As the regular Blundell crew of mega-influencers – which reminds me of a kid joke The budgie went missing but hey grandfather (the writer’s own grandpa, a 1920s-on South Australian public educator steeped in Alfred Marshall, Wm McDougall & Albert Venn Dicey was an Oxford University Press pre-publication appraiser) opened the door and influenza, you’ll all be passionate about the fundamental Content : Process dial-out and consequent upon your studies of the last five years champing-at-the-bit to demand that it be mainstreamed in every educational institution on Earth on pain of cessation of public funding (in the breach) AND to the challenges of document titling, ever socially conscious that the mere announcement, presentation and display of a brand or category of study ensures Foucaultian artificial or socially-constructed ex fact compartmentalisation and ‘siloing’ of your written works – as the million so-called posts on X Comms that are 95%, say, lost to reflective deliberation, assessment and decision1 by the public in 30 minutes flat.. to 99.9 recurring beyond 35mins.. So yes it’s shaped up as Content-Enumeration-Process, ahmm.
Beavers
Castoroides (from Latincastor (beaver) and –oides (like)[2]), or the giant beaver, is an extinct genus of enormous, bear-sized beavers that lived in North America during the Pleistocene. Two species are currently recognized, C. dilophidus in the Southeastern United States and C. ohioensis in most of North America. C. leiseyorum was previously described from the Irvingtonian age but is now regarded as an invalid name. All specimens previously described as C. leiseyorum are considered to belong to C. dilophidus.
Yes Everyone it’s a Photo of Sarah Cooper from, Well/ Cromwell, Say Seven Years Ago
GEA 1/6
I see the way ahead to the light, but I could hardly leave my family in the state it is: I love you, Annette, in spite of everything. What kind of man would I be if i just abandoned you? Not much cop on the wheel of life. I’d fall right off, right through to the cockroaches. Laughing?
‘Trying to,’ said Annette.
‘Take another slug of Easy Night. Gilda rang me. She was really worried about you. Go back to sleep, sweetheart. See you later. We’ll bring back fish and chips.
‘And Dr Rhea Marks? Will she come too for fish and chips?’
‘I shouldn’t think so,’ said Spicer. โYouโve terrified her out of her wits, Annette. Iโm not exactly lkng frwrd 2 Rainbow Puppeteers. Donโt make matters even worse than youโve made them already.โ
โSorry, Spicer. Is this call being broadcast through the office?โ
โYes,โ said Spicer, โcome 2 think of it. But you’re a media personallty. It shouldnt worry you.โ
GWA 2/6
โMrs Horrocks?โ โYes.โ โThis is the Oprah Winfrey Show. Amelia speaking.โ
โOh, hi.โ โWe mean to record tomorrow and hold over and screen for our New Year show. We like to do things
GEA 3/6
live but even Oprah has to have a holiday sometimes. Can I just say how much I loved Lucifette Fallen? Of course the timing is good for you – Ernie Gromback tells me heโs scheduled publication to fit in with our transmission. isnโt he a charmer?โ
โOh yes,โ said Annette.
‘We’re building the programme around the domestic row,’ said Amelia. We reckon
GEA 4/6
God and Lucifer had the first one: brilliant of you to have seen that Lucifer was female. After that it was Jupiter and Juno. What can the rest of us poor mortals do in the face of the archetype? We have our pet psychotherapist to help us see through the dark to the light.
GEA 5/6
That’s the bit we’d like you to read from Lucifette Fallen : on page eight of the proof copy. I must say your publisher whizzed ir round to us. The para beginning “Where darkness becomes light” – down to “What can a child do but repeat the experience?” And then sit next to Oprah and chat a bit about your own experiences and what drove you to write the novel,’
GEA 6/6
‘I’m sorry – I’ve lost you. I’m still a bit sleepy – ‘
‘You are very central to the show, Mrs Horrocks, said Amelia. Have you had experience of TV before?’
‘No,’ said Annette.
‘Welcome to the real world,’ said Amelia.
John Blundell ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐บ ๐
In celebration of Fay Weldon 22 Sept 1931 to 4 Jan 2023 with detail from Affliction 1994. Oh that year in John Foster Dulles’s Christendom. Australia? No, too hard.
