Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Category: European Thought – History and Sociology

  • Notes: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

    Notes: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

    KEY POINT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A HISTORIAN       The United Kingdom Prime Minister in 1925, when the book was published on 14 May 1925 was the moderating conservative, Stanley Baldwin (in office 1924-1929, 1935-1937; MP for Bewdley; 1867-1947). This means he was in office during the reign of Edward VIII and his…

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  • Thinking on Attitudes Among those Who Think About Unity and Universality

    Thinking on Attitudes Among those Who Think About Unity and Universality

    “Attitudes: Socio-Historical Change in Unitarian Universalism,” Dr. Neville Buch”     Today, I am looking at attitudes in Unitarian-Universalism, and they are not always good, but in critical thinking each person can renew, for themselves, better unitarian universalism thinking.   Each of us has a free mind but we are not free in our thinking…

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  • Misunderstandings about Unemployment and Under-Employment

    Misunderstandings about Unemployment and Under-Employment

    Unemployment and Under-Employment is greatly misunderstood in the Anglo-American world because each person’s political prejudice, bias, and personal agenda, and the unwillingness to confront uncomfortable truths.     Unemployment and Under-Employment has double-effects in the Anglo-American economy, as David A. Graham describes below, and what is happening is that ‘selfish’ political agendas are conflicting with…

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  • Persons Not Listening, Not Reading, Not Thinking: When will there be Change Behaviour?

    Persons Not Listening, Not Reading, Not Thinking: When will there be Change Behaviour?

    “The nation’s air-safety system suffers from the same malady as much of the federal government: years of underfunding by politicians who somehow expect to get something for nothing.” David A. Graham, writer, The Atlantic Daily.       “When will the Economic Truth be Accepted, our current economic priorities are not working, and Change Behaviour?”……

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  • Understanding patrimonialism is essential to defeating it

    Understanding patrimonialism is essential to defeating it

    From Jonathan Rauch, One Word Describes Trump: A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world, The Atlantic, February 24, 2025.     Patrimonialism is less a form of government than a style of governing. It is not defined by institutions or rules; rather, it can infect all forms of government by replacing…

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  • Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.

    Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.

        Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 28 April 2025       Dear friends,       Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.       John Miller is the editor of UUnderworld, a freethinker magazine, for those freethinkers unconstrained by the…

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  • The “Fundamental” Characteristic in the American-Australian Connection of Trumpism

    The “Fundamental” Characteristic in the American-Australian Connection of Trumpism

    Dear folks     Here is an example Quora Answer. My point in sharing it is not the language or the argument itself, but a warning in the scholarship of the American-Australian relational histories and sociology, for those scholars who think that the current historiography and sociology is ‘business as usual’:       What…

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  • Werner Francis Schultze on “Three Options in Lebensphilosophie; the Third Option Not Philosophy — A Curse”

    Werner Francis Schultze on “Three Options in Lebensphilosophie; the Third Option Not Philosophy — A Curse”

    Novus Tempus, an institute for humanistic peace research with a focus on energies in a geostrategic context, was founded as an independent and self-financed institute in 2016. Under the direction of cum laude, Dipl.-Ing., MEng App.Sc, B.Arch., Werner Francis Schultze takes on geostrategic problems and perspectives arising from a globally networked world are examined. In…

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