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Category Archives: Sublime Oblivion
My Interview on Middle East Geopolitics, Afghanistan and Iran & the Bomb with Marat Kunaev
I was recently interviewed on Middle East geopolitics and the Iran Question by Marat Kunaev, a blogger and translator at InoForum. I would like to thank him for the opportunity to express my views on the topic and providing a possible … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged afghanistan, armenia, azerbaijan, caucasus, china, energy, futurism, geopolitics, georgia, india, international relations, interview, iran, islam, islamophobia, israel, me, middle east, military, peak water, rise of the rest, Russia Resources, usa, war, water, western hypocrisy
38 Comments
Another View of the US Economy: Observations on Exergy, GDP & Median Incomes
The standard view of the American economy is one of exponential growth: even if interrupted by a recession once a decade and a Depression once every two generations (the 1890′s, the 1930′s, the 2010′s?), the engines of industry would always … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, collapse, culture, demography, economy, energy, history, morale, politics, rant, thermoeconomics, usa, vision
18 Comments
Everyone is Still Underestimating China
There’s been lots of fanfare over China’s GDP overtaking Japan’s in Q2 2010 (coming hard on the heels of a big ruckus over its DF-21 “carrier killing” ballistic missile and rising tensions with the US over North Korea and the … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged china, collapse, economy, energy, finance, geopolitics, history, peak oil, resource depletion, Russia Resources, usa, vision
23 Comments
Russia Burning: not Apocalypse, but its Prelude
This post is a meta-commentary on media coverage of Russia’s drought and wildfires. Now make no mistake, I admire the yeoman work of some journalists in covering Russia burning: no doubt a few will even make their way into the … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, climate change, collapse, corruption, demography, drought, futurism, global warming, pollution, Russia Resources, russians, vision, western media
50 Comments
Review of “The Lucifer Principle” (H. Bloom), or: Fascism is the Natural State
Depressingly fatalist, morbidly truthful, irresistibly Nietzschean. That’s Howard Bloom’s “The Lucifer Principle” in a nutshell: a meandering trawl through disciplines such as genetics, psychology and culture that culminates in a theory of evil, purporting to explain its historical necessity, its creative … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, culture, demography, feminism, history, human rights, imperialism, islam, life, morale, politics, psychology, review, war, western hypocrisy
18 Comments
Russia’s Roads to Nowhere, or: build Railways instead!
Though it’s not quite true that Russia has “no roads, only directions”, the old saying isn’t far off the mark. The World Bank’s recent report on Russia’s economy notes that the Eurasian giant’s road network is primitive and crumbling, coming … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged economy, energy, futurism, infrastructure, liberasty, peak oil, Russia Resources, sustainability, usa
13 Comments
The Century without an Indian Summer
How will the global South fare in our likely future of energy shortages, climate change and resource nationalism (and wars)? India has China’s population mass, but lacks its industrial dynamism and human capital. Africa has Russia’s energy and mineral wealth, but … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, bangladesh, china, climate change, collapse, culture, economy, education, energy, environment, futurism, geopolitics, global warming, imperialism, india, internat, military, pakistan, peak water, resource depletion, ssr, vision, water
17 Comments
IQ and Industrialism
My recent post on demographic myths unleashed a lively discussion on the issue of race and IQ in the comments section. I’m not too interested in wading into it: not out of any misplaced respect for political correctness, of course, … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged brazil, china, economy, education, growth, india, iq, rise of the rest, Russia Resources, vision
20 Comments