FW
1 Australia’s ABC Radio National this evening 8th July ran its weekly program The Law Report with four academics in startling explication on certain issues that the institution’s sub-editors figured should be billed ‘AI and Automated Decision-making,’ oh Whoop, oh Lord Jesus, we have been very good and tried our hearts out and stuff
The English-speaking world’s first embedded television journalist Lise Ducette, extremely famous Christian anarchist Alex Jones, Didn’t I Just C’est That? Memory-test dude Jimmy Carr, Benedict Cumberbatch’s heaps smarter younger sister and Taylor Swift walk into a bar1. First up Mr Jones makes an announcement to all concerning synchronicity, serendipity and lowers vocal tone a little, say 2 steps out of 10 ‘back’ towards the Hushed end of the scale God. What the f… happens next?
There will be a prize.
msn.com
I first and last read about USA commercial pop psychology’s NLP around 1979. Human services people and educators from the Jimmy Carter dcd. and Sesame St Childrens Television Workshop era will probably remember ‘Bio-rhythms’ – those PEI waves, yarda freaking yarda, too. – The self-education system or psychotherapeutic practitioners’ and teachers’ schema for authenic powerful self-esteem and human relationships building Carkhuff and Berenson’s Human Resource Development also emerged at the time. – I need to emphasise here that a million of us teachers and social workers around the world in that exciting period of technical research-based innovation with renewed professional schemata and discipline were doing it big-time and changing geo-communities forever and for good, and NOT doing it for any hairy guru, prophet, church, cult, bunch of anodyne Christian Sunday School “Peoplemaker” Virginia Satir or Margaret Kubler-Ross (also 1970’s) anodyne cliches or turgid – if not dead spooky like something out of Salt Lake City Utah – Win Friends & Influence People ‘Dork City with Jimmy Olsen cub reporter’ inspired by a Madison Avenue grunge-bag and ideological fascist like Professor Freud’s brother-in-law..
My only interest in ‘NLP’ emanated from the LCHS – RCHS quick eye movements indicating not crudely Lie or Truth but what i will ever be proud to report became study of ideation and conscious & unselfconscios task execution after I left Adelaide SA for a state government (cops and politicians – evidently the whole bang lot of them) enforced 14 year sabbatical over on our magnificent Great Australian Bight coast with a copy of Ernest Becker’s TLaDoM2 in my jeans hip pocket.
GEA and Olivetti Monkeys always try to keep the referencing rigorous so there follow..
~ Economics, History, Human (ising)-cultures, Education & Internet Reform
~ Devisor of post neoclassical 2 – 5 set Quantum-relations Thematics-logic urgently targeting 25,000 universities
~ Philosophy of Science
Dr Barry Boettcher urged me to study Phil. of Science not P of Psychology in 1969
1 Bar, ba.? Younger students would have to look that up. But never fear, young people your ‘Mad Sammy‘ and ‘Jumpy Jensen‘ internet will have you sorted in ‘no’ time. Onward a.. and after that the better-behaved among you may bathe in the blood of Jesus and of course come out whiter than white – with stern-but-fair avuncular Sundarajan Pichai and the marvellous Microsoft that’s spent millions promoting its @Copilot AI junk hardware’s Satya Nadella
Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it. Hannah Arendt, The Orgns of Ttltrnsm
This remarquably enough was more than faintly ridiculous pom toff Bruce
Moses Maimonides was a Jewish philosopher, physician, and Torah scholar who lived from 1135 or 1138 to 1204. He was born in Cรณrdoba, Spain
Part (i) arguably & clearly macro – ideas
THE GLOBAL SCIENCE CRISIS, a 2025 paper โฝ
“We identify two different conceptions of โgoodโ science: field-aligned science, which is a more technical, data-driven approach that conforms to disciplinary incentive structures, and field-disruptive science, which asks more foundational questions but that tends not to be rewarded within scientific disciplines. Given how philosophy can enhance science, we argue that scientific communities would benefit from actively valuing science undertaken in collaboration with philosophers, but that doing so would require a shift in the field and the habitus that it encourages. Such a shift would also make science more conducive to other types of broad interdisciplinary collaboration.”
Part (ii) demonstrably micro – objects & subject persons
STUDENTS howโs your .. ahmm
Are you bushed by 1960s ABC, NBC, CBS AND The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) or ANY of 193 GOVERNMENTSโ Edward Bernays Madison Ave Manhattan Public-relations brands, tropes, slogans, memes & OFFICIALLY-endorsed SIGNIFIERS, or seriously antagonised if not โanomiedโ (cite รmile Durkheim 1893 The Division of Labour in Society) by the macro melange or information โmaelstromโ and micro psycho-spiritual malaise of wildly arrayed displayed-accountancy-house-and-ancient-church-okayed (exponentially increasing in number โRand-spanโ micro โYou-shall-learn-the-true-names-of-THINGSโ tradifiable and commodified consumer – not ridiculously commodotised ossifying & dehumanising objects – and (again, Bernaysian, โControl-the-public-mindโ ) official Object-identifiers?แต
Then join us in enhancing, expanding, โgrowing,โ and above all micro or quasi Newtonian mechanical purposes ENCULTURATING & ‘internalisingโ in all, the future-making, nextness-asserting COMPREHENSIVE STATEMENTS, two-to-five set series AUTHENTIC quantum relations thematics (origin Icelandic maths approximately 700 – 1000 Common-era without the macro Ma) logic.
