This is a glossary of some of the terms and expressions used in this blog, the upcoming S/O book (21st century “future history”), and the S/O science fiction universe (post-21st century sci-fi project). The Sublime Glossary consists of 1) already-defined technological, political, energetic, and ecological terms and 2) my own inventions or creative borrowings from others, made necessary by the lack of a good vocabulary for many of the things I envision. The Scifa Glossary (“science fantasy”) defines some of the terms used in my very tentative plans for a post-apocalyptic series of novels. The glossaries are works in progress, so please excuses the TBD‘s (to be defined) and check back.
Sublime Glossary
21st century socialism: A political economy based on 1) participative democracy, 2) equivalence economy based on democratically-determined labor theory of value, and 3) an emphasis on worker rights, social progress, sustainable development, and regional cooperation. It forms the official state ideology of Venezuela’s “Bolivarian model”. (Heinz Dieterich, How Physics is validating the Labour Theory of Value & Venezuela and New Socialism by Paul Cockshott)
3rd generation warfare: TBD
4th generation warfare: TBD
The Abyss: When you stare into the Abyss long enough, the Abyss stares back at you. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Actuarial escape velocity: A hypothetical future period in which human life expectancy increases faster than one year – every year, in effect reversing aging, humanity’s innate sickness unto death. (David Gobel, Aubrey de Grey, The Futurist)
Age of abundance industrialism: The c.1950-2010 period characterized by globalization, industrial growth, improving living standards, international peace, and cheap resources. (Michael Greer)
Age of diminished expectations: The growing economic disparities and disappointments of the post-”miracle economy” (1950-1973) years in the United States. (Paul Krugman)
Age of exuberance: The centuries of growth and progress that followed the sudden enlargement of habitat available to Europeans as a result of voyages of discovery; a period of expansion when a species takes exuberant advantage of the abundant opportunities in an eminently suitable but previously inaccessible habitat. (William Catton)
Age of the New Caesars: Refers to the renewed era of global imperialism, mercantilism, and authoritarian strongmen – the New Caesars – following the collapse of Pax Americana. (Anatoly Karlin)
Age of salvage societies: The c.2050/2100-2250 period that is the transition between the age of scarcity industrialism and the ecotechnic society, characterized by human societies scavenging the high-emergy detritus left over from the industrial age. (Michael Greer)
Age of scarcity industrialism: The c.2000-2050/2100 period characterized by deteriorating living standards, resource wars, rising coercion, deindustrialization, and the reappearance of feudal forms. (Michael Greer)
The Anaconda Strategy: Originating from interwar German geostrategists, this refers to the containment strategy employed by the Atlanticist powers towards any emerging Eurasian hegemon. (Aleksandr Dugin)
Anomie: The lack of a social ethic produces moral deregulation and an absence of legitimate aspirations. (Wiki)
Anthropogenic global warming: Human emissions of greenhouses gases, such as CO2, is causing more of the Sun’s heat to remain trapped, leading to higher levels of heat and flux across the entire climate system. (Top 10 AGW Denial Myths by Anatoly Karlin)
Antibiotic resistance: Pathogens tend to develop resistance to commonly used antibiotics, requiring newer generations of ever costlier medicines; one major problem that has already burgeoned is the appearance of multi-drug resistance TB, which now finishes off many AIDS sufferers. (Wiki)
Apocalypse: The revelation (lifting of the veil and enlightenment), the supremely sublime end of the world itself and the relation between them, which is the apokalupsis eschaton – the revelation at the end of the world. It is the act by which beauty morphs into sublimity; a graceful disrobement that lays bare the sublime in all its consummate transcendence. (Anatoly Karlin)
Artilect: Artificial intellects, i.e. intelligent machines. (Hugo de Garis)
Asabiya: TBD
Atlanticism: TBD
Aztlán Movement: Chicano separatist philosophy that seeks to return the lands of the southern and western United States back to Mexico.
