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Review of “Guns, Germs, and Steel” by Jared Diamond
•�December 3, 2009
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While trawling through my computer archives, I stumbled across this book review of Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel" from five years ago. Overall, it's a great book, better than his follow-up "Collapse", which is also interesting - especially in the psychological aspects of "collapse", like creeping normalcy and "landscape amnesia" - but far from... 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.