Category Archives: Rationalism

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 Anti-Racism Advocate, Alexander Ohnemus

Alexander Ohnemus, Aspergers Syndrome, California, censorship, Critical Race Theory, Economics, Eugenics, Human Bio Diversity, humanitarianism, Incels, income inequality, Kamala Harris, Karl Popper, Leftism, Neville Goddard, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Race Relations, Rationalism, Sacramento , Sexuality, spirituality, Taxation, Transgender, Transhumanism

Alexander Ohnemus is an anti-racism/critical race theory advocate from Sacramento, California. He is a follower of the philosopher, Karl Popper, believing in negative utilitarianism (minimizing suffering), open society, and critical rationalism. Check out Alexander’s articles on Substack and Research Gate.

Topics:

-Alexander’s stance on genetic hereditarianism and how it relates to Racial Equity/CRT
-How colorblind meritocratic arguments are insufficient in explaining social stratification and inequalities
-The concept of Implicit Bias
-Why White people are better off in an Open Society
-How CRT/racial equity relates to a declining White population
-Whether Whites will become more ethnocentric and reactionary as a minority
–Alexander’s proposal to use Transhumanism (eg. artificial wombs) to increase the NW Euro White population to pay for reparations
-Whether this proposal could bridge the Left/Right divide
-Why a more progressive society requires progressive White people to reproduce more
-Whether the Left will allow for positive White Identity Politics (eg. White Guys for Kamala)
-Examples of policies where the Left is better for Whites (eg. work from home boosted White fertility)
-Enclavism/balkanization vs. racial integration in California
-Why reciprocity and harm avoidance are the key foundations for good race relations
-Why the Left is overall better for neurodiversity (eg. disability benefits and autistic people getting more lenient sentences from liberal judges)
-How autistic people are disproportionately harmed by speech codes
-How asexuality is part of LGBTQI and different from the incel issue
-Why incels should stop blaming people who reject them and join LGBTQ
-How artificial wombs could help both asexuals and incels in the future
-How dysgenics leads to Social Darwinism and reactionary societies
-Alexander’s universalist theological views and his book Highly Theoretical Differential Equations of the Afterlife
-How belief in reincarnation enforces social stratification (eg. Hindu Caste system and Plato’s Republic)
-Neville Goddard, New Thought, and the potential risks of manifesting

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Robert Stark talks to Evee about Culture & Psycho-Social Dynamics

(((Supply))), 1980's, aesthetics, Alan Watts, Alex von Goldstein, alienation, Alpha Males, Alt Center, Alternative Left, Alternative Right, American Culture, Anarchism, Architecture, Art, Asian Aryanism, Brandon Adamson, Cinema, Class, conformity, Conservatives, Consumerism, Corporations, counterculture, Culture, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, demographics, Depravity, Despair, Economics, Eugenics, Evee, Feminism, Film, Francis Nally, Gender, Greg Johnson, Guillaume Faye, Hipsters, Incels, Jason Reza Jorjani, Journey to Vapor Island, Leftism, Liberalism, Literature, Luke Ford, Manosphere, Millennials, Morality, Music, Neoliberalism, New York, Nick Fuentes, Paul Schrader, Philosophy, Pilleater, Poetry, Political Correctness, Politics, Pornography, Postmodernism, Psychology, Race Relations, Radical Center, Rationalism, Redpill, relationships, Retro Futurism, Richard Spencer, Sexuality, Sigmund Freud, social capital, Social Isolation, social status, Socialism, spirituality, Surrealism, SWPL, technology, Vaporfornia, White Nationalism, Yukio Mishima

Robert Starks and Francis Nally (aka Pilleater) talk to Evee about culture and aesthetics, psychology, and sexuality. Evee, a long time fan of the podcast, is an underground artist and musician (formally signed to Eyeball Records) from New Jersey, and is of French and Italian descent. Evee is a soi-disant Avant Garde bohemian, and champagne socialist, with a French mentality in temperament and cultural sensibilities. Check him out on YouTube and Twitter.

