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Announcement: Cognition Histories and Sociology Book
After the failure to find a publisher to support the publication of “the Intellectual (Hidden) History of Queensland”. I am moving onto a new major book project, coordinated with the other informally contracted book project: 1) on Humanism; 2) on the Fellowship of Australian Writers Queensland (FAWQ) and; on the Level Playing…
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Weeping Tears of Joy and Sadness: Calling Local Politicians to Accountability
Watching the video of Boundary Road Rail Level Crossing Flythrough October 2022, I wept. Jesus Wept (John 11:35). It is weeping of joy and sadness. Joy because, finally, a beautiful solution has been reached in the Boundary Road Rail Level Crossing Flythrough. Sadness because my parents passed in their 90s in recent…
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Rudolf Steiner’s Goethe: The Better Part of Thinking for the 21st Century
“thinking…is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas.” Rudolf Steiner (1883), Goethean Science, GA1. The Goethe-Steiner multi-layered worldview, known as “Goethean science,” has been spiralling back for some time; in Australia…
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The Challenge to AASR
Getting knocked back for a publication is not a concern, in and of itself, but the issue is how today’s academics are not yet understanding the emerging scholarship of cognition histories and cognition sociology. Below is such a rejection letter. Here is the edited submission of the draft where there was scope…
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The Power Elite and American Wealth on Tuesday 5 November 2024
“Who, after all, runs America? No one runs it altogether, but in so far as any group does, the power elite.” C. Wright Mills (1959). The Sociological Imagination, Oxford University Press. p. 31. Mills’ The Power Elite thesis (1956) has sustain the length of time to the present. I have said it…
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The Sociology of Teen Challenge (Qld) Inc. An Academic Paper on Cognition Histories
Teen Challenge (Qld) Inc. existed as a youth charity and a set of programs in drug rehabilitation. It is also a case study of a regional Christian organisation working out its thinking for 40 years. The Sociology of Teen Challenge (Qld) Inc. Featured Image: 1982-09 TCTI Logo (hyperlinked to…
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The Language of Human “Snakes”: Why Some Humans are Intense Liars and Why the Uneducated Believe Them?
“The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes. If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.” [spoken by J.D. Vance] When the CNN host, Dana…
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TASA’s Levelling the Playing Field, 11 September 2024
NDB. Levelling the Playing Field (edited 15 Sept 24) The seminar, co-convened by Sharon Aris of the TASA Sociology of Education Special Interest Group, commenced with a warm welcome to participants and an introduction to the theme centered on the challenges and opportunities faced by diverse students within educational systems. Sharon…
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Propaganda: Compare The APSC Commissioner’s Directions (Not Propaganda) and The APSC Press Statement (Propaganda)
Following the Final Report by the Australian Public Service Commissioner on the Robodebt Centralised Code of Conduct Inquiry, The Commissioner set forth a statement and directions, with an apology. Dr Gordon de Brouwer stated, “I apologise as Public Service Commissioner to those affected by the Scheme and to the Australian public for the part played…
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Why every aspect of Propaganda needs to be Challenged, including click bait?
Jacob N. Shapiro and Sean Norton on September 10, 2024, wrote an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, with the headline, “Why Scholars Should Stop Studying ‘Misinformation’.” Their article was not propaganda per se, but the headline was ‘click bait’, and for what was a worthy article to read; nevertheless, the headline assertion was…