Readers are advised this short essay is awash with Neoclassical Rhetorick. It conveys imagination, humour and literary flair such as characterise intelligent human discourse.

Readers are advised they really must try this at home, work & play.

AS SOON as he drew up a plan for his first quadratic equations calculating machine Charles Babbage insightfully and cleverly named the Difference Engine being fast on his feet like all polymaths (errors & omissions excepted) he figured the thing would destroy what was known in those days as Western Civilisation – in those heady times of Jeremy Bentham, Matthew Arnold, John Stuart Mill, Alfred Marshall and jolly Lord Palmerston who legislated for companies, that is to say legally and lawfully incorporated bodies, to enjoy all of the civil and human rights embodied in British Common Law of citizens around 1870¹.

Those City of London days..

Then 104 years later – in 1941 – Konrad Zuse built the first general-purpose computer, the Z3. Alan Turing completed the design for an electronic serial stored-program computer, called the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) by late in 1945.

..if you are bored out of your tiny brain or an Australian Year 4 through Yr12 student required to do this stuff all day (eek), you could search it out on the interwebs which is rewarding if the information has not been ejaculated by a sausage machine that generates/ produces/ artificially constructs deracinated, culturally-, spiritually- or psycho-emotionally- unanchored mathematical object-feeling-evaluation syntax/ synthesis 4 set (initially called “SS3” superset (valid) or subset (invalid ≈ erroneous) circa 2001 but this usage I dumped because of cultural incongruity – which is of course that subsets are not ipso facto or by virtue of their appellation/ name inferior or incorrect and simply convey objects or subjects or concepts under. or devolved from, some categorical rubric, umbrella or Model or other)) quadratic equations and therefore means nothing for human society: no history, no culture, no ecology and apocalyptically no vision for regenerative unfolding enduring life on Earth Full-stop.

Now Some Notes Towards the Definition of Culture..¹

¹ Henry Giroux, Prof for Scholarship in the Public Interest @McMasterU, recent @truthout “US Fascism is Spreading Under the Guise of Education: Republicans are Rallying Behind Racist Pedagogy as an Organising Principle,” on Backgrnd Briefing with Ian Masters

..well everybody’s doing it, they ‘go’ in twtchy, if not palpitating and increasingly ill acutely neuro-degeneratively challenged Australia.

² The Hollow Men, Thomas Stearns Eliot, ‘modernist writer’ 1925… “Like much of his work, its themes are overlapping and fragmentary, concerned with post WWI Europe [subject to] the Treaty of Versailles (which Eliot despised, see his “Gerontion”), hopelessness, religious conversion, redemption, and, some critics argue, his failing marriage..” @Wikipedia ..intellectually challenging sure but we now look around ourselves to a nether world of #SocialMedia “influencers,” vapid deracinated techno-utopian Know-nothings & Care-less’s at least figuratively pumping their personal celebrity $100m vanity projects, promotional marketing videos or anodyne prime ministerial announcements, ludicrous unself-examined and largely unselfaware Dunning-Kruger narcissism befitting men who bestride the earth like Titans, though occasionally horned by dilemma or at large risk of getting rocked in one hard place or another – while we their variously earnest, conscientious or scurrilously crook psychiatric bomb-sites, the working folk who pay same 70% of the federal tax take in all neoliberal countries, all tricked-up with our phones, lunatic Musk-Gates-Bezos-Branson satellites above turning the sky to rubbish, endure an unrelenting barrage of pest calls from fraudsters and quite tragic under 45s who can find no better job than in the terminally de-skilled cultural morass of socially re-engineered middle class aspirational customer-relations consumer-schmoozing and downright lies flogging stuff, in the employ of (bizarrely and without the hint of irony or sober reflection

.. pubic-subsidy and tax-lurk funded ‘enterprises’ passing themselves off as public services that sadly suffer the highest rate of bankruptcies in the industrialised world – when it was commonly said during the Paul Keating recession 30 years ago that 1 in 3 start-up #SMEs only lasted three years – so there could be some teensie-weensie intergenerationally persistent education, training, people-skills & Year 10 level General Knowledge issues at play there hmm

..let’s talk about the Not-for-profits, the philanthropic Foundations, the #RedCross, Ita Buttrose’s & Scott Morrison’s Oi-oi Land Broad & Bloke Neofreudian Casting Corporation, the #RFDS, the Sierra Club of High Nevada, Greenpeace, the sparkling career of that fat bloke, ad nauseam, of @ProfBrianCox, Geraldine Dougue or the Australian Conservation Foundation

..now we’re all hearing voices because the boys & chicks in Marketing have seized upon that quintessential Ockerism to the effect that talking or watching Jarjums, Eurovision or fireworks displays beats the Bakers Delight Muffin out of doing any work, let alone listening to children

³ https://www.themonthly.com.au/monthly-essays-kevin-rudd-faith-politics–300. This quotation is inserted because it represents the conversations and maunderings of erroneous pre-pubescent globally catastrophic Monist (“universal one-ness as opposed to Pluralist literally meaning the contemporary Cooker or ideologically neofascist term Woke(ist)) masculinist Cartesian-dualist anthropocentric European belief-systems – in neoclassical terms the Patriarchy

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..eeyaghh.. real bullets, unprecedented road mayhem, rape culture and at least one murdered woman a week in my country.. Two now? Oh.

John Blundell

Economics, Sociology, 21C Neurolinguistics, Human-health, Philosophy of Science

South Australia