Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 480
The Writers’ Bloc with Dark Enlightenment on Urbanism

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Dark Enlightenment ^[2] was host Nick Jeelvy‘s guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, where they discussed urbanism, and it is now available for download and online listening.

Topics discussed include:

00:05:00 Who is Dark Enlightenment? His prior appearance on Counter-Currents Radio ^[3]
00:09:00 Why the Left and liberals are obsessed with walkable cities, and why the Right shouldn’t have a kneejerk reaction to this
00:10:30 Skopje, Macedonia as a walkable city
00:13:00 Why Americans are obese
00:15:00 The horror of pre-digital terrestrial radio
00:18:00 American cities are car-dependent, and how that’s been exported
00:20:00 The attractiveness of walkable European cities versus car-based American cities
00:25:00 The value of walking as an exercise, the US Civil War, the Taliban, and Nick Jeelvy’s “Taliban Training ^[4]”
00:28:30 The system gives ordinary people three choices that rob them of political power
00:31:30 Malls and the removal of public squares from American towns and cities; Richard Houck, “Confessions of a Mall Rat ^[5]” and Mallrat Nationalism on The Writers’ Bloc ^[6]
00:36:00 The standard of living in cities has fallen due to diversity
00:38:30 The factors that have led to the state of American cities, Shelley v. Kraemer, restrictive covenants, and Richard Houck on Dark Academia ^[7]
00:42:30 Robert Moses as the godfather of the highway-based suburb, the disappearance of streetcars, and the documentary Taken for a Ride ^[8]
00:44:00 Budapest as a good example of a walkable city versus Los Angeles and Houston
00:48:30 In big European cities, each separate area has a center square
00:50:00 The sociology of American towns and cities, and E. Michael Jones’ book The Slaughter of Cities
00:54:00 Giving people a vocabulary for resistance: What you can describe, you can fight; and how Patriotic Alternative in the UK fought back against the migrant invasion in Linton-on-Ouse
00:57:00 How modern geographic constrains inhibit young men and women from meeting each other
00:59:30 Martin Heidegger’s idea of embeddedness and how he’s more accessible to instinctive people versus philosophers
01:02:00 Designing physical spaces and building codes so we can’t organize politically
01:04:00 The top-down social engineering of American geography and Nick Jeelvy, “Literal Human Garbage ^[9]”
01:09:00 Parking lots, public transportation, and diversity
01:11:00 How would Dark Enlightenment create the ideal city?
01:16:00 The landscape appeal of colleges
01:17:00 A confederation of villages as the perfect model for a city
01:20:00 Cars are for going between cities, but not traveling in them
01:21:00 Big hostile interests have conspired against the natural Aryan, Indo-European way of living
01:22:30 The stigma of adult children seeking financial assistance from their parents
01:24:30 What happens to elderly Americans when they can no longer drive
01:26:30 The structure of American society is designed to rob whites of solidarity and political power
01:28:00 What’s the cumulative psychological effect of bad urbanism in America?
01:30:30 The importance of being from somewhere
01:33:00 The value of a mixed-class neighborhood
01:36:00 America takes the Indo-European way of life away as a matter of policy
01:37:30 Being on the Dissident Right doesn’t make you crazy; being among the best the white race has to offer
01:39:30 The design of modern cities is psychologically damaging
01:43:00 Messing with the grammar of white society to destroy it
01:46:30 Americans aren’t rich and the suburb is a Ponzi scheme
01:50:00 Nobody is talking about urbanism but the Dissident Right
01:51:00 Why does the mainstream Right defend suburbs and hate cities?
01:53:00 The frontier and being the lord of an English manor house is deeply attractive to many Right-wingers and libertarians
01:57:30 Can a poor man have dignity? The dignity of the poor defines the quality of a civilization
02:00:00 The prime mover of America’s spatial arrangements is the race question
02:01:00 Closing remarks

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