crisis, Economic Death Spiral, and narratives of collapse

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Robert Stark talks to Dan Baltic about his debut novel Nutcrankr

alienation, Alternative Right, American Culture, Andy Nowicki, Art, Bronze Age Pervert, Class, comedy, Culture, Dan Baltic, Dan Baltic, Depravity, Despair, Dragon Day, Ellliot Rodger, Erik Erikson, Eugenics, Feminism, Gender, Gio Pennacchietti, Homosexuality, humor, Incels, Journey to Vapor Island, Literature, Loserdom, Matt Forney, Matthew Pegas, Mental illness, Morality, New York, Nick Fuentes, Personality Types, Peter Turchin, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, psychosocialism, relationships, Sexuality, social capital, Social Isolation, Social Justice Warriors, Social Media, Social Rejection, social status, Taxi Driver, The Black Pill, the New Right, The Redpill, Vaporfornia

Robert Stark and Matt Pegas talk to Dan Baltic about his debut novel Nutcrankr. Dan Baltic is the co-hosts of the literary podcast, New Write, with Matt Pegas. Nutcrankr is available in print and ebook at Terror House publishing.

Topics:
Intro to the protagonist Spencer Grunhauer and the plot
Spencer’s philosophy and his manifest
The psychological process of how one becomes more alienated, unstable, and unhinged
Psycho-sexual motives behind politics and moral panics
Social status, elite overproduction, and out of whack life expectations
Making your own way “pill”
Narratives about online grifters
Bullishness on the future of dissident arts
Terror House’s book reading in Brooklyn, NYC
Creating effecting satire
The literary genre of alienated loners
A homage or modern day reboot of Confederacy of Dunces
Comparisons to Robert’s novel Vaporfornia and Matt’s Dragon Day

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