Monthly Archives: May 2016

Robert Stark interviews Keith Preston about The Tyranny of the Politically Correct

Tyranny of Political Correctness

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and co-host Alex von Goldstein interview Keith Preston about his new book The Tyranny of the Politically Correct – Totalitarianism in the Postmodern Age(Black House Publishing)

Topics include:

The origins and history of political correctness
Keith’s first exposure to political correctness when he was active on the far left
How influences behind political correctness include the Frankfurt School, the Privilege Theory, Maoism, and Progressive Christianity
How political correctness started out on the fringes, infiltrated key institutions, and become the dominant ideology of the establishment
How every state and ruling class has an ideology to justify it’s power
How political correctness relies upon dehumanizing it’s opponents
How political correctness uses the Police State to enforce it’s agenda
How the liberal establishment has abandoned traditional progressive causes such as civil liberties, non-interventionism, workers rights, and the environment, and how that leaves an opening for opposition movements to take op those causes
How police brutality is a major problem but the left selectively chooses cases that push their agenda


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Robert Stark interviews Richard Spencer about the Meme Wars

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Robert Stark and co-host Alex von Goldstein interview Radix Journal editor Richard Spencer

Topics include:

Creating an Alt Right/Safe Space at UC Berkeley(Video of the event)
Mocking the SJW meme of a safe space, which is a zone immune from “offensive speech”
The concept of a meme as a cultural gene
How creating a culture of irreverence has made a bigger impact than intellectual causes
Donald Trump’s role as a meme carrier and political bulldozer
The  death of Conservative Inc, Trump’s role in it’s demise, and what will replace it
The mainstreaming of The Alt-Right
6 Degrees of Richard Spencer
Critical theory


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Robert Stark interviews Bay Area Guy about the New American Civil Wars

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Robert Stark and co-host Alex von Goldstein talk to Bay Area-based blogger  Bay Area Guy of  Occident Invicta

Topics include:

How Bay Area Guy is one of the Alt-Right’s few Bernie Sanders supporters
How Bernie Sanders was the only candidate to not attend AIPAC , and Bay Area Guy’s view that the Alt-Right gave Trump a free pass for pandering to AIPAC and the Neocons
How the most crucial aspect of Trump’s campaign is his role in expanding the overton window and undermining the establishment
How Trump supporters are primarily anti-establishment rather than conservative ideologues
How Donald Trump is running to the left of Hillary Clinton and whether he will appeal to disaffected Sanders supporters
Red State article about Trump democrats “ruining” the GOP, who are described as racist democrats who want handouts for white people
The decline of Conservative Inc.
How the political coalitions on the left are also breaking downs
How Bernie  Sanders undermines the Neoliberal/Social Justice Warrior Alliance
Thomas Frank’s(What’s the Matter with Kansas? author) new book Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People
Social Justice, Social Darwinism, and the Curious Case of SF’s Housing Squeeze
Steve Sailer’s article San Fran Whitening Plan
The civil war among the Bay Area’s left on the housing issue, including wealthy NIMBY‘s, anti-capitalist anti-gentrification activist, and pro-density groups such as BARF
Michael Hudon’s book Killing the Host about the FIRE economy,  based on the Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate sectors
London’s new Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan, and how Bay Area Guy views him as another identitarian neo-liberal like Obama
The California Senate Race and how the Democratic front runner Kamala Harris also fits that mold
Why Bay Area Guy views the Democratic runner up Loretta Sanchez as preferable to Harris
Senate Candidate Ron Unz’s Radical Centrist Platform, which combines the best aspects of the left, right, and libertarianism, and how Radical Centrism is an emerging trend in politics

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Robert Stark interviews Thomas Rinaldi about New York Neon

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Robert Stark and co-host Rabbit talk to Thomas Rinaldi. He is the author of New York Neon and blogs at  nyneon.blogspot.com

Topics include:

How Thomas got interested in Neon growing up, and how he noticed it’s decline
His project charting and photographing existing  Neon Signs before they disappear
The History of Neon, how it was invented in Victorian England in 1898, and latter made into signs by French Scientist Georges Claude
How the peak of Neon was in the late 1920’s and  30’s(Art Deco Era), but already started to see a decline in the 40’s
How Neon was originally used by Corporate chains but latter delegated to small businesses
Churches & Neon
How Neon  was originally seen as glamorous but latter became associated with seediness
Neon in Cinema, contrasting Dick Powell’s  glamorous Gold Diggers Of 1933 – The Shadow Waltz and his 1944 detective film Murder, My Sweet, which depicts Neon as seedy
The 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life which also uses Neon to depict seediness
Hotel Neon Signs and and Hotel Neon in the Film Noire Genre
Neon in future films including the utopian 1927 film Metropolis and the dystopian 1982 film BLADE RUNNER
Incandescent Bulb Signs
The history, decline and revitalization of Time Square, and how there are very few Neon Signs left
How Neon has become replaced by LED Signs
The myth that Neon signs are not eco friendly
Historic preservation issues regarding Neon Signs
New Neon Signs designed in the Vintage style
Neon in San Francisco and the book San Francisco Neon
Las Vegas, how newer casino’s have rejected Neon, and how older signs are preserved at the Neon Museum
The popularity of Neon in Asian cities
How there is a renewed interest in Neon
Artist who depict Neon in their work including Robert Stark
Neon in 1960s Pop Art
The importance of patronizing businesses that have Neon Signs

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Robert Stark interviews Ron Unz about his campaign for Senate

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Robert Stark and co-host Alex von Goldstein talk to Ron Unz about his campaign for US Senate in California.  Ron Unz is the editor of The Unz Review and his campaign website is unzforsenate.org. He is also chairman of Free Harvard/Fair Harvard, a slate of candidates running for the university’s Board of Overseers on a platform of immediately abolishing undergraduate tuition.

Topics include:

How Ron Unz organized and sponsored a successful ballot initiative(prop 227) to keep English in the Schools
The San Francisco Chronicle article about Ron Unz, Even Republicans Swing Left in 1st California U.S. Senate Debate
His support for Raising the Minimum Wage
Raising the minimum wage as a politically correct way to reduce illegal immigration
His stance on Immigration  and support for a reduction in legal immigration
How mass immigration effects workers and the environment
Cutting College Tuition and his campaign for ending tuition at Harvard
The Myth of American Meritocracy
Opposing Affirmative Action
Controlling the Wall Street Casinos and His support for a Financial Transaction Tax
The importance of Admitting the Iraq War was a Disaster
Civil Liberties and Government Surveillance

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