Category Archives: social status

Robert Stark chats with Default Friend

American Culture, Andrea Dworkin, Art, Baby Boomers, Class, Consumerism, coronavirus, Culture, Default Friend, Despair, Drugs, Ellliot Rodger, Feminism, Gender, Generation X, Gio Pennacchietti, Hipsters, History, Incels, income inequality, Internet, Los Angeles, Manosphere, Matthew Pegas, Millennials, Morality, Naama Kates, Neoliberalism, New York, Occupy Wall Street, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, relationships, San Francisco, Sexuality, Silicon Valley, Social Isolation, Social Media, social status, technology, The Black Pill, The Perfume Nationalist, Vaporfornia, Zoomers

Robert Stark and Matt Pegas talk to Default Friend about online subcultures, incels, and generational trends. Default Friend, Katherine Deee, is a writer, cultural commentator, cultural anthropologist, internet historian, and digital native. Check out Default Friend’s Substack, Default Wisdom, her writings for the Claremont Institute’s American Mind, and follow her on Twitter.

Topics:
Thoughts on various political-spheres including the intellectual dark web
The politicization of sex and relationships
On being a proto-Femcel
The impacts of dating apps and income inequality on the “sexual market place”
New York Times article, A Manifesto Against Sex Positivity, reviewing Default Friend’s writings on the backlash against hookup culture
The rise in conservative feminism and woke puritanism
Generational differences between Millennials and Zoomers, and cultural shifts from the 00s-to the 2010s, and 2020s
The trend in the end of mass youth subcultures and the rise in fusionism of “hybrid collages” and nostalgia based upon past generations’ nostalgia
The internet as the astral plane
Prediction of a tech backlash in the 2020s
Justin Murphy’s and Alex Kaschuta’s neo-traditionalism

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Robert Stark discusses his novel Vaporfornia

 Mark Velard, 1980's, aesthetics, Alicia Silverstone, alienation, Alt Center, Andrew Yang, Architecture, Art, Beverly Hills, Black Mirror, Calexit, California, capitalism, Class, Conservatives, Culture, Dan Baltic, David Lynch, demographics, Despair, Donald Trump, dreams, Economics, Environment, Eugenics, Futurism, Gio Pennacchietti, Greg Johnson, Hollywood, humor, Immigration, Incels, income inequality, Internet, IQ, James O'Meara, journalism, Journey to Vapor Island, Liberalism, Literature, Los Angeles, Malls, Matthew Pegas, Media, Michel Houellebecq, Middle Class, Millennials, Morality, Mount Diablo, Mulholland Drive, Multiculturalism, neo-tribalism, Neoliberalism, Neon, Personality Types, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Race Relations, Radical Center, Reno, Retro Futurism, Reviews, Sam Hyde, San Francisco, Science Fiction, Sexuality, social capital, Social Darwinism, Social Isolation, Social Media, social status, Spree Shootings, Surrealism, SWPL, The Black Pill, Travel, Utopia, Vaporfornia, Vaporwave, Virtual Reality, Walnut Creek CA, William S. Burroughs, Yosemite

Robert Stark is joined with Matt Pegas and Dan Baltic to discuss his new novel, Vaporfornia. Vaporfornia is a surreal dark comedy, a coming of age story set in California, and is the sequel to Robert’s first novel, Journey to Vapor Island. This show is a simulcast with Matt and Dan’s dissident, counter-culture, literary podcast, New Write.  Vaporfornia is available for purchase on Lulu publishing. Also check out Matt’s review of Vaporfornia.

