To the Minister for Education and the Arts, Queensland

Dear Minister,

Your time is precious, so let me make the points in summary and graphs:

1. No decision maker thinks homogeneously and the worldview’s are layered, scaled, and weighted.

2. Everything spirals back around in our thinking of history, but never repeating the same event. It is the pattern that cycles around.

3. Political decision-making cannot exist outside of sociology.

4. The political options are orthodoxy — more of the same conventionality — or neo-orthodoxy — compromising the old orthodoxy — or creating alternative orthodoxy — the evolution of customs, laws, and society. In-between is what the idiots attack, as “heterodoxy”, as a political devise to enforce their own personal orthodoxy against the improvement of society. Of course, heterodoxy, unlike the idiocy, does have intelligent semantics. You just have to find it in higher education.

5. The key problem is that the mass population is not motivated to be educated.

6. Prejudices rules in the thinking of the average Australian when there is a bias against education. The bias cannot be dealt with educatively until the knowledge of reality, consciousness, and social structures are accepted as our standard of higher education.

7. There is a culture-history war in thinking which is fueled by the paradigm of hard materialism, which is a rejection of abstraction, any abstraction, as relevant to education.  The bias or prejudice is deep in the Australian way of thinking.

8. This is not determinism but a choice a person makes in the everyone’s, everyday, mundane, existence.

The Wheel of Wonder in the Sign of Freedom

Queensland Horizon Worldview(s)

Featured Image: “I am glad you’re in the class, I am glad you are learning, a little late, but here we are.” Queensland Horizon Worldview(s)

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Neville Buch

Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.

Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.

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