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...
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Opportunities for Intelligent Social Events in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
HB Report on the Film and Dinner Discussion 23 September 2024 The Humanists Brisbane Meet-Up has been growing through its new 2024 Film and Dinner Discussion program. Already there has been five events to date, and many more to come. We stopped...
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...
The Language of Human “Snakes”: Why Some Humans are Intense Liars and Why the Uneducated Believe Them?
“The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes. If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.” [spoken...
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...
The Role of the Intellectual in the Australian Economy
Dear friends, https://www.academia.edu/123734421/The_Role_of_the_Intellectual_in_the_Australian_Economy The Role of the Intellectual in the Australian Economy In 2002 Raewyn Connell and Julian Wood produced an article in the Journal of Sociology...
“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...