Context is all important in asking any question? And these days a key question is the importance of history. Pragmatic agendas of the daily grind obscure how significance the study of the past is for getting a perspective on how to live a better life. This blog looks at how different present contexts are better understood from what preceded.
Standing in line, marking time Waiting for the welfare dime 'Cause they can't buy a job The man in the silk suit hurries by As he catches the poor old ladies' eyes Just for fun he says, "get a job" Why do we put up with it? That's...
Finally, David, among the Queensland journalists, you have come out and finally say it. Who hired them? What qualifications did they possess? Would either of them have scored a job anywhere else with similar qualifications and judgement? ...
Dear friends, Yes, to life affirmation, irrespective of the colour we "choice to place" on the canvas, and where we place the splash in our brief moment of time. As a general point among the thoughts of the global educated classes, here is the difference...
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In Either/Or Søren Kierkegaard marks " the distinction between an essentially hedonistic, aesthetic mode of life and the ethical life, which is predicated upon commitment." Today we have, Either "to allow for universities which are teaching only" Or universities...
Last November the Productivity Commission recommend, in an intermit report, for the removal of the tax-free status of private schools. Let me be clear, this does not benefit public education. My prejudice is towards public education, but the prejudice of the...
"The great obstacle that reason (Vernunft) puts in its own way arises from the side of the intellect (Verstand) and the entirely justified criteria it has established for its own purposes, that is, for quenching our thirst, and meeting our need, for knowledge...
In the blog article, "Buckley’s Chance, Cultural Thinking of Trumpism, and History", I introduced the idea of "the spiral history theory of stupidity." What I stated was: Historical forgetfulness leads a population into...
A colleague of mine (and a "colleague of mind") wanted to help us -- the South East Queensland Community -- with a project in urban sociology. He wrote to the Queensland Public Service Commission (QPSC), regarding workforce profiles for the Queensland Public Service...