Tag Archives: philosophy

Безродный Космополит

Posted on May 15, 2010 by AK

По окончании Великой Отечественной Войны, в известнoм тосте, Сталин выделил русских, составляющих большинство красноармейцев, как «наиболее выдающуюся нацию из всех наций, входящих в состав Советского Союза». На другой стороне земного шара, в рассказе “Conversation Piece, 1945”, Владимир Набоков описывает пикантную … Continue reading →

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Reconciling Stalin with Victory

Posted on May 9, 2010 by AK

За нас за вас и за десант и за спецназ! I would like to start off by expressing my deepest respects to the Red Army veterans who fought and died so that (literally) hundreds of millions of their Slavic brethren … Continue reading →

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Philosophical Musings #2

Posted on January 28, 2010 by AK

4. Freedom from fear, the only real freedom. Political scientists try to rank countries based on their levels of “freedom”, frequently arbitrarily defined and applied (Freedom House, Economist Democracy Index, Polity IV, etc). Yet despite the inconsistencies and difficulties with … Continue reading →

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What I Believe: 2 Year Update

Posted on January 26, 2010 by AK

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 →

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The Meaning of Sublime Oblivion

Posted on January 24, 2010 by AK

This fragmentary text was found by priests of Kǎichè, May He Live Forever, Great Lord of the Last Empire, in the Year 220 AF. It was contained in a far north KHE resilience that had survived the Flame Deluge that ended … Continue reading →

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The Final Gambit: Geoengineering

Posted on January 20, 2010 by AK

It is very likely that efforts to prevent CO2 levels from soaring to 450ppm – the level we need to stop at to have any hope of limiting temperature rise to 2C or less – will fail. This will lead … Continue reading →

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Green Communism

Posted on January 4, 2010 by AK

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 →

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Interview @ Siberian Light

Posted on December 7, 2009 by AK
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