Category Archives: Asian Culture

Robert Stark is interviewed about his new Religion Cosmoplatonism

aesthetics, American Culture, Art, Asian Culture, attachment, Buddhism, Catholicism, China, Christianity, conformity, Control, Cosmoplatonism, Culture, death, Drugs, Gnosticism, History, Human Bio Diversity, Islam, Jin the Ninja, Judaism, Julius Evola, Matthew Pegas, Morality, Mormonism, Neoplatonism, Occultism, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Rudolf Steiner, Science, Sexuality, social status, Sufism, Theosophy

Robert Stark is interviewed as a simulcast by Jin the Ninja for his podcast, Threshold Saints, about his new religion, Cosmoplatonism. Jin the Ninja is a Tantric Buddhist and you can follow him on Twitter/X. 

Topics: 

-The esoteric significance of Zelda’s Triforce
-How Theosophy is legit but there is a spiritual hierarchy among faiths
–Theurgy as ritual acts and use of aesthetics to become closer to the Divine
-Why Neoplatonic emanation theory makes more sense than the gnostic rejection of the physical world
-Jin the Ninja addresses the critique that the Buddhist rejection of attachment is demoralizing
-How a dualism about what is divine can help with both ethics and politics
-How Buddhism is misrepresented by western hippie leftists
-Why Cosmoplatonism is simultaneously sex positive and sex negative, regarding stages of consciousness
-A nuanced embrace of asceticism 
-How science is fundamentally interconnected to spiritually
-How human consciousness is an emanation from divine consciousness
-How human genetic differences reflect spirituality (eg. Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy)
-The Americanization process as an analogy for split consciousness
-Placing things and subjects in a neoplatonic hierarchy of importance
-How all Abrahamic faiths have factions that are influenced by Neoplatonism
-What actually is evil and sin?
-How to use occult practices, including Kabbalah, to reach the 5th layer of density
-Explaining the metaphysics of Cosmoplatonism, including the avatars
-Co-opting the gnostic demiurge to describe the manmade spiritual prison

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Robert Stark interviews The Flower Heart about Asian American Culture & Demographics

2020 Riots, Asia, Asian Aryanism, Asian Culture, automation, Black Lives Matter, California, China, Class, Communism, conformity, Culture, Danville CA, demographics, Diversity, Donald Trump, Economics, education, Francis Nally, Gender, History, Immigration, India, Managerialism, materialism, Multiculturalism, New York, Oakland, Orinda CA, Philadelphia, Pilleater, Politics, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, social status, Suburbia, Taiwan, The Flower Heart, Walt Bismarck, Wealth, Zoomers

Robert Stark and Francis Nally (aka Pilleater) talk to The Flower Heart about Asian American culture, and immigration and demographic trends, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Flower Heart, whose moniker is a Chinese expression for being a player, is a second generation Chinese American who grew up in Oakland’s Chinatown. You can read his articles on Substack.

Topics include:

-The history of Chinese immigration to the US
-The divide between older Cantonese and more recent Mandarin speaking Chinese immigrants, the former which The Flower Heart is from
-How Indian h1bs are replacing Chinese people in Silicon Valley and the degree of tension between those two groups
-Contrasting The Flower Heart’s experiences at diverse  Alameda HS and majority White and affluent Miramonte HS in Orinda
-How many Asian youth from the East Bay emulate Black culture
-How The Flower Heart’s mom joked that she sent him to a majority White HS because it was less hypercompetitive than an Asian school
-How White/Asian mixed marriages are more common in White areas like Orinda than in Asian ethnoburbs
-How a mixed Asian/Latino ethnogenesis is forming in certain East Bay cities like San Leandro
-When The Flower Heart’s dad recently sold his house in the majority White suburb of Danville, Indian families purchased every new home
-How the future is ethnogenesis forming along class lines rather than either balkanization or a melting pot
–The gender dynamics between White and Asian couples
-Francis’s demographic observations from New York and Philadelphia
-How most assimilated Chinese Americans are moving to the suburbs
-Is K-pop responsible for rising Asian male desirability?
-Reasons that Asians voted Republican in the past but are now more Democrat
-How Asians are having a political moderating impact on the Bay Area
–Pulling Up The Ladder?-The Child of Immigrants Makes the Case for Moderate Immigration Restriction 
–The Flower Heart’s debate with Walt Bismarck over high vs low skilled immigration
-The reasons for conformity and favoring lucrative career paths over self-actualization in Chinese culture
-Why The CCP will invade Taiwan to maintain its legitimacy