Topics:
Evee’s satirical fan videos of Robert Stark, Luke Ford and Jason Reza Jorjani
The New Jersey scene as a more authentic precursor to Dime Square
Revisiting the scene known as the Alt-Left, Alt-Center, or leftwing of the Alt-Right
Aesthetic preferences in art and cinema
The politics and philosophy of aesthetics
Why economic elitism is the enemy of cultural elitism
Why sincere sexual and aesthetic-based racism is preferable to sublimating these preferences into reactionary politics
Why psychoanalysis could cure a lot of political and social problems
Why rightwing moralism is as bad as leftwing moralism
Evee’s intuitive view of human nature
Why Evee dislikes the Manosphere and Red Pill scene
The political symbolism of oral intimacy and fetish culture
The implosion of modern liberal society
Evee’s upcoming book of poetry

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Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston about Rudolf Steiner

Academia, Aleister Crowley, American Culture, Anarchism, Aristocratic Individualism, Art, Austria, capitalism, Carl Jung, Christianity, Consumerism, Culture, decentralization, Despair, Distributism, dreams, Drugs, Economics, Emile Durkheim, Enlightenment, ethnopluralism, Eugenics, Fascism, Germany, Gnosticism, Hinduism, History, Human Bio Diversity, Jeffery Mishlove, Julius Evola, Keith Preston, localism, Managerialism, Marxism, materialism, Matthew Pegas, Morality, Nationalism, neo-tribalism, Neoliberalism, Nietzsche, Occultism, parapsychology, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Rationalism, Religion, Robert Putnam, Rudolf Steiner, Science, social capital, Social Isolation, Social Media, social trust, Socialism, spirituality, Surrealism, technology, Thinkers Against Modernity, Third Position, Third Way Economics, Timothy Leary, Traditionalism, Transhumanism

Robert Stark and Matt Pegas talk to Keith Preston about the life and philosophy of Austrian occultist and Renaissance Man, Rudolf Steiner, and what we can learn about Steiner’s ideas to address contemporary problems. Check out Keith Preston’s article, Scientific Spirituality and Ethical Individualism: The Legacy of Rudolf Steiner, and Troy Southgate’s new book, THE SPIRIT UNBOUND: RUDOLF STEINER’S PHILOSOPHY OF FREEDOM. Keith Preston is a historian, social scientist, political analyst, author, lecturer, trends researcher, and the editor of Attack the System. Follow Keith on Twitter.

Topics:

The crisis of modernity as anomie, uprootedness from place, identity, tradition, and social bonds, and its impact on the human psyche
Parallels between the modern existential crisis and that of Steiner’s era
Traditional religion being replaced by new secular religions (eg. social justice, scientism, secular heresies)
Steiner’s belief that spirituality and science are interconnected
Parapsychology, including studies of near death experiences
Comparisons to Carl Jung and Christian mystics, Emanuel Swedenborg and William James
Anti-vaxxers’ fascination with Steiner’s warnings of genetically re-engineering people’s spirituality
Steiner’s views on spiritual races and the Steiner schools becoming a target of cancel culture, though Steiner was staunchly anti-fascist
The limitations of materialism and rationalism, and Steiner’s influence from Romanticism 
Steiner’s philosophical relation to other thinkers, including Julius Evola, Nietzsche, Aleister Crowley, and Martin Buber
How the essence of Steiner’s political philosophy was reconciling the differences  between individualism and rootedness, liberal egalitarianism and tradition, and occultism and ethics
How Steiner favored an economic system like distributism, over capitalism or Marxism, and decentralized local autonomy and identities, over nationalism

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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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Robert Stark talks to Anatoly Karlin about Transhumanism & Effective Altruism

Altruism, Anatoly Karlin, automation, demographics, Dystopia, Economics, Effective Altruism, Eugenics, Futurism, Gender, Hank Pellissier, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, IQ, Overpopulation, Philosophy, Rationalism, Sam Kevorkian, Science, Science Fiction, technology, Transhumanism, Utopia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and co-host Sam Kevorkian talk to Anatoly Karlin about Transhumanism and Effective Altruism. Anatoly blogs for The Unz Review and is on the Russian language podcast rogpr.

Topics:

The philosophical roots of Effective Altruism in rationalism and how it uses reason to determine the most effective ways to benefit others
Anatoly’s article Immigration and Effective Altruism
Steve Sailer on U.N. population projections for Africa and the Carrying Capacity of the Global Population
Hank Pellissier and his charity in Africa based on Effective Altruism
Psychometrics and Pellissier’s book Brighter Brains: 225 Ways to Elevate or Injure IQ
Positive Eugenics, IQ and fertility, and fertility preferences
The Transhumanist and Futurist movements
Paper Review: Artificial Wombs
Radical Life Extension
CRISPR gene editing and intelligence augmentation
How Transhumanism could exacerbate inequality
The Technological Singularity and the age of intelligent machines
Cybernetics and the Neural Lace
Anatoly’s essay A Short History of the Third Millennium which predicts a future based on current trends without Transhumanism
Anatoly’s upcoming book on Neo-Malthusianism

