Robert Stark is joined by Matt Pegas to discuss his article, Contrasting my Political Journey with that of Richard Hanania (How I became who I am, as a Woke Chad Centrist).
on this topic of rambling extensively about oneself, there has been a very recent tendency - or at least, that I have recently been aware of - towards long introspection videos by many top minds
Listening in, cxurrently at about the half a hour watermark. Interesting listening to Robert fleshing out in speech the points he made in the article.
A couple of observations:
- I like how both kinda acknowledge the suspect nature of Hanania's repentance of his alt-Right past, hints to donors' money and all. The correct choice of words would have been that he publicly grovelled in front of the whole left-right spectrum of the intensely online crowd. I don't know whether running a blog with 25000+ followers can be deemed the mark of material success in life. I highly doubt it. Of immaterial and lugen-success perhaps. I don't like his 'bullying the reader' style either, and I find he more than often stretches things a little bit. https://www.richardhanania.com/p/why-is-everything-liberal here, the whole argument he makes is captive logic. He makes a very articulate and intellectually stimulating point about power elites naturally dictating culture, while a populist leader would impose popular trends of allegedly lower artistic value. The trick here is assuming that elites have better taste than the masses which I don't think it's the case. Crass elites follow decadent aesthetic trends which are imposed on them by a subversive avant-garde. People with good taste instead are often penniless. But Hanania weaves the threads at his disposal very skilfully, reader feels intellectually stimulated (captive logic), but the fact remains that our """Palestinian Christian""" friend did not prove at all his assumption that populism is an unnatural way of governing societies. I guess the man has got to post. It's a bit like Edward Dutton, who has basically explained all sociology and human behaviour on the basis of a few unproven and impossible to prove general assumption from animal ethology applied to humans. This is another chap for whom is difficult to understand how he sustains himself and his family. All we know is that he had Jewish supervisors during his graduate studies.
- The alt-Right is not really dead, it has just exhausted everything that needed to be said on its topics of interest: HBD, Jewish Question, etc. There is not much more to add to the body of work that can be accessed at any of the current Vertigo Politix archives, for instance https://odysee.com/@VertigoPolitix:5?view=content. All one has left to do maybe is to comment the current news with an alt-Right slant. There are also quality commentators who started making strides after Charlottesville. Keith Woods is ace, just to cite one name. So it's not been all Nick Fuentes and Baked Alaska since 2017
on this topic of rambling extensively about oneself, there has been a very recent tendency - or at least, that I have recently been aware of - towards long introspection videos by many top minds
https://dailystormer.in/the-confessions-of-asmongold-is-a-good-video/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRLljn_GEHk&t=0s
Listening in, cxurrently at about the half a hour watermark. Interesting listening to Robert fleshing out in speech the points he made in the article.
A couple of observations:
- I like how both kinda acknowledge the suspect nature of Hanania's repentance of his alt-Right past, hints to donors' money and all. The correct choice of words would have been that he publicly grovelled in front of the whole left-right spectrum of the intensely online crowd. I don't know whether running a blog with 25000+ followers can be deemed the mark of material success in life. I highly doubt it. Of immaterial and lugen-success perhaps. I don't like his 'bullying the reader' style either, and I find he more than often stretches things a little bit. https://www.richardhanania.com/p/why-is-everything-liberal here, the whole argument he makes is captive logic. He makes a very articulate and intellectually stimulating point about power elites naturally dictating culture, while a populist leader would impose popular trends of allegedly lower artistic value. The trick here is assuming that elites have better taste than the masses which I don't think it's the case. Crass elites follow decadent aesthetic trends which are imposed on them by a subversive avant-garde. People with good taste instead are often penniless. But Hanania weaves the threads at his disposal very skilfully, reader feels intellectually stimulated (captive logic), but the fact remains that our """Palestinian Christian""" friend did not prove at all his assumption that populism is an unnatural way of governing societies. I guess the man has got to post. It's a bit like Edward Dutton, who has basically explained all sociology and human behaviour on the basis of a few unproven and impossible to prove general assumption from animal ethology applied to humans. This is another chap for whom is difficult to understand how he sustains himself and his family. All we know is that he had Jewish supervisors during his graduate studies.
- The alt-Right is not really dead, it has just exhausted everything that needed to be said on its topics of interest: HBD, Jewish Question, etc. There is not much more to add to the body of work that can be accessed at any of the current Vertigo Politix archives, for instance https://odysee.com/@VertigoPolitix:5?view=content. All one has left to do maybe is to comment the current news with an alt-Right slant. There are also quality commentators who started making strides after Charlottesville. Keith Woods is ace, just to cite one name. So it's not been all Nick Fuentes and Baked Alaska since 2017
All very interesting
Hanania isn’t ‘on The Right.’ He’s a liberal.