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Robert Stark interviews Squid Game actor Geoffrey Giuliano

acting, American Culture, Animal Cruelty, animals, Asia, Asian Culture, Cinema, Coen Brothers, Culture, Donald Trump, Film, Geoffrey Giuliano, Hollywood, India, Korea, materialism, Media, meditation, Politics, spirituality, Squid Game, Stanley Kubrick

Robert Stark talks to actor Geoffrey Giuliano about his role as VIP 4 in Squid Game, animal rights, and other projects.  A true Renaissance Man, Geoffrey Giuliano is an American actor based in Thailand, an author best known for his biographies of the Beatles, artist,  journalist, and has acted in 28 movies, including Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula and Kate starring Woody Harrelson. Check out Geoffrey’s website, YouTube channel, Instagram, and his upcoming podcast, Geoffrey Giuliano’s Dog Fight, which will be an intelligent alternative to Joe Rogan and Howard Stern.

Topics:

The stylized acting performance of the Squid Game VIPs, the Kubrick influence, the Trump archetype of VIP 4, and Geoffrey’s response to the critics
The casting, production, and acting instructions for the VIPs
What its like for actors to play uncomfortable roles
Contrasting the portrayal of Americans in Squid Game with how Asian characters have been portrayed in American cinema
Squid Game as an allegory for the gross materialism of the modern world
Geoffrey’s animal rights documentary ‘Facist Food Confessions Of A Corporate Clown My Life As Ronald McDonald’
Geoffrey’s strangest fan mail as well as threats from those who are not able to divorce the VIP character from reality
How “if you want Squid Game to come to your town” you have to come to Geoffrey

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San Francisco Photo Album (Summer 2021)

Architecture, Art Deco, Asian Culture, California, John C. Portman Jr, Malls, Neon, Photography, San Francisco, Skyscrapers, Travel, Urbanism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Album includes the Westfield San Francisco Centre, The Tenderloin, the JW Marriott, Union Square, Neiman Marcus, Crocker Galleria and the Hallidie Building in the Financial District, Chinatown, Huntington Park and the Fairmont hotel on Nob Hill, Lombard Street, Ghirardelli Square, North Beach and Broadway, the Embarcadero Center, the Ferry Building, and the Mission District.

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The Starkian Bay Area

Aesthetic Socialism, aesthetics, Alt Center, American Culture, Archeofuturism, Architecture, arcology, Art, Art Deco, Asia, Asian Aryanism, Asian Culture, Baby Boomers, Berkeley, California, capitalism, China, Cities, Class, coronavirus, Crime, Culture, Danville CA, demographics, Diversity, Economics, Environment, ethnopluralism, Frank Lloyd Wright, Futurism, gentrification, Hipsters, Historic Preservation, History, Immigration, income inequality, John C. Portman Jr, Lafayette CA, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Marin County, Mass Transit, Matt Pegan, Matthew Pegas, Millennials, Mount Diablo, Multiculturalism, neo-tribalism, Neoliberalism, Neon, New Urbanism, New York, Oakland, Orinda CA, overdevelopment, Pilleater, Political Correctness, Politics, Prison, Race Relations, Retro Futurism, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Skyscrapers, social capital, Suburbia, SWPL, The Gospel of Gibson, Travel, Urbanism, Utopia, Walnut Creek CA, Wealth, welfare state, Wilderness, Zoning

Robert Stark and Matt Pegas discuss their trip to the San Francisco Bay Area over the last Labor Day weekend, their past trips in 2018 (extended segment: 20 minutes in), and how the Bay Area relates to Alt-Urbanism and cultural, aesthetic, societal, and Alt-Center political themes from the show.

Topics:

Observations of the impact of the pandemic including an increase in homelessness
Why the Bay Area is the center of the Gray Tribe political sphere
The degree to which there is a unique and authentic regional culture and aesthetic
The John C. Portman designed Embarcadero Center, concept of Interior Urbanism, and how Portman was unique in that he was both an artistic visionary and a capitalist
The impact of wealth on aesthetics
The magic of travel and appreciating the tourist traps
San Francisco Neon
The Bay Area’s Geography, microclimates, and urban layout
Wilderness locations including Mount Diablo, Tilden Regional Park, Alpine and Bon Tempe Lakes in Marin, and the region’s extensive Greenbelts
Unique attributes of the Bay Area suburbs of Marin County, Lamorinda, Walnut Creek, Alamo, and Danville, Ski-Lodge Urbanism, and Retrofitting The Aesthetically Pleasing Suburb
Bay Area demographics trends
Does California need a rightest version of Multiculturalism?