Augmented reality: TBD
Autarky: Strategic economic self-sufficiency; the advantages of relative invulnerability to outside pressure have to be balanced against the more limited scope available for economic diversity. (Wiki)
Ballistic Missile Defense: TBD
Barbarian mentality: TBD
Belief Matrix: TBD
Biological warfare: TBD
Biomass: The amount of living material in a specified context. (William Catton)
Biosphere: TBD
The Black Continent: TBD
Black swan event: TBD
BRIC’s: TBD
Cargoism: Faith that technological progress will stave off major institutional change, even in a post-exuberant world; the equivalent among people of industrial nations to the cargo cults of the Melanesian islanders. (William Catton)
Carrying capacity: The maximum population of a given species which a particular habitat can support indefinitely (under specified technology and organization, in the case of the human species). (William Catton)
Carrying capacity deficit (surplus): The condition wherein the permanent ability of a given habitat to support a given form of life falls short of (exceeds) the quantity of that form already in existence. (William Catton)
Catabolic collapse: TBD
Chaos: TBD
Chimera: Bioconstruct made by weapons engineers of the KHE combining optimal biological and mechanical attributes to form the ultimate killing machine. It has a thick, fire-resistance hide; extremely agile, body frame; and neural-electronic interface enabling advanced intelligence, networking capabilities, and remote control. (Anatoly Karlin)
Chimerica: A symbiotic relationship between China and the US, in which the former buys US Treasury bonds, bolstering American consumer demand and creating jobs and mass industrialization in China. (Niall Ferguson)
Clash of Civilizations: TBD
Clathrate collapse: TBD
The Claws of Cthulthu: The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. (H. P. Lovecraft)
Climate refugees: The hordes of refugees that will be displaced in the following decades of accelerating AGW: scorching heatwaves, rising sea levels, and general climate chaos.
Climax community: TBD
Cliodynamics: A new multidisciplinary area of research focused at mathematical modeling of historical dynamics, especially exponential millennial trends, secular “Malthusian” cycles, and their intersection. (Mathematizing History by Anatoly Karlin)
Comprehensive National Power (CNP): TBD
Coal gas: TBD
Coercion: TBD
Collapse: a human society’s descent to a significantly lower level of socio-political complexity over a relatively short period of time. (Joseph Tainter)
The Collapse: When industrial civilization finally gave up the ghost soon in the wake of the War of Doom. (Anatoly Karlin)
Collapse Gap: TBD
Complexity: TBD
The Complexity Curve: The theory that there exist diminishing returns to increasing socio-political complexity. Beyond some point these returns turn negative. When a society hits the downslope of the complexity curve, some realize that they can have the same benefits but at a lower level of complexity and cost. As a society tips below that threshold, the hypertrophied state has to be held together through intensified legitimization and coercion as the probability of collapse begins to converge to 100%. (Joseph Tainter)
Comprehensive National Power (CNP):
Containment: TBD
Cornucopian paradigm: A view of past and future human progress that disregards the carrying capacity concept, pays no attention to the finiteness of the world or to differences between takeover and drawdown, and accepts uncritically the myth of limitlessness. (William Catton)
Crash: See Dieoff.
Creeping normalcy: Refers to the way a major change can be accepted as normality if it happens slowly, in unnoticed increments, when it would be regarded as objectionable if it took place in a single step or short period. On the topic of environmental degradation on Easter Island, “Gradually trees became fewer, smaller, and less important. By the time the last fruit-bearing adult palm tree was cut, palms had long since ceased to be of economic significance. That left only smaller and smaller palm saplings to clear each year, along with other bushes and treelets. No one would have noticed the felling of the last small palm.” (Jared Diamond, Wiki).
Crop yield: TBD
The Cull: “I think it’s wrong to assume we’ll survive 2 deg. C of warming: there are already too many people on Earth. At 4 deg. C we could not survive with even one-tenth of our current population. The reason is we would not find enough food, unless we synthesised it. Because of this, the cull during this century is going to be huge, up to 90%.” (James Lovelock)
Cybernetic socialism: TBD
Cybernetic totalitarianism: TBD
Cyberspace: The global commons of electromagnetics as accessed and exploited through electronic technology and the modulation of electromagnetic energy to achieve a wide range of communication and control system capabilities, which can generate a virtual interactive experience regardless of a geographic location from which it is accessed. (Wiki)
Cyborg: TBD
Dark Ages: Historical periods on which our knowledge grows thin, usually connotating periods of cultural and economic decline such as Europe between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Renaissance.
