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<\/a><\/p>\nMr. Raven is a\u00a0late GenXer who lives in a wilderness area and makes laser cut paper art<\/a>.\u00a0 Subscribe to his Substack, Whisper from the Trees<\/a>.<\/p>\n Topics include:<\/strong>
\n-How rural areas are treated like internal colonies
\n-How the rural vs urban divide plays out in dissident politics
\n–Sam Francis’ Leviathan and Its Enemies<\/a> and James’ Burnham’s Managerial Revolution<\/a>
\n-The class divide in dissident politics
\n–The smart but poor demographic<\/a> who don’t fit in with proles
\n-How both Robert and Mr. Raven share a downwardly mobile upper class and bohemian background
\n-Whether America has any aristocratic attributes as a mercantile nation
\n–The formation of ethnic and cultural enclavism<\/a>
\n-How an economic downturn could accelerate enclavism
\n-Whether enclavism would lead to neo-feudalism
\n-Why Mr. Raven is skeptical of Curtis Yarvin’s idea of corporate run enclaves
\n-Why distributism<\/a> and mutualism<\/a> are superior economic systems to capitalism and socialism
\n-Mr. Raven’s essay on Medieval Craft Guilds<\/a>
\n-How guilds can address problems of jobs, education, and credentialism
\n-The need for a tripartite system where different social castes share power
\n-Misconceptions about the High Middle Ages
\n-Hans Hermann Hoppe’s, Democracy: The God That Failed<\/a>, a defense of decentralized aristocracy over centralized democracy
\n-How resource scarcity could breakdown mass society in the future
\n–Whether technology will continue to be a force for centralization in the future<\/a>
\n–Mr. Raven’s essay on beauty and the role of aesthetics in politics and society<\/a>
\n-How America undervalues aesthetics as a hustler society
\n-Why old money people are superior to new money strivers
\n-How old money vs new money struggles play out in politics
\n-The class dynamics in California
\n-Mr. Raven’s observations on living in San Francisco in 1991
\n-Why neither Robert nor Mr. Raven voted for Trump
\n-The case for Trump as a placeholder for preventing the other side from doing bad things
\n-The economics of the arts
\n-The problem of conservatives and populists being philistines on art and culture
\n-Art fascists, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and the Italian Futurists
\n-The segment of the dissident right that is more culturally sophisticated
\n-Why Enclavism needs a pluralist dualism of diverse downtowns with homogenous bedroom communities<\/p>\n