Final, a note on Excessive-codification under patriarchic fiscal elites Green Economist newsletter 1993 or 1994 (date uncertain all papers & business records stolen by South Australian government thugs and police) โโ
โIf a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.โ
John Blundell
Public Educator
โข 2-5set series Quantum- relations post post Scrts + Nwtn Logic
^ officially endorsed government, pop-culture, British-monarchy & now bizarre ancient Judeao-christian Bad-actor & Great-person and Saviour with Sword or Time-machine labels, categories, descriptors, identifiers and signifiers which have catastrophically for civil society and clearly and plainly points beyond economy, to ecocide, such is the orgiastic Blood & Treasure Take-a-dump mental 16th century Freeze, Fight, Feed, Fuck and Flee rabid docrinaire raison dโรจtat Screw Thy Neighbour neoliberal moral framework of clinical psychopaths in political power
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The usage of signs is always ambivalent. Its function is always a conjuring – both a conjuring up and a conjuring away: causing something to emerge in order to capture it in signs (forces, reality, happiness, etc.) and evoking something in order to deny and repress it. We know that, in its myths, magical thought seeks to conjure away change and history. In a way, the generalized consumption of images, of facts, of information aims also to conjure away the real with the signs of the real, to conjure away history with the signs of change, etc.
Reality we consume in either anticipatory or retrospective mode. At any rate we do so at a distance, a distance which is that of the sign. For example, when Paris-Match showed us the secret forces assigned to protect the General [de Gaulle] training with machine-guns in the basement of the Prefecture, that image was not read as โinformationโ, i.e. as referring to the political context and its elucidation. For every one of us, it bore within it the temptation of a superb assassination attempt, a prodigious violent event: the attempt will take place, it is going to take place; the image is the forerunner to it, and embodies the anticipated pleasure; all perversions have their acting-out. What we see here is the same inverse effect as in the expectation of miraculous abundance within the cargo cult. Cargo or catastrophe – in both cases, we have an effect of consumed vertigo.
We may, admittedly, say that it is, then, our fantasies which come to be signified in the image and consumed in it. But this psychological aspect interests us less than what comes into the image to be both consumed in it and repressed: the real world, the event, history.
What characterizes consumer society is the universality of the news item [Ie fait divers] in mass communication. All political, historical and cultural information is received in the same – at once anodyne and miraculous – form of the news item. It is entirely actualized – i.e. dramatized in the spectacular mode – and entirely deactualized – i.e. distanced by the communication medium and reduced to signs. The news item is thus not one category among others, but the cardinal category of our magical thinking, of our mythology.
That mythology is buttressed by the all the more voracious demand for reality, for โtruthโ, for โobjectivityโ. Everywhere we find โcinema-veriteโ, live reporting, the newsflash, the high-impact photo, the eye-witness report, etc. Everywhere what is sought is the โheart of the eventโ, the โheart of the battleโ, the โliveโ, the โface to faceโ – the dizzy sense of a total presence at the event, the Great Thrill of Lived Reality – i.e. the miracle once again, since the truth of the media report, televised and taped, is precisely that I was not there. But it is the truer than true which counts or, in other words, the fact of being there without being there. Or, to put it yet another way, the fantasy.
What mass communications give us is not reality, but the dizzying whirl of reality [Ie vertige de la realite]. Or again, without playing on words, a reality without the dizzying whirl, for the heart of Amazonia, the heart of reality, the heart of passion, the heart of war, this โHeartโ which is the locus of mass communications and which gives them their vertiginous sentimentality, is precisely the place where nothing happens. It is the allegorical sign of passion and of the event. And signs are sources of security.
So we live, sheltered by signs, in the denial of the real. A miraculous security: when we look at the images of the world, who can distinguish this brief irruption of reality from the profound pleasure of not being there? The image, the sign, the message – all these things we โconsumeโ – represent our tranquillity consecrated by distance from the world, a distance more comforted by the allusion to the real (even where the allusion is violent) than compromised by it
The profound pleasure of not being there. Think of Gaza.
