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Category: The Importance Of History In Our Own Lives?
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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…
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Public Transport System of Brisbane: A Conversation with the folk of South-East Queensland
Following Public Message on Public Infrastructure in the Lead Up to 2024 BCC and Queensland Elections, I have had a few conversations and enlightening feedback. One conversation was with a colleague and friend who described the Brisbane City Council (BCC)’s bus over rail policy in the observation that the state government is responsible for…
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Buckley’s Chance, Cultural Thinking of Trumpism, and History
It amazes me that the reaction thinking can swallow up social movements into the madness of the mob. Yes, when layout on a spectrum, it is only a minority position, but, in which case, the reaction thinking becomes the majority outlook through the echo chamber of the techne. We are doing the…
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Empire Of The Sun – We Are The People
We Are the People Song by Empire of the Sun We can remember swimming in December Heading for the city lights in 1975 We share in each other Nearer than father The scent of a lemon drips from your eyes We are the people that rule the world A force running in every boy…
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How to provide the Educative Message?
Dear friends, Educational theories from unusual places, an e-newspaper in Los Angeles, discussing housing and homeless policies. Text below. The messaging follows the email I just sent to the Mayor, Deputy Premier, and the Brisbane City Council. Here we have community intellectuals in Los Angeles, bringing down heavily the sociological…