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Buckley’s Chance, Cultural Thinking of Trumpism, and History
It amazes me that the reaction thinking can swallow up social movements into the madness of the mob. Yes, when layout on a spectrum, it is only a minority position, but, in which case, the reaction thinking becomes the majority outlook through the echo chamber of the techne. We are doing the…
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Review of Frank Furedi’s “When Do You Think The Culture Wars Began? And Why Understanding Its Long History Really Matters.”
It may come as a surprise to some, that I read closely blogs and articles of scholars, who I believe, miss key or main points in their argument, whether from Left or Right. Open scholarship goes to the work I do as a philosopher and historian, and as a sociologist. These are the…
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BCC Centenary Commemoration 1925-2025
The Letter From Councillor Vicki Howard, Civic Cabinet Chair for Community, Arts and Nighttime Economy, Councillor for Central Ward, to Mr Cole and Dr Buch, 19 December 2023: CAN CO09719-2023 FINAL ****** Reply… 26 December 2023 Hi Simon (Simon Cole, President of the Coopers Plains History Group Inc.), I think,…
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Being Alone and Urban Space: 4 Conferences, 2 Weeks, 2 Cities
I am alone, not like this blank page to which I start to write. We are thrown into a world (Heidegger). I woke up slowly this morning. I slept in. Each morning since 17 December 2016, I awake with a sense of disorientation, and in loss and grief. I am alone.…
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How to provide the Educative Message?
Dear friends, Educational theories from unusual places, an e-newspaper in Los Angeles, discussing housing and homeless policies. Text below. The messaging follows the email I just sent to the Mayor, Deputy Premier, and the Brisbane City Council. Here we have community intellectuals in Los Angeles, bringing down heavily the sociological…
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A Moment of Grief: Memory and the Presence
I am crying, tears which have not been shed for some time. I am unwell. I had the flu on Friday, which was the onset of a nasty intestinal bacterial infection. I have been told from a reliable source that it is going around the Adelaide area. I was able…
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Conspiratorial Force, mostly no, mundane force of inertia, mostly yes…
As perspectivism — that we perceive as a perspective in the moment; each person can decide for themselves how the world is. It is then the argument of social reality of each. I do not see how direct realism is possible, however, our theoretical orientation cannot be simply stated (full-stop). There is not only mere…
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RESEARCH NOTE: ANGLO-AMERICAN MAJOR BELIEF-DOUBT SYSTEMS
This is a research note to preserve copyright and notice to this new and substantive thesis of the Anglo-American major belief-doubt systems, since the seventeenth century, which at the end of that century expanded, and transformed, the power of the English monarchy to a new entity known as the United Kingdom of…
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SBSF Submission as Feedback on Kurilpa Sustainable Growth Precinct
Minister for State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning (the Planning Minister) PO Box 15009, City East, Queensland 4002 Submission as Feedback on Kurilpa Sustainable Growth Precinct Temporary Local Planning Instrument No.1 of 2023 (Brisbane City Council) – DSDILGP Dear Stephen Miles [Planning Minister], cc. Environmental Minister cc. Health Minister Please accept…
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Historical Enterprises 1) Not Spoken, 2) Not Heard, 3) Not Understood
On sending out an article from The New York Times, on how a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana claimed the American Federal administration was trying to silence its critics on social media, a dear friend asked me, “Isn’t free speech part of their constitution?” “Free speech” is not…