Featured Image: Marketoonist, Tom Fishburne. Paid. 240122.highres.focused. Order #27607 (January 22, 2024). Big Ideas and Political Distractions in Public Discourse. Think About It For example, here are a few places of public discourse where big ideas are...
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Empire Of The Sun – We Are The People
We Are the People Song by Empire of the Sun We can remember swimming in December Heading for the city lights in 1975 We share in each other Nearer than father The scent of a lemon drips from your eyes We are the people that rule the world A force running in...
Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi: The Homogeneous Trap
Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi makes claims of “dogmatic affirmation of diversity as a sacred value by an equally one-sided assertion of homogeneity”. It is ‘culture-history warfare’ dribble. He has selectively used Garsten (2017) on the case of the French...
Antiquarianism, Intellectual Confusion, and the Worship of Unintelligent Fiction
Let me be straight up, so as not to be confused on my clear and intelligent point. I do not expect fiction to be any closer to accuracy than what it is, fiction. It is rather an issue of the antiquarian, and what that truly means. Antiquarianism, according to the...
CALL FOR A QUEENSLAND HISTORY TEAM
For Local History Organisers and Funding Negotiators, Professional History Queensland Advisors, and Experienced Editors in the History Genre On (Hidden) Intellectual History of Queensland Publication Project Call for you to join a team to work together for the...
Concept, Semantics, and Strategies for the Level Playing Field
Image: Marketoonist 240115.highres.ideakillers. Licensed paid. Marketoonist is a cartoon provider on marketing issues. Tom Fishburne is usually highly critical of current marketing practice. I support his conclusions and his work, and pay for the license to use...
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...
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...
What is Wrong with “the world”: A Christmas Thought in Our Violent Times
What is wrong with our world? It is a perennial question, which come to those at this time of year who are not swayed by the Xmas glitter; or the glitter of any other season. There are many answers but I believe there is ONE primary answer: perception....