Category Archives: Philadelphia

Alex Von Goldstein Returns To Talk About Esoterica

aesthetics, Alex von Goldstein, Alt Center, Alternative Left, Alternative Right, Architecture, Aristocratic Individualism, Art, Asian Aryanism, Calvanism, caste, Christianity, Class, Colin Wilson, conformity, Cosmoplatonism, Culture, dreams, Drugs, Francis Nally, Harmony Korine, Hinduism, Hipsters, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, Judaism, Music, Neoplatonism, New York, Occultism, Philadelphia, Philosophy, Pilleater, Political Correctness, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, spirituality, Theosophy

Robert Stark and Francis Nally (Pilleater) chat with Alex von Goldstein who co-hosted Robert’s podcast, the Stark Truth in 2016.

Topics:

-How tribal conflicts are different people’s consciousness colliding
-The intersection of genetics and spirituality (eg. different races are different attributes of God)
–The lost tribes of Israel among European peoples
-Why Alex belives that Christ is the son of God
-New York’s Prometheus statue at Rockefeller Center and The Statue of Liberty which represents Mithras 
-The Harmony Korine Jersey aesthetic
-How humans are lesser divine entities
-The need for a dualism between tribalism and universalism
–Alex’s Dreamworld and experiences accessing different metaphysical realms
–Colin Wilson’s theories about consciousness and his book, The Outsider 
-T.E. Lawrence’s quote, “All men dream: but not equally…The dreamers of the day dream with their eyes open.”
–Pilleater’s viral Safe Sleazy meme 
-The inauthenticity of scenes like the Dirtbag Left/Cum Town and Dime Square
-How we were ahead of our time in talking about an alt-left and dissident hipster scene
-Cryptic fascist symbolism from 90s indie bands like Pavement to pop stars like Iggy Azalea
-The esoteric components of sexuality

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Robert Stark interviews The Flower Heart about Asian American Culture & Demographics

2020 Riots, Asia, Asian Aryanism, Asian Culture, automation, Black Lives Matter, California, China, Class, Communism, conformity, Culture, Danville CA, demographics, Diversity, Donald Trump, Economics, education, Francis Nally, Gender, History, Immigration, India, Managerialism, materialism, Multiculturalism, New York, Oakland, Orinda CA, Philadelphia, Pilleater, Politics, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, social status, Suburbia, Taiwan, The Flower Heart, Walt Bismarck, Wealth, Zoomers

Robert Stark and Francis Nally (aka Pilleater) talk to The Flower Heart about Asian American culture, and immigration and demographic trends, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Flower Heart, whose moniker is a Chinese expression for being a player, is a second generation Chinese American who grew up in Oakland’s Chinatown. You can read his articles on Substack.

Topics include:

-The history of Chinese immigration to the US
-The divide between older Cantonese and more recent Mandarin speaking Chinese immigrants, the former which The Flower Heart is from
-How Indian h1bs are replacing Chinese people in Silicon Valley and the degree of tension between those two groups
-Contrasting The Flower Heart’s experiences at diverse  Alameda HS and majority White and affluent Miramonte HS in Orinda
-How many Asian youth from the East Bay emulate Black culture
-How The Flower Heart’s mom joked that she sent him to a majority White HS because it was less hypercompetitive than an Asian school
-How White/Asian mixed marriages are more common in White areas like Orinda than in Asian ethnoburbs
-How a mixed Asian/Latino ethnogenesis is forming in certain East Bay cities like San Leandro
-When The Flower Heart’s dad recently sold his house in the majority White suburb of Danville, Indian families purchased every new home
-How the future is ethnogenesis forming along class lines rather than either balkanization or a melting pot
–The gender dynamics between White and Asian couples
-Francis’s demographic observations from New York and Philadelphia
-How most assimilated Chinese Americans are moving to the suburbs
-Is K-pop responsible for rising Asian male desirability?
-Reasons that Asians voted Republican in the past but are now more Democrat
-How Asians are having a political moderating impact on the Bay Area
–Pulling Up The Ladder?-The Child of Immigrants Makes the Case for Moderate Immigration Restriction 
–The Flower Heart’s debate with Walt Bismarck over high vs low skilled immigration
-The reasons for conformity and favoring lucrative career paths over self-actualization in Chinese culture
-Why The CCP will invade Taiwan to maintain its legitimacy

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Robert Stark talks to Francis Nally about Colin Wilson