The Darkened Continent: Africa from the 2030′s experienced a dieoff due to the collapse of globalized food flaws, internal violence, and neo-imperialism from outside. (Paul Chefurka)
Data: TBD
Death waves: The roiling waves of pandemics sweeping the world from the 2030′s due to rising antibiotic resistance, the spread of exotic diseases from the tropics, and the rapidly expanding ease of constructing bioweapons. There were major acts of bioterror in 2027, 2031, 2033, and 2037 attributed to Green Communist extremists. (Anatoly Karlin)
The Decoupling: The awning post-2008 divergence between economic growth rates in the stagnant “First World”, led by an increasingly insolvent United States; and in “The Rest” / the BRIC’s, a dynamic grouping of developing nations led by China. (Decoupling from the Unwinding by Anatoly Karlin)
Deliberative dictatorship: Social experiment in Chongqing where public consultations, expert meetings, and opinion polls are becoming a central part of Chinese decision-making”. This principle could form a basis for the future course of the Chinese political system. (Mark Leonard)
Democratization of terror: Technological progress makes the construction of bioweapons relatively easy for groups and even individuals that have some background in virology and money to spare. (Biowar for Dummies by Paul Boutin)
Derzhavnost’: A quasi-mystical vision of the Russian state as a strong, paternalist, and expansionist entity that ought to pursue hegemony over its Near Abroad.
The Desert of the Real: TBD
Desertification: TBD
Diachronic competition: A relationship between generations in which livng organisms satisfy their wants at the expense of their descendants. (William Catton)
Diasporic mentality: TBD
Dieoff: The more or less precipitate decline in numbers that follows when a population has exceeded the carrying capacity of its habitat; otherwise called a crash. (William Catton)
Digital Dark Age: A term used to describe a possible future situation where it will be difficult or impossible to read historical documents, because they have been stored in an obsolete digital format. Ironically, this means that if industrial civilization were to collapse in 2050, our distant descendants could have a better idea of what life was like in 1950, say, than in 2040, by which time perhaps almost all data will be stored digitally. (Wiki, Anatoly Karlin)
Diminishing returns: TBD
Directed energy weapon (DEW): A type of weapon that emits energy in an aimed direction without the means of a projectile, including in the form of electromagnetic radiation and particle beams. (Wiki, Military Laser Hits Battlefield Strength by Noah Shachtman, Navy Takes Next Step Towards Laser ‘Holy Grail’ by Nathan Hodge)
The Dispersal Order: TBD
Dispersion: TBD
Dragon: TBD
Drawdown: Method of extending carrying capacity, an inherently temporary expedient by which life opportunities for a species are temporarily increased by extracting from the environment for use by that species a significant fraction of an accumulated resource that is not being replaced as fast as it its drawn down. (William Catton)
Drone: See UAV.
Eco-socialism: TBD
Ecosystem: TBD (William Catton)
Ecotechnic dictatorship: The coercive transition, or sustainable retreat, from the late capitalist-industrial System to the ecotechnic society. (Anatoly Karlin)
Ecotechnic society: Drawing on the ecological science of how seral stages slowly evolve into a climax community, it is posited that in the far future, after several iterations of increasingly refined technic societies, humanity will finally evolve a global sustainable society, one that ”relies on renewable energy resources, and maximizes the efficiency of its energy and resource use at the cost of far more restricted access to goods and services” – the ecotechnic society. (Michael Greer)
Ecotechnology: TBD
Efficiency: TBD
Emad: TBD
Emergy: Аn accounting methodology which aims to find the sum total of the energy necessary for an entire product lifecycle, including raw material extraction, transport, manufacture, assembly, installation, disassembly, deconstruction and/or decomposition. (Wiki)
Enclave extremism: The tendency of people to harden their political positions when they interact mainly with others of like mind, which is especially relevant in our age of atomization and the Internet. (Cass Sunstein)
The End of History: A Hegelian eschatology which claims that the end of the Cold War marks “the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government”. (Francis Fukuyama)
Energy slaves: TBD (William Catton)
Energy subsidy: Energy from sources other than sunlight applied to the growing of crops; e.g., fossil energy (in excess of the human energy displaced by its use) used in operating farm equipment, energy used to move water for artificial irrigation, the energy content of synthetic fertilizers applied to the soil, etc. A view of past and future human progress that disregards the carrying capacity concept, pays no attention to the finiteness of the world or to differences between takeover and drawdown, and accepts uncritically the myth of limitlessness. (William Catton)
Equilibrium: TBD
EROEI: The ratio of the amount of usable energy acquired from a particular energy resource to the amount of energy expended to obtain that energy resource. When the EROEI of a resource is equal to or lower than 1, that energy source becomes an “energy sink”, and can no longer be used as a primary source of energy. (A Net Energy Parable: Why is ERoEI Important? & Why EROI Matters (Part 1 of 6) by Nate Hagens).
