Debating Anglofuturist

In this very special episode of Walt Right Perspectives I sit down with longtime friend

John Arcto

to hash out our recent disagreements and put an end to our eceleb beef.

Many thanks to our mutual friend

Aristides

for moderating this discussion.

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Topics include:

• Why Walter initially blocked John

• How John conceives of Substack discourse and why he never blocks people

• John and Walt’s disagreement over

  Robert Stark
  ’s compulsive fetishpoasting

• Why John objects to Walt’s use of the term “schoolmarmish” to critique what he perceives as excessive prudishness from the religious right

• Is sexual license or male sexual cowardice the greater civilizational threat? John says the former, Walt argues the latter.

• Why John has moved away from Vitalism and toward Traditionalism

• John’s early admiration of Walt’s thoughts on attracting elites to the Right

• Walt’s version of “EHC” is more about entrepreneurial hierarchy in the private sector than Hanania’s or Karlin’s version, which privileges journalists / academics

• Why John has turned against

  Richard Hanania

• Walter feels John isn’t properly engaging with his plans to mobilize Tortuga as a network state and robust parallel institution

• Why Walt is cynical about the Trump administration and object-level policy

• John thinks Walt’s Barstoolism is incoherent but Walt pushes back

• John and Walt have different sensibilities about the candid discussion of sex

• Why John is threatened by the feminine social clout of high status dames like

  Kryptogal (Kate, if you like)
  while Walt sees her as a kind / protective maternal figure for heterodox autistic boys

• Walt thinks that John will have similar opinions to him in eight years

• Both Walt and John were bothered by women calling JD Vance an incel

• JD Vance’s charismatic performance in the VP debate extinguished his incel vibes and even got women openly thirsting after him

• John has deeply Atlanticist sensibilities and felt betrayed after encountering American students at his university who didn’t identify with Britain

• How Irish immigration and high birthrates created a robustly Anglophobic strand in the American consciousness

• The South is still Anglophile because of its heavily English heritage; John got along famously with

  ringleader

• Ellis Islanders identify more with America as Rome vs. America as New Albion

• Why Walt is so aggressive about blocking his enemies

• Walt and John discuss the Walt Right’s community tensions of Summer 2024

• The importance of keeping your temper in check

• Why Walt moved away from Pluralism over the summer

• Walt and John formally end their beef

• Walt doesn’t want to be categorized alongside any other major figure

• Walt and John agree they have the same political objectives, but John is more interested in theory while Walt is focused on praxis

• Why John is blackpilled about Britain

• Walt and Aristides encourage John to immigrate to America and arbitrage his accent to secure a marriage visa

• Do Americans not like Britain anymore?