Bouncers, Artists, and E-Celebs

On today’s installment of Walt’s Right Perspectives I speak with the fantastic

JS.Hardy

—a strapping elder millennial Australian bloke who at one point worked as a bouncer.

He writes here on Substack at

Cyberpunk Bully

, and can also be followed on Twitter.

JSH is a longtime commenter in the Walt Right sphere, and has himself penned some of this broader community’s finest short stories, including…

• The Reckoning (Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3)

• She knows EXACTLY how to be a social media superstar

• The simple way that any normal person can become a millionaire overnight!

• Blood and Lavender (my personal fav because it’s fanfic about yours truly)

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Topics Include:

• JSH’s intellectual and creative trajectory into These Spaces

• Why JSH clicked with Walter’s essays about the 2016 Alt Right and leaving WN

• The Australian white nationalist / skinhead scene

• Why cultural creation is more impactful than political activism

• Meaningfully changing opinions about things people care about usually will require Show Don’t Tell—effective mimetic warfare is always higher order

• Why does anyone waste time signaling ideological affiliation?

• Could we leverage female empathy to improve life outcomes for incels?

• The nefarious tendency of incels to defect against male friends for headpats

• Walt argues it’s time to stop playing Kick the Incel

• Gen X / Early Millennial slacker culture and antipathy for striverism

• Differences between white collar and blue collar status hierarchies

• Performative masculinity in blue collar men

• Trained fighters are incentivized NOT to get into frivolous fights because they can hurt each other—scraps between untrained fighters are usually just boring

• To what extent has physical fighting declined between Gen X and Gen Z?

• Adversity is essential to developing an internal sense of self

• JSH’s experience working as a bouncer

• Does Australia have more of a brawling culture than Canada or the US?

• Relative merits of alcohol vs. marijuana

• Why it’s particularly difficult for people to realize they have a Weed Problem

• Are autism, ADHD, or personality disorders like BPD/NPD discrete categories

• Why everyone in America is on speed or antidepressants

• People are socially incentivized to be performatively BPD/NPD

• The Luigian genesis of JSH’s Reckoning series (Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3)

• Sometimes having concrete opinions is degraded / autistic / gauche

• Does JSH consider his work “Right Wing Art”

• Why Matt Yglesias talks like a girl

• Conservatard Didactism, Kitsch, and Degenerate Art

• Is modern art based or cringe?

• Why does Bouguereau code as low status?

• Why all the weird niggas in WN love Julius Evola

• WW2 prematurely cucked Art Deco

• Right Wing architecture—is neoclassicalism actually an albatross?

• Propositional or ideological cognition makes you worse at e.g. visual art

• Why Jews enjoy layered antisemitism / philosemitism

• JSH’s story Blood and Lavender, which is technically fanfic about Walt vs. WBE

• JSH’s story She knows EXACTLY how to be a social media superstar

• Social interchange between ecelebs is intractably semi-performative

• Walt vs. WBE as archetypal echo of Hook vs. Pan or even Arthur vs. Lancelot

• How Basic Instinct embodies the aesthetic sensibilities of the 1990s

• Is the Maude Flanders Right going to turn everyone gay and left wing?

• JSH gives an update on Australian politics

• The Australian housing bubble

• It’s weird how your net worth is massively contingent on the year you buy a house

• How Singapore saved capitalism from perverse incentives and low agency niggas

• Social media optimization makes entrepreneurialism horribly gross and gay