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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
“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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Buckley’s Up With Liberalism Mind-Twister
“Liberalism is the refuge favored by intellectual cowardice, because the essence of the liberal’s position is that he has no position.” The quote is Buckley’s Up With Liberalism Mind-Twister. It is one of the great political falsehoods of the late twentieth century. William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008) is best known for founding…
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How the Uneducated Fools Implement Policy: A.I.
Elon Musk’s DOGE team is feeding sensitive federal data into AI via Microsoft’s cloud to target spending cuts Musk’s representatives from the Department of Government Efficiency have fed data from across the Education Department — including personally identifiable information for people who manage grants and sensitive internal financial data — into artificial intelligence software…
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Something I have Just Learnt Series: Teachers’ Pension Scheme
It seems to me that in the last three decades, the State has abused the position of teachers, in its reduction of the curriculum for humanities, social sciences, and even basic natural and physical sciences. The Australian State owes teachers for damages done to many careers of teaching. From Wikipedia: …
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The Polite and Civilising Madness: Slow cuts and its lasting harm, staff warn stricken universities
“Universities have been urged to reconsider “unprecedented” cuts planned across the UK sector, or risk facing complaints about declining standards and damaging their reputations both locally and abroad.” Tom Williams, Slow cuts or risk lasting harm, staff warn stricken universities, THE. January 30, 2025. Saying the binary “slow cuts or risk lasting harm” is…
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Misunderstanding Critics in Education
Don’t misunderstand my criticism of the “Department of Education” but take my criticism and theoretical-practical solutions seriously. Otherwise the “Trumpers” will change policy in a worse way. It is happening in the United States, as we all should know: “DOGE probe, which began last week, is a prelude to a more dramatic effort…
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The Solutions in the History Industry Redeeming itself from the Curse of Nostalgia (heads in the sands of time)
When British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher caused an uproar in 1987 by telling an interviewer, “There is no such thing as society,” she was referring to the big amorphous concept, not the specific word. All these years later, though, with “society” vanishing everywhere, it’s tempting to think that Maggie was just ahead of her time.…
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The Comprehensive History of Cognition (Comprehensiveness is not completeness but sufficiency)
(referring to the “free version”; the world is being taken over by economic idiots) “OH YEA, BANKRUPT THE PROFESSIONAL DOING THE VOLUNTARY WORKER, BECAUSE INSTITUTIONS ARE TOO MEAN TO EMPLOY THE TEACHER.” Neil Peach (Organizer) posted a new announcement in The Philosophy Cafe Meet Up The Philosophy Cafe Meet Up Brisbane Square…
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Thinking in the Political Landscape
After decades of writing in applied history, sociology, philosophy, religion, and ethos-spirituality, I come to realise that the barrier for the general population in understanding is not understanding the cognition sociology and histories. In the past few years, I have been writing on this topic. In August 2023 I published an article entitled,…