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My Readers Are Indeed Social Contrarians
•�June 19, 2012
•�600 Words •�13 Comments
Though I do wonder about those six people who voted "none of the above" in my poll of attitudes towards the 10 odd theories that figure prominently in the Karlinist Weltanschauung... with all due respect, but what are you guys doing on this blog then? :) The vast majority agree with Peak Oil, Limits to... Read More
Green Communism
•�January 4, 2010
•�4,300 Words •�14 Comments
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... Read More
Cliodynamics: Mathematizing History
•�December 4, 2009
•�4,900 Words •�5 Comments
One of the most interesting emerging sciences today, in my opinion, is cliodynamics. Their practitioners attempt to come to with mathematical models of history to explain "big history" - things like the rise of empires, social discontent, civil wars, and state collapse. To the casual observer history may appear to be chaotic and fathomless, devoid... Read More
We Need a Fat Tax!
•�November 6, 2009
•�2,000 Words •�6 Comments
Edit 2013: It is with regret that I now acknowledge a lot of what I thought I knew about optimal eating some years back was wrong. Please disregard this post. Sometime ago I wrote that introducing a fat tax is a good idea on the grounds that fatty foods are unhealthy and addictive (like drugs),... Read More
Sublime Oblivion - What Might be Is
This is the first in a series of philosophical essays in which I outline my philosophy of Sublime Oblivion. Here I...
•�January 9, 2009
•�5,200 Words •�1 Comment
Here I outline one of the core philosophies of Sublime Oblivion. I demonstrate the indivisibility of the material and Platonic worlds and show that our universe is almost certainly a computer simulation nested within an abstract computer program or simulacrum, the truth that hides that there is none. The consequences of these results are explored.... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.