Abraham Maslow, Adam Parfrey, aesthetics, Alan Watts, Alex Jones, Alex von Goldstein, alienation, Alt Center, Architecture, Aristocratic Individualism, Art, Asian Aryanism, capitalism, Christianity, Colin Wilson, comedy, conformity, Conspiracy Theories, Consumerism, counterculture, Crime, Culture, death, Dennis Cooper, Depravity, Despair, dreams, England, Eurobeat, Fascism, Feral House Books, Francis Nally, Greg Johnson, H.P. Lovecraft, Homosexuality, humor, James O'Meara, Jason Reza Jorjani, Jeffery Mishlove, Journey to Vapor Island, Liberalism, Literature, Marquis de Sade, Media, Mental illness, Morality, Music, My Little Pony, Nationalism, neo-tribalism, Neoliberalism, Neoplatonism, New Thought, Nietzsche, Nihilism, Occultism, Peter Sotos, Philadelphia, Philosophy, Pilleater, Political Correctness, Politics, Postmodernism, Psychology, Race Relations, Radical Center, Religion, Richard Spencer, Sadism, Science, Science Fiction, Serial Killers, Sexuality, Sigmund Freud, Sir Oswald Mosley, Social Media, spirituality, the New Right, Tim Biskup, Transgender, Transhumanism, Vaporfornia, White Nationalism

Robert Stark talks to Francis Nally about the English author, Colin Wilson, his book The Outsider, and his esoteric ideas about consciousness, as well as revisiting Francis’s philosophy of Asian Aryanism. Francis’s website is Pilleater.com,  he has a YouTube Channel, and has a new book out, Suicidal, Asian, and Promiscious. The Muse We Neglect.

Topics:

Colin Wilson’s brief fame, and his relationship with the Angry Young Men literary genre
The archetype of the Outsider
The appeal of Colin Wilson to the New Right (eg. Counter-Currents)
Aspects of both populism (anti-credentialism) and Nietzschean elitism to Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson’s interview with Jeffrey Mishlove’s New Thinking Allowed
Wilson’s approach to mysticism, spiritual science, and the supernatural
Wilson’s theories on consciousness and the Peak Experience
Wilson’s book, The Occult: A History
Wilson’s book, The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders
Wilson’s correspondence with serial killer, Ian Brady, and Wilson’s intro to Brady’s book, The Gates of Janus
Francis’s essay on how Ethical Sadism can be used to disrupt liberalism and free our desires 
The need to embrace sincerity, identity and passion
How Transhumanism has potential to expand consciousness but also to turn man into “robots”
My Little Pony, Faustian aesthetics, and the Brony phenomenon
Planet of the Bass Nationalism

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Robert Stark interviews Rich Houck

1980's, aesthetics, American Culture, Animal Cruelty, animals, Archeofuturism, Architecture, arcology, Art, Cities, Class, Communism, coronavirus, Crime, Culture, demographics, Diversity, Economics, education, Environment, Fascism, Futurism, gentrification, Historic Preservation, Immigration, income inequality, Japanese Culture, Journey to Vapor Island, Los Angeles, Malls, Mental illness, Nationalism, Neoliberalism, Neon, New Urbanism, New York, Philadelphia, Photography, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Retro Futurism, Rich Houck, Robert Putnam, San Francisco, Skyscrapers, social capital, Social Isolation, social trust, Toronto, Traditionalism, Urbanism, Zoning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to Rich Houck about urbanism, aesthetics, and the need for social capital. Rich is a recent law school grad and you can check out his blog on Patreon and his Twitter account.

Topics:

Rich’s interest in photography
Rich’s patronage of independent artists
Interest in both traditional and Retro-Futurist aesthetics
Neon nationalism: reclaiming the future we should have had
80s nostalgia: the 80s as a going away party
The Last Mall Rat OR The Decline and Transformation of The American Mall
The importance of communal spaces, whether it’s Interior Urbanism or a traditional village space
How urban planning models and density relate to social cohesion
Does Diversity Create Distrust?
Crime prevention through environmental design and A New Way of Understanding ‘Eyes on the Street‘ 
Impression of San Francisco, how it could have been an American Paris with a uniquely American European aesthetic
The spring COVID-19 took from me
How the pandemic is exposing a wide range of problems from open borders to factory farming
Robert’s novel Journey to Vapor Island’s lesson about taking the best from all sides
Symbolism of the Neon-Raccoon

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Robert Stark talks to Francis Nally about Ludism: Board Games That Will Get You High

aesthetics, Andy Looney, Art, Board Games, Cosmic Encounter, Culture, Francis Nally, Peter Olotka, Philadelphia, Philosophy, Psychology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to Francis Nally about his new book Ludism: Board Games That Will Get You High.

