Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Category: Spiral Historiography

  • Interbelief and the Level Playing Field

    Interbelief and the Level Playing Field

    SEA OF FAITH IN AUSTRALIA (SoFiA) – Melbourne.   Interbelief and the Level Playing Field Australian Book. LPF. Stupidity of the Market Economy in Higher Education – Dr Neville Buch Attitudes. Socio-Historical Change in Unitarian Universalism   Some of us are participating in SoFiA’s online events.     Dr. Neville Buch will present the topic and lead…

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  • Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.

    Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.

        Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 28 April 2025       Dear friends,       Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.       John Miller is the editor of UUnderworld, a freethinker magazine, for those freethinkers unconstrained by the…

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  • Bob Dylan’s Ballad of a Thin Man

    Bob Dylan’s Ballad of a Thin Man

        Inspired by Sebastian Smee’s article in The Washington Post.     Sebastian Smee, The uncanny Bob Dylan song that inaugurated an era of dread, The Washington Post, 18 April 2025 at 10:00 a.m. EDT.     Smee writes, “Dylan is the Picasso of popular music. His ‘Ballad of a Thin Man’ speaks more…

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  • Own old problems with old solutions in ‘new wineskins’

    Own old problems with old solutions in ‘new wineskins’

    Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) MICE Philosopher Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA       Dr Neil Peach MICE Philosopher Management Institute for Contributory Economy PO Box 3898 South Brisbane, Q 4101 QLD 4101 AUSTRALIA       17 April 2025       Dear Neil,       Following our…

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  • Phlebas the Phoenician

    Phlebas the Phoenician

      Phlebas the Phoenician, for modernity, is introduced by T.S. Elliot as a character from his poem The Waste Land, in Part IV. ‘Death by Water’. It is the shortest section of the poem, describing the aftermath of the drowning of Phoenician sailor Phlebas, an event forewarned by Madame Sosostris. His corpse is still trapped…

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  • Universal/Big History: What propositional fits can be made between the concept of noosphere in De Chardin, Haught, Stiegler, and the humanistic historiography of Toynbee, Williams, and Habermas?

    Universal/Big History: What propositional fits can be made between the concept of noosphere in De Chardin, Haught, Stiegler, and the humanistic historiography of Toynbee, Williams, and Habermas?

    What propositional fits can be made between the concept of noosphere in De Chardin, Haught, Stiegler, and the humanistic historiography of Toynbee, Williams, and Habermas?     Several points of contact can be made between the concept of the noosphere as presented by Teilhard de Chardin, Haught, and Stiegler, and the humanistic historiography of Toynbee,…

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  • Thoughts with a Professional History colleague on “Artificial Intelligence”

    Thoughts with a Professional History colleague on “Artificial Intelligence”

    Dear friend,     I have written on this topic in the last six-eight years as a MPHA. I work with a very senior educationist and a senior philosopher. All of us at the cutting edge of critical thinking in our separate global fields, but, and listen carefully, “the professional historians are not listening”. Australian…

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  • Memory and Careers in a Corrupt Economic System

    Memory and Careers in a Corrupt Economic System

    The 17 December is a very sad day, with happy memories 27 years ago. 2024 minus 27 years = 1997. I was never good at maths; had to use a calculator. The machines now give us the answers to which we must respond.     1997. I started my first ‘permanent’ career job, as a…

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  • 2024-12-06 Further Discussions on Cognition Histories and Sociology

    2024-12-06 Further Discussions on Cognition Histories and Sociology

    https://www.facebook.com/events/601373408905942/         The Enormity of Facebook Technology Design Failure. But I finally beat it.     Cognition is the “mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses” It is simply the act or process of knowing.     Cognition histories is simply an account of…

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  • The Lost Intellect of Corporate, Entrepreneurial, Employment Companies

    The Lost Intellect of Corporate, Entrepreneurial, Employment Companies

    On August 12, 2024, I produced a post, called, What you are seeing in the Image of Australian Employment. What I said is, it is time for accountability against the corrupt — intellectually if not by law, and that I had three images of emails sent to me by the Adzuna (A.I.) machine to prove…

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