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How to stop reactionary thought? Uncoiling the Reactionary – Mind Historiography and Cognitive Reform
Dr Neville Buch Uncoiling the Reactionary Mind Historiography and Cognitive Reform Abstract This essay delineates the cognitive and historical process required to remediate reactionary thought, defined here as a systemic intellectual stasis rooted in “Historical Forgetfulness” and the “techné mindset”. Using the socio-intellectual history of Queensland as a case study—specifically the transition…
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Is this what you think in your silence? Bizarre Reactions. The Rhetoric of Dismissal – Defending the Scholarship of Neville Buch
20 April 2026 Dear Friends, Abstract This essay provides a critical evaluation of Sophia Corwin’s 2026 article, “The Epistemic Poverty of Suburban Quixotism,” arguing that Corwin’s response to Dr. Neville Buch constitutes a “bizarre” rhetorical performance that substitutes personal mockery for scholarly engagement. While Corwin attempts to “eviscerate” Buch’s work as “AI-slop” and “academic vacuity,”…
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Private, Public, and What you are Missing by “No” Reading Dr Buch’s Work?
19 April 2026 Dear friends, First, congratulations to Dr Ray Kerkhove for his recent article. This research is very welcome. It also supports my ‘Queensland myth’ historiography, which too many people want to put in the ‘historical forgetfulness’ stage of cognition. I have attached Ray’s article. Kerkhove, Ray (2026). Frontier Wars Queensland…
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Violence, Fantasy, and the Architecture of Class Identity
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay explores the intersection of “Violence and Fantasy” through the lens of class identity, synthesizing the historical scholarship of Dr. Neville Buch and the contemporary analysis of Dan Taylor (2026). Buch identifies violence in the “techné mindset” of the technocratic political class, which enforces a “myth of the Queensland…
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Myth, Morality, and the Republic of Heaven
Dr Neville Buch Abstract The literary and ideological clash between C.S. Lewis and Philip Pullman serves as a primary site for Dr. Neville Buch’s application of Spiral Historiography and the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC). While Pullman characterizes the Chronicles of Narnia as “poisonous” religious propaganda, Dr. Buch provides a synoptic evaluation that moves…
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Hedging on Christian Nationalism: A Critique of Noetic Regression
Dr Neville Buch Abstract Nick Spencer’s article, “Christian Nationalism,” provides a valuable taxonomy of a burgeoning global phenomenon, yet from the perspective of Dr. Neville Buch’s Matrix of Sociology and the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC), it ultimately “hedges” by failing to diagnose the movement as a profound state of denoetization and Passive Nihilism. While…
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Comprehension: do you get it?
[Verse 1] I pictured a rainbow You held it in your hands I had flashes But you saw the plan I wandered out in the world for years While you just stayed in your room I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon The whole of the moon [Chorus] You…
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The Cognitive Architecture of Perspective and Comprehensive Understanding
https://www.academia.edu/165311107/The_Cognitive_Architecture_of_Perspective_and_Comprehensive_Understanding Attached: The Cognitive Architecture of Perspective and Comprehensive Understanding Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: This essay explores the cognitive and sociological limitations that prevent a comprehensive understanding of reality, even when an individual “sees” and interprets the world through a distinct perspective. Drawing on Dr.…
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How Antigone Complex Changes Everything for Higher Education Today
https://www.academia.edu/165296563/How_Antigone_Complex_Changes_Everything_for_Higher_Education_Today PDF File: How Antigone Complex Changes Everything for Higher Education Today Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: The current global revolution in thought is defined by a transition from the “Digital Revolution” of modernity to a “post-post-postmodern” era characterized by “symbolic misery” and “denoetization”—the mechanical liquidation of…