{"id":6452,"date":"2018-04-12T03:07:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T03:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=6452"},"modified":"2018-06-10T19:15:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T19:15:32","slug":"robert-stark-talks-to-ashley-messinger-about-roger-blackstone-the-politics-of-aesthetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=6452","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark talks to Ashley Messinger about Roger Blackstone & The Politics of AESTHETICS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Roger Blackstone is a fictional presidential candidate in Robert Stark’s novel\u00a0Journey to Vapor Island<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Ashley’s article\u00a0Roger Blackstone: The Politics of\u00a0Aesthetics<\/a>
\nRoger Blackstone’s ideology as a psychedelic futurist form of social nationalism
\nRoger Blackstone utilizing capitalism as a real estate mogul to rise to power
\nRoger Blackstone’s Utopian visions in contrast with Trump who has been a major disappointment
\nRoger Blackstone’s campaign commercial
\n\u201cAdvancing civilization and furthering human progress\u201d implies a rejection of the NRx reading of history (inverted Whig view) and assumes that some forms of progress are actually meaningful
\nBasing political ideology on aesthetic values
\nNew Urbanism and the necessity of creating aesthetically pleasant living spaces
\nThe idea that simple libertarianism is just not enough and we need to create intentional communities for every possible group
\nThe 1980’s Retro Futuristic theme; “Neon Nationalism”
\nRoger Blackstone’s idea of making humans, rather than just art and architecture, the subject of aesthetic concern
\nRoger’s Blackstone’s economic views and support for a basic income
\nThe power to completely re-engineer the human genome to enhance human potential(Transhumanism)
\nThe book The Chemical Muse<\/a>\u00a0about the prevalence of drugs(especially entheogens) in pre-modern societies, and the importance of drug use to a lot of artists and anti-conformists
\nRoger Blackstone’s father Alistair and his manifesto “Why The True Aristocrat Must Rule”
\nThe notion of a natural aristocracy(ex. Ralph Waldo Emerson and HL Mencken)
\nThe term \u201cAristocratic Radicalism\u201d pops up, which has been used to describe Friedrich Nietzsche\u2019s philosophy
\nSimilarities to Alistair Crowley\u2019s concept of \u201cAristocratic Communism,\u201d where society is geared towards empowering those who are naturally non-conformists, artists, and intellectuals
\nThere is some evidence that Alistair is sympathetic to distributive economic philosophies, because capitalism has this stifling effect on the creative class
\nThe mock presidential debate scene where Noam has to represent Roger Blackstone against the Democrat, Republican, and Libertarian
\nThe growing trend of political fusionism
\nThe importance of using fiction to influence political discourse<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Ashley-Messinger-Roger-Blackstone.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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This show is brought to you by Robert Stark’s Paintings<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and his novel\u00a0Journey to Vapor Island<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n


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