Category Archives: aesthetics

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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Meta Ronin Returns

aesthetics, 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, Wealth

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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 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 Ross Calvin about his American Colossus Project

aesthetics, 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, Urbanism

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 Kitemporal

aesthetics, Alpha Males, Alt Center, Alternative Right, American Culture, Ancient Problemz, Anime, Asian Aryanism, Bronze Age Pervert, caste, Class, conformity, Conservatives, Culture, Deconstruction, Donald Trump, Economics, Erotica, Eugenics, Feminism, Francis Nally, Gender, Gnosticism, hedonism, Homosexuality, Human Bio Diversity, Incels, Kitemporal, Leftism, Managerialism, materialism, Middle Class, Nihilism, Personality Types, Philosophy, Pilleater, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, relationships, Religion, Sexuality, social status, Texas, The American South, Wealth, Zoomers

Robert Stark and Francis Nally (aka Pilleater) talk to Kitemporal about philosophy, class, eugenics, sexuality, and gender roles. Kitemporal describes himself as a Radical Leftist, individualist, and eugenicist. Subscribe to his Substack and follow him on Twitter/X.

Topics include:

-Why Kitemporal calls himself a leftist, even though the left and right are arbitrary terms
-How managerial liberalism stifles human potential and is dysgenic
–The backrooms as a metaphor for managerialism
-Why deconstruction is a valuable tool and can have anti-liberal results
-Why the Right has more respect for Bolsheviks than liberals
-How eugenics can be used for egalitarian aims (eg. breeding out toxic masculinity)
-Why Kitemporal calls himself a natalist nihilist
-The pros and cons of eugenics based on class
-Fertility trends by class
-Do libertarians, nerds, and artists have the lowest fertility?
-Beauty dysgenics
-Eurasians as a distinctly upper middle class ethnogenesis
-Why Kitemporal disagrees with the Ancient Problemz show that guys getting oral is upper class coded but rather macho coded
-How the normalization of fetishes makes them less transgressive
-The Ahegao face meme
-Whether low status men going down on high status women can ease the incel issue and  perhaps class warfare
-How anything can be normalized as high status to NPCs
-The latent bisexual undercurrents in rightwing politics
-Kitemporal’s new money redneck background
-Kitemporal’s esoteric proposals for gender roles
-How granting women the option of taking on full male gender roles discredits feminism
-Kitemporal’s religion of Dynostiscism

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Robert Stark interviews Ancient Problemz about the Peculiar Practices of The Upper Class

1980's, 1990's, aesthetics, American Beauty, American Culture, Ancient Problemz, anti-semitism, Baby Boomers, Black Lives Matter, Class, College, Cruel Intentions, Culture, Depravity, Feminism, Gender, Human Bio Diversity, Incels, materialism, Mental illness, Middle Class, Millennials, Morality, Pornography, Psychology, relationships, Sexuality, Social Isolation, social status, Suburbia, Walt Bismarck, Wealth, Zoomers

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Topics include:

-Robert’s article on the Politics of Oral
-Ancient Problemz’s upper middle class Jewish background and exposure to wealth
-The mass suburban affluence of the 1990s
-The late 90s/00s raunch culture with movies like American Pie, Wild Things, and Cruel Intensions
-American Beauty’s portrayal of upper middle class suburbia
-The 00s moral panic about oral
-Why oral is upper middle class and White coded
-Ancient Problemz hearing from gentile men in college that Jewish women are orally gifted
-How elites and proles are more degenerate while the middle class are prudes
-How the upper middle class and wealthy are discrete about their sexuality
-How people signal about politics and sexuality
-How natural-looking understated cosmetic surgery is a status signal for the wealthy
-The degree of validity to various anti-Semitic tropes
-Why rich high status women won’t let low status men go down on them for the same reason that BLM fizzled out
-Neo puritanism about sexuality
-Why zoomers are screwed up psychologically and sexually
-Why natalists should live by example
-Why physiognomy, the science of physical appearance, is legit