Eurabia: The (flawed) theory that differential birth rates and immigration will produce a Muslim majority in Europe as soon as 2050. (Mark Steyn)
Eurasianism: TBD
The Ever Victorious Army: TBD
Exoskeleton: TBD
Exponential growth: Occurs when the growth rate of a mathematical function is proportional to the function’s current value, e.g. x(t) = exp(t). When you have both exponential growth and limits to growth, the eventual result is overshoot and collapse. (Wiki fables)
Export Land Model: Net global oil exports are predicted to decline faster than oil production after peak oil, because internal demand within the vastly-enriched oil-exporting nations will go up, thus squeezing the global oil supply from both below and above. (Jeffrey Brown)
Failed state: A collapsed state that has mostly or completely lost its traditional monopolies on violence, tax collection, and the issuing of tender. (Anatoly Karlin)
Faustian bargain: TBD
Fossil fuels: TBD
The Fourth Ethical System: TBD
Firefox: TBD
Firewall: TBD
Fish acreage: TBD (William Catton)
Fossil aquifers: TBD
Fossil fuels: TBD (William Catton)
Future Force Warrior: TBD
Gaia Theory: The hypothesis or theory that the Earth’s geosphere and biosphere are closely integrated to form a complex interacting system that maintains the climatic and biogeochemical conditions on Earth in a preferred homeostasis. (James Lovelock, Wiki)
Gene therapy: TBD
Geopolitical Loop: THD
Geopolitics: TBD
Geosphere: TBD
Ghost acreage: The additional farmland a given nation would need in order to supply that net portion of the food or fuel it uses but does not obtain from contemporary growth of organisms within its borders—e.g. from net imports of agricultural products, from oceanic fisheries, from fossil fuels. (William Catton)
Glacier melt: TBD
Global commons: TBD
Global dimming: TBD
The Gloom: The darkened skies over the world that appeared as the result of sulphate aerosol emissions in the late 2030′s as a result of humanity’s desperate gamble at geoengineering. (Anatoly Karlin)
The GNR Revolution: TBD
The Great Reconvergence: TBD
Green Communism: TBD
The Green Revolution: TBD
Hatchery: TBD
Homeostasis: TBD (William Catton)
Hubbert peak: TBD
Hubris: TBD
Hydraulic despotism: TBD
Hydrogen economy: TBD
Hydroponics: TBD
Hydroxyl collapse: TBD
Hyperbolic growth: When a quantity grows towards a mathematical singularity, e.g. x(t) = 1/[t(0)-t], where x(t) approaches infinity as t approaches a certain time t(o). Some cliodynamicians showed that until the early 1970′s, the world population underwent hyperbolic growth and the world GDP underwent quadratic-hyperbolic growth. (Wiki, Mathematizing History by Anatoly Karlin)
Hypertrophied state: A society on the downslope of the Complexity Curve, in which strengthening centrifugal forces require intensified legitimization and coercion to hold the state together. (Anatoly Karlin)
IADS: The Integrated Air Defense System. (Surviving the Modern IADS by Carlo Kopp)
Ice-albedo feedback: TBD
Imperial overstretch: TBD
Imperium: TBD
Information: TBD
Integralism: TBD
IRGC: Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. (Wiki)
Iron cage: TBD
The Iron Compact: TBD
Iron phalanx: TBD
Iron triangle: TBD
Irruption: TBD
Islamism: TBD
Jevons Paradox: TBD
The Kingdom of Heaven on Earth (KHE): A cybernetic totalitarianism that rose to power in Russia in 2034 and ruled with an iron fist until its final collapse by 2048. (Anatoly Karlin)
The Kremlin clans: siloviki, sovereign democrats, civiliki… TBD
Labor theory of value: TBD
Landscape amnesia: TBD
Law of Accelerating Returns: TBD
Legitimization: TBD
Liberal democracy: TBD
Liebig’s Law of the Minimum: principle stating that growth is controlled not by the total of resources available, but by the scarcest resource – the “limiting factor”. (William Catton)
Limiting factor: TBD
Limits to Growth: TBD
The Long Descent: TBD
The Long Emergency: TBD
Malthusian dynamics: TBD
The Malthusian Loop: TBD
Market socialism: Economic systems where many prices are fixed and the state or cooperatives own the means of production, but decision-making on what to produce is left to the management of individual enterprises. Though ostensibly attractive, critics claim that they are the worst of both worlds, combining market inequities with socialist privilege. Modern examples would include China, Belarus, Venezuela. (Wiki, A critical look at market socialism by Paul Cockshott)
Medea Hypothesis: In stark opposition to Gaia theory, this hypothesis claims that the biosphere is inherent suicidal. (Peter Ward)
Mercantilism: TBD
Metapolitics: TBD
MIC: The military-industrial complex. (Wiki)
Moore’s Law: TBD
The Muscovite system: The traditional Russian patrimonialism based on Tsarist bestowal of transitional rent-gathering rights unto his boyars, conditional on their political loyalty and provision of tribute. Today, it can be argued that… TBD
Mysticism: TBD
Myth of apocalypse: TBD
Myth of limitlessness: The belief (more implicit than explicit, perhaps) that the world’s resources are sufficient to support any conceivable human population engaged in any conceivable way of life for any conceivable duration; derivatively, the belief that a given resource is inexhaustible or that substitutes can always be found. (William Catton)
Myth of progress: TBD
Nanomanufacturing: TBD
Nanotechnology: TBD
National Bolshevism: TBD
The natural state: TBD
The Near Abroad:
Nemesis: TBD
Neoclassical economics: TBD
Neocomms: TBD
Neocons: TBD
Neo-feudalism: TBD
Neoliberalism: TBD
Neoliberal internationalism: TBD
Neo-Stalinism: TBD
Neo-Tsarism: See The Muscovite System.
