Robert Stark speaks with Ross Calvin about his American Colossus Project, a proposal to construct a statue of the Greek Titan, Prometheus, on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Ross Calvin is from New Mexico, has a finance background, running an Austrian economics-focused investment fund in global macro, frontier markets, and volatility for 10 years. He transitioned to become a bitcoin miner, and developed a blockchain platform for oil and gas. Subscribe to Ross Calvin on Substack, and check out the American Colossus project on Substack, X/Twitter, and Instagram.

Topics:

-The tie in between the Mythos of Prometheus and Sound Money

-Prometheus as a symbol of triumph, beauty, the power of technology, and the regenerative spirit of man

-Ross’s inspiration from Jason Jorjani’s Prometheism, who is no longer involved with the project

-The hope that the Prometheus Statue can usher in a new renaissance for America and California

-The enormous reasons for optimism to counter pessimism and demoralization

-The significance and meaning of “The Pursuit of Happiness”

-How the Prometheus Statue will be a bookend to the Statue of Liberty, but much larger

-San Francisco’s natural and architectural beauty, and significance as the Manifest Destiny City

-The negative publicity about San Francisco’s decay and the drug crisis

-The oppressive symbolism of the Alcatraz prison and why Calvin does not think it has any historic preservation value

-The Statue’s designer and sculptor, Fen de Villiers

-The contrast between the archeo-futurist symbolism of Art Deco vs “the staidness of institutions” of Neo-Classicalism

-The plan to appeal to Trump, as presidents have the authority to create National Monuments

-Trump’s persona as a builder, his proposal to create a statue memorial garden, and his neoclassical executive order

-The project countering the iconoclasm and spirit of deconstruction

-Why artists should have a greater role in the economy and technological innovation

-How Silicon Valley has become monolithic, State oriented, and less creative

-How Prometheus stands against censorship

-Plans for a documentary and a museum that will be a temple to the Promethean spirit

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