Category Archives: Wealth

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 Deep Left about The Election & Political Trends

Academia, automation, Barack Obama, Black Lives Matter, capitalism, caste, Catholicism, Christianity, Class, colonialism, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, coronavirus, Deep Left, democracy, demographics, Donald Trump, Drugs, Economics, Elections, Environment, Eugenics, Feminism, Gender, George Bush, Globalization, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, India, IQ, Iran, Iraq, Israel, JD Vance, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Leftism, Liberalism, Managerialism, Media, Mexico, Middle East, Mormonism, Nationalism, NATO, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Race Relations, Radical Center, Religion, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, Transgender, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, Ukraine, Wall Street, War, Wealth, welfare state

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Topics:

–Why Deep Left is on the Left
-The growing left-right divide over the role of America’s institutions
-Why not all wars are the same, and liberal-led wars have been more successful
-Deep Left’s support for a North American Union and military integration with Mexico
-Trump as a product of a process that begun with Reagan allying with Evangelicals
-Contrasting Trump’s populist anti-globalist campaign of 2016 with his more conventionally conservative 2024 campaign
-Why Trump’s racist comments about Haitian migrants are crude and politically ineffective
-How Trump is harsh rhetorically but lacks effective policy action, while Biden is the opposite of that
-How the migrant crisis is Biden’s main shortcoming
-Trump’s failure to solve the opioid crisis which requires nationalized solutions
-The GOP transforming into a multi-racial male-dominated working class integralist party
-Why Mark Robinson should own his online comments
-How Silicon Valley has warmed up to the GOP, as an empty vessel that is malleable
-The growing Catholic influence on the Right
-Will the GOP embrace welfare nationalism?
-Why high skilled immigrants from India and East Asia are the future of the Democratic Party
-Deep Left’s ideal immigration policy to have open immigration with NATO nations with an annual 1k cap for all other nations
-How Trump is cozying up to oligarchs to escape Jail and build a future dynasty
-How Democrats are becoming more hierarchical and technocratic, and intolerant of any dissenters
-Whether BLM and wokeness were a color revolution?
-How conservatives complaining about double standards between the treatment of Jan 6th and BLM riots is ironically leftist thinking
–Why Deep Left is not a centrist and Radical Centrism is not viable
-Deep Left’s proposal to create a greater Brahmin class via academia, independent of profit motives
-The study of human genetics and hereditability
-Why the pro-life cause is radically egalitarianism and impractical
-How the job market does not match up with the cognitive abilities of the populace
-Hypothetical proposal to push natalism on the wealthy
-Why Deep Left predicts Kamala will win

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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 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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Kevin Lynn interviews Robert Stark about Why No Collapse is the Real Dystopia

1960's, 1980's, automation, Banking, Bernie Sanders, California, China, Conspiracy Theories, Culture, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Elections, Federal Reserve, Hillary Clinton, History, Immigration, income inequality, Joe Biden, Kevin Lynn, Leftism, Liberalism, Memes, Peter Turchin, Peter Zeihan, Politics, Progressives for Immigration Reform, Psychology, Republican Party, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Robert Putnam, Roman Empire, Russia, social capital, social trust, Ukraine, Wall Street, War, Wealth

Kevin Lynn interviews Robert Stark about his article, No Collapse is the Real Dystopia: still waiting for the Big Collapse. This recording is a simulcast for Kevin’s Institute for Sound Public Policy’s YouTube channel, recorded on June 13th. Kevin Lynn is executive director of the Institute for Sound Public Policy and Progressives for Immigration Reform, and founder of US Tech Workers. Follow Kevin on Twitter.

Topics:

Revisiting past predictions about economic collapse, the current stagnant vibes,  and return of bullish copes about the economy
John Michael Greer’s Not the Future We Ordered and his theory of catabolic collapse
Research predicting future cycles of collapse by Peter Turchin, Neil Howe & William Strauss’ Fourth Turning, and the Kondratiev wave
Reponses to the article , including a re-publish on ZeroHedege, and a critical response from Jeet Heer
Those who are psychologically invested in collapse
The pros and cons of being a perma bear, and Kevin revisits the 08 crash
How the bears will be vindicated in the long run, due to unprecedented levels of debt
The impact of demographic cycles on politics, social strife, and the economy
The scope of the migrant crisis which is unprecedented in American history, and Michael Yon’s reporting from the Darien Gap
Janet Yellen’s statement, expecting a slow steady decline of the dollar
The exodus out of California 
The Hard Times Create Strong Men meme 
Speculation about the Trump incitement and 2024 election

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Robert Stark is interviewed about California’s Political & Demographic Future

Alt 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, Zoning

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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Where will this Economic Chaos lead to? (With Kevin Lynn)

Baby Boomers, Banking, Barack Obama, California, capitalism, China, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, coronavirus, Corporations, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Elections, Environment, Federal Reserve, George Bush, Globalization, Immigration, income inequality, Independent Political Candidates, James Howard Kunstler, Jimmy Dore, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Kevin Lynn, Leftism, Libertarianism, Oil, Oligarchy, Peak Oil, Peter Turchin, Peter Zeihan, Police Corruption, Police State, Political Parties, Politics, Progressives for Immigration Reform, Republican Party, Ross Perot, Russia, Silicon Valley, Taxation, Tucker Carlson, Ukraine, Urbanism, Wall Street, War, Water, Wealth, Zoning

Robert Stark talks to Kevin Lynn about the dire implications of economic data and trends. Kevin Lynn is executive director of Progressives for Immigration Reform and founder of US Tech Workers. Follow Kevin on Twitter.

Topics:

Examples of gaslighting on the economy,  Redefining the definition of recession and declaration of a “Vibecession”
How the economic bullishness and bear rallies in stocks show the degree of disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street
The “Baking” of the Jobs numbers report and inflation data
The beginning of mass Tech layoffs
The super bubble to end all bubbles
Kevin’s article If You Thought the NIMBYs Were Bad – Meet the YIMBYs
Revisiting the pandemic stimulus and how only a fraction of stimulus went directly to the people
Federal Reserve policy, Biden’s “Inflation Reduction” Act,” and vulnerabilities of the dollar
Speculating worst case economic scenarios (deflationary depression, long-term stagflation, real estate crash, and debt crisis)
Geopolitics crisis, supply chains issues, global conflicts and civil unrest
The Fourth Turning theory and Peter Turchin’s method of measuring cycles of crisis
The political implications of the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar a Lago
Kevin’s observations from attending the recent CPAC conference in Texas on the political currents

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