This is really nice. Bay Area Guy and Dota are former posters here who split off to form their own website. However, they both acknowledge a debt to this website where they were birthed. Hopefully we can have some more spin-offs.
BAG and Dota are both more conservative than I am (Dota especially so)and that was probably a factor in why they split off. Their website seems to be centered around attacking the lousy IP Cultural Left, while they are much more subtle and diverse on economics, the role of the state, social programs, etc.
In those areas, BAG sounds more like a Leftist like me, while Dota is more of a traditional conservative. A lot of my commenters drifted over there and spend most of their time over there nowadays. This ought to be an insult except my traffic is so huge there is no reason to care and also frankly most of the commenters who left me were of the more conservative bent who were prob ably always a bit uncomfortable here, as most conservatives are.
Hey, Beyond Highbrow is an acquired taste like coffee, beer or cigarettes, and like all of those things, a lot of folks never do get used to this site. We are pretty much out to alienate just about everybody here, but really most ideologies deserve to be ripped into anyway. Think of Beyond Highbrow like an Old Testament prophet, howling rage into the wind-whipped desert storms. Or like the Sex Pistols, raging at just about everything. Or dean in Rebel without a Cause. Or Celine. Or the Germs. Or the nihilist of your choosing.
I did enjoy this interview with BAG and I listened to quite a bit of it. I must say I agree with most of what he says here. He may not be as heterogeneous and sui generous as we are here, but he’s headed down that trail.
Anyway, enjoy the interview!
Robert Stark talks to Bay Area-based blogger Bay Area Guy of Occident Invicta.
Topics include:
Robert Stark’s recent trip to San Francisco where he met up with Bay Area Guy at Union Square
The Bay Area as a microcosm of American society, and how it combines both the best and worst of what America has to offer
How the Bay Area represents American capitalism at its fullest
How SF Is the Second Most Unequal Major City in America
How despite its wealth and gentrification, SF has preserved much of the historic character of the City
How the Bay Area has Done a Better Job at Wilderness Conservation than Southern California
The Racial Dynamics of the Bay Area
San Francisco and the Bay Area’s Progressive Paradox
How Diversity Destroys Economic Justice
How the elites are social Darwinists who pose as progressive humanitarians
Andy Nowicki’s article The Patrick Bateman Right
His thoughts on Donald Trump and why he’s supporting Bernie Sanders for President
How the political ideal would be to combine the best aspects of Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader
His article The Pitfalls of American Exceptionalism
How the Left uses the language of American exceptionalism to justify open borders and Cultural Leftism
How America is exceptional at obesity, anti-intellectualism, and income inequality
How the The U.S. Has World’s Highest Incarceration Rate
Mark Ames’ Going Postal