The consumerโs relation to the real world, to politics, to history, to culture is not a relation of interest, investment or committed responsibility – nor is it one of total indifference: it is a relation of curiosity. On the same pattern, we can say that the dimension of consumption as we have defined it here is not one of knowledge of the world, nor is it one of total ignorance: it is the dimension of misrecognition.
Curiosity and misrecognition denote one and the same form of overall behaviour towards the real, a form of behaviour generalized and systematized by the practice of mass communications and characteristic, therefore, of our โconsumer societyโ. This is the denial of the real on the basis of an avid and repeated apprehending of its signs.
We can at the same time define the locus of consumption: daily life. This latter is not merely the sum of daily doings, the dimension of banality and repetition: it is a system of interpretation. Everydayness is the separation of a total praxis into a transcendent, autonomous and abstract sphere (of the political, the social, the cultural) and the immanent, closed, abstract sphere of the โprivateโ. Work, leisure, family, acquaintances: the individual reorganizes all these things in an involutive mode, this side of the world and of history, in a coherent system based on the closure of the private, the formal freedom of the individual, the securitizing appropriation of the environment, and misrecognition. Everydayness is, from the objective point of view of the totality, impoverished and residual, but it is, by contrast, triumphant and euphoric in its effort totally to autonomize and reinterpret the world โfor internal consumptionโ.
It is here that there is profound, organic collusion between the sphere of private everydayness and mass communications. Everydayness as closure, as Verborgenheit, would be unbearable without the simulacrum of the world, without the alibi of participation in the world. It has to be fuelled by the images, the repeated signs of that transcendence. As we have seen, its tranquillity needs the vertiginous spin of reality and history. Its tranquillity requires perpetual consumed violence for its own exaltation. That is its particular obscenity. It is partial to events and violence, provided the violence is served up at room temperature. The caricature image of this has the TV viewer lounging in front of images of the Vietnam War. The TV image, like a window turned outside-in, opens initially on to a room and, in that room, the cruel exteriority of the world becomes something intimate and warm – warm with a perverse warmth.
For Vietnam, for Kuwait, for Iraq (at least in 2003) this seems spot on. But, the question now, surely, is how many people are even watching?
At this โlivedโ level, consumption makes maximum exclusion from the (real, social, historical) world the maximum index of security. It seeks the resolution of tensions – that happiness by default. But it runs up against a contradiction: the contradiction between the passivity implied by this new value system and the norms of a social morality which, in essentials, remains one of voluntarism, action, efficacy and sacrifice. Hence, the intense sense of guilt which attaches to this new style of hedonistic behaviour and the urgent need, clearly outlined by the โstrategists of desireโ, to take the guilt out of passivity. For millions of people without histories, and happy to be so, passivity has to be rendered guiltless. And this is where spectacular dramatization by the mass media comes in (the accident/ catastrophe report as a generalized category of all messages): in order for this contradiction between puritanical and hedonistic morality to be resolved, this tranquillity of the private sphere has to appear as a value preserved only with great difficulty, constantly under threat and beset by the dangers of a catastrophic destiny. The violence and inhumanity of the outside world are needed not just so that security may be experienced more deeply as security (in the economy of enjoyment [jouissance]), but also so that it should be felt justifiable at every moment as an option (in the economy of the morality of salvation). The signs of destiny, passion and fatality must flourish around the preserved zone in order that everydayness may seize back the grandeur and sublimity of which it is, precisely, the reverse side. Fatality is thus evoked and signified on all sides, so that banality may revel in it and find favour.
The fact that road accidents play so extraordinarily well on radio and TV, in the press, in individual conversation and in the talk of the nation proves this: the crash is the finest exemplar of โdaily fatalityโ. If it is exploited with such passion, this is because it performs an essential collective function. The litany of road deaths is rivalled only by the litany of weather forecasts. In fact the two form a mythic couple – the obsession with the sun and the litany of death are inseparable.
Looking out at the window at the genly falling sleet, I wonder how long will it be before the drama in the Middle East is interrupted by warnings about an impending โwinter storm”?
Everydayness thus offers this curious mix of euphoric justification by โsocial standingโ and passivity, on the one hand, and the delectatio morosa of potential victims of destiny on the other. The whole forms a specific mentality or, rather, โsentimentalityโ. The consumer society sees itself as an encircled Jerusalem, rich and threatened. That is its ideology.1
Conclusions?
It seems obvious that Trump is the Baudrillardian President.
