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Category: Value of Local History
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How Brisbane City Council Cheats: The Architecture of Institutional Cheating in Brisbane Governance
Dr Neville Buch This Essay is provided exclusively for CleatCheats’ use. CleatCheats is a watchdog of unethical political behaviour, particularly in Brisbane & Queensland where subliminal behaviour is leading to deepfakes. Abstract This essay investigates the phenomenon of institutional cheating within the Brisbane City Council (BCC), defined here as the systematic violation of ethical and…
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The Cognitive Organic Mechanics of Outlander’s Historical Workshop
PDF FILE: The Cognitive Organic Mechanics of Outlander’s Historical Workshop https://www.academia.edu/166781431/The_Cognitive_Organic_Mechanics_of_Outlander_s_Historical_Workshop The Outlander Workshop: Cognitive Landscapes of the 18th Century I. Contractarianism and the Strategic Social Deal In Outlander, the social structures of 1743 Scotland are characterized by a Hobbesian Contractarianism. This political theory posits that legitimate authority…
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Liberating Conservative Thought
Dr Neville Buch MICE Scholar 18 Callendar Street Sunnybank Hills Qld 4109 Rev Dr Mark Earngey Head of Church History and Lecturer in Christian Thought Moore College 1 King Street, Newtown NSW 2042 cc. MICE and Dr Geoff Treloar. This is important because these scholars specialize in Anglo-American, Continental, Sociology and Philosophy, Education, Conservative Thought,…
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Poor Dynamic of Cognition: Historical Case – Reactionary Phenomenon (Resistance)
Abstract This essay examines the systemic cognitive pathology characterizing the Queensland Cabinet’s resistance to the heritage listing of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) under Premier Johannes Bjelke-Petersen. By applying the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) framework, the analysis identifies the poor cognitive dynamics driven by an aggressive obsession with State sovereignty and a narrow “techné mindset”…
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Compression and Application for Local Philosophy
Abstract This essay explores the interplay between the philosophical concept of compression and its application within the realm of local socio-intellectual history, specifically focusing on the Queensland context as documented by Dr. Neville Buch. Drawing on the media theory of Jonathan Sterne and the “Technics and Time” framework of Bernard Stiegler, the analysis distinguishes between “abstract…
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G.02 Local Landscapes Past. 2026-02-14 Lunch at Riverside Seafood Cafe 1:30 p.m. Valentines Day.
Here I am having lunch by myself. Alone. After Andrew Walker’s funeral and coffee with BUUF at Cafe 4072, Summer Park. I drove as round for an hour lost in Seventeen Miles Rocks, Centenary, Oxley, and Corinda. I was crazy in the feeling of loss. So, time for a celebration lunch at Riverside Seafood Cafe,…
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The Spectrum of Thinking in The Politics of Quora Project
The Spectrum of Thinking in The Politics of Quora Project Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 https://www.academia.edu/145517000/The_Spectrum_of_Thinking_in_The_Politics_of_Quora_Project The Spectrum of Thinking in The Politics of Quora Project Abstract: Quora is an American social question-and-answer website and online knowledge market headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was founded…
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Coopers Plains and The Vices and Virtues of Humanity
Dr Neville Buch Abstract Take a local area, any local area, and you will find the entire spectrum of human experience compressed into the history of its soil and streets. In the case of Coopers Plains, Brisbane, the landscape serves as a laboratory for the vices and virtues of humanity, moving from the…
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Future of the History Discipline and History Careers Outside Universities
Letter (email) from Stuart Forbes Macintyre, to Dr Neville Buch, 20 May 2017 at 16:07: We know from the work done on public engagement in history (first in the US and then by Paula Hamilton and Paul Ashton at UTS) that studying history is a relatively minor form of participation and that…
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Thinking on Attitudes Among those Who Think About Unity and Universality
“Attitudes: Socio-Historical Change in Unitarian Universalism,” Dr. Neville Buch” Today, I am looking at attitudes in Unitarian-Universalism, and they are not always good, but in critical thinking each person can renew, for themselves, better unitarian universalism thinking. Each of us has a free mind but we are not free in our thinking…