I felt I had a conversation with the dead Ruth, except her expert career was as a development worker-social worker. Ruth, at the other end of the machine, was the expert in the Optus information technology system. In fact, on firm reasoning I suspect that Ruth is the...
Intellectual History
Plurality in and of Thought. Functional Ideals of Silence and Dismissal
The academia.edu copy is here: https://www.academia.edu/117813171/Plurality_in_and_of_Thought_Functional_Ideals_of_Silence_and_Dismissal The Public PDF copy is here: Plurality in and of Thought. Functional Ideals of Silence and Dismissal ...
Madness and Stupidity: Why is the Population Abandoning Cognitive Responsibility for Propaganda?
The Madness of the Individual Hero or Saviour. Mercy to our souls of humanity in such madness. It appears each morning of late that the news reports -- the radio as I get out of bed, breakfast television, the social media sources -- expresses the...
Why Speaking Out Against Culture-History Warfare is Not Popular, But Why it is Important to Do SO, AND Be PAID?
For more than a decade, I have been "fighting" unintelligent fiction which has promoted the valuations within the culture-history warfare. It is warfare that brings about the "real" warfare. The "real" war in Gaza-Israel is built from a culture-history war....
What am I worth in the Americanised Economy? What am I worth in the Australian Economy
Dear friends, The timing of this ABC story and Angus Deaton’s Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality (2023), could not be better for me: “But will his colleagues listen to him?” But will my...
Culture-History War in Educationalist Theory and Design
For scholars in any field there are moments when reading what a journalist has written, your heart sinks. Why the propaganda wars? Why the culture-history wars? Christopher Harris’ piece in The Sydney Morning Herald (February...
Buckley’s Chance, Cultural Thinking of Trumpism, and History
It amazes me that the reaction thinking can swallow up social movements into the madness of the mob. Yes, when layout on a spectrum, it is only a minority position, but, in which case, the reaction thinking becomes the majority outlook through the echo chamber...
The American Modernism of The Great Gatsby: Concepts of Landscape, Persons, and Time-Past
Synopsis: A review of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (read copy, Penguin Books 1950, 2008 edition). The book was published in 1926, from notes of 1922 and as set in New York's Long Island and Manhattan Island in 1922. The landscape of the narrative, is...
Big Ideas and Political Distractions in Public Discourse. Think About It
Featured Image: Marketoonist, Tom Fishburne. Paid. 240122.highres.focused. Order #27607 (January 22, 2024). Big Ideas and Political Distractions in Public Discourse. Think About It For example, here are a few places of public discourse where big ideas are...