Network-centric warfare: TBD
The New Caesars: “The last century was the winter of the West, the victory of materialism and scepticism, of socialism, parliamentarianism, and money. But in this century blood and instinct will regain their rights against the power of money and intellect. The era of individualism, liberalism and democracy, of humanitarianism and freedom, is nearing its end. The masses will accept with resignation the victory of the Caesars, the strong men, and will obey them.” (Oswald Spengler)
The New Ethics: A values system based on patterns that was developed for the information age in the 2020′s. Adult human individuals constitute particularly high-order patterns, which are called “souls”. The concept of “sin” relates to the destruction of patterns, including of their interconnections and of the larger “Tapestry” that is the universe. This system is encoded in the Three Laws of the New Ethics, which state the following ethical imperatives by priority: 1) Preserve existing patterns, 2) Expand patterns in scope and complexity unless it conflicts with the First Law, 3) Future patterns also have value, but their sum converges to a limit. (Anatoly Karlin)
Noosphere: TBD
Nuclear war: TBD
Ocean acidification: TBD
Order: TBD
Overfishing: TBD
Overpopulation: TBD
Overshoot: The condition of having exceeded for the time being the permanent carrying capacity of the habitat. (Catton) | Humanity has been in a state of global overshoot since around 1980. (PNAS)
Overton window: TBD
Pattern: TBD
Pax Americana: TBD
Pax Russica: TBD
Pax Sinica: TBD
Peak coal: TBD
Peak gas: TBD
Peak uranium: TBD
Pearl River capitalism: TBD
People’s war: TBD
Permaculture: TBD
Phantom carrying capacity: Illusory or extremely precarious capacity of an environment to support a life form or a way of life; that portion of a population that cannot be permanently supported when temporarily available resources become unavailable. (William Catton)
Physical throughput: The continuous flows of energy and materials needed to keep people, cars, houses, and factories functioning. (LTG)
Planetary sinks: TBD
Planetary sources: TBD
Plasma shield: TBD
Politics: TBD
Poshlost’: TBD
Post-industrialism: TBD
Postmodern jihad: TBD
Project for a New American Century: TBD
Project Cybersyn: A Chilean attempt at real-time computer-controlled planned economy in the years 1970–1973 under President Allende, using the principles of cybernetics. (more info)
Prometheism: TBD
Prophets of the Postmodern Testament: TBD
The psychology of previous investments: TBD
Psywar: TBD
Radical Life Extension: TBD
Railgun: TBD
Raptor: TBD
Rationalism: TBD
Renewable resources: TBD
Resource depletion: TBD
Resource nationalism: TBD
Resource war: TBD
The Rest: TBD
Reprimitivization: TBD
Scanning: TBD
Scarcity Industrialism: TBD
Schachtianism: This economic system, first implemented by Hjalmar Schacht in Nazi Germany, combined markets, state controls, resource mobilization, privilege, authoritarianism, state controls, full employment, militarization, and the subordination of economic capabilities to political goals. It constitutes a “third way” between liberal capitalism and Soviet socialism. Today, it could be argued that China runs a civilian version of the model.
