Category Archives: Radical Center

Robert Stark discusses his novel Vaporfornia

 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, Yosemite

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

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Checkout Robert Stark’s Facebook page, Twitter, Instagram, Stark Truth TV, novel Vaporfornia, and in production documentary The Gospel of Gibson, and subscribe to his Substack.

Robert Stark interviews Nathanael Gould

aesthetics, Alt Center, Alternative Right, Ben Winegard, Canada, Cape Party, Cape Town, capitalism, Class, Classical Liberalism, colonialism, Conservatives, coronavirus, Culture, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Elon Musk, Emmanuel Macron, England, Éric Zemmour, ethnopluralism, Globalization, History, Homosexuality, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, Imperialism, James O'Meara, Jonathan Edwards, Leftism, Liberalism, Matthew Pegas, Middle Class, Milo, Morality, Nathanael Gould, Political Correctness, Politics, Race Relations, Radical Center, Sexuality, South Africa

Robert Stark and co-host Jonathan Edwards talk to Nathanael Gould about South Africa, Anglo identity, and the need for a non-woke gay identity. Nathanael Gould is from Cape Town, South Africa, born to Canadian immigrant parents, and is currently under quarantine in Vancouver, Canada. Nathanael is sympathetic to Robert Stark’s  Alt-Centrism, and describes his politics as socially left on gay rights (for personal reasons),  right leaning on issues of HBD and race relations, and centrist on economics. Follow Nate on Twitter.

Topics:

Nate’s interest in HBD and the Twitter Account Birth Gauge that tracks global fertility
The dissident right’s narrative on South Africa (their accurate and inaccurate perceptions)
How South Africa’s politics is polarized along ethnic-sectarian lines
How woke culture is spreading to South Africa, especially in universities, in part due to American influence
Rightwing multiculturalism, and the need to grant groups some degree of autonomy
The critique of Anglos from the right as being uniquely individualistic, liberal, and putting morality over group interests
The decline of the Anglosphere in contrast with the rise of Nationalism in France
LGBTQ identity politics, and why cis gay White males are being excluded from the intersectional hierarchy
A need for a rightest gay identity that emphasizes the contributions of gays as an artistic and intellectual caste
Contrasting global homogenization with true diversity and the politics of aesthetic tribes and hierarchies

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Checkout Robert Stark’s Facebook page, Twitter, Instagram, Stark Truth TV, novel Vaporfornia, and in production documentary The Gospel of Gibson, and subscribe to his Substack.

Poolside Over Politics with Anatoly Karlin

Afghanistan, Africa, Alt Center, Anatoly Karlin, automation, Banking, Basic Income, censorship, China, conformity, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, coronavirus, Corporations, Crime, cryptocurrency, Culture, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Germany, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, income inequality, India, Islam, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Leftism, Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, Political Correctness, Politics, Radical Center, Republican Party, Ron Unz, Russia, Transgender, Vladimir Putin, War, Zoomers

Robert Stark talks to Moscow based blogger Anatoly Karlin about his resignation from the Unz Review, current events, geo-political trends, and revisiting political predictions from past podcasts. Check out Anatoly’s new Substack: Powerful Takes and follow him on Twitter.

Topics:

The Last Reaction: Why Anatoly is returning to his roots as an independent blogger
Anatoly’s assessment of Biden’s presidency
The continuation of countering China as part of  the US foreign policy consensus
The post-pandemic economic recovery, the inflation scare, and risk of crash due to financialization
The pandemic as a test run for UBI and zoomers demanding higher wages
The pollicization of vaccinations (anti-vaxxer Red Tribe in America and Anti-Putin Communists in Russia)
The minimal impact of covid lockdowns on fertility trends and why Anatoly predicts that Germany will have a higher fertility rate than India by 2050
The US withdrawal from Afghanistan
Why Anatoly embraces The Great Reset but thinks its overhyped
What to expect out of the Woke Culture War
Why Anatoly predicts Biden vs. Trump in 2024, with a Biden victory
Why American politics  are no longer of a concern since Anatoly returned to Russia

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Checkout Robert Stark’s Facebook page, Twitter, Instagram, Stark Truth TV, novel Journey to Vapor Island, and in production documentary The Gospel of Gibson, and subscribe to his Substack.

Robert Stark interviews Apex about Systems & Agency

aesthetics, Afghanistan, Alt Center, Alternative Right, American Culture, Apex, Architecture, Banking, capitalism, Cities, Classical Liberalism, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, Consumerism, Corporations, Culture, demographics, Distributism, Diversity, Donald Trump, Economics, education, History, Immigration, Imperialism, Leftism, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Managerialism, Marxism, materialism, Morality, neo-tribalism, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Radical Center, social capital, Social Isolation, social trust, Socialism, Third Way Economics, Urbanism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and Apex talk about Systems, Pan-Enclavism, and the Alt-Center. Apex is a former leftist from a landless North Eastern Native American Tribe, and loosely part of the Post-Left/Post-Right sphere. He describes himself as the “Cartographer of the Simulation and the Architect of Post-America.” Subscribe to Apex’s Substack and follow him on Twitter.

