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"Kneel, or You Will be Knelt"
•�June 15, 2020
•�200 Words •�72 Comments
Kneeling before the #BlackLivesMatter cult seems to be acquiring something of a "voluntary-compulsory" character in the West (a Soviet era oxymoron signifying something that is voluntary in theory, but compulsory in practice, if you know what's good for you). Sure, you don't have to kneel. But if you don't kneel, you might draw the righteous... Read More
Karma in Westeros
•�April 22, 2016
•�1,000 Words •�28 Comments
Note: Major spoilers through to and including the fifth ASoIaF book. This series is commonly considered to be the archetypical Crapsack World , in which life is short, nasty, and brutal, and hardly anybody "bad" ever gets their just desserts while the innocent suffer. However, if you really get to thinking about the various deaths... Read More
A Graph of GRRM
•�January 4, 2016
•�1,200 Words •�7 Comments
So we hear from the blog that is not a blog that The Winds of Winter isn't going to be finished before HBO launches its sixth season this April and decidedly outpaces events in the books. This should not have come as a surprise and here is the graph - so far as I can... Read More
Meeting with Brandon Sanderson
•�October 31, 2015
•�1,500 Words •�6 Comments
Meeting with Brandon Sander, October 9, 2015. Brandon Sanderson is one of the finest worldbuilders around, especially in terms of magic systems. Thanks to rigorous application of his eponymous Laws of Magic, he has succeeded in formalizing what can be termed as the fantasy equivalent of "hard" scifi. The emphasis on using magic to cleverly... Read More
A Gem (Or Rather, a Ring) from Lucas
•�November 17, 2008
•�700 Words •�14 Comments
The demented Russophobe Edward Lucas has surpassed even his own stellar record of profound insights about the evil empire, this time explicitly comparing Russia to Mordor (the land of shadow in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings) from his Yahoo! list. Quoted below in its entirety for laughs. The British author JRR Tolkien always hated... 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.