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Category: 2016-future Public Cognition
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Bedeviled by the Inside Language
Rev. Mark Sandlin, on April 18, 2026, published in his blog, Southern Fried Heresy, a blog entitled, “Church Words That Don’t Mean What You Think They Mean: A Southern Fried Translation Guide to Church-Speak”. It is very insightful because change the code and the truths still remains. It is not truth that is confined…
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Compression and Application for Local Philosophy
Abstract This essay explores the interplay between the philosophical concept of compression and its application within the realm of local socio-intellectual history, specifically focusing on the Queensland context as documented by Dr. Neville Buch. Drawing on the media theory of Jonathan Sterne and the “Technics and Time” framework of Bernard Stiegler, the analysis distinguishes between “abstract…
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How to stop reactionary thought? Uncoiling the Reactionary – Mind Historiography and Cognitive Reform
Dr Neville Buch Uncoiling the Reactionary Mind Historiography and Cognitive Reform Abstract This essay delineates the cognitive and historical process required to remediate reactionary thought, defined here as a systemic intellectual stasis rooted in “Historical Forgetfulness” and the “techné mindset”. Using the socio-intellectual history of Queensland as a case study—specifically the transition…
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Is this what you think in your silence? Bizarre Reactions. The Rhetoric of Dismissal – Defending the Scholarship of Neville Buch
20 April 2026 Dear Friends, Abstract This essay provides a critical evaluation of Sophia Corwin’s 2026 article, “The Epistemic Poverty of Suburban Quixotism,” arguing that Corwin’s response to Dr. Neville Buch constitutes a “bizarre” rhetorical performance that substitutes personal mockery for scholarly engagement. While Corwin attempts to “eviscerate” Buch’s work as “AI-slop” and “academic vacuity,”…
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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…