History is Events, People, Places, and Themes. That seems clear enough to most readers of history. What is less obvious and often missed is the meaning of Events, People, Places, and Themes, and thus the meaning of history. Many feel that in just mapping such elements and knowing where things fit chronologically, we have history. Nothing could be further from the truth. In such an outlook we have not really discovered history.
We all speak of person and personal where meaning is entangled. Philosophy over millennia has precise terms to reference person. This is a model which will help to untangle our imprecise usage. The terms reflect technical debates mired in reflections, binaries,...
Who wants yesterdays papers Who wants yesterdays girl Who wants yesterdays papers Nobody in the world …. Living a life of constant change Every day means the turn of a page Yesterdays papers are such bad news Same thing applies to me and you From “Yesterday’s Papers”...
Most of us are bound to a work routine, where evaluation of the time is beyond our agency – we do what we do because…many external reasons beyond our control. BUT… For their leisure hours, most persons, for most amount of time, do not go beyond enjoyment. There...
There are those who disparage politics and there are those who disparage theory. In both cases, such persons are lost; lost to themselves, lost in society, and lost to the world. Here is the Power & Theory PowerPoint Script
Are we to see a future period of growing instability in the United States and Western Europe which would undermine a progressivist vision, and is made calculable in the Turchin and Goldstone's political stress thesis (explained in the endnote below)? ...
The 12 July 2020, just passed, was the 75th anniversary of Ben Chifley becoming Australia’s 16th Prime Minister, where he remained until 1949. It is interesting times in Australian political history. Chifley was Minister for Postwar Reconstruction from 1942 to...
Trae Crowder has a series of videos in 'Southin' Off' to explain the complex, but pointed, history of the American South region. It has been a very educative series, but one episode has to be listen to; in order to understand the nature of history, not necessarily of...
‘The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke’, originally a poem novel by C. J. Dennis, tells the story of Bill, a larrikin of the Little Lonsdale Street push, who is introduced to a young woman by the name of Doreen. The book chronicles their courtship and marriage, detailing...
ID 31478396 © Iqoncept | Dreamstime.com There is a fundamental problem of the advertising and public relations industry. It is a problem that leads to persons switching off at the very moment that the message might be vital. The players play on cheap slogans,...