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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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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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What are the reasons for misunderstanding? Systems of Cognitive Pathological Misunderstanding
Dr Neville Buch The Architecture of Error: Systems of Cognitive Pathological Misunderstanding Abstract This essay synthesizes the multifaceted origins of misunderstanding, characterizing it not as a simple lack of information but as a systemic cognitive pathology embedded in modern technical and social systems. Drawing on a wide-ranging framework that includes the forensic…
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Tipping my hat to David Brooks. How History is Now Spiralling
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay synthesizes David Brooks’ cultural analysis of a world “running backwards” with Bernard Stiegler’s (via Ekin Erkan) diagnostic of “computational capitalism.” Brooks argues that the Enlightenment vision of linear progress has failed to provide a spiritually fulfilling future, leading billions to retreat into traditionalism and nostalgia. Erkan’s plain-language…
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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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“They” know what they are doing is wrong: Attempts to remove the historical record
When a governance seeks to destroy or remove historical records, it commits an act of “temporal tyranny” that fundamentally undermines the possibility of social accountability and ethical self-understanding. Because “understanding history is philosophy in practice,” the removal of records is not merely a loss of data but a direct intervention into the mental architecture of…
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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.…