Category Archives: San Francisco

Robert Stark interviews Mr. Raven

November 12, 2024aesthetics, 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 Lewisrobertstark

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

October 29, 2024aesthetics, 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, Wealthrobertstark

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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 interviews Ross Calvin about his American Colossus Project

September 21, 2024aesthetics, 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, Urbanismrobertstark

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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Robert Stark interviews Rajeev Ram

June 27, 2024American Culture, Asian Aryanism, California, Canada, caste, Christianity, Culture, demographics, Diversity, Donald Trump, Economics, ethnopluralism, Francis Nally, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, India, localism, Morality, Multiculturalism, Nationalism, neo-tribalism, Personality Types, Philosophy, Pilleater, Politics, Psychology, Rajeev Ram, Religion, San Francisco, Sigmund Freud, Silicon Valley, spirituality, Theosophy, Walt Bismarckrobertstark

Robert Stark and co-host Francis Nally (Pilleater) talk to Rajeev Ram about the Indian diaspora, caste, HBD, theology, and America’s identity crisis. Rajeev is a 2nd generation Indian American of a Tamil Brahmin background. He is originally from Arizona, worked in tech in the Bay Area, and now resides in a small town in Tennessee. Rajeev’s values include, openness, pluralism, creativity, fraternal comradery, localism, and freedom of association, and he is allied with some aspects of the Right now. Subscribe to his substack, The Cactus Brahmin Testimonials and follow him on X/Twitter.

Topics:
Rajeev’s political journey
Rajeev’s friendship with the podcaster Walt Bismarck
Why syncretic politics makes sense
The HBD implications of the Indian caste system
Robert’s new religion that fuses Theosophy with HBD
How Brahmin vs Vaishya archetypes play out in the West
Economic niches among various Indian subgroups
Differences between North and South Indians
Pre vs post-1990 Indian immigrants, and how the latter tends to view America as an economic zone
Is the brain drain from India to the US ending?
Rajeev’s thoughts on growing anti-Indian animus
Whether White Americans will become more tribal in the future
America’s future of multi-polar enclavism, with parallels to India
Whether an immigration moratorium would delay balkanization and maintain civic nationalism
Whether enclavism would be difficult for assimilated minorities like Rajeev
Embracing a Freudian approach to politics

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Walt Bismarck interviews me about Rightwing Multiculturalism

May 31, 20241980's, 80's music, Alt Center, Alternative Right, American Culture, Animal Cruelty, animals, anti-semitism, Art, automation, California, capitalism, Culture, demographics, Disney, Distributism, Diversity, Donald Trump, Economics, ethnopluralism, Florida, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, Incels, income inequality, India, IQ, Israel, Jared Taylor, Joe Biden, Leftism, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Morality, Multiculturalism, Neoliberalism, Nick Fuentes, Personality Types, Phoenix, Political Correctness, Politics, Radical Center, Richard Hanania, Richard Spencer, Ron DeSantis, Ron Paul, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Urbanism, Walt Bismarckrobertstark

This is a simulcast with Walt Bismarck’s Walt Right podcast.

Topics include:

Robert’s political trajectory coming out of the Ron Paul movement
Robert’s Jewish heritage
His thoughts on the political position of American Jews since the Gaza War
How the boredom of the Biden years has created a less tense environment
How recent years have driven a wedge between the Left and Liberals
How anti-Whiteness led to an explosion of antisemitism on the Left
Has the boundary between Jews and Whites blurred over the past few years?
How Walt was able to mainstream himself without denouncing the Alt Right
The tenability of Right Wing Multiculturalism and Castizo Futurism
How comfortable is Walt with immigration?
The resentment towards Brahmin Indians growing in Silicon Valley
White people in America need to form the same ethnic patronage networks as immigrant ethnic groups
How Walt misjudged the Midwest
Arizona vs. Florida vs. California
The hyper-individualistic nature of White Californians
California as an American “promised land” and the most beautiful place on earth
DeSantis’s efforts to position Florida as the new California
Why did DeSantis fail?
Brain drain from California to Florida
Why has Florida supplanted Texas as the conservative hub?
The decentralized modern Dissident Right vs. the old Alt Right
Nick Fuentes vs. the “Post-Left” Dimes Square / Red Square crowd
Why are Hispanics in California/Arizona more leftist than in Florida/Texas?
How personal temperament impacts a person’s politics
The median Alt Righter was actually less racist on a visceral level than the average ”colorblind” conservative
Colorblindness is responsible for the worst of the Left and the Right
Moral implications of belief in HBD
How much should you talk about HBD?
Emil Kirkegaard’s study on taboos
Respects in which Walt is rightwing
Walt’s centrism on abortion and hatred for pro-life maximalists
Robert’s futurist concept of distributism
Why immigration restriction basically requires mass automation
Walt’s idea for a “grand bargain” where illegal immigrants are given legal status in exchange for a guarantee that they will never be given the right to vote
The case for a Rightwing Urbanism and pro-White YIMBYism
Do you need restricted covenants etc. to sell YIMBYism to suburbanites?
Is NIMBYism necessary to prevent a mass brain drain from the interior?
Gentrification as the future of the right and the opposite of White Flight
Walt’s desire for a “High Openness Right” that resembles the early Alt Right
Why conservatives suck at art
HBO’s Girls and The Sopranos as conservative art
Painting as a metaphor for ethno-pluralism
Robert Stark’s stance on AI Art
How Walt used Disney songs to explain the Alt Right, and how this resembles how Lin Manuel Miranda’s use of rap to explain the Founding Fathers
How key changes are used to create an emotional impact in music, especially show tunes and 80s music
Why do the 80s resonate with Millennial guys so much?
Walt’s pro-white argument for reparations
Walt’s support for animal rights and lab grown meat
Will future societies look back on factory farms the same way we look at slavery?
High IQ people need a self-selected bubble where they don’t have to “hold frame”
We’re not all gonna make it—that’s just part of being a man
The modern world is much better for high IQ autistic guys like Walt and Robert
How Tinder increased the incel rate from 15% to 30%
What makes someone “smart but poor?” What is Walt’s advice for this demo?
Building an income on Substack—Walt and Robert’s strategies
How building a social media presence is like feudalism

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Robert Stark is interviewed about Esotericism

April 30, 2024aesthetics, 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 Xiurobertstark

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 is interviewed about California’s Political & Demographic Future

February 11, 2023Alt Center, Alternative Right, American Culture, California, Cities, Class, Conservatives, coronavirus, Crime, Culture, demographics, Diversity, Dystopia, Economics, education, ethnopluralism, Immigration, income inequality, John Friend, Leftism, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Media, Middle Class, Multiculturalism, Nationalism, neo-tribalism, Political Correctness, Politics, Race Relations, Radical Center, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, social capital, Social Isolation, social trust, Suburbia, Urbanism, Wealth, Zoningrobertstark

Robert Stark is interviewed by John Friend of the Realist Report, about his article White Californians as a Prototype for America’s Multiethnic Future. Check out the Realist Report on Twitter.

Topics:

Various responses to the article
Putting forth an accurate portrayal of California, in contrast with the media hype
A critique of various rightwing narratives about conflict and collapse
Causes of White flight and demographic change in California
Whether race relations will remain affable in California with extreme woke politics
Contrasting different future scenarios for California, including pan-enclavism
How White Californians are uniquely individualistic and rootless, and whether they will develop a stronger identity in the future
Why Whites should take part in multiculturalism to adapt to the end of Americanism

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Robert Stark chats with Default Friend

April 8, 2022American 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, Zoomersrobertstark

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

February 21, 2022 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, Yosemiterobertstark

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