No less obvious is the fact that there is a real geopolitical agenda at work in the effort to decapitate Iran. That geopolitics may be that of Netanyahu, but it is nonetheless real. At least as far as the Middle East is concerned, there is an inveterate revisionist strain in US policy which became apparent with Biden.
But what I am not sure of, is whether the broader framing of Baudrillardโs analyss is any longer relevant. This may be unfair, Baudrillard specialists feel free to weigh in, but his framing seems basically functional. He was explaining how a system cohered.
In 2026 does that presume too much?
Do we live in a world in which the question of popular legitimation for war, or the legality of Trumpโs actions – the classic questions still posed by war-making in the period between Vietnam and Iraq and implicitly answered by Baudrillard – still matter very much any more?
As Stephen Wertheim points out, there was zero preparation of the American public for this conflict. What is by any stretch of the imagination a major military action seems entirely divorced from American politics in any conventional sense.
In this regard the Venezuela action was different. It fit very neatly with the dominant dynamic of that moment which centered on ICE and images of Latinos being brutally manhandled by American security forces.
But when it comes to Iran in 2026, what is the connection?
โIโm not sure what Iโm doing hereโฆyet. Iโm a fiction writer, but Iโm more than that. Iโm at that stage in life that self care needs to a main priority, so maybe Iโll go that direction here.โ
That is an interesting intro Patti Stafford and I know as a student of Neurocognitive health that there are probably 500 million middle class comfortably situated/ shopped/ serviced and catered-for write around the world as I sit where I am writing this in the Adelaide Hills & Fleurieu Peninsula region of Australia and you – punchline โ are at your place or nearby it.
YOU ARE of course NOT โHERE,โ and not in ANY virtual domain or FIGURATIVE mental โspace:โ that is only the massive alpha โprophetsโ/ ๐ถ profits to 20% per annum – [PREDICTIVE TEXT ARE YOU STARTING TO UNDERSTAND YET Ms PTโ] moneymaking scam of of the worldโs virtual e-comms ๐ฐ๏ธ๐ก๐ฐ๏ธ๐ก๐ฐ๏ธ๐ก empire Huang Pichai Nadella Zuckerberg Altman and Bezos who have after the diabolical inspiration the daughter of a shopkeeper who read chemistry and PLAINLY NO liberal arts, humanities or social sciences at โuniโ and bizarrely – as in what psychiatry readily identifies as โfull blownโ or florid psychotic ideation regressively hardened her SELF with attitude, (a)social value, belief, morรฉ, prejudice, (self)-hatred & ultimately the ecocidal mass psychosis ex Torah & Old Testament of the Holy Bible RIGHT NOW literally and actually destroying all 7.9 billion of us ever mentally grasped or held dear for vainglorious madmenโs short term fiscal gain.
It is about you, dear Patti Stafford because NOTHING in any mirror OR ON ANY SCREEN IS.
The 110 year Hollywood Era ๐โl culture of Display, Announcement, Ceremony and Permanent-warfare rendering all the worldโs working men and women the helots of the high, the mighty and lard-arsed is done, chick.
Thematics logic is your and now all our goes lady good evening to you John
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โขThematics Quantum-relations 2-5 set series AUTHENTIC post Socratic logic
โข The new Neurocognitive Health
โข Education-reform at ALL LEVELS worldwide immediately
Here is our AI guy newsing David Lynch’s Diagram for Transcendental Consciousness – how our reality is made of MIND first, MATTER second.
YOU know jack about human consciousness, its SOLE MENTAL DOMAIN (the human mind) and its ENTIRE ideational content constantly mulled over, reviewed & further enhanced, developed and grown (including during social relations- and environment-absent fully bodily contained sleep (a state of course of un-self consciousness AND UNSOCIAL OR LITERALLY AUTISTIC โun-con-she-&c-US-ness,โ all in all the beautiful AND vital human joy of constantly mentally combining instantly recalled lived experience ever โcolouredโ and amplified (+indeed โด clearly or strongly felt so easily recalled as actual bodily states) by the well and active non-sedated drugged depressed or intimidated, abused or violated-body mind with persons, places, events, disputes & recollections 36 hrs to โ99โ yrs โbehindโ the ๐ฐ๏ธ in โMEMORY-BANKโ or what the Athenian guy who actually first conceived and demonstrated CINEMATIC CULTURE with his shadowy human figures on a cave wall called RACE MEMORY, in what i as a very careful and perspicaceous scholar came to believe over forty years ago was the ONLY philosophically and ideologically^ VALID use of the word race for the late lamented Jean Piagetโs mentally normal, respected, included and healthy mid teens emerging adult (say at 16 or 17yrs of his or her 11-17yo Formal Mental-operations โGrowers-upโ processes (full maturation).
J ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐บ๐..
JOIN US: we are fortunate humans whose ๐ง s never made Ding-ding noises or whirred loudly. Nor did we, mercifully, get ANY of our ideas for living and creating valuable relationships from Nickelodeon or ABC Australia government childrenโs cartoonsโ๏ธ
แตGEAโs thematics people IQ scores 120+ & active environmental intelligence a notional 180-199 will be delighted with this consonantal + full non-code quadratic readout โ
Again with Ten-thousand Typewriter Monkeys‘ thanks to Anna Johnston, Professor of English Literature University of Queensland 2023
Knowledge produced from the Endeavour voyage was explosive and exponential, and it had both scientific and territorial consequences: in John Gascoigne’s terms, this was ‘science in the service of empire31.’ As Saunders suggests, ‘we might see botanical illustrations as “mapping” our knowledge of plants32.’ Cartography and botany share visual practices, she argues, beginning with with fanciful images based on ancient sources, myth and rumour, and gradually developing analytical images based in experience and observation. In this, imperial mapping and botanical knowledge proceeded together in the Australian and Pacific [worlds] charted by the Endeavour. While Cook is a historical figure with a complex and continuing inheritance of imperial expansion and colonial exploration34 – and who continues to be a lightning rod for public debates about the morality of colonisation globally – Banks has been less prominent in popular historical memory. Scholarly appraisals of Banks have produced [rich representations of science, knowledge production and the British Empire]. Banks’s [forty-year] role as President of the Royal Society consolidated what Bruno Latour terms ‘centres of calculation35.’ David Miller’s influential concept of a Banksian (learned) empire has become commonplace36. Recent work in the history of science has sought to explore further the constituency of Banks’s global correspondents, the precise techniques it brought to bear on the [production] of [natural knowledge], the [structures of kinship, succession and patronage that it entailed], and the tensions and antagonisms that disrupted it37.
31 Gascoigne, ‘Science and the British,’ 47-67; Gascoigne, Science in the Service 32 Saunders, Picturing Plants, 7 34 See the National Library of Australia’s 2018-19 exhibition, ‘Cook and the Pacific.’ For recent overviews of the extensive Cook scholarship se Nugent, Captain Cook, and Thomas, Discoveries 35 Latour, Science [in Action] 36 Miller and Reill, Visions of Empire 37 Werrett, ‘Introduction,’ 2
John Blundell
6PM Wed 18 Feb 2026
South Australia
Neurocognitive-health 2-5 set series Quantum-relations thematics logic, Quantum ideational or commonly Right-brained nextness, Moses Maimonides (‘PUT METAPHYSICS last’) & Baruch Spinoza enthusiast and that’s about it for human antiquity, apart from our own old people, yahrduh, Economy, regenerative agriculture, cradle to grave Education-reform essentially & urgently in 25,000 ‘universities’ worldwide, ex Community Economist Publications Worldwide newsletter 1997 – 2003, electoral candidate against John Wayne Olsen and the tide of British colonial history (Morons Central reckoned), vote-count managed by the Liberal Party of Australia with its string of Great-man SA directors with resonant if not pharmaceutically testosterone boosted voices (HEAR that voice, young people – try an understan it) AND their pals ‘down’ the years/ me to Stewart Cockburn first Press Secretary to RG Menzies (who reportedly ‘hopped’ over to their proverbial ‘Mother-c_nt-tree’ – HEY welcome to my country – to recruit him), 1994 are they crooks or idiots, he, they’re all crooks John: you do learn, young people
Archetypo on @Substck .. 1/12 Iโm starting to understand why some billionaires and Silicon Valleyโadjacent intellectualsโoften orbiting places like Stanford are obsessed with the idea that reality isnโt real at all & that weโre living in a simulation. โWhat if this is all code?โ
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sounds innocent & playful. Philosophical, even.
But this idea does something irreversible 2 our collective moral spine.
If reality is just a game, then bodies become avatars, pain becomes a glitch โandโ death becomes a reset.
Once you accept that, almost anything (if not
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everything) becomes easier to justify.
Because if this isnโt real, then nothing truly counts: suffering, innocence and responsibility lose their meaning.
Youโre no longer hurting a human being. Youโre interacting w an object inside a system. Playing w it.
This is where
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empathy dies.
Historically, every system that needed permission 2 do the unthinkable first had 2 declare its victims unreal: soulless, subhuman, symbolic, expendable. They are not fully human, not like us, not real in the same way.