Topics:

Why the Left are Hyper-capitalists
How we can embrace certain leftwing social policies while rejecting the philosophical framework
Systems and Agency
Why All Politics are Identity Politics
Robert’s Proposal for a New Alt-Center which offers a counter-argument to the slippery slope fallacy and O’Sullivan’s First Law with core philosophical principles
Why There is no such thing as a “Private Company” and why The Right is No Home of Mine
Distributism, Adam Smith’s critique of absentee ownership, and why market power matters more than supply and demand
The huge and confusing gap in theorizing power structures
The viability of alternative institutions such as in finance and education
Pan-Enclavism: the case for communal self-determination as a bulwark against mass homogenization
Post Americanism: embracing America as an internal empire
Politics as a cope: The LARPing will continue until morale improves

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Checkout Robert Stark’s Facebook page, Twitter, Instagram, Stark Truth TV, novel Journey to Vapor Island, and in production documentary The Gospel of Gibson, and subscribe to his Substack.

Robert Stark talks to Hunter Wallace about Post Trump Political Trends

2020 Riots, Academia, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Alt Center, Alternative Left, Alternative Right, Andrew Yang, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, censorship, China, Class, comedy, Conservatives, coronavirus, Corporations, Crime, Culture, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Elections, humor, Hunter Wallace, Immigration, income inequality, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, Police, Police Brutality, Police State, Political Correctness, Politics, Radical Center, Republican Party, Russia, Taxation, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, Wall Street, War

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to Hunter Wallace about the Biden Administration, Post Trump Right, and political realignment on class. Hunter Wallace is an Alabama based blogger at Occidental Dissent and describes himself as a Nationalist Moderate Populist.

Topics:

Revisiting why Donald Trump lost
The New Political Realignment on Class and  Woke Capital’s boycott of Georgia
Whether the GOP’s call to Boycott Woke Corporations is purely symbolic
The track records of potential 2024 GOP nominees including Cotton, Hawley, and De Santis
The role of Trump Post Presidency and whether MAGA Inc. is just the new Con Inc.
Joe Biden’s Polling and his biggest electoral weaknesses: Immigration, Crime, cancel culture, and civil liberties
The Biden Admin’s crackdown on civil liberties in the name of fighting Domestic  Extremism
The pros and cons of Biden’s Infrastructure Plan and the last COVID Relief Bill
Neoliberal Joe Screwing Millennials on Student Debt and giving the shaft to progressives on economics
How opposition to Cancel Culture has become the new culture war with Black Lives Matter tumbling in popularity
The Dirtbag Left flirts with the Dissident Right
How the transformation of the GOP into a National Labor Party is a long-term process
Hunter’s predictions for the midterm elections and next presidential election

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Robert Stark interviews Jose Luis Feliciano

aesthetics, Alt Center, American Culture, Architecture, Art, Banking, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Cities, Class, Conservatives, Corporations, Crime, Culture, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, education, Elections, Elon Musk, Futurism, Immigration, Jose Luis Feliciano, Mass Transit, Millennials, National Futurism, Nationalism, New York, Police, Political Correctness, Politics, Prison, Race Relations, Radical Center, Republican Party, Retro Futurism, Silicon Valley, social capital, Suburbia, Taxation, technology, the New Right, Transhumanism, Urbanism, Wealth, welfare state

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to Jose Luis Feliciano about his new Radical Centrist Futurist Political Platform. Jose Luis Feliciano is a New Right Labor Nationalist, Futurist, Space Nerd, and Marine vet of Puerto Rican decent. Follow Jose on Twitter.

Topics:

Political polarization and the need for a pragmatic forward thinking big tent vision
Jose’s Grand Plan to build walkable aesthetically pleasing communities: “life should be exciting and beautiful”
Funding the arts for a new American Renaissance
The decline in fertility and Pro-Family Pro-Natalist solutions
Rightwing multi-culturalism with Platinum Plans for all
Hispanics Souring on BLM?
The need for economic policies that foster innovation with a return of manufacturing, progressive corporate taxation, debt relief, and school choice
Criminal Justice Reform
Jose’s long term plan to create a political caucus and grassroots organization for the platform
The political barriers to populism, the establishment’s corrosion of both Trump’s and Bernie’s movements, and Jose’s winning strategy

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Checkout Robert Stark’s Facebook page, Twitter, Instagram, Stark Truth TV, novel Journey to Vapor Island, and in production documentary The Gospel of Gibson.

Robert Stark interviews Pinky Culture

2020 Riots, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Alt Center, American Culture, Andrew Yang, automation, Banking, Basic Income, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, capitalism, censorship, Class, Coach Black Pill, Communism, coronavirus, Corporate Welfare, Corporations, Culture, demographics, Despair, Donald Trump, Economics, Gender, Huey Long, Immigration, Incels, income inequality, Leftism, Liberalism, Loserdom, Media, Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, New York, Oligarchy, Pinky Culture, Police, Police Brutality, Police State, Political Correctness, Politics, Radical Center, Sexuality, social capital, Social Isolation, Social Media, social status, Socialism, The Black Pill, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, Wall Street, Wealth, welfare state

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to New York based vlogger Pinky Culture about GameStop, social and economic trends, AstroTurf politics, and populism. Check out Pinky Culture on YouTube and Twitter.