Topics:

What is Ludism? Ron Hale-Evans and www.ludism.org
The board game scene in Pennsylvania
Andrew Looney and Peter Olotka
Ludology as a branch of Analytical Philosophy
Cosmic Encounter, Pyramid Arcade, and Piecepack
Howard M. Fesler and The Compleat Strategist
Game Design, “Ludology,” and it’s place in the arts
Francis’ critique of Euro games
Francis’ board game collection.
Monopoly and Candy Land
The rise and fall of Fantasy Flight Games
Francis’ obsession with the game Cosmic Encounter
Consumerism’s impact on board game design

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Robert Stark talks to Kashif Vikaas about the Meta-Right

addiction, aesthetics, Alternative Right, American Culture, capitalism, Christianity, Class, Culture, demographics, Drugs, Economics, Fascism, Hinduism, Immigration, income inequality, Jean Baudrillard, Kashif Vikaas, Marxism, Matthew Pegas, Philadelphia, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Postmodernism, Psychology, Race Relations, Religion, Retro Futurism, Silicon Valley, social capital, Social Isolation, social trust, Socialism, Synthwave, Third Position

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and Matthew Pegas talk to Kashif Vikaas. Kashif runs the site Meta-Right.

Topics:

Meta-Modernism and the Meta-Right as right-wing Post Modernism
Philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and metaphysical realism
The concept of Hyperreality
The impact of aesthetic preferences on political ideology
Retro-futurism and Synthwave as the aesthetic of the Meta-Right
Kashif’s observation from working in Silicon Valley that User Interface designers often held pro-fascist outlooks based on aesthetics
Kashif’s fundamentalist Christian upbringing and transition from the Left to “nation over profit” politics
The existential crisis of capitalism and corrosion of the national interest
Capitalism and hyper individualism creating a low trust socially atomized society
Kashif’s observations on White poverty and the ethnic dynamics of drug addiction and homelessness in Fishtown, Philadelphia

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Robert Stark talks to Francis Nally about his book A Manifesto About Stalking Patrick Hyland

A Manifesto About Stalking Patrick Hyland, Adam Parfrey, aesthetics, Alternative Left, Alternative Right, Andrea Dworkin, Andrew Yang, Art, Asia, Asian Aryanism, Asian Culture, Basic Income, Brandon Adamson, China, Class, counterculture, Culture, demographics, Diversity, Economics, Ellliot Rodger, Extroversion, Feminism, Francis Nally, Futurism, Gender, Hipsters, Homosexuality, Introversion, Japan, Japanese Culture, Jim Goad, Literature, Multiculturalism, Music, Normies, Philadelphia, Philosophy, Pilleater, Political Correctness, Sam Hyde, Sexuality, The Man in the High Castle, Utopia, Vaporwave

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to Francis Nally about his new book A Manifesto About Stalking Patrick Hyland. Francis blogs at www.pilleater.com and is also the author of Trip and Almond Eyes, Baby Face. Check out his music label Phteven Universe.

Topics:

Intro song: Asian Girlfriend
Quotes by Adam Parfrey, Sam Hyde, Chris Corda, James Nulick, and Brandon Adamson who wrote the forward
The book’s cover art by Shelby Criswell
The book as Francis’s manifesto and collection of his essays
Eurasian Futurism
Introducing a conceptual “bicultural” world after the fall of globalism and multiculturalism
Future City States
Chinese vs. Japanese Culture
The Alt-Right being stuck in a right wing ghetto and the need to be both left wing and right wing
The Alt Left and it’s key principles of friends, family, and freedom
Andrew Yang for President who is proposing a basic income
Rejecting Normie values
The Artist as the natural elite
Avant Garde Art and resurrecting Apocalypse Culture
Sexual Mores
The Cult of the Extroverts
The Asian feminist fallacy
Queer Culture & Homo-Nationalism
Fashwave Sectarianism vs. Vaporwave Hegemony
Francis’s upcoming performance under the label Phteven Universe on May 5th at the Sound Hole in Philadelphia

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Robert Stark interviews Publisher Josh Dale

aesthetics, Culture, horror, Josh Dale, Literature, Philadelphia, Philosophy, Pilleater, Poetry, Psychology, Samuel Delany, Science Fiction, Scott Laudati, Stephen King, Thom Young, Transcendentalism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and co-host Pilleater talk to publisher Josh Dale. Josh Dale runs Thirty West Publishing House and has a BA in English from Temple University.