Topics:

Contrasting Vaporfornia with Journey to Vapor Island, and how both novels capture the zeitgeists of their respective eras
The niche genre of the satirical moving adventure story
Literary comparisons to a Confederacy of Dunces, William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, Lucky Jim, Voltaire’s Candide, and Gulliver’s Travels
The situational humor and dramatic irony
Vaporfornia as a satire of the themes in Robert’s Substack that delve into California’s social, political, class, and demographic dynamics
Vaporfornia as a travelogue for California
Allegories and symbolism in the book
Saudade, a longing for what could have been or nostalgia for lost futures
Gio Pennacchietti’s video about how Robert’s literary fiction and visual art complement each other
The protagonist’s personal and political journey
The politics of the “Chad Centrist” presidential candidate Roger Blackstone
Whether Robert Stark will run for California Governor or have a Vaporfornia tour some day

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Robert Stark interviews Indian Bronson

1990's, American Culture, China, City-State System, Class, Classical Liberalism, Conservatives, cryptocurrency, Culture, decentralization, demographics, Despair, Donald Trump, Economics, ethnopluralism, Futurism, Gender, Hinduism, Immigration, Incels, India, Indian Bronson, Liberalism, Millennials, Multiculturalism, Nationalism, neo-tribalism, Political Correctness, Politics, Race Relations, relationships, Religion, Sexuality, social capital, social status, technology, Tucker Carlson, Zoomers

Robert Stark talks to Indian Bronson about  decentralization, Post-Americanism, and future political systems. Subscribe to Indian Bronson’s Substack and follow him on Twitter.

Topics:

Indian Bronson’s Hindu background and his thoughts on the culture and politics of the Hindu-diaspora in the West
Critical Race Theory and its Discontents: the ineptitude of the IDW
The rise in alternative institutions and questions of loyalty to normal patterns of living
Post-Americanism and Rightwing Multiculturalism
The future of caste and emergent tribal identities in America
The wane of US geopolitical soft power
Millennials as a lost generation
The economics of human relations

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Robert Stark talks to Matt Pegas about Dragon Day

Aleister Crowley, alienation, Alt Center, Alternative Right, American Culture, Andrea Dworkin, Andy Nowicki, Aristocratic Individualism, Bernie Sanders, Camille Paglia, Classical Liberalism, College, Conservatives, Crime, Culture, Despair, Donald Trump, Ellliot Rodger, Erotized Rage, Feminism, Gender, George Bush, Gnosticism, Homosexuality, Incels, Jason Reza Jorjani, Journey to Vapor Island, Liberalism, Literature, Loserdom, Marquis de Sade, Matt Forney, Matthew Pegas, Morality, Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, Nietzsche, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, psychosocialism, relationships, Sexuality, Social Isolation, Social Justice Warriors, Social Rejection, social status

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to Matt Pegas about his debut novel Dragon Day. Dragon Day is published by Matt Forney’s Terror House Press.

Topics:

Dragon Day’s setting at a fictional University in 2015, the era’s purposeful choice for its political climate, and semi-autobiographical elements
Matt’s Addendum To Dragon Day on Substack, contrasting hyper-liberalism with the Straussian dialect
How Dragon Day’s narrative is open to interpretation
The theme of unmet psychosocial needs and untapped erotic energy being channeled into other endeavors both creative and harmful
Influences from Pagan and Gnostic aspects of the right and Camille Paglia on Homonationalism
Counter-elitism and aristocratic radicalism vs. populism
The horseshoe theory on power dialects in regards to human nature

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Robert Stark interviews Kevin Kautzman

Academia, acting, aesthetics, Aleister Crowley, American Culture, Aristocratic Individualism, Art, Beatniks, BLAUERGEIST!, Blue Velvet, Camille Paglia, capitalism, Catholicism, censorship, Charles Bukowski, Christianity, Cinema, Class, College, comedy, conformity, Conspiracy Theories, Control, coronavirus, counterculture, Crime, Culture, David Lynch, Drugs, Economics, England, Film, History, Homosexuality, humor, Internet, Ireland, Kevin Kautzman, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Marquis de Sade, Mexico, Morality, New York, Nietzsche, Occultism, Oscar Wilde, Philosophy, Poetry, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, relationships, Religion, Sexuality, Social Media, social status, Socialism, Stanley Kubrick, Suburbia, Surrealism, Theatre, Travel, Twin Peaks, Wealth, William S. Burroughs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to playwright Kevin Kautzman about his play MODERATION, playwright Oscar Wilde, and author William S. Burroughs. Check out Kevin’s podcast Art of Darkness, web series Money Shot Show, and follow him on Twitter.