Topics:

Pinky’s political compass.
What the GameStop short squeeze exposes about our economic system
How the Great Reset is just late stage capitalism
Patriot Act but woke
Jimmy Dore calls out AOC
Andrew Yang’s campaign for New York mayor
The Black Pill philosophy
Tucker Carlson on the incel economy
Pinky’s videos on the racepill and agepill
Populist icon Huey Long

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Robert Stark talks to Jason Reza Jorjani about Faustian Futurist

aesthetics, Alt Center, Archeofuturism, Architecture, Art, Art Deco, automation, Black Lives Matter, Blade Runner, Caleb Maupin, capitalism, Cities, Communism, coronavirus, Culture, Donald Trump, Dystopia, Economics, Fascism, Francis Nally, Futurism, Gnosticism, Hinduism, History, horror, India, Iran, Italian Futurism, Jacob's Ladder, Jason Reza Jorjani, Jeffrey Epstein, Literature, New York, Nietzsche, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Race Relations, Radical Center, Religion, Retro Futurism, Reza Pahlavi, Science, Science Fiction, Sexuality, Skyscrapers, Socialism, South Africa, Soviet Union, technology, The Cold War, the New Right, Third Position, Traditionalism, Transhumanism, Twin Peaks, Urbanism, Utopia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and Francis Nally talk to Jason Reza Jorjani about his new Science Fiction novel Faustian Futurist. Jason Reza Jorjani, PhD is an Iranian-American philosopher, lifelong native New Yorker, and author of numerous books including Prometheism and Prometheus and Atlas. Also check out his Twitter and Patreon.

Topics:

Jason’s Faustian Futurist as an entry point to the philosophical and political concepts of his non-fiction work
The intimacy in giving the reader a window into the author’s subconscious
The Faustian archetype
The novel’s alternative history timeline set in the 2nd half of the 20th Century with an epilogue of the 21st Century
The theme of reincarnation
The significance of Atlantis in the novel and the empirical archeological evidence of Atlantis
Parapsychologist Gerald Feinberg’s The Prometheus Project, Mankind’s Search for Long-Range Goals
The parapsychological science of Remote viewing
A Prometheist vision beyond the convergence of left and right with a post-capitalist/scarcity outlook, and objective to find the balance between communitarianism and the creative potential of the individual
The limitations of electoral politics and the need to create a technological, cultural, and aesthetic movement
The Great Reset and the breakaway civilization
The mass exodus out of major cities and symbolism of the destruction of New York City as the cosmopolis of the West
Jason’s thoughts on the motives behind the woke agenda

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Checkout Robert Stark’s Facebook page, Twitter, Instagram, Stark Truth TV, novel Journey to Vapor Island, and in production documentary The Gospel of Gibson.

2020 Election Post-Mortem with Hunter Wallace

2020 Riots, Alt Center, Alternative Right, American Culture, Andrew Yang, Baby Boomers, Ben Shapiro, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Class, Conservatives, coronavirus, Culture, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Elections, Free Trade, History, Hunter Wallace, Immigration, income inequality, Israel, Joe Biden, Middle Class, Millennials, Nationalism, Oligarchy, Political Correctness, Politics, Race Relations, Radical Center, Republican Party, Socialism, Taxation, The American South, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, War, Wealth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to Hunter Wallace about the 2020 election results and why Donald Trump lost. Hunter Wallace is an Alabama based blogger at Occidental Dissent and describes himself as a Nationalist, Populist, and Centrist. You can follow Hunter on Twitter.

Topics:

Why Hunter was swept up by the Trump phenomenon in 2016 but abstained this election
The stratums of the electorate  including Core Conservatives who set the agenda within the GOP and disaffected Market Skeptic Republicans who were sidelined by Trump
Why Trump lost ground with White voters including the White Working Class
2020 Autopsy: Class Analysis and why Class, Not Race, Explains Trump’s Rust Belt Defeat
Donald Trump Made Real Gains with Asians and Hispanics (ex. Tejano Vote In Texas)
Why dissident energy and higher levels of ethnocentrism are from the Center, not the right
Why The Jared Kushner Strategy and Trump’s brand of Identity Politics failed
Donald Trump’s “Platinum Plan” for Black America
Conservatives Lash Out Against Student Loan Debt Forgiveness
Tucker Carlson Challenges Voter Fraud Narrative
The Post-Trump GOP and why the party needs to move to the center on economics to remain viable

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Checkout Robert Stark’s Facebook page, Twitter, Instagram, Stark Truth TV, novel Journey to Vapor Island, and in production documentary The Gospel of Gibson.

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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