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The Endgame Begins
A year ago I predicted that there will be a “decoupling from the unwinding“, as “emerging markets” by and large ride out the temporary shocks of declining Western demand for their exports (China) and the interruption of Western credit intermediation (Russia) before resuming growth. This is one aspect of the trends leading to the imminent demise [...]
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion Also tagged authoritarianism, corruption, economy, energy, finance, geopolitics, germany, iran, japan, peak oil, politics, usa, vision 22 Comments
Philosophical Musings #2
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 quantifying something as abstract and intangible as freedom across cultural and civilization borders, for all but [...]
Posted in Sublime Oblivion Also tagged collapse, imperialism, philosophy, politics, usa Leave a comment
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 machine. My views on Russia have remained mostly unchanged. I’ve grown to become somewhat more [...]
Posted in Coffee House, Life in General Also tagged authoritarianism, culture, economy, ethics, feminism, human rights, life, marxism, me, morale, philosophy, usa, vision 7 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 capable of preventing ecological overshoot because growth in physical throughput is the very basis of [...]
Posted in Sublime Oblivion Also tagged chaos, collapse, communism, cuba, culture, economy, energy, environment, finance, human rights, imperialism, life, marxism, matrix, morale, philosophy, politics, singularity, technology, vision 10 Comments
Interview @ Siberian Light
Posted in Da Russophile Also tagged collapse, core article, human rights, imperialism, interview, liberasm, life, me, morale, philosophy, politics, putin, resource depletion, Russia Resources, russians, russophobes, singularity, soviet union, usa, western hypocrisy, western media Comments closed
The Deeper Meaning of Climategate
As someone who has stuck his neck out for the imminent reality of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in both his real and online life, it would be fitting for me to comment on the Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident (and as per usual, what was originally meant as a “comment” has blossomed into a [...]
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion Also tagged authoritarianism, climate change, collapse, communism, corruption, culture, morale, peak oil, politics, vision 13 Comments
Categorizing the Russia Debate
Here I will try to categorize all the major Russia-watching schools along two axes: 1) a Russophobe – Russophile axis and 2) a values spectrum on attitudes towards the West as a universal mental matrix. Along these lines I created the image map below which attempts to graphically deconstruct the belief systems many prominent Russia-watchers [...]
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion Also tagged blogging, core article, liberasm, morale, philosophy, russians, russophobes, science, vision 84 Comments
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