Topics:

The online premier of the latest iteration of MODERATION, a dark comedy about social media moderators
Kevin’s play Dream of Perfect Sleep
Oscar Wilde: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Oscar Wilde’s political views and philosophy of aestheticism, his prison letter De Profundis, and notable quotes
William S. Burroughs: Liberalism with a Gun
The Beat Generation
The economic and political mechanisms of the arts
The artist’s legacy within the framework of cancel culture
Upcoming podcasts on Stanley Kubrick, Charles Bukowski, and Ernest Hemmingway

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Robert Stark interviews Pinky Culture

2020 Riots, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Alt Center, American Culture, Andrew Yang, automation, Banking, Basic Income, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, capitalism, censorship, Class, Coach Black Pill, Communism, coronavirus, Corporate Welfare, Corporations, Culture, demographics, Despair, Donald Trump, Economics, Gender, Huey Long, Immigration, Incels, income inequality, Leftism, Liberalism, Loserdom, Media, Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, New York, Oligarchy, Pinky Culture, Police, Police Brutality, Police State, Political Correctness, Politics, Radical Center, Sexuality, social capital, Social Isolation, Social Media, social status, Socialism, The Black Pill, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, Wall Street, Wealth, welfare state

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to New York based vlogger Pinky Culture about GameStop, social and economic trends, AstroTurf politics, and populism. Check out Pinky Culture on YouTube and Twitter.

Topics:

Pinky’s political compass.
What the GameStop short squeeze exposes about our economic system
How the Great Reset is just late stage capitalism
Patriot Act but woke
Jimmy Dore calls out AOC
Andrew Yang’s campaign for New York mayor
The Black Pill philosophy
Tucker Carlson on the incel economy
Pinky’s videos on the racepill and agepill
Populist icon Huey Long

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Robert Stark interviews William Costello about Incels

Aspergers Syndrome, coronavirus, Culture, Despair, Economics, education, England, Feminism, Gender, humor, Incels, income inequality, Ireland, Joker, Manosphere, Mental illness, missogyny, Naama Kates, Normies, Personality Types, Political Correctness, Psychology, Race Relations, relationships, Sexuality, social capital, Social Isolation, Social Media, social status, Suicide, The Black Pill, William Costello

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark interviews William Costello about his article Step Your Dick Up: Why incels deserve better advice. William Costello is an Irish writer and post-graduate student of Evolutionary Psychology at Brunel University in London and is writing his thesis on incels. You can follow William on Twitter.

Topics:

How William became interested in the incel phenomenon from an evolutionary psychological standpoint
The positive reactions to the article from incels, feminists, and normies alike
The misrepresentation of incels and comparisons to calls for sympathy for other disenfranchised groups
How the incel subculture provides a sense of community, fraternity, and ingroup identity
The Sexodus and hypergamy in the modern dating market
The hypocrisy of the gender pay-gap debate in regards to complaints about the shortage of marriageable men
Is The Future Polygamous?
The limitations of self-improvement
2020 and the coming of neo-feudalism
Dunbar’s number which suggests cognitive limits to the number of people with whom one can maintain social relationships
The psychosexual motives behind social behavior
William’s article How Sport Can Reduce Racism: An Irish Case Study
Developing career guidance software and the need to focus on specialization in education and economics

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Robert Stark & Matt Pegan discuss the work of Michel Houellebecq

1990's, alienation, Baby Boomers, Ben Arzate, capitalism, Class, coronavirus, Culture, Delicious Tacos, demographics, Despair, Donald Trump, Economics, Ellliot Rodger, Emmanuel Macron, England, Erik Erikson, Feminism, France, Gender, Globalization, humor, Immigration, Incels, income inequality, Internet, Islam, Islamization, Journey to Vapor Island, Liberalism, Literature, Loserdom, Manosphere, Marine Le Pen, Marxism, Matt Pegan, Matthew Pegas, Michel Houellebecq, Middle Class, Millennials, Morality, Neoliberalism, Nihilism, Normies, Paris, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, psychosocialism, Race Relations, relationships, Roger Devlin, Sexuality, Social Isolation, Social Justice Warriors, social status, social trust, Socialism, technology, The Black Pill, the New Right, Transhumanism, Travel, Yellow Vests, Zoomers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and Matt Pegan discuss the significance of French author Michel Houellebecq to our current zeitgeist and his novels Atomised, Whatever, Platform, Submission, and Serotonin.

