Watching the video of Boundary Road Rail Level Crossing Flythrough October 2022, I wept. Jesus Wept (John 11:35). It is weeping of joy and sadness. Joy because, finally, a beautiful solution has been reached in the Boundary Road Rail Level...
Concepts in Public History for Marketplace Dialogue
The Power Elite and American Wealth on Tuesday 5 November 2024
"Who, after all, runs America? No one runs it altogether, but in so far as any group does, the power elite." C. Wright Mills (1959). The Sociological Imagination, Oxford University Press. p. 31. Mills' The Power Elite thesis (1956) has sustain the...
The Choice to Think is Human Until It is Not
A colleague of mine posted about an investigation for code programming designed for the machine to produce original research questions. It is mind-bogglingly that the question "Why" is not understood more strongly in society, particularly among...
Propaganda: Compare The APSC Commissioner’s Directions (Not Propaganda) and The APSC Press Statement (Propaganda)
Following the Final Report by the Australian Public Service Commissioner on the Robodebt Centralised Code of Conduct Inquiry, The Commissioner set forth a statement and directions, with an apology. Dr Gordon de Brouwer stated, "I apologise as Public Service...
Why every aspect of Propaganda needs to be Challenged, including click bait?
Jacob N. Shapiro and Sean Norton on September 10, 2024, wrote an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, with the headline, "Why Scholars Should Stop Studying 'Misinformation'." Their article was not propaganda per se, but the headline was 'click bait', and for...
“What usefulness or validity does the model still have?” ‘Pragmatic Thinkers’ are Not as Smart as They Think
"But if the abstraction in the model is insufficient to describe at least the important and relevant aspects of reality, then what usefulness or validity does the model still have?" I always wonder when a person speaks disparagingly about...
Choosing Levels of Accountability: A Call for Higher Accountability for All Political Activities
An unusual story appeared about an incidence for the American navy (InQueensland). A commander of a US navy destroyer that is helping protect the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Middle East has been relieved of duty about four...
“School Thinkers” and Cognition History in our Schools
An examination of the Problem of ‘Schooling’ and Sociological-Person Models. “The literature traditionally goes to the political and legal landscapes but philosophically ignores the language.” “[Buch] points out that such approaches are based on...
Do we really know what is happening in the A.I. Sales?
Dear Political Decision Maker, Do you really think you understand what is going on the A.I. sales? Also attached copy of the article. This is serious....