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Robert Stark interviews John Arcto about UK Politics & Retro Futurism
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Robert Stark interviews John Arcto about UK Politics & Retro Futurism

Bing Image Creator. An alternate conception of modernity, what ‘Right-Wing Progressivism’ is about. (From John Arcto)

Robert Stark talks to John Arcto, who blogs at The Anglofuturist on substack.

Topics:

-John’s political journey as a former Leftist
-Why John rejects the dissident right and embraces Progressivism Rightism
What is Anglo Futurism 
-The Right’s elite human capital problem and anti-intellectualism
-The need for a counter-elite
The July 4th election in the UK
-The Tory Party’s embrace of mass immigration and whether the Party can be reformed
Nigel Farage’s role as a gatekeeper
-How Brexit has been a total failure and turned young Brits woke
-Why John supports some hybrid of immigration restriction, assimilation, and ethnopluralism
-Why John can’t comprehend how Americans get worked up over Hispanic immigration
-How talking about racial demographics is totally taboo in the UK, but cultural concerns are tolerated
-John’s case for Georgism and rightwing YIMBYism
-Why adopting certain leftwing views is good to appeal to elite human capital
Why Blade Runner is much less dystopian than our current society
-The movie Her which depicts a future LA that is YIMBY but also very White
-British genres of Retro-Futurism, from the Victorian to post-war era
Vaporwave as rightwing post-modernism
-Why the present is a uniquely bleak era in British history

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