{"id":13980,"date":"2024-05-13T21:57:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T21:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=13980"},"modified":"2024-05-13T21:57:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T21:57:15","slug":"robert-stark-talks-to-matt-pegas-about-the-black-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=13980","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark talks to Matt Pegas about The Black Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Black-Album-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13981\" src=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Black-Album-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Black-Album-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Black-Album-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Black-Album-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Black-Album-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Black-Album-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robert Stark talks to <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/mattp969\">Matt Pegas<\/a> about his book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CY8PNKG7\">The Black Album<\/a>. The Black Album is a collection of essays and short stories, both fiction and non-fiction. The book deals with themes, including alienation, masculinity, incels, serial killers, spirituality, alchemy, philosophy and aesthetics.<\/p>\n<p>Topics:<br \/>\n-the inspiration for the title from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joan_Didion\">Joan Didion&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_White_Album_(book)\">The White Album<\/a> and the music trope of color-coded albums<br \/>\n-Mass shootings as a metaphysical attack against reality<br \/>\n-The context of Matt writing himself into fictional stories<br \/>\n-Adapting to writing with time limitations<br \/>\n-Matt&#8217;s struggles with serial killer OCD and POCD in adolescence<br \/>\n-the gnostic component to psychology and mental illness<br \/>\n-Jefferey Dahmer and the trope that the weird loner is the most dangerous<br \/>\n-the archetype of the Emo<br \/>\n-coping with malaise and dissatisfaction with life<br \/>\n-transcript of a disturbing correspondence involving an online follower<br \/>\n-Matt&#8217;s essay, <a href=\"https:\/\/mattpegas.substack.com\/p\/renaissance-of-the-ritual\">Renaissance of The Ritual<\/a><br \/>\n-Foundational thinking over Traditionalism<br \/>\n-A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getty.edu\/art\/collection\/object\/103RFX\">painting of a failed alchemist<\/a> and why alchemy is legit<br \/>\n-Matt&#8217;s experiences with Tarot, transcendental meditation, and esotericism<br \/>\n-Matt&#8217;s Essay, <a href=\"https:\/\/mattpegas.substack.com\/p\/and-golden-sunshine-all-along-the\">David Lynch, Bronze Age Pervert, and the possibility of inner freedom<\/a><br \/>\n-Matt&#8217;s thought experiment of a based Marianne Williamson or BAPist version of Steiner schools<br \/>\n-Matt&#8217;s essay, <a href=\"https:\/\/mattpegas.substack.com\/p\/the-politics-of-aesthetics-revisited\">The Politics of Aesthetics Revisited<\/a><br \/>\n-The esoteric significance of Las Vegas<br \/>\n&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/altofcenter.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/15\/beyond-liberalism-a-political-new-wave\/\">Revisiting Alt-Centrism<\/a><br \/>\n-How Robert and Matt manifested Dime Square in 2018<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-13980-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Black-Album-final.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Black-Album-final.mp3\">https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Black-Album-final.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Black-Album-final.mp3\">Click Here<\/a>\u00a0to download!<\/p>\n<p>Checkout Robert Stark\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Artrstark\/\">Facebook page<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Starkian7789\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/robertstarkart77\/\">Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0alUlSiilKhbtvty3Rjn3g\">Stark Truth TV<\/a>, novel\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lulu.com\/en\/us\/shop\/robert-stark\/vaporfornia\/paperback\/product-94zmj9.html?page=1&amp;pageSize=4\">Vaporfornia<\/a><\/em>, and subscribe to his <a href=\"https:\/\/robertstark.substack.com\/people\/15918522-robert-stark\">Substack<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Stark talks to Matt Pegas about his book, The Black Album. The Black Album is a collection of essays and short stories, both fiction and non-fiction. The book deals with themes, including alienation, masculinity, incels, serial killers, spirituality, alchemy, philosophy and aesthetics. Topics: -the inspiration for the title from Joan Didion&rsquo;s The White Album &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=13980\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert Stark talks to Matt Pegas about The Black Album<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572,542,709,1061,457,1352,1146,476,470,256,459,1350,741,417,484,1268,651,15,72,1305,113,556,112,60,71,1229,1390,1262,1134,448,116,270,1203,1346,1191,1126,53,114,140,66,600,170,707,494,169,737,622,86,606,136,1367,50,1366,313,18,1338,14,1395,1266,111,677,1339,695],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-aesthetics","category-alienation","category-alt-center","category-art","category-bronze-age-pervert","category-buddhism","category-carl-jung","category-conformity","category-crime","category-culture","category-curtis-yarvin","category-david-lynch","category-despair","category-donald-trump","category-dragon-day","category-education","category-ellliot-rodger","category-extroversion","category-gnosticism","category-h-p-lovecraft","category-hipsters","category-homosexuality","category-incels","category-introversion","category-james-nullick","category-jeffrey-dahmer","category-jordan-peterson","category-journey-to-vapor-island","category-las-vegas","category-literature","category-los-angeles","category-malls","category-marianne-williamson","category-matthew-pegas","category-meditation","category-mental-illness","category-michel-houellebecq","category-music","category-neoliberalism","category-neon","category-nihilism","category-occultism","category-personality-types","category-philosophy","category-pilleater","category-politics","category-psychology","category-radical-center","category-religion","category-robert-f-kennedy-jr","category-robert-lindsay","category-rudolf-steiner","category-serial-killers","category-sexuality","category-spirituality","category-spree-shootings","category-tarot","category-the-perfume-nationalist","category-traditionalism","category-utopia","category-vaporfornia","category-vaporwave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13980","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=13980"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13999,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13980\/revisions\/13999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}