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(Peter) Nicholas Tarling and Others in The University of Queensland Pre-1980
Sub Heading I am pleased to share the closing installment of the HAPI Past Series, titled “Historiography in the Distant Past and the Philosophy of (Peter) Nicholas Tarling and Others in The University of Queensland Pre-1980.” This series will soon conclude my recent research into the former Department of History (1911–2000) and the legacy of…
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Big Belief and Big Doubt. Navigating the Altar of Autocomplete
Abstract In the complex landscape of 2026, the concepts of “Big Belief” and “Big Doubt” emerge as the critical navigational anchors for the human mind. “Big Belief” refers to an “interpretive priority” where a comprehensive worldview—be it religious or naturalistic—orients a person’s engagement with every object and event in reality. Conversely, “Big Doubt” represents the…
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A MICE Reply to Dan Mason Critique
A.I. instructed REPLY by Dr Neville Buch, twice on two notebooks, with human discussions and questions NOTEBOOK ONE The Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE) offers the following reply to Dan Mason’s article, “A Multi Model Forensic Evaluation of Lost Insights of the Uneducated.” From the perspective of our foundational principles—specifically the…
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The Limits of Free Thought
Dr Neville Buch Abstract The inquiry into the limits of free thought reveals a fundamental tension between the human capacity for autonomous reason and the inescapable constraints of historical, social, and physical reality. The following sources demonstrate that free thought is not a state of absolute, unconditioned liberty, but a rigorous concept-practice of negation…
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Heralding a spiral point on the forward historiographical frame, from the past trajectory of 1925-1929
Calvin Coolidge was the American President (1923-1929), and although Donald Trump (2017-2020; 2025-) models himself and his expansionist policies on William McKinley (1897-1901), Trump’s economic policies is aligned to Coolidge’s small government and “leave the market to itself” policies (added with highly controversial 1890 McKinley Tariff). Coolidge’s critics…
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It is Not Good
It is Not Good. It is Not Good. It is Not Good. There are many things that can be said. But this seems to be the key point. The false promise of the economy over the clear lies. Too many Americans either can not see through Donald Trump’s lies or…
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Spiraling in-alignment to The Lucky Country, 1965.
The famous quote from Jonathan Swift goes, “everything old is new again,” but the cycle never completes, as would Ouroboros, the emblematic serpent of ancient Egypt and Greece represented with its tail in its mouth, continually devouring itself and being reborn from itself. There is progress, of a kind, whether reactionary, conserving, or reforming. It…
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Choosing Levels of Accountability: A Call for Higher Accountability for All Political Activities
An unusual story appeared about an incidence for the American navy (InQueensland). A commander of a US navy destroyer that is helping protect the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Middle East has been relieved of duty about four months after he was seen in a photo firing a rifle with…
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Populist Nationalism Will Not Deliver; We have been Here Before, many times…
Recently, June 2024, I participated in an online workshop on Conservative Public History international forum. It revealed that, what we are experiencing in Australia, is the same across the planet: “Across the world right-wing popular political movements are harnessing the past as a means for attacking and challenging liberal consensus.” It is neo-conservative propaganda, that…
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Controlling Employment-Job Contracts
———- Forwarded message ——— From: Catherine Fremlin <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 at 17:15 Subject: FW: The Failure of Machine Thinking. Screenshot 2024-07-11. Sydney University Stopping Australian Citizens get a job To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Cc: Vice Chancellor <[email protected]> Hi Neville, Thank you for considering an opportunity at the University of Sydney. We are sorry you…