{"id":14424,"date":"2024-09-21T00:46:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T00:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=14424"},"modified":"2024-09-30T23:54:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T23:54:11","slug":"robert-stark-interviews-ross-calvin-about-his-american-colossus-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=14424","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark interviews Ross Calvin about his American Colossus Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Robert Stark speaks with Ross Calvin about his American Colossus Project<\/a>, a proposal to construct a statue of the Greek Titan, Prometheus, on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Ross Calvin is from New Mexico, has a finance background, running an Austrian economics-focused investment fund in global macro, frontier markets, and volatility for 10 years. He transitioned to become a bitcoin miner, and developed a blockchain platform for oil and gas. Subscribe to Ross Calvin on Substack<\/a>, and check out the American Colossus project on Substack<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Topics:
\n-The tie in between the Mythos of Prometheus and Sound Money
\n-Prometheus as a symbol of triumph, beauty, the power of technology, and the regenerative spirit of man
\n-Ross’s inspiration from Jason Jorjani’s Prometheism<\/a>, who is no longer involved with the project
\n-The hope that the Prometheus Statue can usher in a new renaissance for America and California
\n-The enormous reasons for optimism to counter pessimism and demoralization
\n-The significance and meaning of “The Pursuit of Happiness”
\n-How the Prometheus Statue will be a bookend to the Statue of Liberty, but much larger
\n-San Francisco’s natural and architectural beauty, and significance as the Manifest Destiny City
\n-The negative publicity about San Francisco’s decay and the drug crisis
\n-The oppressive symbolism of the Alcatraz prison and why Calvin does not think it has any historic preservation value
\n-The Statue’s designer and sculptor, Fen de Villiers<\/a>
\n-The contrast between the archeo-futurist symbolism of Art Deco vs “the staidness of institutions” of Neo-Classicalism
\n-The plan to appeal to Trump, as presidents have the authority to create National Monuments
\n-Trump’s persona as a builder, his proposal to create a statue memorial garden, and his neoclassical executive order
\n-The project countering the iconoclasm and spirit of deconstruction
\n-Why artists should have a greater role in the economy and technological innovation
\n-How Silicon Valley has become monolithic, State oriented, and less creative
\n-How Prometheus stands against censorship
\n-Plans for a documentary and a museum that will be a temple to the Promethean spirit<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Ross-Calvin-Prometheaus-compressed.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Click Here<\/a>\u00a0to download!<\/p>\n

Checkout Robert Stark\u2019s\u00a0Facebook page<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0Stark Truth TV<\/a>, novel\u00a0Vaporfornia<\/a><\/em>, and subscribe to his Substack<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Stark speaks with Ross Calvin about his American Colossus Project, a proposal to construct a statue of the Greek Titan, Prometheus, on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Ross Calvin is from New Mexico, has a finance background, running an Austrian economics-focused investment fund in global macro, frontier markets, and volatility for 10 years. … Continue reading Robert Stark interviews Ross Calvin about his American Colossus Project<\/span> →<\/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":[542,221,339,1160,623,457,629,6,336,198,554,1335,459,484,710,12,449,276,828,773,1233,425,169,25,694,1416,527,701,744,676],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aesthetics","category-american-culture","category-ancient-greece","category-archeofuturism","category-architecture","category-art","category-art-deco","category-california","category-censorship","category-china","category-cities","category-cryptocurrency","category-culture","category-donald-trump","category-drugs","category-economics","category-historic-preservation","category-history","category-jason-reza-jorjani","category-jeffery-mishlove","category-kamala-harris","category-mythology","category-philosophy","category-prison","category-retro-futurism","category-ross-calvin","category-san-francisco","category-silicon-valley","category-technology","category-urbanism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424","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=14424"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14453,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424\/revisions\/14453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}