Scope expansion: TBD
Scope reduction: The opposite of scope expansion, this refers to the secular reversak of globalization after 2008 which increasingly limited the maximum possible level of global economic output. (William Catton)
Scramjet: TBD
Seral stage: TBD
Simulated reality: TBD
Singularitarian: A believer in the technological singularity. (Ray Kurzweil)
Singularitarianism: TBD
The Sisyphean Loop: TBD
The Six Epochs of Evolution: Theory of evolution as a process of creating patterns of increasing order. (Ray Kurzweil)
Sobornost’: TBD
Solaris: TBD
Sousveillance society: TBD
Sovereign democracy: TBD
Space-based solar power (SBSP): A system for the collection of solar power in space that is beamed down through microwave radiation for use on Earth. (Wiki, Darel Preble)
Space elevator: TBD
State of Fear: The public spirit of suspicion permeating societies living under a the manufactured fear of terrorism, treason, and sabotage.
Statism: TBD
Strasserism: The “original” Nazism, featuring opposition to “Jewish” finance-capitalism, nationalism, socialism. Crushed by Hitler, but its ideas continued to flourish, e.g. into National Bolshevism in Russia. (Wiki)
Structural militarization: Characteristic of a political economy dominated by the concerns of the General Staff and military-industrial complex, such as the late Soviet Union. (Steven Rosefielde)
Sublime: TBD
Sublime Oblivion: TBD
Submarine carrier: TBD
Superintelligence: TBD
Surveillance society: TBD
Sustainable development: TBD
Sustainable retreat: The whole idea of sustainable development is wrongheaded… it’s time to start talking about changing where we live and how we get our food; about making plans for the migration of millions of people from low-lying regions like Bangladesh into Europe; about admitting that New Orleans is a goner and moving the people to cities better positioned for the future… it’s about everybody “absolutely doing their utmost to sustain civilization, so that it doesn’t degenerate into Dark Ages, with warlords running things, which is a real danger. We could lose everything that way.” (James Lovelock)
Sustainable society: A society that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. It is characterized by equitable social relations, advanced ecotechnology, and minimized physical throughput optimized for maximal human welfare. (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987)
Sustainability: 1) Renewable resources such as fish, soil, and groundwater must be used no faster than the rate at which they regenerate; 2) Nonrenewable resources such as minerals and fossil fuels must be used no faster than renewable substitutes for them can be put into place; 3) Pollution and wastes must be emitted no faster than natural systems can absorb them, recycle them, or render them harmless. (Herman Daly)
Sustained yield: TBD
The System: TBD
Takeover: Method of extended carrying capacity which increases opportunities for one species by reducing opportunities for competing species. (Catton)
Technic society: TBD
Techno-industrial base: TBD
Technological Singularity:
Temporary carrying capacity: The combination of actual and phantom carrying capacity; the population that a habitat can support for a short time only (until the supply of some exhaustible resource runs out which the species depends on). (Catton)
Tenebrae: TBD
Thermoeconomics: TBD
Threshold value: TBD
Tipping point: TBD
Tragedy of the commons: TBD
Transparent society: TBD
True name: TBD
Thymos: Megalothymia, isothymia, TBD
Transhumanism: TBD
UAV: TBD
Ubiweb: TBD
Universal history: TBD
Unrestricted Warfare:
Virtual politics: TBD
Virtual reality: full-immersion?… TBD
Visegrad: TBD
The Walled World: TBD
The War of Doom: The last terrible war fought by industrial civilization between the Iron Compact and the KHE from 2042-48. (Anatoly Karlin)
The Welfare State: TBD
The West: TBD
Western chauvinism: TBD
What Might Be Is: TBD
Yellow River capitalism: TBD
Zeks: Abbrev. of Green Communists, or Zelyonye Kommunisty (зеленые коммунисты), as the Party elites of the KHE referred to themselves in an obviously ironic reference to prison inmates (зек). (Anatoly Karlin)
Scifa Glossary
Atonement: TBD
Chimera: TBD
Djinn: TBD
Dusha: TBD
The Great Sublime: TBD
Hacker: TBD
The Great Horde: TBD
The Lost Empire: TBD
Mensa: TBD
The Mirror World: TBD
Monists: TBD
Murza: TBD
Noumenons: TBD
Pattern: TBD
Psychic loop: TBD
Redemption: TBD
The Shade: See The Shadow World.
The Shadow World: TBD
Sin: TBD
Solaris: TBD
Soul: TBD
Stalker: TBD
Struggle & Suicide: TBD
Sublime Oblivion: TBD
The Sublime One: TBD
Svjatok: TBD
The Tapestry: TBD
Tlön: TBD
The Void: TBD
The Vortex: TBD
The Zone: TBD