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In addition to blogging here, Anatoly Karlin also runs Arctic Progress.
You can also read his articles at Inosmi (на русском) and Al Jazeera.
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Tag Archives: culture
Whiskey Trickles Into Russia’s Drinking Culture
Russia has a long and proud drinking culture; according to the chronicle of its founding, the main reason it chose Christianity over Islam was the latter’s prohibition of booze. Vodka has been distilled there since at least the 12th century. … Continue reading
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
A Rant on Orientalism & Western “Experts”
I’ve recently had a debate with… let’s call him Marcus Stein, about whether you have to be proficient in a relevant language to hold really deep and insightful views about a region, culture or civilization, or whether, to put it … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House
Tagged china, culture, islamophobia, language, opinion poll, rise of the rest, russia, russophobia, sinophobia, western hypocrisy, western media
12 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
19 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
36 Comments
SSR #13: China, The Last Superpower
This is the third of my Sublime Strategic Reports (SSRs) covering global trends, regions, and geopolitics. After two hundred years of global ascendancy, the West is in rapid relative decline to (re)emerging Asia, which is mounting a steady “Great Reconvergence”. Likewise, the legitimacy … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, authoritarianism, china, climate change, coal, culture, energy, environment, finance, geopolitics, imperialism, international relations, japan, military, morale, politics, resource depletion, ssr, usa, vision, water
13 Comments
Ecotechnic Dictatorship is Our Last Hope of Averting Collapse
As a follow-up to my article on the historical necessity of Green Communism, I would like to 1) refute some common myths and misconceptions about limits to growth-induced collapse, 2) clarify the concept of Green Communism, and 3) elucidate why … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged apocalypse, authoritarianism, chaos, china, climate change, collapse, communism, corruption, culture, economy, education, energy, environment, ethics, fantasy, geoengineering, geopolitics, history, human rights, imperialism, matrix, peak oil, politics, singularity, technology, usa, vision, war
38 Comments
What I Believe: 2 Year Update
I’ve remembered about the article What We Believe I wrote two years back, in the early days when I was still writing anonymously (as “stalker”) and was pretending to be a team. Had fun rereading it, almost like a time … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Life in General
Tagged authoritarianism, culture, economy, ethics, feminism, human rights, life, marxism, me, morale, philosophy, rant, usa, vision
8 Comments
Surviving Collapse Part 2
Having looked at Argentina’s mini-collapse in the early 2000′s, we will now turn to the classic modern case study of post-Soviet Russia, as recounted by Dmitry Orlov with my own commentary. Needless to say, as an emigrant from 1994 onwards, … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, chaos, collapse, culture, economy, life, morale, russians, soviet union, usa, vision
10 Comments
Green Communism
Thesis. The current capitalist-industrial System is incapable of surmounting the limits to growth on planet Earth because markets and technology, today’s salvation gospel, are no deus ex machina to the energy-and-pollution predicament of industrial civilization. Nor is this System in principle … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged chaos, collapse, communism, cuba, culture, economy, energy, environment, finance, human rights, imperialism, life, marxism, matrix, morale, philosophy, politics, rant, singularity, technology, vision
13 Comments