Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

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  • The Greatest Problem of Today’s Politics

    The Greatest Problem of Today’s Politics

      Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA   28 March 2025   Re: Public Statement of What is the Greatest Problem of Today’s Politics: Political Players Impoverishing the Public Associations and Persons Therein   Dear friends,   Provided here is a free reading of an article: Carolyn Y.…

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  • 2025 THE Most International University in the World

    2025 THE Most International University in the World

    The first Australian university, Australian National University, was globally ranked at 22.       The other universities were:     The University of Queensland globally ranked 24 UNSW Sydney globally ranked 24 The University of Melbourne globally ranked 28 The University of Sydney globally ranked 37 The University of Auckland (NZ) globally ranked 44…

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  • Humanism, Free Thought, and Our Conflicted Times

    Humanism, Free Thought, and Our Conflicted Times

    The following is an engagement with my mentor and friend, Dr Charles Ringma, on the basis of his excellent article, “Towards a True Humanism: some small theological steps“. This is Dr Buch’s A.I. engagement, which oddly is the human sets of thoughts and human control in the action, even as techné shapes thinking and our…

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  • The A.I. and Nicholas B. Dirks Report on Concerns for Australian Vice-Chancellors

    The A.I. and Nicholas B. Dirks Report on Concerns for Australian Vice-Chancellors

    The A.I. and Nicholas B. Dirks Report on Concerns for Australian Vice-Chancellors   Trump’s Pressures on US Universities: Lessons for Australia   14 March 2025     The A.I. and Nicholas B. Dirks Report on Concerns for Australian Vice-Chancellors PDF copy.     Introduction (Review of Task)   The facilitator of this report prompted the…

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  • The scramble after the storm…

    The scramble after the storm…

    The War against North-East United States Education.     From The Chronicle of Higher Education (Daily Briefing: Columbia’s crises contagion, email, 11 March 2025, 20:30). Australians be warn, this could come our way without intellectual and socio-political vigilance.     The Trump administration pushed long-simmering crises to a head at an Ivy League institution last…

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  • Mind, Body, Cognition with Ideology (The Fit of Materialism, Spiritualism, and Accurate Compatibility)

    Mind, Body, Cognition with Ideology (The Fit of Materialism, Spiritualism, and Accurate Compatibility)

        Hard materialism rides too heavily on disposition which is the relationship of ‘body’ and ‘cognition’, however, disposition is only one half of the story. Vague spiritualism rides too heavily on agency which is the relationship of ‘mind’ and ‘cognition’, however, agency is only one half of the story. It leads to confusion in…

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  • “I rather be Right than Correct” : Needing to be Correct Not Right

    “I rather be Right than Correct” : Needing to be Correct Not Right

        “I rather be Right than Correct”. If you have intelligent ears to hear, intelligent eyes to see, and intelligent mouths to speak, the statement is perceived in the Age of Trumpism. Today, assertion is increasingly made without the intelligence. There is a confusion between the term “right” and the term “correct”.  “Right” means…

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  • I CAN PAY YOU, I HAVE BEEN PAYING YOU, YOUR MACHINE THINKING FAILS THE PUBLIC

    I CAN PAY YOU, I HAVE BEEN PAYING YOU, YOUR MACHINE THINKING FAILS THE PUBLIC

      BUSINESS Office: 18 Callendar St, Sunnybank Hills QLD 4109 AUSTRALIA 23 February 2025 RE: Prevented from Making Immediate Payment through Machine Thinking       Dear Medibank Executive Officer,       This morning I was ready to pay the bills and this was what I was confronted with: 1. the machine would not allow me…

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  • The Spiral Historiography of Radical-Liberal-Conservative: Vague Definitions and Practices

    The Spiral Historiography of Radical-Liberal-Conservative: Vague Definitions and Practices

      A model is an informative representation of an object, person, or system. It does not work as empirical observations of the political games in rhetoric, where persons try foolishly to rationalise their own political prejudices. That foolish worldview is full of vague definitions and practices. The model untangles the confusion into a better structured…

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  • Reclaiming Nothing without the deep historical analysis: ART and congregational memetic Christianity

    Reclaiming Nothing without the deep historical analysis: ART and congregational memetic Christianity

    “Intellectually-speaking, memetic Christianity, with a dose of well-managed, private Nietzschean hedonism might well be the most sensible philosophical framework on which to build a lasting society, to preserve the dignity of the human person, and provide sufficient psychological solace for people’s ‘God-shaped hole.’”       My colleague Dave Benson, of The London Institute for…

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