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 for a number of years. In early 2021 I introduced the message to The Philosophy Café in Brisbane, Queensland, as, Introduction to Philosophy of Social History: Untangling Culture/History wars, Or Finding Peace from the Culture War. The message was transformed in the academia.edu article of significant daily international-traction. From there, the message has gone to a deeper sociological message.
I have been “battling” myself to get the message through to our political institutions and institutions of higher education. As I stated recently:
There is a deliberateness there. American and Australian sociology and history is different, but there is something of this thinking in our Australian university councils and senates, in our bureaucracies, and in our cabinet room. It is, though, covert, in that views are not openly stated. In that regard, it is not a conspiracy. It is only that persons are conditioned to blame the establishment position when marginalisation occurs, such as educationalist theories and sociological models. In the twist of politics, this dismissal mindset includes the establishment itself. Governments find it easier to stick to the status quo, while at the same time, mourn the establishment position.
That resistant attitude, in the cognition of our decision-makers of our political institutions and institutions of higher education, scopes in its impact for “real” warfare and also scopes for persons like myself, “academics” (do they still exist?), “public square” scholars, and ethical journalists; do any of them still exist? Yes, we exist even if we are generally invisible. Even worse, some of us, have no income, and are descending into poverty. Films, like Civil War, speak out on the existential crisis of those who do speak out about the wrongful impacts of warfare in word and deed.
I too have been delivering this message, but before any possible warfare becomes actual in deed for the United States. Such warfare is highly unlikely in Australia, but this does not mean that there would not be impacts in Australia. Australia shares many cognition histories with the United States which led into virtual or real warfare. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is the untangling the warfare thinking to unravel its possibility.
Civil War is only “unintelligent fiction” in the sense it needs American-Australian intellectual relational histories to unravel the possibility of war. By itself, the cinematic film, is a “science fiction” warning of a possible future. But with the scholarship, the film speak to a future prevented because nearly everyone got the message.
Here in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, the institutions are not “getting” the message. I am the only one in Queensland who is substantively speaking up. And I am poor, and suffering clinical stress and anxiety, because I am virtually and financial broke. The Australian universities have great difficulty in employing persons like myself. Too few are asking “why?” The higher education institutions destroy their own message about the value of “degrees” when the best scholars of the country are not employed, or even sufficiently. Please stop the intellectual warfare.
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