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Hanson versus Auntie: Cognitive Pathologies and the Right-Wing Critique of the ABC
Dr Neville Buch Abstract The intellectual hostility directed toward national broadcasters, specifically the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is historically rooted in a partisan political sub-culture that utilizes the “myth of secular humanism” as a primary ideological weapon. This critique often manifests as a form of the “paranoid style,” where the broadcaster is cast as a…
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The Story of the 2026 Canberra Trip: Intellectual Lessons
The Story of the 2026 Canberra Trip 22 June 2026 Dr Neville Buch I am alive. That is what is the most extraordinary thing about a road trip. That you survived the road and the sojourn of the unfamiliar landscape. The feeling is of a solider returning home from war, although much less traumatic. Let…
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Beyond the Semantics of Care: Restoring Human Authorship
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay critically examines Frank Furedi’s rejection of the term “carer” in the context of the Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE) framework. While Furedi identifies a genuine concern regarding the transformation of intimate bonds into bureaucratic transactions, his focus on semantics is characterized as a “non-issue” compared to the deeper…
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Further Thoughts on the Spectrum? The Mirage of the Matrix: Beyond Statistical Political Typologies
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay investigates the epistemological failures inherent in modern political typologies, specifically analysing The Washington Post article regarding a Pew Research Center study that splits Americans into nine groups. While the study attempts to transcend simple partisan binaries, it falls into the trap of “thin” conceptualization and statistical reductionism. A critical…
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What is Wrong with Collective Responsibility? Beyond Neutrality: The Myth of Institutional Detachment
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay provides a critical assessment of Nick Cater’s recent critique of Western institutions, specifically his condemnation of the Hampshire Police’s embrace of anti-racism as a departure from the “classical liberal ideal of neutrality”. Utilizing the Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE) framework, the analysis argues that Cater’s argument rests on…
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History of Ruth: The Crucible of Care – Grief as Philosophy in Practice (The Disease)
Him Who Weeps Abstract This essay explores the intersecting histories of personal grief and scholarly synthesis, centred on Dr. Neville Buch’s experience of losing his wife, Ruth, to glioblastoma. The recent news of Professor Richard Scolyer’s death from the same aggressive, incurable stage 4 brain cancer serves as a catalyst for reflecting on a decade…
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Cultural Christianity versus Theological Christianity or One and the Same
Dr Neville Buch The Tripartite Spectrum of Cultural, Religious, and Theological Identity Abstract In conversations with Dr. Buch, there is confusion in the false binary of “Cultural Christianity versus Theological Christianity” or it ends in a simplistic “One and the Same” conclusion. The issue here is a misunderstanding across a belief system spectrum. There are…
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MICE and the Global Architecture of Holistic Scholarship
Dr Neville Buch Abstract The Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE), under the leadership of Dr. Neville Buch, represents a frontier in global holistic scholarship, bridging the gap between local historiography and universal philosophical inquiry. An analysis of the “MICE Academia.Edu Reports 5-02 to 31-05 2026” demonstrates an extraordinary level of intellectual resonance, with individual…
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Review of Peter Serdyukov’s A Growing Formalization of Contemporary Online Education
Dr Neville Buch Abstract Peter Serdyukov’s (2021) A Growing Formalization of Contemporary Online Education identifies a critical hazard in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: an “algorithmic character” in education that risks modifying human consciousness into “passive, dependent, filled” patterns. This review evaluates Serdyukov’s thesis alongside the work of Dr. Neville Buch, specifically his concepts of “Denoetization”…
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Not Knowing and Knowing: Beyond the Orthodoxy of Coercion – The Ecology of Knowledge
Dr Neville Buch Not Knowing and Knowing Abstract. Perennially in the global intellectual history is the Orthodoxy of Coercion, where both the individual and the collective have had to deal with the “power-over”: command, coercion, and domination. In the last few centuries, it has been existentialism, and in detail: existential thought, which has been the…