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Category: The Importance Of History In Our Own Lives?
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Centrism (now called neopopulism): I said it, now the NYT is reporting it May 19, 2024
Dear Friends, and I thank Graham Perrett’s office for its recent kind support, and several friends who made sure I have not gone under, I said it, now the NYT is reporting it May 19, 2024: Gift Article (I paid for it, the least you can do is read) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/briefing/centrism-washington-neopopulism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tU0.99mB.4xpAfXEjbZQR&smid=url-share So, I said it back in March with the emerging…
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The Way It Is, Don’t You Believe Them…
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 just the…
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Right-On, David: Why do I not have the Job of the Under-Qualified and Over-Confident?
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? The Focus of David Fagan’s piece is on young people, but, what I…
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Beyond Binaries in Thought. The difference between the mid-century and the early 21 century
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 between the mid-century and the early 21 century: we are now…
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Institutional Prejudice: The Decision Maker
Cartoon Image: Paid. Order Number 27659. Marketoonist. 240311.highres.feedback Featured Image: Buch’s Pyramid Of Social Personal Development
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The “Either-Or” Back-Fires: Australian Higher Education Can Not Do Creative Thinking…Yet
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 must “… must conduct ‘world-standard’ research in at least half of the broad fields of education…
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The Public ALL Agreed. So, why don’t the political bastards “Get It”? : Communicative Action with Nick Carter
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 Productivity Commission “boils my blood.” On both sides of the issue…
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Why I am not a Rationalist, but a Humanist…A Research Note
“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 and cognition… The need of reason is not inspired by the…
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The Spiral history theory of Stupidity: Getting Stuck in Time-Space, and Personal Breakout of Historical Cognition Patterns
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 the spiral history theory of stupidity. History, Memory, Cognition, and a Model of Time-Space to explain human failure, are the elements which goes into…
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The Effort for Queensland Public Service Workforce Statistics, and Who Pays for Knowledge?
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 dating back to at least 1959. The QPSC replied they currently produces…