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Category: Spiral Historiography
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Reflections on Arielle MacLeary Presentation: Spiral Historiography and the Networked Dynamic of Historical Cognition
Dr Neville Buch and David Miller’s Agnostics Group[1] Abstract This essay examines the intellectual discourse generated by Arielle MacLeary’s presentation on the Edward Gibbon debate to the Australian Agnostics Online Group, viewed through the lens of Dr. Neville Buch’s Spiral Historiography and the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC). MacLeary’s balanced approach serves as a modern exemplar…
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Book Review. Reclaiming the Human Narrative from Biological Algorithms
Dr Neville Buch[1] Book Review: Reclaiming the Human Narrative from Biological Algorithms Les, Allan (2026). Harari’s Humanist Wars of Religion: A Critique of Harari’s History of Modern Ideologies. In his timely and provocative work, Harari’s Humanist Wars of Religion, Allan Les provides a surgical critique of Yuval Noah Harari’s popular historical narrative. Les argues that…
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South-by-SouthWest: A Philosophic Journey Home
Dr Neville Buch[1] Abstract This essay maps the “South-by-SouthWest” journey from the coastal expanse of Moreton Bay back to the suburban heart of Sunnybank Hills, treating the transit as a philosophical reading of the Brisbane landscape. By traversing a corridor defined by significant environmental markers like Tingalpa and Bulimba Creeks and established educational and medical institutions, the traveller…
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From Herd Mentality to Human Authorship
Abstract This essay examines the synergistic relationship between the biological and social phenomenon of life, the sociological pathology of herd mentality, the psychological weight of existential angst, and the educational ideal of mastery in learning. Drawing on the “Spiral History” framework developed by Dr. Neville Buch, the analysis argues that these concepts represent different stages of a single cognitive journey…
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The Contributory Economy and the Restoration of Human Authorship
Abstract[1] This essay examines the intersection of structural poverty and systemic failure through the lens of Dr. Neville Buch’s personal narrative and his broader philosophical framework. It argues that contemporary society is trapped in an “immense regression” where creative and intelligent individuals are marginalized by a technocratic elite that values measurable utility over moral wisdom.…
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I want to know about Love in Affirmative Action
Don’t Wanna Know ‘Bout Evil Song by Beth Orton ‧ 1993 Lyrics Sometimes it gets so hard to listenHard for me to use my eyesAnd all around the gold is glisteningMaking sure it keeps me down to size I don’t wanna know ’bout evilOnly wanna know about loveI don’t wanna know a thing about evilOnly wanna know…
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I am the State or Not. Sovereign Capture and the Path to Citizen Reclamation
3 August 2026 Dear Premier and John, Premier you are in deep political trouble. I refer you not simply to the essays I have sent you but also to the story in InDaily today. Perhaps Dr John Harrison and I can save yourself from yourself. John, is the most expert on Queensland media and political history, and…
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The Architecture of Bureaucratic Humanism and Cognitive Corruption
Dr Neville Buch Abstract The “Problem One, Two, Three” identifies a fundamental breakdown in intelligent communication characterized by a recursive failure to recognize corruption—defined as an abuse in thinking—across three distinct scales: the Individual (One), the Cohort/Persons (Two), and the System (Three). This breakdown is rooted in Bureaucratic Humanism, a state where the movement’s intellectual core is hollowed out by a Techné Mindset that…
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Looking the Premier of Queensland in the Eye
Abstract This essay examines the fluctuating cognition and decision-making processes of the Queensland Government regarding the 2032 Olympic Summer Games (erroneously referred to in the query as 2023). By analysing the transitions between the Palaszczuk, Miles, and Crisafulli administrations, the analysis reveals a conflict between “managerialism” and the historical reality of the urban landscape. The record of stadium infrastructure proposals—from the…
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Teaching Documentation: Understanding History is Philosophy in Practice – ISCHE 47
Featured Image: CIAE Diploma of Teaching Graduates of late 1970s. Dave Jack and Denis Sheehan with Queensland historian, the late Dr Jack Ford, in the centre of the image.