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Robert Stark interviews Meta Ronin about Esoteric AI

aesthetics, Alan Watts, Alt Center, Andrew Yang, Anime, Architecture, Art, automation, Basic Income, Buddhism, capitalism, Carl Jung, caste, Christianity, Cities, Class, Culture, decentralization, democracy, demographics, Distributism, dreams, Dystopia, Economics, Eugenics, Futurism, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, Incels, Kashif Vikaas, Meta Ronin, neo-reaction, Philosophy, Pilleater, Politics, Post-scarcity economy, Ray Kurzweil, Religion, Retro Futurism, Science, Science Fiction, Sex Robots, Sexuality, Silicon Valley, Social Isolation, social status, spirituality, Terence Mckenna, Transhumanism, Tucker Carlson, Urbanism, Utopia

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Topics include:

-How the moniker means a nomad like Ronin and Meta means transcending the greater truth
-Robert’s article on Techno Distributism
-The ineptitude of luddites and why we should embrace automation
-The case for UBI and the value of leisure
-The role of status and competition in a post-scarcity society
-The mentality of “I had to suffer so now you have to suffer too”
–Ray Kurzweil’s Moore’s Law
-Meta Ronin’s advocacy of Robot Waifus
-How AI GFs can serve as the Jungian anima, or inner feminine
-The Gamma male archetype
-How AI can be used for Jungian Shadow Work
-AI as a tool for Parapsychology/Spiritual Science to point to cosmic truths
-Creating a new Brahmin caste by brain-scanning people for spiritual responses
–A dystopian proposal to use magnets to rewire brains to make people less racist and religious
-Uploading consciousness to AI
-Meta Ronin’s interest in Daoism and Shintoism
-How religion is shaped by genetics
-Whether AI will become conscious/sentient
-Why AI will be good for offering everyone a specialized path
-Meta’s Ronin’s ideal urban model
-Beauty aesthetics as a value and hierarchy: order to sensory input on instinctual level
-Automation creating Darwinian bottlenecks
-Ethnogenesis forming between Whites and Asians
-The eugenic implications of artificial wombs
-The Silicon Valley neo-reactionaries
-Aristocratic reasons for opposing consumer capitalism and mass democracy
-Meta Ronin’s upcoming sci-fi novel
-Dystopian scenarios, such as a Chinese-style social credit system
–The Stellar Engine
-Kurzweil’s Age of Spiritual Machines
-Terrance McKenna’s Transcendental Object at the End of Time

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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 interviews John Arcto about UK Politics & Retro Futurism

1960's, 1980's, 1990's, aesthetics, Alternative Right, Architecture, Art, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Blade Runner, BREXIT, censorship, Conservatives, Corporations, Culture, Cyberpunk, demographics, Diversity, Dubai, Economics, Elections, England, ethnopluralism, Europe, Futurism, Georgism, History, Immigration, IQ, John Arcto, Leftism, Liberalism, London, Los Angeles, Multiculturalism, Nationalism, Neoliberalism, Neon, Nietzsche, Nigel Farage, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Postmodernism, Race Relations, Retro Futurism, Singapore, Skyscrapers, Steampunk, Taxation, Urbanism, Vaporwave, Walt Bismarck, Wealth, Zoning

 

Robert Stark talks to John Arcto, who blogs at The Anglofuturist on substack.

Topics:

-John’s political journey as a former Leftist
-Why John rejects the dissident right and embraces Progressivism Rightism
–What is Anglo Futurism 
-The Right’s elite human capital problem and anti-intellectualism
-The need for a counter-elite
–The July 4th election in the UK
-The Tory Party’s embrace of mass immigration and whether the Party can be reformed
–Nigel Farage’s role as a gatekeeper
-How Brexit has been a total failure and turned young Brits woke
-Why John supports some hybrid of immigration restriction, assimilation, and ethnopluralism
-Why John can’t comprehend how Americans get worked up over Hispanic immigration
-How talking about racial demographics is totally taboo in the UK, but cultural concerns are tolerated
-John’s case for Georgism and rightwing YIMBYism
-Why adopting certain leftwing views is good to appeal to elite human capital
–Why Blade Runner is much less dystopian than our current society
-The movie Her which depicts a future LA that is YIMBY but also very White
-British genres of Retro-Futurism, from the Victorian to post-war era
–Vaporwave as rightwing post-modernism
-Why the present is a uniquely bleak era in British history

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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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