J. Blundell 27 February 2024

Sure, man, what is this large lan(d)-guage models dumbing-down, epidemiological, climatological, post-viral neurodegenerative, middle-income household budgeting, eutrophication of waterways & wetlands, million-hectare farmland fail mycorrhizae, looming food shortages, and mass extinctions of insects, animals, birds, fish, micro marine organisms jeopardy thing?

OK, let me first carefully explain to you that a thing or an object is not an event – say a fire, a flood, a superstorm, a drought or failure of seasonal rains that can halve or quarter a rural area’s subsoil moisture or city’s underground water supplies in only six or seven years with lack of seasonal or annual rainfall and the demands put upon that natural water resource by broad-hectare environmentally toxic chemical agriculture and ever-growing city populations or, say, an epidemic or pandemic (‘everywhere’) of life-threatening disease. Second it now catastrophically appears that the whole of consumer society, with it’s now blindingly obvious penchant for consuming itself legs or tails first like that mediaeval beast you may have seen pictured, from the days of European feudal society regulated only by the fear struck into human hearts by imminent termination of your life, Oliver Cromwell style genocidal slaughter – which of course took ‘care’ of everybody in your community, even your entire region – and the morality fables or cautionary tales of the church.

Genuine upskilling to satisfy the the needs, demands, exigencies and future security of young people everywhere in regions existentially threatened, in the five challenging terms⁰ of Beveridge 1942¹ – if we recall that no-one lives with, or may ever be legitimated let alone lionised in, a so-called ‘History’ of ideas, debates or ludicrous pointless public opinion ‘wars’ but by what they do in any given society to act upon and ameliorate if not overturn existential threats to itheir fellows – work that is impossible of achievement or successful completion without personal, interpersonal and community level empowerment and freedom from vilification, assault, violation or killing on account of gender, ethnicity or lifestyle OR a manifestly delusional 3rd Cntry CE Persian division of society into workers & capitalists.’

Up the resolution – Biden should have gone 2 @Specsavers, spouting as he was last night WP EA FER Time utter neoclassical academic ideologically liberal nonsense about the (electoral) power of American women to rebuke even reverse ‘the Republicans” – and every evangelical apostolic apocalytic fool in his own party who’s sat by & allowed or even spoken up for what they tragically called ‘God’s Work’ since January 2021, that is to say over three years – on the trashing of women’s reproductive rights and the turning over of their bodies to the control of the global billionaires’ plutocracy, menta grubby old men like himself essentially, in how many states was that again??

How Britain in its toughest days set out to design a successful society² for itself

The Social Insurance and Allied Services Report of 1942 – two years before Robert Menzies chose to deliver via the Tory Pom Australian Broadcasting Commission Boyer Lectures his plan to win the electoral support of lower income Australians by waging reverse class warfare against people who worked with their hands – to counter a Proletariat – what the hell is that, people spat? Domestically-comfortable White Australians knew, sagely, that the poor would always be with them if they maintained or invented rules which gave them permission to exploit women, the homeless and kids, to systematically suborn them for their fun and profit, frankly – lately, notably in the second half of calendar 2021 introducing economic policy in active partnership with financiers and accountants and fairly clearly on the direct recommendations of the International Monetary Fund to render up to 8 million Australians housing-insecure and thousands more actually homeless. Any talk against this rich old people’s scam or indeed at all contrary to – or even questioning – the country’s runaway norms and fashionable tropes of accelerating family collapse, social mayhem, 11 year-old girls allowing grown men to ‘play’ with them to get some income, ‘fun’ killings and ‘rampant’ epidemic mental illness was clearly seditious trouble-making and, crime-of-invented social crimes, disorderly² – to be subjected to tough love and acts of rape and brutality within the elastic racist misogynist infantophobic “bounds of permissibility..”³ and public shaming by moral philosophers of the calibre of the Reverend Tim Costello, Clive Palmer, Adam Giles, Larry Anthony and Senators Antic and Birmingham from Adelaide.