The simulation theory is just the latest,
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cleanest, most tech-friendly version of that move. & this time their victim is the whole ๐
The moment you declare the ๐ unreal, you dnโt bcm enlightened & mature. You bcm unaccountbl. Very convenient 4 ฯ opaths
โด many ๐ 2 our writer. Not 4 (micro) sociopaths either..
Carpe Diem, maybe, but there is no Age of Romance Renaissance Warrior-prince adventuring, exploring, discovering or indeed dipping, delving-into or capture of miscellaneous bodies or rowdy protesting foreign tribes your great and indeed noble as well as socially and diplomatically graceful ancestors lived nearby for hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of years.
Just “hit out” immediately – you’ll learn to perform this mental task reflexively, instantly, with minimal practice or self-training though i must advise to internalise this all new type of western liberal democrat dialectics you first must discard God-above-man-below, Give-me-the-boy-until-seven Authoritarianism or flatly EQUALLY anarchistic or libertarianist philosophic-ideologic STUFF about man’s let alone woman’s subservience and obeisance to socital power AND wealth holders.
A diem or day or indeed night may only be understandable to others not (suborned) as a macro variable – I permanently hesitate to conjure up mentally and socially the phenomenon of a macro quantum or the surmised phenomena of macro quanta because there are no such entities in nature or intelligent grown-ups’ (adult) discourse – senior and masters students think only of the vital human Thirteenth-century (and to the early 20th that I know of\ which may not be much but i know i love you all\ never put humour aside or worse leave it to some psycho-spiritually deracinated culturally rootless, bootless, shiftless, listless television network empoyees on personal incomes $30-150k more than anyone in your household\ and perhaps the first ‘law’ or unshakeable undisprovable theorem of post-neoclassical thematics is that no non-objector macro phenomenon may be seized, grasped, manhandled or indeed for South Australians who do authentic history (not Great Man/ woman biographia unless they can’t avoid that out of ceremonial, societal or employee duties & obligations) be subjected to a little rougher than usual handlling (Justice Boyle early 1990s likely one of we august pious penetrating Mount Barker chaps) seen, heard, tasted, smelled, touched, fought, fed-upon, frozen-with-fear-at, er, flummoxed, fled-from or engaged in sexual intercourse with or at?
European universities
Education, Neurocognitive-health, Mental-health, post crude objectivist (Rand, Greenspan, Branden & Freud’s control-the-human-mind ideologically totalitarian brother-in-law Edward Bernays) Harvard, MIT, Stanford and others’ classical mental meanderings essentially of a phrenologist’s or other mad scientist’s disembodied head in the micro WITH NO MACRO explanation, description, SIGNIFICATION or indeed MEANING AND frankly barbaric hypothecations postulations & formulations concerning consciousness NOT as the popular Hollywood century ‘con-she-us-ness’ (the VAST array of memes, maunderings, marketing opportunities & billion-dollar ‘Honey-trapping’ industry’s coercive-relations power-plays re sexual courtship, adult female fecundity & motherhood, that is performative human social display values as micro entities or quanta that are programmable & manageable in the less powerful or self-aware OBEDIENT OTHER which are out there from body & mind (NOT of creative intelligent maturing senior teenager’s ideation, imagination, study & thereafter essential-for-health life-long learning), POST neoclassical Thematics Quantum-relations 2-5 set Series logic operatiional in 25k universities, the Economy..
Thanks everyone because aside from my hope as a public educator any of my readers will gain from the read I of course learn-like-billyoh how to better express my sense and sensibilities concerning human societies systematically for business profits wirh incalculable ferociously ignorant Adam Smith 1774, Daniel Ricardo 1840, Marshall 1900 and post World War II Samuelsonian, Randian, Greenspanean, Friedman-Porteritemalice aforethought than ANY year 12 or Economics 101 & Statistics 101 could dream up in a month of Gordon Geckoe Sundays.. They tell me the actor got Parkinson’s Disease: our best wishes to his F & Fs.
And another Non-thing, students
NO disembodied head in the micro NO environs ‘nrscnc’ NO MACRO explanation/ consciousness NOT as courtship, fecundity &c performative human display values as micro quanta prscrbd + prgrmmd 2 <pwrfl, <slf-aware sbsrvnt others..
Condensing text is a big fun number for everyone’s learning and serious ‘head-kicking’ growing up.