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Robert Stark interviews Curt Doolittle

Ancient Greece, Aristotle, capitalism, Conservatives, Curt Doolittle, democracy, Economics, Environment, Eugenics, History, Jordan Peterson, Law, Libertarianism, Morality, Nassim Taleb, Nietzsche, Philosophy, Pilleater, Politics, Propertarianism, Rationalism, Roman Empire, Science, social trust, Socialism, The Enlightenment, Usury, War, Wealth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and co-host Pilleater interview entrepreneur, philosopher, and author Curt Doolittle. He is a proponent of the Philosophy of Propertarianism, and his writings can be found at propertarianism.com

Topics:

Propertarianism as a new ideogology and an evolution of Empiricism
Propertarianism as a way to explain one’s ideology using the scientific method
How Propertarianism is more analytical than moralistic
How Propertarianism differs from Rationalism, and Curt’s point that Rationalism appeals primarily to internal consistency rather than external evidence and Empiricism
The Anglo roots of Propertarianism, Brittish Common Law, and rejecting conflation
How Propertarianism takes into account individualism vs. collectivism, and how those positions relate to group reproductive strategies
Chinese Philosophy based on deceipt, ‎Sun Tzu‘s The Art of War, The Culture of War: Martin van Creveld
The flaws of Libertarianism, Liberal Democracy, Communism, and Fascism
The flaw in begging for liberty, rather than protecting one’s sovereignty
The domestication of man
Curt’s point that mass executions in Europe and East Asia led to more docile populations
Economic Policies, Debt Repudiation, Seizing the Wealth of Parasitic Elites who brake their contract of Sovereignty
Testimonialism, and the legal foundation of proving what is wrong over justifying what is right
Environmentalism; Curt’s point that you cannot own property unless other people protect it for you, therefore one does not have a right to abuse natural resources
The importance of having a high trust society
The convergence of Nassim Taleb empirically, Curt Doolitle institutionally, and Jordan Peterson in literature
Explaining Propertarianism in laymen’s terms

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Robert Stark interviews Dr. Gleb Tsipursky

Altruism, Behavioral Science, Bernie Sanders, conformity, Consumerism, Donald Trump, Emotions, Gleb Tsipursky, Introversion, Millennials, Personality Types, Philosophy, Pilleater, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Rationalism, Religion, Science, Sociopaths

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and co-host Pilleater talk to Dr. Gleb Tsipursky. He is an author, speaker, consultant, coach, scholar, and social entrepreneur specializing in science-based strategies for effective decision-making, goal achievement, emotional and social intelligence, meaning and purpose, and altruism – for more information or to hire him, see his website, GlebTsipursky.com. He runs a nonprofit that helps people use science-based strategies to make effective decisions and reach their goals, so as to build an altruistic and flourishing world, Intentional Insights. He also serves as a tenure-track professor at Ohio State in the History of Behavioral Science and the Decision Sciences Collaborative.

Topics:

The philosophy of Rationalism, applying reason, science, and experimental approach to decision making
Gleb’s interest in the process of how people make decisions and their outcome, and helping people make the best decisions possible
The misconception that Rationalism is purely logical oriented, not taking into account emotions and intuitions
The importance of making decisions that are oriented to our goals, and directing ones emotions towards those goals
How emotions affect political decisions, and how politicians manipulate those emotions
Pilleater explains why he voted for Donald Trump, and the emotional factor behind supporting anti-establishment candidates
Gleb’s comment on the appeal of Bernie Sanders to Millennials on a sense of Justice and Fairnes
Political correctness as a hindrance to Rationalism; the difference between political correctness and political politeness
How Rationalism relates to identity politics
Whether Rationalism is compatible with Religion, as well as Ideologies such as Nationalism; Racism vs. Tribalism
Pilleater’s comment on Pathological Altruism, and the book Pathological Altruism
Gleb’s comment on the importance in being effective in ones Altruism
How emotions relate to consumer choices
How personality types relate to Rationalism and ones political decisions; conformity vs. non-conformity
The difference between sympathy and empathy, how many leaders are empathetic but lack compasion
Emotional and Social Intelligence
Using Emotional Intelligence To Address Speech Anxiety
Debate vs. Collaborative Truth-Seeking; Debate as Evolutionary Psychological social warfare


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