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Robert Stark interviews Rabbit about Robert Heinlein

aesthetics, Alternative Left, American Culture, Basic Income, censorship, Culture, democracy, Economics, Environment, Futurism, Literature, Rabbit, Race Relations, Robert Heinlein, Science Fiction, Sexuality

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Science Fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein was an influential and controversial author of the genre in his time. Robert Stark and Rabbit discuss his work as well as his philosophical and political views.

Topics include:

How Heinlein is difficult to pigeon hole ideologically, having been associated with leftism, libertarianim, and fascism
How one can interpret his with their own ideology(ex.libertarians: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Hippies: Stranger in a Strange Land)
Rabbit’s view that Expanded Universe best demonstrates Heinlein’s outlook
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, which is about a lunar prison colony revolt
Counter-Currents article Heinlein for Right-Wingers
Heinlein’s Farnham’s Freehold about whites  being enslaved by blacks in the future and how the book has been interpreted as being both racist and anti-racist
Heinlein’s “contradictory” views on race
How Heinlein was an advocate of sexual liberation
Sex in Heinlein’s work and how he explored sexual taboos such as incest
Heinlein’s rejection of liberal democracy, and his belief that people must prove they are vested in society in order to participate in democracy
Heinlein’s economic views and advocacy of Social Credit
Heinlein’s  support for space exploration and belief in an infinite Universe
Heinlein’s Red Planet about a colony on Mars
Heinlein’s experiences with censorship
The vision of the future in Mid Century Science Fiction versus that of today
Mid Century Space Age aesthetics
Trad Youth’s critique of Rabbit’s Alt Left
Greg Johnson’s West Coast White Nationalism and how it is similar to the Alt Left
How Rabbit was part of the early hipster scene and how he saw it’s decline into trashy pop culture

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Robert Stark interviews Ann Sterzinger about In the Sky

80's music, Ann Sterzinger, Anti-Natalism, Art, Basic Income, Culture, David Bowie, Despair, France, Gender, humor, Immigration, In the Sky, Literature, Loserdom, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Michel Houellebecq, misanthropy, Octave Mirbeau, Science Fiction, Sexuality

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In the Sky(Dans le ciel) was written by Octave Mirbeau in France in the 1890’s. Ann Sterzinger translated the first English edition published by Hopeless Books. It’s available on Amazon.

Topics include:

How Ann discovered the book from Pierre Michel, a French literary scholar specializing in the writer Octave Mirbeau
How Mirbeau is best known for his book Diary of a chambermaid but In the Sky was little known outside of France
How Mirbeau was an anarchist and a Dreyfusard
How Mirbeau was a major influence on Louis-Ferdinand Céline who shared his misanthropic outlook
How Céline was marginalized for his support of the Vichy Regime however he influenced many writers such as Jack Kerouac, John Dolan, Charles Bukowski, and Michel Houellebecq
How the book reflects Mirbeau’s outlook towards life and society
The main character X who is a depressed, misanthropic, artist based on Vincent Van Gogh who Mirbeau knew
The Narrator who discovers X’s manifesto after his death
How X struggles to create his artistic vision
X’s mentor who looses his mind
The post Catholic concept of expressing spirituality through art
How X struggles with sexual and romantic frustration and when he finally meets a girl he dumps her because she did not live up to his romantic ideals
How the of meaning of the title In the Sky and both where X lives on top of a mountain where you can only see sky and  metaphor for being detached from society
Mirbeau’s view on the family and how neurosis is pasted down from parents to children
How the book combines tragedy and comedy
Matt Forney’s review Elliot Rodger Goes to Paris
The genre “Loser Lit”
Ann’s article Dead David Bowie, French Nationalists, Antinatalism, and the Meaning of Life
David Bowie’s art & legacy
Her article The Magical Bottomless Labor Pool which connects political themes to her book NVSQVAM
Why I’m Scared of Widows & Orphans
Applied Dysgenics
In Defense of Beta Females
Ann’s upcoming Science Fiction Dystopia novel Lyfe, which needs a publisher that specializes in Science Fiction


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Robert Stark talks to Charles Lincoln & Robert Lindsay about LA, the 1980’s, & Blade Runner

1980's, 80's music, aesthetics, American Culture, Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills High, Blade Runner, California, capitalism, Charles Lincoln, Cinema, Cities, Consumerism, Culture, Diversity, Dystopia, Economics, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Film, Futurism, Gambling, hedonism, Immigration, Los Angeles, Malls, materialism, Mexico, Music, Neon, overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Pornography, Robert Lindsay, Ronald Reagan, Science Fiction, Sexuality, Suburbia, The Hunger Games, The Porn Industry

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This is a continuation of the discussion on True Stories

Topics include:

The demographic transformation of Southern California
Robert Lindsay’s experience as a substitute teacher
Beverly Hills
The Film Fast Times at Ridgemont High set in the San Fernando Valley in the early 80’s
The depiction of adolescent sexuality in the film
How in the 70’s and early 80’s hedonism existed with less materialism and higher social trust than today
How the rise in hyper materialism coincided with the popularity of Reagan
How Robert Lindsay was involved with the Punk scene in the 80’s
The Film Earth Girls Must be Easy
The Porn Industry in the San Fernando Valley
Southern California Mall Culture
How the decline of traditional Mall Culture symbolizes how all of society is becoming one giant mall
How strip malls in LA are being replaced by higher density development
The debate about density and Urbanism
Mexican Culture vs. Mexican American Culture in California
The Film Blade Runner which is set in LA in 2019
Whether Blade Runner is an accurate depiction of the future
The genre of Dystopian Future Films(ex.Hunger Games, V for Vendetta, Mad Max)
NEON SIGNS OF BLADE RUNNER
The Film “Her” which depicts the future of LA as an eco friendly SWPL utopia
The decline in the quality of products

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Ann Sterzinger Returns!

Ann Sterzinger, Science Fiction

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Topics include:

Trigger Warning, her new project with Rachel Haywire
The Pros and Cons of Child Abuse
Why she is a “radical moderate” and why it’s foolish to subscribe to any ideology in it’s entirety
Why people feel a need to be part of a political team that will support them and how it’s difficult to be politically homeless
How writing fiction enables you to not have to tow the party line
How peoples attention spans have become shorter
Why Libertarianism is good in theory but does not take into account human nature
Feel good myths that are put out into pop culture(ex. the popular crowd in high school becoming losers as adults)
How things are often just an outgrowth of culture rather than a conspiracy
The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
Her Translation into English of the French Novel Dans le ciel(In the Sky)
Ann’s recent excursion through a Muslim “no-go zone” in France
Misconceptions about French culture
How being a foreigner sometimes gives you a pass on one’s social ineptitude
Self Publishing Via Amazon
The skill set of promotion versus being a good writer
Her upcoming dystopia Science Fiction Novel “Lyfe”

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Robert Stark Interviews Andy Nowicki on Heart Killer

1980's, Andy Nowicki, Heart Killer, Mark Ames, PUA's, Science Fiction, Sexuality

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark interviews author Andy Nowicki about his latest novel Heart Killer. Topics discussed include:

  • The theme and basic plot of the novel
  • Revenge as a motive
  • The genres of the novel: crime, science fiction, erotica
  • The 1980s nostalgic dimension of the novel
  • The novel’s critique of the “game” and “pickup artist” community
  • How themes in the novel relate to Nowicki’s previous novels The Columbine Pilgrim and Under the Nihil
  • Nowicki’s belief in genuine hierarchy and sympathy for those crushed under arbitrary and absurd hierarchies
  • Nowicki’s article about Mark Ames’ book Going Postal