John
Sunday Night here and the nonexistent soundscape in which i have pleasantly not-bathed – in Xanadu did Khubla Khan a stately Pleasure-dome decree – Samuel Taylor Coleridge Taylor was a junkie – all junkies are liars – that’s the gig – you knew that already – for the most recent four hours ABC Australia ClassicFM
Conflict Location: Cuba, Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
Order Shape Form Context Syntax & Quantum-relation inseries consistency/ coherency re SELF BODY ENVRNMNT (forget the world, forget the personally disempowering & delegitimating/ -ising goddifiers, forget all the Time-waste D movie Thun-blah you ever heard about ‘outer’ space, ‘out-of-body ‘exprncs,’ kinaesthesia, multiple personality disorders & “Time-travel” OK)
As an educator I was very glad to spot this (around the middle of my day in the first or easternmost international longitudinal trisphere.. If you yourself are learning to write cogently and persuasively as we were all enjoined so to do by the earnest and quite wonderfully scholarly Right1-side of consciousness guy succeeded after 1774 by the the Slave-economy Supply-siders, City-state Law & Order disciplinarians, stern magistrates & head-banging teleologists who sagely detect problems with liberty, equality and the Rights of Man because Goodness-only knows where that 1789 stuff could, and does indeed, lead, Mr Aristotle, unknowing progenitor of that marvellous marriage in spirit, temper, public purpose and ulttimately/ Old-time mately ecocidal intent, the llbertarian-Tory aristoi: hubris, contempt for folk not-like-us and lunatic violent habits) โ
Viz “In order that a select few might live in great opulence, millions of people work hard for an entire lifetime, never free from financial insecurity, and at great cost to the quality of their lives. The complaint is not that the very rich have so much more than everyone else but that their superabundance and endless accumulation comes at the expense of everyone and everything else, including our communities and our environment.
Michael Parenti published by William Murphy @futuredude “ex US empire insider” now with issues (joke that, I think) as one of a highly-recommended-for-our-readers @Substack punch-out triggered by #WolfBites on the 3 megacorps Amazon’s, Meta’s & Alphabet’s madman Take-a’s Big-beautiful tax-saved billions
Herewith, young people, the abounding fear, anger, hysteria, bad political calls and even c-c-c-c-crazier early Eighteenth Century European and now junior high school science of those few who do live in great opulence – a mental nether world of gushing ridiculous deracinated false belief, false equivalence, false consciousness concerning the very micro eyes-wide-open objects, persons, places and events of their own increasingly imagined & concocted e-comms, stagecrafted socially engineered politburo, Central-committee, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Deloitte, KPMG, Ernst & Young Goldmans and now (Larks a’mussy and Lan’-sakes Miss Betsy) the estimable scholarly Peter Thiel’s nifty @PayPal-@Palantir munchy-crunchy corporation’s scintillating household & business premises inputs Left-brain day-to-day recall of lived experience increasingly contradicting their own personal increasingly dementing Right-brain screen-watching and audio-pumped politico-historical Socio-cultural- or Race-memory Right-brain flotsam, jetsam space-junk and detritus: the custom, ritual, teachings and wisdom of THEIR ancients (of THEIR OWN, OUR OWN, EVERYBODY’S OWN maternal and paternal ancestors dating back (to the time of Iberian Peninsula European noblemen Columbus and Cortes making grand announcement in preparation for campaigns of mass slaughter and sexual capture of young women in the Americas) for let us estimate 32 generations.
We work patiently and purposively/ -fully for the immediate retirement from public life of around 120,000 senior men and woment in the employ of, on contract to, at the beck & call of, or gleefully telling governments what to do by way of repressive authoritarian dys-regulatory and now calamitously being encouraged by governments (193) to tell our young people, primary schoolers, pre-schoolers, toddlers & newborns how to feel, what to think, and what to do in any and every social encounter or commercial exchange on pain of depersonalisation & effective cancellation of citizenship before they’ve gotten out of high school – if they ever make it beyond Year IV on Kenneth Lauren Burns’s, William Alan Shatner’s, Stephen Tyrone Colbert’s, and, say, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s, Candace Amber Owens Farmer’s, Morgan Porterfield Freeman Jr’s., Jordan Bernt Peterson’s, this woman in Australia Hanson’s and Stephen Kevin Bannon’s vicarious journeys of life for rich people.
John Blundell
You make ’em we shake ’em
2-5 set series QR thematics- post-post Socratic logic
Human (mammallan) Neurocognitive Health
Lethally urgent University Reform
C5 – C9 Managed Economy
Loving people whose brains do not tick loudly or make loud whirring noises, retraining those whose do
1 hey some of you spotted ambiguity here – s-s-0-o well done, I’m rapt with your studies’ progress
Billionaire-๐๐๐๐s with Olivettis 