Non-nonsense, non- deracinated, non-Make-stuff-up & get people to pay ‘through the nose’ for it and absolutely non ‘AI’, creative writing moves aside gangsters and autocrats and I believe grows intelligent nations. Bring it on. Send me ideas not money ok. Or as I wrote some time ago in the early days of Community Economist at a moment of personal calamity, ‘Not draving, waoning:’ just an amusing way of appealing to public actors to in my father Tom’s words Cut the Cackle – and also signposting the emergence of our truly extraordinary and epoch-marking transactional neurolinguistics twenty years on – to forever eradicate the Hernan Cortes Romance Era Strong Man demagogic and pedagogic performative display ethic – Trumpism.

“William Beveridge (1879-1963) was a social economist who in November 1942 published a report titled, ‘Social Insurance and Allied Services’ that would provide the blueprint for social policy in post-war Britain. Beveridge had been drawn to the idea of remedying social inequality while working for the Toynbee Hall charitable organisation in East London. He saw that philanthropy was simply not sufficient in such circumstances and a coherent government plan would be the only sufficent action. By the outbreak of war, Beveridge found himself working in Whitehall where he was commissioned to lead an inquiry into social services. His vision was to battle against what he called the five giants; idleness, ignorance, disease, squalor and want. His ‘cradle to the grave’ social programme that amongst other proposals called for a free national health service alienated some politicians but it struck a chord with the public and this would influence Clement Atlee’s Labour Government to implement these ideas.

“The Inter-Departmental Committee on Social Insurance and Allied Services, chaired by the economist Sir William Beveridge, was appointed by the coalition government in 1941 to undertake a survey of Britain’s social services. The committee’s report was presented to parliament in November 1942, and proposed a new type of welfare state to banish “want”, provide social insurance “from cradle to grave”, and ensure that the type of social deprivation seen during the pre-Second World War economic depression could not happen again. One of the key assumptions of the Report (‘Assumption B’) was that in the new society there would be a comprehensive national health service available to all. The Beveridge Report received widespread support, and it is seen as the foundation document for the welfare state created by the Labour government of 1945-1951 ..University of Warwick¹

• Beveridge Report: pictorial charts with explanatory notesLink opens in a new window, 1943. Attempt to summarise the proposals of the Beveridge Report in pictures, produced and sold by the Pictorial Charts Service. The charts were intended for display in the workplace and other public areas.
• News for Citizens: What is this “Beveridge Report”?Link opens in a new window, March 1943. Summary of the recommendations of the Report produced for its members by the Young Women’s Christian Association.
• Notes of statement by Sir William Beveridge to the Trades Union Congress General Council at their meeting on 16 December 1942Link opens in a new window. Sir William outlines the similarities and differences between his own scheme and the proposals of the TUC, and answers questions from members of the General Council on aspects of the Beveridge Report.
• Social Security Guide: The White Paper and the Beveridge Report ComparedLink opens in a new window, 1944. This pamphlet, issued by the Social Security League, compares the contents of the Beveridge Report with the proposed reforms set out in the government’s White Paper.¹

“William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge, (born March 5, 1879, Rangpur, India—died March 16, 1963, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England), economist who helped shape Britain’s post-World War II welfare state policies and institutions through his Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942), also known as the Beveridge Report.

Beveridge, the son of a British civil servant in India, was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. More than any other single figure, he brought the welfare state to Britain. His lifelong interest in the causes and cures of unemployment began in 1903 with his appointment as subwarden of Toynbee Hall, a London settlement house. At one of her famous strategic dinner parties, British socialist Beatrice Webb introduced her young protégé, Beveridge, to Winston Churchill. Churchill then invited Beveridge to serve as an adviser to the Board.

“Beveridge continued to serve in government, next as director of Labour Exchanges (1909–16) and later as permanent secretary of the Ministry of Food (1919). He directed the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1919 until 1937, when he was elected master of University College, Oxford. He was knighted in 1919 and was created a baron in 1946
“In Unemployment: A Problem of Industry (1909), Beveridge argued that unemployment was in large measure caused by the organization of industry. His revised views, set forth in Full Employment in a Free Society (1944), were strongly influenced by Keynesian economics. Beveridge’s most notable achievement came during World War II, when, at the invitation of the government, he helped work out the blueprints of the new British welfare state. His written works include Insurance for All (1924), British Food Control (1928), Planning Under Socialism (1936), Pillars of Security (1948), Power and Influence (1953), and A Defence of Free Learning (1959).”

