{"id":10139,"date":"2020-07-03T22:45:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T22:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=10139"},"modified":"2020-07-03T22:45:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T22:45:24","slug":"robert-stark-talks-about-the-symbolic-vs-material-causes-of-our-nations-political-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=10139","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark talks about the symbolic vs. material causes of our Nation&#8217;s political turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Statue-Vaporwave.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10141 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Statue-Vaporwave.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Statue-Vaporwave.jpeg 630w, https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Statue-Vaporwave-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Statue-Vaporwave-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Robert Stark is joined with <a href=\"https:\/\/altofcenter.wordpress.com\/\">Matt Pegan<\/a> to discuss issues relating to Robert&#8217;s Unz Review article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/the-real-wealth-gap\/\">The Real Wealth Gap:<br \/>\nThe intergenerational wealth gap, the housing crisis, and how \u201cBLM vs. MAGA\u201d poisons the discussion on every issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Topics:<\/p>\n<p>The material vs. symbolic factors of our current political turmoil<br \/>\nThe material based critique of woke ideology and limitations of a purely material based outlook<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/up-front\/2020\/02\/27\/examining-the-black-white-wealth-gap\/amp\/?__twitter_impression=true\/\">Comparing data on the racial wealth gap with the generational wealth gap<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/are-millennials-screwed-generation-65523\">Millennials&#8217; screwed economic status<\/a>, the appeal of Bernie&#8217;s campaign, and an overall failure to invest in future generations<br \/>\nMore on the motivation of corporate support for woke causes<br \/>\nThe iconoclastic nature of neoliberalism to erase history and conceal power<br \/>\nPolitical symbolism in architecture(ex. statues, skyscrapers, single family homes, and public spaces)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Revolt-Elites-Betrayal-Democracy\/dp\/0393313719\">Christopher Lasch&#8217;s The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mnolangray\/status\/1275846674708127748\">Fox News host Lara Logan compares up-zoning to agenda of Antifa<\/a><br \/>\nWoke urbanist thought vs. the material benefits of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/YIMBY\">YIMBY<\/a> polices for millennials<br \/>\nWhether this new generation of urban flight to the suburbs will sustain the power of Woke neoliberalism<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10139-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Symbolism-vs-Material.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Symbolism-vs-Material.mp3\">https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Symbolism-vs-Material.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Symbolism-vs-Material.mp3\">Click Here<\/a>\u00a0to download!<\/p>\n<p>Checkout Robert Stark\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Artrstark\/\">Facebook page<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Starktruthradio\">Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/robertstarkart77\/\">Instagram<\/a><br \/>\n<input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"75RF3EG8CMWVE\" \/><br \/>\n<input title=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" alt=\"Donate\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" type=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Robert Stark is joined with Matt Pegan to discuss issues relating to Robert&rsquo;s Unz Review article, The Real Wealth Gap: The intergenerational wealth gap, the housing crisis, and how &ldquo;BLM vs. MAGA&rdquo; poisons the discussion on every issue. Topics: The material vs. symbolic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=10139\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert Stark talks about the symbolic vs. material causes of our Nation&#8217;s political turmoil<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1272,542,1061,221,623,196,500,524,203,336,554,382,156,459,713,484,12,449,276,3,332,1257,64,184,270,78,309,1265,1191,68,193,171,66,632,411,172,622,249,606,701,627,131,605,555,304,676,75,681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-aesthetics","category-alt-center","category-american-culture","category-architecture","category-baby-boomers","category-bernie-sanders","category-black-lives-matter","category-capitalism","category-censorship","category-cities","category-class","category-corporations","category-culture","category-demographics","category-donald-trump","category-economics","category-historic-preservation","category-history","category-immigration","category-income-inequality","category-joe-biden","category-joel-kotkin","category-leftism","category-los-angeles","category-marxism","category-materialism","category-matt-pegan","category-matthew-pegas","category-middle-class","category-millennials","category-morality","category-neoliberalism","category-new-urbanism","category-new-york","category-political-correctness","category-politics","category-race-relations","category-radical-center","category-silicon-valley","category-skyscrapers","category-social-capital","category-socialism","category-suburbia","category-swpl","category-urbanism","category-wealth","category-zoning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10139"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10154,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139\/revisions\/10154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}