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Category: 2016-future Public Cognition
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Psychological Symbol Cards
Psychological Symbol Cards go for USD $20 at The School of Life website. The purchase page says: Discover your identity, goals and direction This card set contains a set of archetypal psychological images, each representing a symbol of the deeper mind. Evocatively drawn – from an owl to a compass, a waterfall to a mirror…
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The Washington Post Impact Report and American Studies
The “Exposing Hidden Surveillance and Government Secret” audio commentary: Abstract This essay examines The Washington Post Impact Report (Vol. I, September 2026) through the interdisciplinary lens of American Studies and political sociology[1]. By synthesizing investigative journalism with historiographical inquiry, the report serves both as an empirical archive of contemporary American governance and a primary text…
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Review Essay: A Critique of Visibility, Material History, Cognitive Dynamics, and the Authorship of Memory
Abstract: This essay synthesizes Monica Eileen Patterson’s conceptual “architectures of hiding” with Dr. Neville Buch’s “Dynamic of Cognition” (DoC) framework to interrogate the systematic erasure of material memory. It posits that the invisibility of contested landscapes, such as Barrambin (Victoria Park), is fundamentally rooted in a cognitive “analytical abyss”—a state where “specialized ignorance” severs material…
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Compassionate Comprehension vs. Toxic Empathy: A Critique of Contextual and Political Cognitive Failures
1. ABSTRACT: The Framework of Compassionate Comprehension This analysis interrogates the precarious intersection of contemporary “toxic empathy”—characterized by Elizabeth Bruenig as a rhetorical device that reinforces “might makes right”—and Dr. Neville Buch’s counter-framework of “Compassionate Comprehension.” Utilizing the “Dynamic of Cognition” (DoC) as the primary diagnostic tool, this essay deconstructs the cognitive failures inherent in…
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The Architecture of Meaning: Context, General Rules, Modern Chatter
Abstract Context is a set of particulars. General Rules are not context except as a conversation precisely on the rules as one context. Modern Chatter, as an activity, is neither a context nor a general application of rules, but a category of confusion between context and general rule application. Recent attacks on Dr Buch extend…
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The Epistemology of Fanaticism: Wishful Thinking, Political Exploitation, and the Reclamation of Higher Values in Sport
Abstract This essay examines the cognitive and political dynamics of sport-induced bias, focusing on how intense athletic allegiance can distort human reasoning and endanger broader societal values [Babad & Katz 1991, p. 1923; Swans Incident 2026, p. 173]. Grounded in Elisha Babad’s psychological formulation of Wishful Thinking (WT) —defined as the systematic alignment of expectations…
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Agency, Spiral History, and the Market Chaos Myth: Reclaiming Human Authorship through the Contributory Economy
The Reclaiming Your Agency from Market Chaos audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship. Abstract (humanly devised) Robber-Barons, War-oriented Profiteers, and other market exploiters run high on the perceived chaos of the Marketplace. The chaos is real because it is made real. Indeterminacy of the marketplace is real and yet so many scammers…
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The Nostalgia Trap
The “Why Pioneer Myths Buried Queensland History” audio commentary on MICE’s Contributory Economy and Human Authorship: Abstract This essay critically examines the pervasive role of nostalgia within Queensland’s local historiography[1][2]. While nostalgia can provide individual psychological comfort, foster community identity, and offer an accessible entry point into popular history, its uncritical dominance has restricted the…
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The Techné Critique Soundly Refuted
Dr Neville Buch[1] Abstract This essay provides a rigorous, historiographical refutation of Bevin Luchel’s (2026) review of The Case for Intellectual History. Luchel’s dismissive charges of “pervasive hyperbole, analytical overreach, and methodological insularity” are unmasked as textbook symptoms of the “techné mindset”—a cognitive failure that reduces deep philosophical critique to administrative “potted thinking” and transactional…