Category Archives: Curtis Yarvin

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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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 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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Schizo Chat with Salmonfish

4 Chan, aesthetics, Alan Watts, alienation, Alt Center, Alternative Right, American Culture, Ancient Greece, Aristocratic Individualism, Art, Baby Boomers, Banking, Bronze Age Pervert, capitalism, Carl Jung, caste, Christianity, Class, conformity, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, counterculture, Culture, Curtis Yarvin, decentralization, demographics, Depravity, Donald Trump, Drugs, Economics, Elections, Elon Musk, ethnopluralism, Eugenics, Feminism, Gender, Gio Pennacchietti, Globalization, Gnosticism, Hinduism, History, Homosexuality, Human Bio Diversity, Incels, India, Internet, IQ, localism, Managerialism, Marianne Williamson, Memes, Mental illness, Morality, Nationalism, Nature, neo-tribalism, Neoliberalism, Neoplatonism, Nietzsche, Nihilism, Normies, Ohio, Philosophy, Plato, Political Correctness, Politics, Postmodernism, Psychology, Race Relations, Redpill, relationships, Religion, Salmonfish, Sexuality, Sigmund Freud, Social Media, spirituality, Terence Mckenna, Tucker Carlson, Vice

Robert Stark talks with Salmonfish about Bronze Age Pervert, art, metaphysics, philosophy, politics and economics. Salmonfish is a renaissance man, Avant Garde artist, and Passage Prize winner from Ohio. Follow Salmonfish on Twitter/X.

Topics:
Raising memes to an artform
Online political tribes as an American adaption of old-world feudal entitlements
Robert’s article, Selective Breeding And The Birth of Philosophy
The pros and cons of Bronze Age Pervert and Curtis Yarvin
Pan-enclavism
Debate about meritocracy vs caste or proportional inequality
The Artist/Shaman archetype
Intersectionality of the smart but poor
Conspiracy theories as explained by a collective subconscious or conspiracies of instinct
Pioneering work in the treatment of mental illness with psychedelics
How metaphysics, genetics, psychology, and politics intersect
Spiritual science and near death experiences which are legit but often theologically contradict
Salmonfish’s esoteric take on Christianity
Why Dualism is needed in spirituality, psychology, and politics
Disillusionment with Trump/MAGA
Why most politics is sexual
The state of the economy and economic transition (explanation for the Great Reset)

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Robert Stark interviews Anatoly Voronin about Ukraine

aesthetics, Alexei Navalny, Alt Center, Alternative Right, American Culture, Anatoly Karlin, Anatoly Voronin, Art, Black Lives Matter, Bronze Age Pervert, Class, Communism, Culture, Curtis Yarvin, democracy, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Europe, Fashion, Feminism, Gender, Germany, Globalization, History, Hollywood, Hugh Hefner, Immigration, Incels, Leftism, Liberalism, Manosphere, Marxism, materialism, modeling, Morality, Nationalism, NATO, Political Correctness, Politics, Prison, Radical Center, Redpill, relationships, Religion, Russia, Sexuality, social status, Socialism, Soviet Union, The Black Pill, Ukraine, US Prison System, Vladimir Putin, War

Robert Stark talks to Anatoly Voronin about the war in Ukraine, meta-modernism, and cultural trends. Anatoly Voronin is from Kharkiv, Ukraine, has worked as a fashion photographer and makeup artist, and politically identifies as a meta-modernist and post-liberal Centrist. Check out Anatoly’s Substack blog: Golden Heart Motel, and follow him on Instagram and Twitter.

Topics:

War Diary: Live witness account of 2022 Ukrainian-Russian hostilities
The dissident-sphere’s take on the war and pro-Russia biases
Why Anatoly rejects the narrative of Ukraine being used as a pawn of the West
The end of the post-World War II narrative
Why Radical Centrism and Meta-Modernism are the next levels of consciousness
The Americanization of Europe
Why America is fundamentally a rightwing country
The Black-Red-Gold pill
The politics of beauty and why beauty pageants are radically centrist
The Russian film Bespredel (1989 ) about social hierarchies in the Soviet Prison System

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