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Category: 2016-future Public Cognition
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Will anyone listen to me? Understanding Communication in the 2nd Quarter of the 21st Century
An essay written with Australian philosopher, Dr Neil Peach. If you saw a statement which said, “How do you think technology will change philosophical debates?” would you understand the communication problem in front of you? One answer might be: “All silly questions. One could ask, ‘How do you think philosophy will…
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An Advert for the Need for MICE
During the 2026 South Australian Australian of the Year Awards, an embarrassing blunder occurred when the Senior award winner was initially announced, then un-awarded, only for the original winner to be reinstated after a period of confusion. Meteorologist (?) Malcolm Benoy was first named, then told there was a mistake and…
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Why moralism does not work.
WHY MORALISM DOES NOT WORK Please Understand, for the sake of kindness. From Thomas Banchoff, Liberals and conservatives shy away from this core Catholic teaching, Cruelty is ravaging politics. What happened to mercy? The Washington Post. November 13, 2025 “Liberals and conservatives shy away from mercy…
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Jack McKinney’s Advanced-Thinking Humanism in Queensland
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) MICE Researcher and yet unpaid for work Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills QLD 4109 AUSTRALIA 14 November 2025 Jack McKinney’s Advanced-Thinking Humanism in Queensland Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Available at https://www.academia.edu/144949291/Jack_McKinneys_Advanced_Thinking_Humanism_in_Queensland Attached: Jack McKinney’s Advanced-Thinking Humanism in Queensland …
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Silence as a weapon against legitimate critics
Courses studying Trump proliferate despite risk of president’s ire “Flooding the zone” is a well-known strategy of the Trump administration, first put forward by strategist Steve Bannon, for blitzing the news agenda with a constant stream of new policies and controversies. Not only has this helped prevent any scandal from bringing down the president, it…
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The Overwhelming Argument on why contract or employ me?
An Academia.Edu Paper called “The Overwhelming Argument on why contract or employ me”: https://www.academia.edu/144863959/The_Overwhelming_Argument_on_why_contract_or_employ_me The Overwhelming Argument on why contract or employ me (PDF) This article is not self-promotion but an intellectual plea. This article is not advertising nor marketing, but the Most Intelligent Plea of Intelligent Pleas. It is…
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Thinking is Out of Sync with Itself: Genealogy in Four Disciplines – Deconstructing the Trumpocene (academia.edu)
‘Thinking being out of sync with itself’ goes to the problem of the relationship between historical consciousness, politics, and secularity. The confusion overlooks various interdisciplinary ‘consensus’ and ‘common agreement’ to which the American administration of Donald Trump is now demolishing. The essay method establishes a common agreement in the genealogy of thought from John…
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Where be the Arrogance (reference to Tittle 2004): The Value of Public Sociology in 2024, and not 2004
The Value of Public Sociology in 2024, and not 2004 Dr Neville Buch There is for Humanism in the 21st century and Trumpocene a correct way of thinking available (Toulmin 1953: 219, 235), and the singular here is one summative thought that combines many other thoughts. There is both diversity and a singular…
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The Challenge to a Person’s Historical Understanding (more than knowledge): Either a Level of Stupidity or Propaganda (lying and knowing it)
“You either have an extractive elite — an oligarchy — or you have a productive elite — an aristocracy — in every society,” he said in an interview in his office in Scottsdale, Arizona. History, according to Chris Buskirk, J.D. Vance’s operative in the American “White House”. (Source: Elizabeth Dwoskin, The secretive donor circle that…
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“You Don’t Know What You Are Saying”: The Damage that “Local” Politicians Do…
Neel is yet to finish his HSC exams, and two of his dream uni courses are gone Year 12 students face uncertain futures as universities slash jobs and units while chasing millions of dollars in savings. The Sydney Morning Herald 4 November 2025 By Emily Kowal “…[to] spearhead a twenty-first century…