Mr. Raven is a late GenXer who lives in a wilderness area and makes laser cut paper art.  Subscribe to his Substack, Whisper from the Trees.

Topics include:

-How rural areas are treated like internal colonies

-How the rural vs urban divide plays out in dissident politics

–Sam Francis’ Leviathan and Its Enemies and James’ Burnham’s Managerial Revolution

-The class divide in dissident politics

–The smart but poor demographic who don’t fit in with proles

-How both Robert and Mr. Raven share a downwardly mobile upper class and bohemian background

-Whether America has any aristocratic attributes as a mercantile nation

–The formation of ethnic and cultural enclavism

-How an economic downturn could accelerate enclavism

-Whether enclavism would lead to neo-feudalism

-Why Mr. Raven is skeptical of Curtis Yarvin’s idea of corporate run enclaves

-Why distributism and mutualism are superior economic systems to capitalism and socialism

-Mr. Raven’s essay on Medieval Craft Guilds

-How guilds can address problems of jobs, education, and credentialism

-The need for a tripartite system where different social castes share power

-Misconceptions about the High Middle Ages

-Hans Hermann Hoppe’s, Democracy: The God That Failed, a defense of decentralized aristocracy over centralized democracy

-How resource scarcity could breakdown mass society in the future

–Whether technology will continue to be a force for centralization in the future

–Mr. Raven’s essay on beauty and the role of aesthetics in politics and society

-How America undervalues aesthetics as a hustler society

-Why old money people are superior to new money strivers

-How old money vs new money struggles play out in politics

-The class dynamics in California

-Mr. Raven’s observations on living in San Francisco in 1991

-Why neither Robert nor Mr. Raven voted for Trump

-The case for Trump as a placeholder for preventing the other side from doing bad things

-The economics of the arts

-The problem of conservatives and populists being philistines on art and culture

-Art fascists, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and the Italian Futurists

-The segment of the dissident right that is more culturally sophisticated

-Why Enclavism needs a pluralist dualism of diverse downtowns with homogenous bedroom communities

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