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Category: Intellectual History
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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…
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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…