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The Katechon Hypothesis
That Which Withholds Eschaton: The Katechon Hypothesis for Resolving the Fermi Paradox
•�October 20, 2019
•�14,900 Words •�381 Comments
I have been mulling over the ideas in this article since early 2016, when they crystallized in more or less their current form. I am not quite sure whether these ideas are rather important, or the ravings of a lunatic. But I am certainly glad to be able to finally unload them from the confines... Read More
Bioleninism in the 21st Century
•�May 28, 2019
•�600 Words •�123 Comments
Climate scientists and IQ researchers are both (largely) correct. Both of the sciences that they represent are hugely important for understanding the future, while both also have tribal ideological detractors on the right and left, respectively. Though this wasn't always so. For instance, Svante Arrhenius, the man who constructed the world's first climate model back... Read More
The Sixth Proof of God
•�May 10, 2019
•�1,100 Words •�268 Comments
While I am not much of a religious person, there is one particular argument for His existence that I find to be rather convincing*. Those who wage war on God are unmade by God. And their descendants, too. The idea that He is humane, or fair to individuals, is a modern conceit. The Old Testament... Read More
Limits to Calculating Space
•�February 28, 2019
•�200 Words •�25 Comments
There are 10^23 to 10^24 neurons on the planet. The human brain has around 86 billion neurons. World population * human neurons = 10^~10*11^~10 = 10^~21 (slightly less, but let's round up). This means the human population can "safely" increase by at least two more orders of magnitude to 1 to 10 trillion, so the... Read More
On the Necessity of Subjecting Kremlinologists (And Social Scientists) to Market Discipline
•�June 11, 2011
•�900 Words •�13 Comments
I have gone on record with the following odds on Russia's next President: Medvedev – 70%, Putin – 25%, Other – 5%. The first betting site to offer odds on the Russian Presidential election has other ideas. As of June 2011, the British online gambling site Stan James is offering the following odds: Putin 4/7,... Read More
Reconciling Stalin with Victory
•�May 9, 2010
•�2,100 Words •�32 Comments
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 could live. Вечная слава героям! Last year I discussed four myths about the Eastern Front,... Read More
The Meaning of Sublime Oblivion
•�January 24, 2010
•�1,400 Words •�5 Comments
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 the Age of Legends. Further excavations are now ongoing at the site, under the... Read More
Interview @ Siberian Light
•�December 7, 2009
•�7,300 Words
Please make any comments at Andy's blog Siberian Light. Those of you with long memories will remember the series of interviews I did with top Russia bloggers, back in early 2007. Well, after a very long hiatus, I’ve decided it’s time to resurrect the series again – and who better to start with than Anatoly... Read More
Defending the Loop
•�November 24, 2009
•�1,600 Words •�4 Comments
Following my posting of Russia's Sisyphean Loop, the influential East-Central Europe expert, Vlad Sobell, wrote up an interesting critique at the Untimely Thoughts Russia Discussion Group. It addresses what may be considered some weak, or at least not thoroughly explained, points from the original article, so I thought it would be useful to reproduce it... Read More
Categorizing the Russia Debate
•�July 9, 2009
•�6,500 Words •�77 Comments
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... Read More
Translation: the Case of the "Stalinist" Textbook
•�May 28, 2009
•�5,100 Words •�47 Comments
Ever since the publication of Filippov's (in)famous textbook A History of Russia 1945-2006 in 2007, the state of Russian history teaching drew a fair degree of negative commentary in the West, some of it reasonably lucid, most of it superficial or hysterical. What the latter have in common is that they almost invariably haven't read... Read More
Putvedev Is Russia's White Rider
•�May 24, 2009
•�5,000 Words •�13 Comments
In April 2007 Peter Zeihan of Stratfor wrote a thought-provoking article The Coming Era of Russia's Dark Rider, which tries to pin down the metahistory of Russia's socio-political evolution and perhaps even inspired a book. The basic idea is that following its cyclical collapses (the Mongol conquest, The Time of Troubles, the Civil War and... 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.