..those vanity-project numptie-dumpties in their headbanger BELLE-EPOQUE neoclassical academic Noah’s fu,,,,, Ark mentally-structured Eroica Symphony Neverland have destroyed everything we ever knew, valued or cherished.

What a fine mess (they) got us into (that) time.

John Blundell

Energy Health Public Health New Quantum Mathematics Neurolinguistic Neuroscience Economic Reform Philosophy of Science Australia

⁰ ..in the absurd young children’s story-telling terms of ecologically and intellectually deracinated (ignorant or unaware) 20th century newspapers and 1790s revolutionary European pamphleteers Giants

¹ ‘The Beveridge Report’ Modern Records Centre University Library University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom Email: archives@warwick.ac.uk with many thanks and in celebration of your historical discipline, truly inconceivable in my deeply troubled and confused country where a ludicrous majority, perhaps even 75% of quarter-million dollar a year salaried politicians think welfare, public health & social security are addressed by giving the aspirational middle class young financial & tax ‘carrots’ to buy a house, and later another one, and later.. and the rest of it consists in being firm with refugees and lazy people for they are deserving and Our Lord, they go, stopped to help a grubby Palestinian, they go, and they go and we all wish to that or any passing Christ they would, indeed go, and fast

² Society – 1995 concentric circles economic theory notional & mathematical (by geographical surface area (range) of the domain) C7 nation, nation-state, Country

³ ..a literary credit to Sydney author Zeynab Gamieldien 2023 at this moment

⁴ While I am an extraordinary writer-educator i do hope no readers expect me to explain orderliness in the neuro-cognitively challenged, indeed deranged socially, historically & ecologically alienated minds of all the world’s grandees, pooh-bahs, Indian billionaires, celebrity scientists, ‘stars’ of stage & podcast or the self-aggrandising begin-middle-end kiddie story-tellers cum mishandled chalk screeching on a blackboard tabula rasa child-as-minituarised-adult condescending and patronising to the point of inflicting emotional abuse if not psychological torture rhetorically-flourishing talking heads of mass media – all of them, hello – out there about the non-existent symmetrical ‘universe.’ – Go watch a new-era Brian Cox video or read any of some 5 thousand 280 character messages that appear on my @greeneconomyact formerly 2012 – 21 @wired_we. It’s what i do. I’m a McLuhan, Laing Schumacher Fromm Buber Bohr student who took a lot of encouragement from Yitzhak Rabin before the friends of the US Central Intelligence Agency or FBI (Australia’s AFP) thought differently and hired Yigal Amir to get rid of him, such assassinations running contrary to Rumpole’s ‘golden thread through British justice:’ the presumption of guilt, the Assange Principle. See also the Blundell, Duggan, Boyle, Witness K, McBride, a thousand people across Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan territory, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan sthn & nthn, and many others on every continent (quite likely including Antarctica) perhaps many many more – for George Walker Bush’s democracy – Silkwood and i have suspected after close reading now for 4 or 5 years in the light of this earth’s ‘plague’ of rampant profligate and ecologically devastating directly as well as by default adolescent moronic rich kids’ Chemistry Set un-thought through nonscience the Professor Carl Sagan Principle – going to the ‘rotten’ core of that phenomenon 99% of journalists are terrified to air – scientism, techno-triumphalism and the post 1961 DD Eisenhower Militarist- Industrialist- Scientist- FINANCIER macroeconomic complex

J Blundell Australia February 28 2024

Genuine upskilling to satisfy the the needs, demands, exigencies and future security of young people everywhere in regions existentially threatened, in the five challenging terms idleness, ignorance, disease, squalor and want now echoing and reverberating in a billion helplessly confused frankly dazed political-class minds – Yes, Veronica, there is an environment and you”re living in it dear so come why not loosen your clothing a little? – Beveridge 1942^1,2,3,4 – if we recall that no-one lives, with, mentally dwells in or may ever be legitimated let alone lionised in, a so-called History of Ideas, Debates or ludicrous even experientially pointless public opinion ‘Wars,’ but (lives by) what he, she or ‘they’ do in any given society to act upon and ameliorate if not overturn the array of existential threats to its (micro, citizen, resident) members via a mature, vital operational understanding of the life of human society-in-environs expressly, practically, technically and ever-so elephant-in-the-room obviously economically in the two other domains that ideological neoliberal satanic psychopathic- and head-banging Abrahamic religious fundamentalist and genocidal ecocidal totalitarian-propaganda suppresses, oppresses and destroys, the meso scaled geographical community and macro scale tropospheric WORLD⁵.

