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Category: Intellectual History
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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. I have been working on this message for the public marketplace…
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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 colleagues listen to me? The timing is that I completed a…
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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 15, 2024, online) is such an occasion. The truth is that there are “learning…
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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 of the techne. We are doing the…
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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 considered, in the first section of the review, with…
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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 discussed without political distraction: Association of University Lecturers in Religion and Education (AULRE) Australia and Aotearoa…
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Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi: The Homogeneous Trap
Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi makes claims of “dogmatic affirmation of diversity as a sacred value by an equally one-sided assertion of homogeneity”. It is ‘culture-history warfare’ dribble. He has selectively used Garsten (2017) on the case of the French revolution and its aftermath, and as selectively applied the thinking in the framework of…
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CALL FOR A QUEENSLAND HISTORY TEAM
For Local History Organisers and Funding Negotiators, Professional History Queensland Advisors, and Experienced Editors in the History Genre On (Hidden) Intellectual History of Queensland Publication Project Call for you to join a team to work together for the challenge to bring a manuscript to publication in Dr Neville Buch’s A Hidden Intellectual History of…
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Concept, Semantics, and Strategies for the Level Playing Field
Image: Marketoonist 240115.highres.ideakillers. Licensed paid. Marketoonist is a cartoon provider on marketing issues. Tom Fishburne is usually highly critical of current marketing practice. I support his conclusions and his work, and pay for the license to use his cartoons. In this blog piece are three cartoons to get to the point of needing a…
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Review of Frank Furedi’s “When Do You Think The Culture Wars Began? And Why Understanding Its Long History Really Matters.”
It may come as a surprise to some, that I read closely blogs and articles of scholars, who I believe, miss key or main points in their argument, whether from Left or Right. Open scholarship goes to the work I do as a philosopher and historian, and as a sociologist. These are the…