Book Review: James Kunstler – World Made by Hand

This about Futurism, tagged , , , , was written by for , on April 10, 2009 .4 Comments

“World Made by Hand” by James Howard Kunstler, published in 2008. Rating: 3/5. World Made by Hand is a speculative fiction book about how a sociopolitical collapse may be experienced by small-town Americans. It is of a reasonable length, engaging and generally well-written, although far from a literary masterpiece – not that that is necessarily a […]

Is The US In 2009 Like The USSR In 1989?

This about Futurism, tagged , , , was written by for on February 26, 2009 .8 Comments

With increasing signs of economic collapse, military overstretch and political problems, is the US doomed to go the way of the late USSR?

Book Review: George Friedman – The Next 100 Years

This about Futurism, tagged , , , was written by for , on February 23, 2009 .7 Comments

The Next 100 Years by George Friedman, published in 2010. Rating: 3/5 George Friedman at Stratfor is one of my favorite analysts on world geopolitics. This is because he tries to look at the world as it is, without the pointless moralizing, neoliberal ideologizing and end-of-history triumphalism that clouds too much American geopolitical thinking. Hence whenever I come […]

Oily Origins of the Economic Crisis

This about Futurism, tagged , , , was written by for on February 18, 2009 .6 Comments

In an article some months ago I suggested that “perhaps this crisis is simply an unconscious recognition of this inconvenient truth?” – namely, the peaking of oil extraction and all that it implies for the continued survival of a financial system built on assumptions of continuous economic growth. In other words, the fashionable approach of […]

New Year Special: Year in Review and 2009 Predictions

This about Futurism, tagged , , was written by for on January 2, 2009 .2 Comments

Year in Review: 2008 Again, a very happy and successful New Year to Sublime Oblivion readers. It has certainly been a successful year for this blog, founded as Da Russophile on Jan 9th 2008. The original site at blogger has nearly 16,000 visitors, while Sublime Oblivion has been graced by nearly 2000 from the date […]

Communism is our Road to Redemption

This about Futurism, tagged , , was written by for on December 31, 2008 .4 Comments

Green Communism is humanity’s last and only chance to avert environmental catastrophe.

A Long Wait at the Gate of Delusions

This about Futurism, tagged , , was written by for on August 3, 2008 .No Comments

Sometimes, it is much simpler to expound upon one’s views on a subject by replying to and arguing against an opposing view, rather than constructing one’s own thesis. Call it intellectual laziness, a clever short-cut or whatever you not, this is what I’m going to do with the Washington Post article A Long Wait at […]

Mailbag: Back from a Russian Century?

This about Futurism, tagged , , , was written by for on January 13, 2008 .No Comments

Four days and 50 reader views into our baby blog’s existence, we have been priveleged to receive a number of letters to our darussophileATyandexDOTru address. All of them deal with our Towards a New Russian Century? core article (which is, in addition, the most popular item on this blog by far – possibly because colleen […]

Towards a New Russian Century?

This about Futurism, tagged , , , , was written by for on January 11, 2008 .9 Comments

EDIT 11/27/08: Since writing this, I have come to realize that peak oil is real and will play a major role in any future scenario, and far sooner than the other three themes I highlight here. The twentieth century was, above all, a Russian century. Granted, Germany was the most important challenger Great Power in […]