.. being a hopefully definitive essay powerfully pitted against 1948 triumphalist (Hey, we survived⁶) post WWII Oxford Union adolescent upper middle class white-skin debating club historicist fabulists’ both-sidesist nonsense of liberalism on HOW personal, interpersonal and community level empowerment and freedom from vilification, assault, violation or killing on account of your gender, ethnicity or lifestyle would help..

What Happened to Liberalism? Becca Rothfeld speaks with Samuel Moyn about his book Liberalism Against Itself and why liberalism is in crisis.

Becca Rothfeld: The first question I wanted to ask is how to improve liberalism. Despite some misreadings of Liberalism Against Itself as illiberal, it’s very much not an anti-liberal book. It’s a book that’s disappointed with the direction that postwar liberalism has taken, but it’s also cautiously optimistic about the liberal tradition’s ability to redeem itself. Tallying up your objections to Cold War liberalism in the book, I noticed that it was possible to construct a better ideal of postwar liberalism by imagining a sort of mirror image of the failed liberalism you describe. Could you say a little bit about the positive conception of liberalism glinting in the background of the book?

Samuel Moyn: This book is a series of portraits of liberals in the middle of the twentieth century, and I take a pretty deflationary view of the politics that they wrought. I claim that they introduced a rupture in the history of liberalism. I do imply that they’ve left us, at least in part, in our current situation, intellectually and even practically. I don’t know if I would agree that I’m optimistic about liberalism: I would say that there are resources from the past to draw on before Cold War liberalism that could be used to argue for a new liberalism. But I certainly think that we need to give tough love to liberals, not just for their abuse of their own tradition, but also because they seem recurrently incapable of confronting some nagging criticisms of their platform. You’re right that I do suggest (albeit indirectly) some laudatory features of liberalism before it became transmogrified through the Cold War liberals. I’ll mention a few. The first half of the book is about what liberalism was before Cold War liberals abandoned its core motivation—human emancipation. I start out with a chapter on the Enlightenment that defines the epoch through its promotion of emancipation from the ruins of authority and tradition. But a much bigger component of Liberalism Against Itself is the contrast I draw between the self-perfectionism of the Enlightenment and the tolerationism that surged through the careers of more recent liberals like John Rawls. In the beginning, liberals were total perfectionists. They offered a novel, controversial ideal of the highest life, one premised on personal fulfillment through creativity. That’s because the early liberal thinkers were also romantics, were deeply connected to the Romantic movement in literature and philosophy. Another component of early liberalism that should be resuscitated is an ethos of progress. Liberals before the middle of the twentieth century were connected to a sense that history was a forum to achieve emancipation and to construct interesting lives. Agency doesn’t just materialize—the conditions for it must be built. To the early liberals, those conditions aren’t going to appear overnight. There were a lot of reasons in the middle of the twentieth century to give up on progress—certainly the notion of inevitable progress. What I worry about is an overcorrection: that Cold War liberals lost any sense of an uplifting, radiant future to offer through policy, both locally and globally. A truly emancipatory vision for liberalism would involve reversing some of the damage of that pessimistic thinking.

