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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