Topics:

Josh’s background including being an associate editor and contributor to Temple’s Hyphen Literary Magazine and experience with a vanity publisher on Instagram
Temple University in Philadelphia; Science Fiction writer Samuel R. Delany
The process of setting up Thirty West Publishing
The overall themes and criteria of Thirty West
Josh’s interest in work that is introspective and inspired by the inner workings of the mind
The designs of Thirty West’s books
Authors published including Thom Young
Josh’s collection of poetry Duality Lies Beneath
The themes of the poems ranging from random imagination, observations, critiques of society, and personal idiosyncrasies
The book cover from a train station in Philadelphia
Josh’s influence from the Transcendentalist writers including Ralph Waldo Emerson
Josh’s near death experience from a car crash and how that impacted his outlook on life
Involvement in spoken word poetry readings


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Robert Stark talks to Pilleater about Almond Eyes Baby Face

aesthetics, Almond Eyes Baby Face, Alternative Left, Alternative Right, Anime, Art, Asia, Asian Aryanism, China, counterculture, Culture, Cyberpunk, demographics, Despair, Diversity, Erotica, Ethno Nationalism, Gender, Identitarianism, Japan, Japanese Culture, Millennials, Multiculturalism, Music, Natalie Portman, Nationalism, Peter Sotos, Philadelphia, Philosophy, Pilleater, Poetry, Political Correctness, Pornography, Psychology, psychosocialism, Race Relations, Science Fiction, Sexuality, Trevor Brown, Trip, Utopia, Vaporwave, Yukio Mishima

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to Pilleater about his new book Almond Eyes, Baby Face(available on Lulu) which is series of short stories. Pilleater blogs at Asian Aryanism and the Mineo Maya Fanclub

Topics:

The autobiographical nature of the first story
The theme of dealing with trauma from High school and College and struggling to fulfill the Psychosocial narrative
Nana’s Song inspired by Natalie Portman in Leon the Professional
The transcript of Pilleater’s Omegle chat where he pretended to be an Asian Girl
How Pilleater sees the book as his version of Yukio Mishima’s Confessions of a Mask
Pilleater’s essay he submitted to Radix “Why I’m an Identitarian”
Pilleater’s advocacy of Asian Aryanism
Pilleater’s Asian Aryanism in contrast with Asian colonization of the west and the growing rootless identity among Eurasians
The criticisms of Pilleater’s work from both the Alt-Right and SJW Left
The books cut up of the Right Stuff’s article 4 Reasons You Shouldn’t Date Asian Girls
The WMAFL phenomenon
Pilleater poem Easy Tiger dedicated to Porn Star Harriet Sugar Cookie
A hypothetical Asian Aryan ethnostate; it’s culture, politics, and aesthetics
Creating new Avant Garde sub-cultures
The Vaporwave science fiction story in the book
The cover art by Thai artist Piemboons inspired by Trevor Brown
The erotic science fiction story the “Rape of M’Khal” which was added to the new edition of Trip by Pilleater


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Robert Stark talks to Jim Goad about the New Church Ladies and Re Release of Answer Me!

Adam Parfrey, Alternative Right, Black Culture, Cartrell Payne, censorship, Class, Country Music, Culture, Economics, Gender, Globalization, humor, Immigration, Jim Goad, journalism, Literature, Midnight Cowboy, Morality, Music, New York, Peter Sotos, Philadelphia, Pilleater, Police, Political Correctness, Portland, Prison, Punk Rock, Race Relations, rape, Sexuality, Slavery, Social Justice Warriors, Taxi Driver, The Adventure Kid, The American South

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark, co-host Pilleater, and Cartrell Payne(The Adventure Kid) talk to JIM GOAD about his new book The New Church Ladies and re release of ANSWER Me! by Nine-Banded Books.

Topics:

Jim’s new book The New Church Ladies: The Extremely Uptight World of “Social Justice”
Social Justice as a new secular religion and their moral absolutist nature
Social Justice Warriors totalitarian tactics and dehumanization of those they disagree with
Jim’s early experience with political correctness in the Punk Scene in the early 80’s; Rock Against Racism
Jim’s experiences with anti-racist skinheads in Portland
Experiences with censorship in 1994 for the publication of Answer Me!’s “Rape Issue”
The Redneck Manifesto and the white privilege fallacy
Michael Hoffman’s They Were White and They Were Slaves
The liberal establishment abandoning economic issues and political correctness as a tool to disarm working class opposition to globalization
Individualism vs Identitarianism; “If you can’t beat them join them”
“Why Are White Death Rates Rising?”
The re release of ANSWER Me! All Four Issues
Peter Sotos’s “Quality Time” article for the “Rape Issue” which lead to threats of prosecution for obscenity
Jim & Debbie Goad on Hot Seat with Wally George
Music interest; 80’s rap music,  70’s British Glam including Garry Glitter, Rockabilly, and ‘Psycho’: The darkly insane country music classic
Philadelphia, Temple University where both Pilleater and Jim attended, and the city’s reputation

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