Topics:

Houellebecq’s early “loser” status, achieving success later in life, and auto-biographical themes in his work
French archetypes and cultural themes
Houellebecq’s Incel Prophecy: The Alienated and Intimacy-Starved
Houellebecq’s comparison of the sexual marketplace to free-market economics
Houellebecq as a social commentator and satirist but offers no explicit political solutions
Transhumanism and Geomaxxing presented as non-conventional escapes from the post-modern predicament
The infamous night club scene from the film rendition of Whatever dealing with the Age Pill and Black Pill
The normie script for life and Houellebecq as an example of someone who broke the script and succeeded
Houellebecq’s commentary that the World Will Be Same But Worse After ‘Banal’ Virus and Study on long term impacts of pandemic on relationships                                                               
Houellebecq’s literary style and dry witty dark humor
Robert and Matt plug their upcoming novels which deal with similar themes to Houellebecq’s work
Submission, the vulnerability of atomized liberal societies to cohesive outside forces, and why France is the most politically significant European country

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Robert Stark interviews Ben Winegard

2020 Riots, Academia, Alt Center, Alternative Left, American Culture, animals, Ben Winegard, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, censorship, Class, Conservatives, coronavirus, Corporations, Culture, demographics, Despair, Donald Trump, Economics, education, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Morality, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Race Relations, Republican Party, social capital, social status, Socialism, Suicide

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to Ben Winegard about academic freedom, woke culture, the election, and future political trends. Ben Winegard is an assistant professor of psychology at Hillsdale College, and you can read his article at Quillette and follow him on Twitter.

Topics:

How Ben is both anti-woke and anti-Trump, politically homeless, and tepidly backs Biden
The impact of the election outcome on the culture war and civil unrest
Trump admits to “playing down” coronavirus threat in taped Woodward interviews
Trump’s synthetic populism and turn to Supply Side economics with advisor Larry Kudlow
The decline in conservatism and how the GOP can only survive politically if it adopts some form of socialism
The Democrats becoming the party of the urban professional managerial class
Ben’s prediction that the Democrats will push race based rather than class based wealth redistribution
The degree to which woke ideology is accelerating because of Trump
Ben’s preference for colorblind institutions and concern that ethnic fragmentation may be inevitable
Cancel culture in academia and the termination of Ben’s brother Bo from his position in academia
The hereditarian hypothesis
The value of thought experiments in academia to advance ethics
Ben’s love of Capybaras, Otters, and the season autumn

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Robert Stark interviews Ed Dutton: The Jolly Heretic

Aspergers Syndrome, Class, conformity, Culture, demographics, Economics, Edward Dutton, Emotions, England, Eugenics, Extroversion, Homosexuality, Human Bio Diversity, Incels, Introversion, IQ, Islam, Mental illness, Narcissism, Personality Types, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, relationships, Religion, Sexuality, social capital, social status

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to Dr. Edward Dutton about personality types and the evolutionary forces behind culture and politics. 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:

The collapse of Darwinian selection and rise of the Spiteful Mutants
Evolutionary factors for religiosity and ethnocentrism
Fertility patterns taking into account religion, ethnocentrism, intelligence, income, and personality traits
Personality traits for success
The Big Five(OCEAN) personality traits
The Psychology of the Genius and unique environmental factors needed for geniuses to thrive
The profile of the smart but poor
Incels, the breakdown of monogamy, and r/K selection factors
Whether there is a metric for measuring beauty
The correlation between sexual fetishes and neuroticism
The Freudian theory of repressed sexuality being channeled into creative endeavors
A Bit of an Age Gap: Who’s Attracted to People Who are Much Older or Much Younger than them?

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