Source: Boston Review

The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism

the perspective of these lectures is left Hegelian. It’s not specifically about the welfare state, which I don’t see as—and I don’t think left Hegelians should think of as—the end of history. That being said, you’re right that American liberals are nostalgic for the New Deal or the welfare state that they understand that they didn’t get, and then idealise Denmark or Sweden. There’s no nostalgia for that in these lectures, except insofar as it shows that there were alternative liberalisms. And there’s absolutely no suggestion that we just surgically extract liberalism before the Cold War came and graft it on to our present. But we should rehabilitate some of its impulses and return to some of its thinkers as ways of extricating ourselves from the Cold War syndrome. The significance of the left Hegelian tradition is about a kind of emancipatory statism through the institutionalisation of a free community of equals who are creative agents. That’s what I think liberalism ought to be trying to bring about, which is not at all bureaucratic or technocratic. There’s a very interesting distinction that some have used, like Svetlana Boym, about different forms of nostalgia. The point is not to luxuriate about what came before, but instead to treat the past as a critical resource for getting what we’ve never had. That’s the kind of spirit of these lectures, and I really want to avoid any complacent nostalgia, where the idea is just to go back. The welfare state was eugenic in Sweden and some other countries, and deeply exclusionary everywhere, especially along lines of gender, but also (where it mattered) race. And so, the New Deal was an incredibly compromised project all the way down. It is not a credible starting point, but we do have to have a theory of emancipation through the state and history. The nineteenth century is a better resource for that approach than our politics, call it liberal or socialist or liberal-socialist, than anything we’ve seen in the last few decades.

Source: Center for Intellectual History Oxford

Does Law and Political Economy Need Theory..

Oh my giddy aunt – DERACINATED ACADEMIC CHATTER & PhD word, glyph & number castles in the sky may only compound upon themselves and degenerate into drivel and sloganising – definitional postmodernism AND post-structuralism are on display here in one 7 word schpiel, a Brain Teaser of the Australians Waleed Aly & Scott Thompson’s arcane esoteric and frankly nonsensical parlour conversation genre this – my auntie Grace’s 1890’s indeed..

So i did have a great aunt by education and upper middle class socialisation straight out of the Suffragist Movement, the Bloomsbury Set haute couture & haute bourgeois ambience or say La Belle Époque 1871-1914 corresponding with the ending of the Franco-Prussian War (1871) and the beginning of World War I (1914) who made one of Australia’s if not Australia’s first ‘co-educational’ (an epistemologically whiffy and phenomenologically crackers good old Dame Enid Lyons, Dame Edna Everage, Macca the Quacker on Sundaze ‘n John Winston Howard euphemism for inclusive of young women and young men, Young People!) secondary school principals, GA Sanders, Unley HS, Adelaide, birthline unknown to me and of no interest either.

As more people know now, Mr Blundell does history not ancestry.

..those vanity-project numptie-dumpties in their headbanger BELLE-EPOQUE neoclassical academic Noah’s fu..ing Ark mentally-structured Eroica Symphony Neverland have destroyed everything we ever knew, valued or cherished.

What a fine mess (they) got us into (that) time.

John Blundell

Energy Health Public Health New Quantum Mathematics Neurolinguistic Neuroscience Economic Reform Philosophy of Science Australia

¹ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/oct/10/beveridge-five-evils-welfare-state

² https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/01/beveridge-report-published-a-british-revolution-1942

³ https://www.cambridge.org/core/series/giants-a-new-beveridge-report/BB34AED06B557F02FA40BE10A6F62209

⁴ https://youtu.be/F8a0TWSWBKA?si=92v0C2QTCz2gSPPH

⁵ NOW, all economic theorists will note the C1 (micro-scale) well functioning adult, the C5 (meso-scale) geocommunity notionaly over10 square kilometres of largely fertile land and the C10 (macro and Σ (sum of all things: there are none else in the real economy) troposphere as per ‘Concentric Circles Economics,’ scholar John Blundell, fruitgrower, wholesaler, food manufacturer and retailer whose businesses Blundell Orchards and Organically Grown were smashed by the neofascist Friedmanite state of South Australia, October 1995 (all documents, business documents and other contents of my office and home in the Adelaide Hills were stolen so no record so ask me a couple of pertinent questions as I am sure you all will now that your own lives depend on learning how ‘stuff’ really works in this broken chemically dissolving Ayn Rand Edward Bernays Joseph Stalin Alan Greenspan world (C9 is terrrestrial and oceanic, OK) of theirs

⁶ António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres 26/2/2024

“The Haldane principle seems widely accepted in many parts of the world, but not so much in Australia. It holds that decisions about what to spend research funds on should be made by researchers, rather than politicians.

“It’s a simple principle, really. While the government might determine the rules of the game, it leaves the selection of contestants to those in the know. The sports minister doesn’t pick the Olympic beach volleyball team, for example. The tourism minister doesn’t pick the beach.

