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Category: 2016-future Public Cognition
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Private, Public, and What you are Missing by “No” Reading Dr Buch’s Work?
19 April 2026 Dear friends, First, congratulations to Dr Ray Kerkhove for his recent article. This research is very welcome. It also supports my ‘Queensland myth’ historiography, which too many people want to put in the ‘historical forgetfulness’ stage of cognition. I have attached Ray’s article. Kerkhove, Ray (2026). Frontier Wars Queensland…
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What are the reasons for misunderstanding? Systems of Cognitive Pathological Misunderstanding
Dr Neville Buch The Architecture of Error: Systems of Cognitive Pathological Misunderstanding Abstract This essay synthesizes the multifaceted origins of misunderstanding, characterizing it not as a simple lack of information but as a systemic cognitive pathology embedded in modern technical and social systems. Drawing on a wide-ranging framework that includes the forensic…
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Tipping my hat to David Brooks. How History is Now Spiralling
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay synthesizes David Brooks’ cultural analysis of a world “running backwards” with Bernard Stiegler’s (via Ekin Erkan) diagnostic of “computational capitalism.” Brooks argues that the Enlightenment vision of linear progress has failed to provide a spiritually fulfilling future, leading billions to retreat into traditionalism and nostalgia. Erkan’s plain-language…
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Violence, Fantasy, and the Architecture of Class Identity
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay explores the intersection of “Violence and Fantasy” through the lens of class identity, synthesizing the historical scholarship of Dr. Neville Buch and the contemporary analysis of Dan Taylor (2026). Buch identifies violence in the “techné mindset” of the technocratic political class, which enforces a “myth of the Queensland…
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Rebuttal to Social Media Gross Social Media Misunderstanding
The following is a rebuttal to Sophia Corwin’s (2026) article, “Chasing Windmills in Sunnybank Hills,” which characterizes Dr. Neville Buch’s work as a series of Quixotic delusions. Drawing upon the provided source material, this rebuttal argues that Buch’s intellectual framework is not a retreat into fantasy but a disciplined sociological and historical…
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What is this Protestant-Catholic Thing. The Queensland Case
What is this Protestant-Catholic Thing. The Queensland Case Dr Neville Buch Abstract The social and political landscape of Queensland has long been defined by the “Catholic-Protestant thing,” a shorthand for deep-seated sectarian divisions that influenced education, governance, and the state’s cultural identity. Dr. Neville Buch’s scholarship frames this dynamic as a transition from a…
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Myth, Morality, and the Republic of Heaven
Dr Neville Buch Abstract The literary and ideological clash between C.S. Lewis and Philip Pullman serves as a primary site for Dr. Neville Buch’s application of Spiral Historiography and the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC). While Pullman characterizes the Chronicles of Narnia as “poisonous” religious propaganda, Dr. Buch provides a synoptic evaluation that moves…
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Hedging on Christian Nationalism: A Critique of Noetic Regression
Dr Neville Buch Abstract Nick Spencer’s article, “Christian Nationalism,” provides a valuable taxonomy of a burgeoning global phenomenon, yet from the perspective of Dr. Neville Buch’s Matrix of Sociology and the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC), it ultimately “hedges” by failing to diagnose the movement as a profound state of denoetization and Passive Nihilism. While…
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“They” know what they are doing is wrong: Attempts to remove the historical record
When a governance seeks to destroy or remove historical records, it commits an act of “temporal tyranny” that fundamentally undermines the possibility of social accountability and ethical self-understanding. Because “understanding history is philosophy in practice,” the removal of records is not merely a loss of data but a direct intervention into the mental architecture of…