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Category: Intellectual History
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The Economic and Intelligent Cost of Not Employing or Contracting the Best and Leading Scholar: Locally, Regionally, and Nationally
THE GLOBAL PROBLEM: MY LOCAL-REGIONAL-NATIONAL ACADEMIC AND POPULAR SCHOLARLY WORK Robert Cady Saler (2024). “Death to the World” and Apocalyptic Theological Aesthetics, T&T Clark (Bloomsbury), pp. 152, e-book US$ 122.41 discounted, hardcover US$ 153.00. A MAJOR WAY TO A SOLUTION: A SHIFT IN SPIRAL HISTORIOGRAPHY David Fergusson (2024). Reformed Humanism: Essays on Christian Doctrine,…
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Spiral Historiography: 1. Widely-Believed Falsehood, 2. Accountability, 3. Falsehood Retreats, 4. Historical Forgetfulness
“… Last Friday, Salem Media Group announced that it had removed the fabulist film 2,000 Mules from its platform and said it would no longer distribute either the movie or an accompanying book by the right-wing activist and Trump-pardoned felon Dinesh D’Souza. It also issued an apology to Mark Andrews, a Georgia man whom the film had falsely depicted…
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I and My Colleagues have been Saying the Same Thing For Decades as Leading Journalistic Statements: So, Why I NOT Employed or Contracted?
Dear friends, Not understanding the A.I. risks. Tyler Austin Harper (2024). The Big Ai Risk Not Enough People Are Seeing: Beware technology that makes us less human, The Atlantic, MAY 21, 2024, 6 AM ET. GIFT ARTICLE In 1977, Ivan Illich, an Austrian-born philosopher, vagabond priest, and ruthless critic of metastatic bureaucracies, declared that…
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Is there Room for “Minor” Public Intellectuals?
From Peter FitzSimons, “David Marr on Dutton, Waleed … and being an outsider on Insiders,” The Sydney Morning Herald online. Fitz: David! I interviewed the brilliant Hannah Ferguson last week, and one of the things she was decrying is that there’s no more space in Australian media for the public intellectual. What do you…
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The Propaganda War on liberalism
Dear friends, Today, at a BBQ, a young woman suggested that the edifices of peace in the middle east be forbade, due to her reading of biblical history. When I challenged her on an alternative — postmillennial — reading, she clammed up. So I let her know of my friendly expertise in evangelical history…
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Sleeping Satellite: Romanticism is not dead in our thinking…Take a Stand Against the Wickedness of the Times
Sleeping Satellite Song by Tasmin Archer Sleeping Satellites caught up in the spiral historiography unawares, and I am waking you up so that you can live your dreams rather than passively melt into the big sleep. Lyrics I blame you for the moonlit…
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Presentism and Parallelism: Why Political Decisions-Makers Need to fund, contract, or employ professional historians
An excellent piece, Christofer: “At issue between these two interpretive poles is the basic presumption of applied social science: to what extent can the recognition of recurring patterns translate into effective political policy? Yet, Thucydides was not writing social science as we know it. To the extent that his text articulated anything…
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No! Not Yes: Optus Thinking is Machine Thinking
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 machine. I do no expect my Ruth,…
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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 ***** Featured Image: Mind-Reality dreamstime: 45497563.
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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 madness of our societies. That madness is…