Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Category: What Is History Meaning?

  • The Humanistic Ascent. Reclaiming Dignity in Australian Higher Education

    The Humanistic Ascent. Reclaiming Dignity in Australian Higher Education

    ​​ 25 February 2026   Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Scholar, Principal Researcher, Team Leader, Management Institute for Contributory Economy Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA   cc. Drs. Michael Mackin and Neil Peach, Directors, Management Institute for Contributory Economy   Dear “university friends”,     I have a message that must…

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  • Tackling Propaganda: How legitimate advocates for change can challenge opposing institutions known to use propaganda

    Tackling Propaganda: How legitimate advocates for change can challenge opposing institutions known to use propaganda

    Abstract Legitimate advocates for social change often face institutions that maintain the status quo through “institutional bullshit” and sophisticated propaganda designed to enforce orthopraxy (uniform action) rather than genuine belief. Drawing on the analysis of Joshua Kyle T. Rovero, change is not merely a political event but a universal mode of disclosure that redefines a…

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  • That Most Persons Do Not Realise How Fooled They are by a Failed Education Systems

    That Most Persons Do Not Realise How Fooled They are by a Failed Education Systems

    I have never like these tests, though, as tests of observations it is a better designed test than most. The reason is that tests which require meta-theoretical observations are better that tests that are simple calculations.     Here we see several A.I. mistakes on that basis. So I asked the A.I.:     How…

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  • How to bring social change for the better

    How to bring social change for the better

        PDF File: How to bring social change for the better     Abstract The intersection of Joshua Kyle T. Rovero’s “Metaphysics of Revolution” and the work of Dr. Neville Buch constitutes a 21st-century “new thinking” that redefines the mechanism of change in human society. Rovero redefines revolution not as a mere political event…

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  • Professional History and Levels of Thinking

    Professional History and Levels of Thinking

          https://www.academia.edu/145773668/Professional_History_and_Levels_of_Thinking   Professional History and Levels of Thinking     Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642   Abstract This essay argues that professional historians must transcend the mere interpretation of primary records to engage with the deeper historiography of their subjects, a practice defined as “understanding history as philosophy in practice”. While records…

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  • The Vices and Virtues of Humanity

    The Vices and Virtues of Humanity

    Dr Neville Buch   Abstract:   Humanity is defined by an originary de-fault, a lack of innate qualities that necessitates the invention of the “human” through technics, culture, and the articulation of memory. Within this prosthetic existence, the vices of humanity arise from an “immense regression” into Historical Forgetfulness (the Epimethean fault) and a submission…

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  • Jack McKinney’s Advanced-Thinking Humanism in Queensland

    Jack McKinney’s Advanced-Thinking Humanism in Queensland

        Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) MICE Researcher and yet unpaid for work Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills QLD 4109 AUSTRALIA     14 November 2025     Jack McKinney’s Advanced-Thinking Humanism in Queensland Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Available at https://www.academia.edu/144949291/Jack_McKinneys_Advanced_Thinking_Humanism_in_Queensland Attached: Jack McKinney’s Advanced-Thinking Humanism in Queensland      …

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  • Is History Sold Cheaply?

    Is History Sold Cheaply?

    https://www.facebook.com/simon.cole.241457/videos/799258339556758?idorvanity=250449248402425       That is so funny, Simon Cole, 😆 (see video at link) and on a serious note, appalling 😡…It is in these days of poor cognition — “good enough” is not good enough in project management. It does not take much thought to create a far better revealing “curtain” for a raised…

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  • Changing the Minds of University Marketers

    Changing the Minds of University Marketers

    A Post at UQ Change Makers:     Early this morning I had a conversation with an old undergraduate graduate on his need to retire the nostalgia and to think about the past and present with more intelligence (double meaning).       It got me thinking about the historical ideas which have been swirling…

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  • Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.

    Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.

        Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 28 April 2025       Dear friends,       Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.       John Miller is the editor of UUnderworld, a freethinker magazine, for those freethinkers unconstrained by the…

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