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Robert Stark talks about Mishima, Taxi Driver, & Aristocratic Individualism

1980's, aesthetics, alienation, Aristocratic Individualism, Art, Asia, Asian Culture, Cinema, conformity, Ellliot Rodger, Erotica, Fashion, Film, Futurism, Gender, Globalization, History, Hollywood, Homosexuality, Japan, Japanese Culture, Literature, Loserdom, Mishima A Life in Four Chapters, Music, Neon, New York, Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde, Paul Schrader, Philosophy, Pornography, Psychology, Retro Futurism, Sexuality, Social Isolation, Social Rejection, social status, Taxi Driver, Vaporwave, Yukio Mishima

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Robert Stark discusses the films Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and Taxi Driver

Topics include:

Paul Schrader, who wrote both films, and directed Mishima
Schrader as a subversive non-conformist who exists within Hollywood culture
The theme of alienation in both films
The Nietzschean theme of a weak man empowering himself
The life and legacy of Yukio Mishima
How both Yukio Mishima and Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver are similar archetypes, existing in different environments
How both characters are aristocratic individualists, who envision an ideal world that is at odds with their current situation
An Aristocratic Individualist is someone who follows their own path instead of submitting to societies standards
Aristocratic Individualism is about having a clear vision for an ideal society, rather than individualism in the sense of everyone doing what ever they want
Examples of Aristocratic Individualists include, J. R. R. Tolkien, Aleister Crowley, Oscar Wilde, H. L. Mencken, David Lynch, Richard Wolstencroft, Salvador Dalí, Jonathan Bowden,Ernst Jünger, and Friedrich Nietzsche
The theme of romantic rejection, and the corrupting nature that sex plays in both films
Mishima’s story, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
How Aristocratic Individualists resent that they are being denied their rightful place in society, and the normie response that it’s a coping mechanism for losers
How Aristocratic Individualists take actions that can lead to either greatness or alienation
How Yukio Mishima rebelled against Japan’s process of modernization and Americanization
The scene where Yukio Mishima spoke to leftist college students, stating that he is fighting  against the same forces they are, but they dismissed them
The parallels to to how European New Right thinkers such as Alain de Benoist share views with the dissident left( ex. anti globalization, anti-consumerism, anti-imperialism, and pro-environment)
How Yukio Mishima was dismissed in his time, but dissidents are later validated in times of turmoil
Mishima’s Japanese minimalist aesthetic vs. Taxi Driver’s urban grittiness of 70’s New York City
New York Neon: Taxi Driver locales in Time Square, and “porn tourism,” which seeks out the remnants that have survived gentrification
The Neo-noir genre
The Retro-futurist theme in Mishima, combining ancient Japanese culture with the 80’s vision of the future(Vaporwave)
Eiko Ishioka, who was the art director for Mishima
The fantasy dream sequences in Mishima, and the dream like quality to 80’s films which are the essence of art
Bernard Herrmann‘s Jazz score for Taxi Driver, which captures the feeling of alienation and urban grittiness, and  Philip Glass‘s minimalist classical score for Mishima
Aristocratic Individualist Fashion style including designer Comme des Garçons and the director John Waters

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Robert Stark interviews Haarlem Venison

Alex von Goldstein, alienation, Alternative Right, American Culture, Aristocratic Individualism, Asia, Asian Culture, conformity, counterculture, Culture, Drugs, Gangster Bolshevism, Haarlem Venison, Homosexuality, humor, misanthropy, Philosophy, Poetry, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Race Relations, Radical Center, Sexuality, Travel, Trolling

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Robert Stark and co-host Alex von Goldstein interview Dramatist, Vagabond, HBD Doomsayer, Globalist, Universalist, Evolutionary Humanist, Panpsychist, Black Aryan, and Poet-Warrior, Haarlem Venison. Haarlem blogs at AcidRight.INFO

Topics include:

Haarlem’s book of poetry LO! a racist exhile
Robert’s observation that the book uses racial slurs, but the overall theme of the poems are not about race, but rather alienation and being an exile from society
Moral Risk Associated with Dismantling Antiracism
Co-opt Kindness and Empathy
Why Haarlem calls himself THE FINAL NEGRO
The Origin of Haarlem’s Addiction to Sex with Refugee Men
Haarlems’s shtick is to elude categorization
Gangster Bolshevism
The role of the meek in society, and why Haarlem believes the meek will inherit the earth
Haarlem’s travels across Europe and Asia, and his observations of the cultures and countries he visited
Haarlem’s experience in Tibet, the Free Tibet movement, and ethnic self determination
The philosophy of the Acid Right, and the intellectual and spiritual value of psychedelic hallucinogenic drugs
How subversive political movements are more likely to come from counter-culture figures including hippies, rather than middle class conservatives
Haarlem’s new book DEATHTOTHEWORLD: an interracial racist love story
How the book is fiction, but the character is based on Haarlem, and inspired by his experiences traveling across America by Freight Rail
How the Alt Right serves a purpose as a wrecking ball to political correctness, but has it’s intellectual limitations
How Haarlem trolled Red Ice Radio by proposing the Nazi Virtual Reality Theory
Haarlem’s plan to attend the National Policy Conference, and organize a workshop(not officially affiliated with NPI) on non-violent direct action at West Potomac Park
His upcoming series of plays, “Four Speeches at the Gallows”
Harlem’s review of Beatnik Fascist by Brandon Adamson


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