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Category: What Is History Meaning?
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What Does It Mean for Brisbane as a City?
The Kangaroo Point and Districts History Group recently raised questions on what Brisbane had become as a city since Conrad Martens’ image in 1851, “Brisbane Views from Bowen Terrace Looking across Kangaroo Point.” I believe that the Council and the city’s residents need to wrestle with that question intelligently. This is very different to how…
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Stan Grant’s Article on Tutu, Nietzsche, and the End of History
Stan Grant writes: “Our ‘historical fever’, Nietzsche said, ‘may bring about the decay of a people’. If history becomes sovereign, he wrote, it ‘would constitute a kind of final closing out of the accounts of life for mankind’. Isn’t this what we see in our world now?” and “We cannot just ‘move on’. We live…
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POWERS, ENTITIES, AND assimilation…
POWERS, ENTITIES, AND assimilation… Commercial and Military entities believe that that they are the only real power, the only true conflict. They are nothing without entities of Spirit, which are regularly co-opted to an illegitimate cause. What are we talking about here? By Spirit, the reference is passions, symbolic meaning, ethos, and the power of…
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Range of Personal Semantics
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, and boxes. The key here is relationship. How one person thinks are related…
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The Forgetfulness of Heritage in Local History
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” The Rolling Stones Anniversaries and commemorations come…
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Buch’s Pyramid of Social-Personal Development
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 is a drug-induced state, natural mechanisms…
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Politics & Society: How much do we need Power and how much do we need Theory?
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
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Turchin and Goldstone’s Political Stress Thesis and Historiography
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 predictions here are probably ‘on the money’, that is, the probability…
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The Light of Ben Chifley
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 1945 in the John Curtin Labor government, and until he replaced Curtin at Curtin’s…
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Embrace Messy History — Thinking about Race, Class, Gender, and the Sense of Place in Our Own Past (and not limited to the Other Person’s)
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 other person’s, but of our own…