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Robert Stark talks to Anatoly Karlin about the Gray Tribe

Alt Center, Anatoly Karlin, Andrew Yang, Asian Culture, Basic Income, California, censorship, Class, conformity, coronavirus, Corporations, Culture, Dain Fitzgerald, Donald Trump, Economics, Elections, Elon Musk, Futurism, Human Bio Diversity, IQ, Jeffrey Epstein, Joe Biden, Leftism, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Personality Types, Peter Turchin, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Radical Center, Rationalism, Science, Scott Jackisch, Silicon Valley, Transhumanism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and co-host Dain Fitzgerald talk to Moscow based Unz Review columnist Anatoly Karlin about the Gray Tribe political sphere and other current events. Follow Anatoly and Dain on Twitter.

Topics:

Anatoly’s article No Country for Gray Tribesmen
Gray Tribe themes in Andrew Yang’s The War on Normal People
Scott Alexander’s original article on the Gray Tribe
Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media
Hypothetical profile of a Gray Tribesman (against woke culture, rejects blank slatism, corona-virus hawk, but accepts climate science)
Unique environment that allowed the Coffee Salons of Western Europe to emerge
Coffee Salon Demographics 
CEOs: the Bamboo Ceiling vs. the Madras Floor
Why White Centrists have the highest in-group bias
The Double Horseshoe Theory of Class Politics
California Isn’t the SJWtopia of Right-Wing Fantasies
Enclaves for the intelligent but poor
Woke Austerity: Chevron diversity ratio to improve as layoffs progress
Is Woke Left outliving usefulness to economic elite?
Mask Compliance as IQ/Personality Test
Chances of an effective corona-virus vaccine by next year

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Robert Stark talks to Anatoly Karlin about Andrew Yang and The War on Normal People

Alt Center, Anatoly Karlin, Andrew Yang, Asia, Asian Culture, automation, Baby Boomers, Basic Income, Bernie Sanders, Brandon Adamson, capitalism, China, Class, Conservatives, Culture, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Futurism, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, income inequality, IQ, Iran, Leftism, Liberalism, Millennials, Oligarchy, Peter Turchin, Political Parties, Politics, Race Relations, Radical Center, Republican Party, Socialism, Tucker Carlson, War, Wealth, welfare state

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and Brandon Adamson talk to Unz Review blogger Anatoly Karlin about his book review of Andrew Yang’s the War on Normal People.

Topics:

Anatoly’s articles Yang Hasn’t Gone Anywhere, 7 Reasons Why #YangGang Is More Than Just A Meme and What Does Everyone Think About Andrew Yang?
The young educated demographic of support, THE GREY TRIBE, and faction from the dissident right
Yang’s chances of winning
Yang over Trump but Trump over Harris or Biden
Tucker Carlson agreeing with leftist on Venezuela Intervention
Why Yang’s UBI and VAT proposal are relatively Centrist
Iran’s UBI experiment
Peter Turchin and theory of elite over production leading to social instability
Asian American Identity and positive mentions of China
Charles Murray’s COMING APART and Bubble Quiz
The potential impact of the UBI and automation on immigration and demographic trends
How America’s failure to adjust to new realities is leading to social tension

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Robert Stark talks about Andrew Yang and the Post-Nationalist Future

Alt Center, Alternative Right, American Culture, Andrew Yang, Architecture, Asia, Asian Culture, automation, Basic Income, capitalism, China, Cities, Class, Conservatives, Corporations, Culture, decentralization, democracy, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Elections, Immigration, Incels, income inequality, Leftism, Liberalism, Mass Democracy, Matthew Pegas, Mental illness, Middle Class, Morality, Nationalism, NEETs, neo-tribalism, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Personality Types, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Race Relations, social capital, Social Isolation, Suburbia, Takimag, Urbanism, Wealth, welfare state, Zoning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and Matthew Pegas talk about Robert’s Takimag article Andrew Yang and the Post-Nationalist Future

Topics:

Yang’s objective is not to dismantle neo-liberalism but rather create a more humane version of it
Potential for cross pollination between right and left Yang supporters towards a dissident center
Trump’s failed last chance for American nationalism
Future political paradigm of neo-tribalism vs. enforced loyalty to mass society
How a UBI will lead to the formation of neo-tribes
Political campaigns as neuro-tribes
Pursuing one’s group interest as a minority in a Post-American future
How a UBI treats everyone equally, bypasses the middleman, and a step towards smart socialism
Unlike both capitalism and socialism, UBI is the only solution that is viable in an atomized society
How a social safety net combined with freedom of association is the only thing that can hold this nation together
Whether a UBI will solve issues such as declining birthrates and the sex recession
Yang Claims Universal Income Can Curb the Racism of His White Nationalist Fans
The personality of the technocratic engineer vs the lawyer in politics
Yang’s view of politics based on an understanding of psychology and human nature
Yang’s comment predicting anti-Asian violence which was taken out of context by conservatives
Materialist vs. idealist views on the roots of group-group violence
The UBI’s impact on class dynamics and danger of a neo-feudalist technocracy
Rethinking the American dream in terms of alternatives to the suburban home such as an arcology or self contained city
Whether smart socialism and urban renewal need a strong centralized state

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Alt-Urbanism: Building a Based Urban Middle Class SWPL Utopia

1950's, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, aesthetics, Alt Center, American Culture, Architecture, Asia, Asian Culture, Baby Boomers, California, Cities, Class, Conservatives, Culture, demographics, Economics, Environment, Falling Down, gentrification, Giovanni Dannato, Immigration, income inequality, Korea, Le Corbusier, Los Angeles, Middle Class, New Urbanism, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Skyscrapers, Suburbia, SWPL, Urbanism, Utopia, Wealth, Zoning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Robert Stark: Originally Published on Alt of Center

Prior to the 1950’s, the urban core of LA, centered around Downtown, was relatively small. It was also much more compact and vibrant, however, than it became in the second half of the 20th Century. In recent years, there has been renewed interest in urbanism and walkable communities, and LA’s downtown, historic core is now revitalized and booming with new highrise construction.

While LA is just in the early stages of creating an integrated metro system, the region once had a vibrant street car system connecting the urban core with extensions to street car suburbs such as Santa Monica and Pasadena.

According to Curbed LA : “in 1945, a sinister corporation called National City Lines took over the thriving Los Angeles Railway, which served most of the sprawling region. Then, over the course of the next two decades, LA’s extensive streetcar network was eliminated and the iconic Red Cars that Judge Doom mentions were replaced with shiny new buses.

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Robert Stark interviews Matthew Pegas about The Alt Center & Neon Nationalism

1980's, 80's music, aesthetics, Alicia Silverstone, Alt Center, Alternative Left, Alternative Right, American Culture, Archeofuturism, Architecture, Aristocratic Individualism, Art, Asian Aryanism, Asian Culture, Blast From The Past, Brandon Adamson, California, capitalism, Cinema, Cities, Class, Clueless, Conservatives, counterculture, Culture, demographics, Economics, Erotica, Europe, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Film, Francis Nally, Futurism, Globalization, History, Homosexuality, Identitarianism, Immigration, income inequality, James O'Meara, Jamie Stewart, Journey to Vapor Island, Lasse Nielsen, Leftism, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Marquis de Sade, Matthew Pegas, Mid-Century Modern, Middle Class, Mishima A Life in Four Chapters, Morality, Music, Nationalism, Neon, Nietzsche, Nudism, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Photography, Pilleater, Politics, Postmodernism, Radical Center, Retro Futurism, Sexuality, Social Isolation, Suburbia, SWPL, Synthwave, Urbanism, Utopia, Will McBride, Xiu Xiu, Yukio Mishima

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matthew Pegas blogs at Alt of Center | Life. Liberty. And the Pursuit of Beauty

Topics:

How Matthew discovered the Stark Truth via the interview with Jamie Stewart from Xiu Xiu
Matthew’s political transformation from a Leftist to a “Starkian” Alt-Centrist
The connection between politics, sexuality, and aesthetics
Beyond Liberalism: A Political New Wave
Neonationalism; nationalism and politics based on aesthetics
Creating an Archeo-Futuristic sub-culture that is so aesthetically pleasing that it can out-compete Liberal-Universalism and Global Capitalism
Architecture as a form of erotica
The Alt-Of-Center Guide To Aesthetic Warfare
The phenomenon of progressive cultural interests gaining an identitarian consciousness
The scene as the inevitable result of urban, middle to upper class “SWPL’s” becoming “Red Pilled”
The Idea of Homonationalism
San Fernando Valley Photo Essay and Neon Signage on Ventura Blvd
Income inequality and the demographic transformation of The Valley and LA

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