“But the distinction seemed lost on shadow science minister Paul Fletcher, who resorted to a well-worn tactic – mockery – when explaining why former education minister Stuart Robert had seen fit to kibosh a paltry 1 per cent of the grants presented for his signature.

“So that Australians can draw their own conclusions, let me just mention the titles of three of the projects which were rejected,” Fletcher told parliament on Tuesday. “‘Spectacles, dress and second-wave feminism in the Philippines’ – that was the first. ‘Queer Tokyo: a cultural history’ was the second. ‘Beauty and ugliness as persuasive tools in changing China’s gender norms’ – that was the third.”

“It’s the pub test argument. Salt of the earth Aussies, who – unlike those ivory tower types, have an MA in common sense – recognise value when they see it. The pub test is often deployed against research proposals in the humanities, less so in STEM. What would your average Aussie Joe, halfway through his third schooner of Kosciuszko Pale Ale, make of a project titled “Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Zirconium Oxide-Crystalline Cerium(IV)Hydrogen Phosphate/ Polybenzimidazole, Polyaniline, Polyindole, Polycarbazole, Nanocomposites”?

“The many supporters of the bill to reform the Australian Research Council believe it will prevent ministers from spiking grants because they don’t like projects’ names. But some commentators have warned against unintended consequences.

“The specific worry is that the treatment of ARC schemes’ funding rules – as legislative instruments subject to disallowance motions – opens the door to new types of intervention and delay, as opposition and cross-benchers haggle, filibuster and road-test speculative clauses banning any project containing the word “queer”.

“There are two reasons not to worry too much about this. One is that all known instances of meddling so far have come from the government, not the opposition or cross-benchers. The other is that the funding guidelines apply as soon as they’re registered – not after the time frame for disallowance motions has run its course – so there’s little risk of added delays.

“The bigger risk is that the opposition reverses these reforms after it finds its way back into government. It surely has principles, but Haldane isn’t one of them.

“– John Ross, Asia-Pacific editor
john.ross@timeshighereducation.com”

I could write that if like me you are a person who is utterly riven personally and emotionally by the egregious and frankly monstrous career-ending failure of 21st century science to even TELL the general public what global heating, ecosystem death, pandemics and looming human food shortages are – to even acknowledge the polycrisis but to downplay and lampoon it with the late Prof Carl Sagan’s oil and finance industries’ bamboozle about evolutionary priorities, 3rd century Rome, dinosaurs & ice-cores and in general terabytes on terabytes of historical tosh that can tell us NOTHING even about our own living extant selves let alone any future – AND to be publicly derided in absurd reductionist Piagetian concrete operations (or arrested mental development primary-schooler) terms as being – yourself – though you may well be a world leader in the new operational or cultural branch of neuroscience called neurolinguistics (1), AND the completely innovative integral health, energy, heating & ecology studies, AND the radically overhauled Philosophy of Science fully incorporating religious, cultural, economic and political theory – as ‘anti-science…’

..you would, esteemed reader, just re-print the thing. breathtakingly crackers or was it in Hausfather’s terms gobsmackingly bananas as it may be to give future research funding decisions to either politicians OR Twentieth Century scientists, respecting not harrying hectoring or bullying.. for once as a dogged teacher and explainer leaving the mental task of appraisal-on-the-merits-of-a-presentation entirely in the hands, hearts and heads of your readers..

..ZH was talking heat pumping out of the North Atlantic Ocean 5 – 6 months ago. I include a link here which will help anyone understand a little better what it is the authentic not wildly overpaid Mickey Mouse scientists are doing with their time and your money, team:

https://www.u.arizona.edu/~brunke/modeling/model-components.html#:~:text=Thus%2C%20the%20components%20of%20a,ice%20sheets%20and%20mountain%20glaciers.

John Blundell

South Australia 08022024 🦘🇦🇺🌏

1. no direct connection with the STRUCTURALIST MIT Noam Chomsky psycholinguistics of the early 1980s but exclusively addressed to human consciousness and NOT AT ALL to 1930s Social Darwinism or vile BF Skinner coercive, manipulative or punitive Behaviour Modification